You just sit tight. We'll have this all fixed up in time for supper.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
I have always been a little suspicious of men in beards.
My beard is not an affectation!
[Edward Jellico is assigned as captain of the Enterprise]
Oh, and get that fish out of the ready room.
Data, I want to be in Minos Korva... in one hour.
Set course 350 mark 215 and engage warp 8.5.
GMGul Madred
I remember the first time I ate a live taspar. I was six years old and living on the streets of Lakat. There was a band of children, four, five...six years old—some even smaller, desperately trying to survive. We were thin, scrawny little animals, constantly hungry, always cold. We slept together in doorways, like packs of wild gettles, for warmth. Once I found a nest. Taspars had mated and built a nest in the eave of a burned-out building. And I found three eggs in it. It was like finding treasure. I cracked one open on the spot and ate it, very much as you just did. I planned to save the other two. They would keep me alive for another week. But of course, an older boy saw them and wanted them. And he got them. But he had to break my arm to do it.
Must be rewarding to you to...to repay others for all those years of misery.
GMGul Madred
What do you mean?
Torture has never been a reliable means of extracting information. It is ultimately self-defeating as a means of control. One wonders it is still practiced.
GMGul Madred
I fail to see where this analysis is leading.
Whenever I look at you now, I will not see a powerful Cardassian warrior; I will see a six-year-old boy who is powerless to protect himself.
GMGul Madred
Be quiet!
In spite of all you have done to me, I find you a pitiable man.
GMGul Madred
Picard, stop it. Or I will turn this on and leave you in agony all night!
Aha! You called me "Picard!"
GMGul Madred
What are the Federation's defense plans for Minos Korva?
There are four lights!
Let's drop the ranks for a moment. I don't like you. I believe you're arrogant, insubordinate, willful, and I don't think you're a particularly good First Officer. But you are also the best pilot on the ship.
Well, now that the ranks are dropped, Captain...I don't like you, either. You ARE arrogant, and closed-minded. You need to control everyone and everything. You don't provide an atmosphere of trust, and you don't inspire these people to go out of their way for you. You've got everyone wound up so tight, there's no joy in anything. I don't think you're a particularly good Captain.
GMGul Madred
We acquired territory during the wars... we developed new resources... we initiated a rebuilding program... we have mandated agricultural programs. That is what the military has done for Cardassia. Because of that... my daughter will never have to worry about going hungry.
Her belly may be full... but her spirit will be empty.
[Gul Madred takes two steps and back hands Picard across the face. Picard staggers back, startled... but knowing he has scored on Madred.]
Be careful... you're showing weakness...
GMGul Madred
Shall we begin again? How many lights are there?
What lights?
At the end, he gave me a choice: between a life of comfort...or more torture. All I had to do was say that...I could see five lights, when in fact there were only four.
You didn't say it.
No. No. But I was going to. I would have told him anything. Anything at all. But more than that—I believed that I could see...five lights.
A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.
In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted.
In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs and all this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table.
(after restoring Troi's original appearance) Well, that about does it. How does it feel to have your own face back?
(feeling her face with her hand) Just right. Thank you.
The thanks should go to N'Vek. He sacrificed himself to save them - and me.
(Shakes Picard's hand) Welcome to the Afterlife Jean-Luc...You're dead!
You're dead, this is the afterlife...and I'm God.
You are not God!
Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out or smite you or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago... under the inept ministrations of Dr. Beverly Crusher.
No. I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed!
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