Jack Crusher quotes from Star Trek: Picard

Jack Crusher

Writing the opening line to your legacy. So then. What'll it be?

Liam Shaw

Oh, c'mon. You must've heard about [w:The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|the Battle of Wolf 359]]. Forty Federation starships up against one Borg cube. I was just in engineering -- just a grease monkey. And the next second... It's like... It was like space itself was burning. Fifty of us made it down to the life deck. But uh-oh! There's just one life-pod. Ten seats. Now, the thing is, we were all friends. They were all my Jack Crusher. We were... We didn't fight over who should live and who should die. No, we-- we waited for orders. And then finally, some Lieutenant comes down and she just starts pointing. "You, and you, and you." And she's pointing at me! What? Why me? I'm just some dipshit from Chicago! And now I'm Lucky Number 10. She didn't even count herself. "Get in," she says, "That's an order." I know, I know, I know. I ask myself the same thing: "Did she make a mistake?"

Jack Crusher

Eleven thousand dead. Do you know where your old man was on that day? He was on that Borg cube, setting the world on fire! Forget about all that weird shit on the Stargazer. The real Borg are still out there. And they have a name for you. "Locutus of Borg". The only Borg so deadly they gave him a goddamn name.

Jean-Luc Picard

You’re only ever really as good as those around you. Your crew become a part of you. Complete you. They lift you up to accomplish the things you never could do alone. Well, thank you. And now, if you don't mind, I think my haddock's getting cold.

Jack Crusher

Excuse me, Admiral. You went on and on about your crew. Your life in Starfleet. Did you have a life outside of that? What about a real family?

Jean-Luc Picard

Young man, Starfleet has been the only family I have ever needed.

Jack Crusher

Which one's that?

Seven of Nine

The USS Voyager. She made her name farther out than... any of those other relics had ever gone. I was reborn there. She was my home. Her crew were my family. And now...

Jack Crusher

You're just trying to find another. We all long for connection. But we're just a little bit alone, aren't we? Stars in the same galaxy, but light-years between us.

Seven of Nine

Oh, you are definitely your father's son. He, too, has a knack for the, um, poetic drive-by observation. Can be very annoying. But it can also make a person feel seen.

Jack Crusher

Yeah, well, I can't say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn't entirely unfamiliar.

My child, my flesh, blood. For all my darkness, you are light. For all my suffering, you... are life.

Jack Crusher

I don't know what I am. But I know I'm not yours.

Oh, but you are. I have thought of so many names for you. Regenerati. Puer Dei.

Jack Crusher

A fondness for Latin, I see. But I am neither your rebirth, nor the child of God.

That is why you are Võx. Not Locutus, the one who speaks. You are the voice itself. I know you have felt it too, Jack. Believe it.

Jack Crusher

What I believe in is mercy! And that is what this is! [Jack points his phaser at the Borg Queen]

What I see in you, what Vadic saw... an end. The vindication of both our species! To take everything back from those who live like shattered glass! [chuckes] If it were possible for you to kill me, you would have already.

End your struggle, my child. Resistance... is... futile. [laughs]

Q

Well, look at you.

Q

A chip off the old block.

Jack Crusher

Q, is that right?

Q

Simple name for a complicated being.

Jack Crusher

My father told me all about you. I thought you were dead.

Q

Oh... and here I was hoping the next generation wouldn't think so linearly. Young mortal, you have much ahead of you.

Jack Crusher

You told my father that humanity's trial was over.

Q

It is, for him. But I'm here today because of you. You see, yours, Jack, has just begun.