Liam Shaw quotes from Star Trek: Picard

Liam Shaw

So, we have 500 guns pointed at our head. We try to run, we are vapour the second our nacelles light up. Help is days away, and this nebula is wreaking hell on our long-range comms. We are essentially cornered. In space. Which has no corners.

Liam Shaw

Forgive me. At some point, asshole became a substitute for charm.

Vadic

Good afternoon! I believe it is afternoon in the Sol System. [chuckles] I am Captain Vadic, and you are... Captain Liam Shaw.

Liam Shaw

That's me. Is it important for you to know that I was having a nice morning before all of this?

Vadic

[joyfully] Ooh, that's lovely to hear! Given your official psychological profile with Starfleet, I'm so glad that you remained... er... functional?

Jean-Luc Picard

You have been causing us some concern, Captain. State your business!

Vadic

[gleeful] Oh, my. Admiral Jean-Luc Picard, in the synthetic flesh. You're harboring one Jack Crusher. He's broken a number of laws, both inside and outside Federation space. There is a sizeable bounty on his head. And we are taking him.

Liam Shaw

[looks at Jack, and then back to Vadic] I hate to inform you, but Starfleet does not negotiate with bounty hunters.

Vadic

[laugh] I see you're having difficulty understanding the situation! May I remind you that you are outside your jurisdiction? But, so you may have clarification, I'll lower my shields so that you can scan my ship.

Their shields are lowering.

William Riker

Weapons?

Forty isolytic burst warheads. Eighty-eight plasma torpedoes. Two hundred and thirty-six photon torpedoes. Eighteen antimatter missiles. Twenty pulse wave. Thirty series five-

Liam Shaw

I get it.

And something... loaded in primary position in the bay, sir. Technology unknown.

Vadic

You have one hour to hand over Jack Crusher. Turn your back to run, and the only way you'll see the shot that kills you will be through the hole in your proverbial chest. Until then: enjoy this parting demonstration of my intentions. [Vadic cuts the transmission]

Jean-Luc Picard

What did she just do?

She threw a ship at us. Sir.

Seven of Nine

It broke through our shields, Captain, hit with enough force that shrapnel tore the hull on Deck 11.

Liam Shaw

How is that even possible?

Reverse tractor beam with anti-gravitational polarity phasing. Basically, blunt force trauma. If my father taught me anything, there's no law of physics that can't be either weaponized or broken by another law of physics.

Liam Shaw

Thank you, Ensign.

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.

William Riker

You know, we have saved the galaxy more than a few times.

Jean-Luc Picard

And hopefully they'll remember.

Liam Shaw

Or they might remember that time that someone hot-dropped the saucer section of the Enterprise-D on a planet. Or that time that someone threw the Prime Directive out the window so they could snog a villager on Ba'ku. Or the time that you boys nearly wiped out all of humanity by creating a time paradox in the Devron system. Basically, when it comes to rescues from danger... you two have a real "chicken and egg" thing happening.

Jean-Luc Picard

Those were the days.