Star Trek: The Next Generation quotes

Jean-Luc Picard

[to a disengaged Borg male teen, in the manner of "Locutus"] This is a primitive culture. I am here to facilitate its incorporation.

Beverly Crusher

But even in war there are rules. You don't kill civilians indiscriminately.

There are no civilians among the Borg.

Hugh

We are Hugh.

Hugh

Resistance is not futile?

Geordi La Forge

Part of what we do is learn more about other species.

Hugh

We assimilate species. Then we know everything about them.

I don't have all the answers; I've never been dead before.

Data

I never knew what a friend was until I met Geordi. He spoke to me as though I were human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that, I have learned, is friendship. But I do not know how to say goodbye.

Geordi La Forge

Maybe the Federation should develop phase inverter of its own. If it can teach Ro Laren humility, it could do anything!

Picard

Would you try to answer some questions for me? No matter how strange they may seem to you?

Of course.

The happiest day of my life was the day we got married.

Picard

And what do I do — here in Ressik?

You are the best iron weaver in the community — at least I think so. You prefer playing the flute, of course.

Picard

The flute?

Yes. [she gets up, finds his flute and hands it to him]

Picard

When did I learn to play this?

I'm afraid you never did, dear. You do keep trying.

Picard

[blows a few feeble notes] I see what you mean. … Well, thank you for the soup. Thank you for your help. Tomorrow, will you help me send a message?

Of course. Will you come to bed?

Picard

Oh, I'll sleep here.

Kamin, please come with me.

Picard

I've been sick. I'd be tossing and turning; it wouldn't be fair to you.

Let me be the judge of that.

I think you're still trying to figure out where you are. Where that ship of yours is. How to get back to that life.

The memory is five years old now, but it's still inside me.

Was your life there so much better than this? So much more gratifying, so much more fulfilling, that you cling to it with such stubbornness?

Eline.

It must have been extraordinary. But never in all the stories you've told me have you mentioned anyone who loved you as I do.

It was real. It was as real as this is. And you can't expect me to forget a lifetime spent there.

Yes, I can. I've been patient Kamin. For five years I've shared you with that other life. I’ve listened, I’ve tried to understand, and I have waited. When do I get you back?

This tree is our symbol. Our affirmation of Life, and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, Administrator, that hope is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought.

You've taught me to pursue the truth, no matter how painful it is. It's too late to back off now. This planet is dying.

Perhaps I should have filled your head with trivial concerns. Games and toys and clothes.

I don't think you mean that.

No, I don't. It just saddens me to see you burdened with the knowledge of things you can't change.

Father, I think I should marry Dannick sooner rather than later, don't you?

Seize the time, Meribor. Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the future. Someone who could be a teacher. Someone who could tell the others about us.

Oh, it's me, isn't it? I'm the someone. I'm the one it finds. That's what this launching is. A probe that finds me in the future.

Yes, my love.

Eline.

The rest of us have been gone for a thousand years. If you remember what we were, and how we lived, then we'll have found life again.

Eline…

[the rocket rises into the sky] Now we live in you. Tell them of us, my darling.