Beverly Crusher quotes from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Beverly Crusher

If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with the universe.

Beverly Crusher

We will start with the assumption that I am not crazy.

Beverly Crusher

Click my heels together three times and I'm back in Kansas. Can it really be that simple?

Beverly Crusher

Therapists are always the worst patients. Except for doctors, of course.

Beverly

Captain, I'd like to announce the birth of a large baby… something.

Beverly Crusher

We have to dream in order to survive.

Beverly Crusher

[To Dr Russell, who has been using experimental techniques to treat patients] You scare me, doctor. You risk your patients' lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time... sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you, you take short cuts, right through living tissue. You put your research ahead of your patients' lives and as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. I'm sure your work will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, doctor. I'm not sure I could.

Beverly Crusher

I have always been a little suspicious of men in beards.

Beverly Crusher

Where are the calluses we doctors are supposed to grow over our feelings?

Jean-Luc Picard

Perhaps the good ones never get them.

Jean-Luc Picard

Do they know of our Prime Directive?

Data

They know everything I know, sir.

Jean-Luc Picard

And if we were to violate the Prime Directive...

Beverly Crusher

That's not a fair question.

Jean-Luc Picard

How would they react?

Data

That would be a case of judging us by our own rules, sir. If we violate our own Prime Directive they might consider us to be deceitful and untrustworthy. You do recall, they cautioned us not to interfere with their children below. What has happened?

Beverly Crusher

The Edo want to execute my son.

Tasha Yar

What of justice to Wesley? Does he deserve to die?

Liator

[DELETED LINE] That is a moot issue, unfortunately. The law remains the law, regardless of whose favor it works in. Thus, the question becomes...Where is justice, save in equality?

Jean-Luc Picard

I'm truly sorry, Liator; but I must have justice for my people, too. Transporter Room, energize...Transporter Room, come in!

We can't energize the beam, sir. Everything checks out, but we're getting no results.

God has prevented your escape.

Beverly Crusher

Then your God is unfair. My son had no warning that his act was criminal.

We cannot allow ignorance of the law to become a defense.

Jean-Luc Picard

I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible, but the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late. And I say, to any creature who may be listening, there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Life itself is an exercise in exceptions.

William Riker

When has justice ever been as simple as a rule book?

Liator

[DELETED LINE] For us, the effectiveness of justice has always gone hand-in-hand with its simplicity.

[DELETED LINE] Ever since any of us can remember, there have been two basic types...those who live by the law, and those who die by it. Thus, the question becomes, How can there be justice when laws are anything but consistent?

[DELETED LINE] Making one exception, regardless of circumstances, would compel us to make more...and then still more, until the law became -- we believe you have a phrase for it -- until it became "nothing but words on paper". [sneers] Evidently, your idea of a just legal system is one so complicated that nobody can be punished for anything.

Data

Hiya, Doc. What's cooking?

Beverly Crusher

You know I had some trouble getting through? Where's Captain Picard?

Data

He's on ice.

Beverly Crusher

Pardon?

Data

He's being grilled.

Beverly Crusher

What is he, a fish?

Data

If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it secret?

Beverly Crusher

I guess I would.

Data

Captain. Doctor. I am honoured by your presence, but may I suggest you attend the second concert.

Beverly Crusher

Why, Data?

Data

Ensign Ortiz will perform the violin part. My rendition will be less enjoyable.

Jean-Luc Picard

Oh?

Data

Although I am technically proficient, according to my fellow performers, I lack soul.

Beverly Crusher

Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise.

Data

But is not honesty always the preferred choice?

Jean-Luc Picard

Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander.

Data

Indeed?

Jean-Luc Picard

Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader.

Data

Because you will lose their confidence?

Beverly Crusher

And you may begin to believe in those limitations yourself.

Dr. Beverly Crusher

Lieutenant, I understand your feelings about the Romulans, but this is not the time or the place.

Worf

If you had seen them kill your parents, you would understand, Doctor. It is always the time and the place for those feelings.

Beverly Crusher

This Romulan didn't murder your parents. And you are the only one who can save his life.

Worf

Then he will die.