Robert Picard quotes from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Robert Picard

Mind if I ask you a question? What the devil happened to you up there?

Jean-Luc Picard

Is this brotherly concern?

Robert Picard

No. Curiosity. What did they do to you?

Jean-Luc Picard

You know what happened.

Robert Picard

Not precisely. I gather you were hurt. Humiliated. I've always thought you needed a little humiliation. Or was it humility? Either would do.

Jean-Luc Picard

(crying) They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them. I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. I should... I should...

Robert Picard

So... my brother is a human being after all. This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it. You have a simple choice now: Live with it below the sea with Louis or above the clouds with the Enterprise.

He's still out there, dreaming about starships and adventures... It's getting late.

Robert Picard

Yes. But let him dream.