Agnes Jurati quotes from Star Trek: Picard

Agnes Jurati

What's your book about?

Cristóbal Rios

The existential pain of living with the consciousness of death, and how it defines us as human beings.

Agnes Jurati

Well, that's not a conversation killer at all.

Raffi Musiker

Try to stay away from the lizard. Beta Anari can smell when you're not telling the truth.

Agnes Jurati

Seriously?

Raffi Musiker

Also, what you had for dinner. And the last person you had sex with.

Cristóbal Rios

If they're not the same thing.

Agnes Jurati

Cause that's not disturbing.

Agnes Jurati

It's okay. It will be okay. You can do this. You have to do this.

What is the nature of your psychiatric emergency? Your pulse and blood pressure are significantly elevated.

Agnes Jurati

Because you scared the hell out of me!

Agnes Jurati

Maybe [the Borg have] changed.

Jean-Luc Picard

Changed? The Borg? They coolly assimilate entire civilizations, entire systems, in a matter of hours. They don't change! They metastasize.

Raffi Musiker

And now, you come along for a ride with Auntie Raffi. She's going to hook you up with whatever you need.

Agnes Jurati

Is it cake?

Raffi Musiker

You bet it's cake.

Agnes Jurati

What exactly is the information you hold?

The location of the Watcher, and when the temporal divergence occurs.

Agnes Jurati

Hmm... Are you sure about that?

[checks her memory banks, realises the information is missing] What did you do? Where is it? You...

Agnes Jurati

Stole it. Computer, dictate the file log "shit I stole from the Borg Queen".

No-one takes from me, my dear!

Jean-Luc Picard

Co-ordinates!

Agnes Jurati

To find the Watcher.

Jean-Luc Picard

Well done!

Agnes Jurati

I suppose even higher cybernetic life forms can get sloppy with where they leave secrets lying around. But there's more, isn't there? "When" it happened. I can alm... I can almost feel it. [The Borg Queen glares at Agnes] It'll come to me.

What you have just done here is more difficult, and vastly more dangerous than you realise.

Agnes Jurati

And what is that?

You've impressed me.

Agnes Jurati

I won't let you take this ship.

There you are. I could still sense you in there. Still feel you chattering about.

Agnes Jurati

Do you know what it feels like to put my hands on my friend's throat, and not be able to do a God-damn thing about it?

A bit like hanging limbless. Powerless.

Agnes Jurati

I've been poking around in that trash-dump of a mind - wow, by the way - because I had to know why. Billions of species... planets... and, still, you always needed more.

Perfection takes time, dear.

Agnes Jurati

This was never about perfection, or evolution, or any of that bullshit. It was never enough because you're just like me: lonely.

To share your own crude colloquialism: bullshit.

Agnes Jurati

Then why haven't you killed me? Stop. Stop! You take this ship, you let Soong win, in 400 years, the Confederation wipes out your entire collective.

So myopically linear. You see the branch but not the tree. We know of the Confederation's threat now, and we will prepare. Time... is on our side.

What is this?

Agnes Jurati

The history of the Borg. Well, the only history that matters ... the ending. How it always ends for you. A lone Borgslayer, a united Federation, they come for you-- for your top-shelf, overreaching, Icarus-worthy arrogance.

If prattling on is your choice of weapon, I can wait. You can't be sad forever.

Agnes Jurati

Do the math. In this or any other universe, you always lose. That's why you fight so hard. You live with the death knell of your species across infinite timelines. You fear loss, just like we do. You long for what we all long for. Connection... longevity, discovery. Only you offer it without choice. I'm saying... what if we ask for it? You and I.

Finally, the semblance of a point.

Agnes Jurati

The galaxy is filled with lives that need saving. One of them is lying at your feet right now.

You'd have a cohort pulled from the dying? Recruit from derelict ships? Flotsam of space? You'd have us collect scraps?

Agnes Jurati

And offer second chances. What if we take this ship and build a better Borg? A real collective based not on assimilation but salvation. Think about it: a Borg collective that embraces the uniqueness of its members.

You ask us to embrace weakness.

Agnes Jurati

I'm positing that what you've written off as weakness is actually strength. Cooperation.

Your proposal is absurd. But not entirely un-intriguing.

Agnes Jurati

Imagine, members who would fight harder for what they chose. Who would lose no battles because they made no enemies. Who would not be discarded and replaced. Attachments could grow and deepen. Like Seven. Didn't you love her once, too? And wasn't she the best of what we could be? Somebody who used her Borg half to serve the best of her humanity. Let's build a universe of Sevens. Let's start with this one.