Quotes List

"Because it was no longer Starfleet! We withdrew. The galaxy was mourning, burying its dead, and Starfleet had slunk from its duties. The decision to call off the rescue and to abandon those people we had sworn to save was not just dishonourable. It was downright criminal!"

"All these years, the hermit of La Barre. Now suddenly he's inescapable."

"Ah, you have a taste for the classics, I see."; holding a copy of The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov.

"I never really cared for science fiction... I guess I just didn't get it."

"Picard, P-I-C-A-R-D, Jean-Luc"

"Engage"

"One impossible thing at a time"

"Anyone else think the 'Way of Absolute Candor' sounds potentially annoying?"

"What's your book about."

"The existential pain of living with the consciousness of death and how it defines us as Human beings."

"Well that's not a conversation killer at all."

"Picard still thinks there's a place in the galaxy for mercy. I didn't want to disillusion him."

"Are we still pretending?"

"No Elnor, I think everyone has finally stopped."

"Your personality needs to match your clothes. You need to show a little panache."

"You need a feather in your hat."

"What is the nature of the psychiatric emergency?"

"Elnor, I told you to stay on the ship."

"Yes. I didn't listen."

"Thank you."

"It sounded like a nightmare. Wanna tell me about it?"

"Why? Because you care? Or because you're endlessly fascinated with the way my mind works?"

"He can't see you're also... haunted by something you'd like to forget. Was I in-butting?"

"That time, yes."

"Maybe they've changed."

"Changed? The Borg."

"They coolly assimilate entire civilizations, entire systems in a matter of hours."

"They don't change. They metastasise."

"Seems weird to make an android with mucus and saliva, but... I guess Data would do it like that."

"I don't see how this Data could be my father. I mean, if I was made, it was probably about three years ago. Wait, why would Data want to make an android with mucus and saliva?"

"Well, he was always trying to be more human. He could do all these amazing things, but all he ever really wanted to do was, like, have dreams and tell jokes and, like, learn how to ballroom dance."

"How's this for a lost cause? I was that much of a hopeful fool again for a minute. Thanks for that."

"What is the nature of your... Oh, bloody hell."

"Commander Riker and I served together on the USS Enterprise."

"And you were the greatest captain ever, I heard."

"The greatest captain ever? Where'd you get that nonsense?"

"From you."

"From me? I must have been drinking at the time."

"I'm not as brave as I used to be, Jean-Luc."

"Then you're getting wiser."

"You cut out the venom sacks?"

"Nope, I left them all in so we can all spew black bile and die."

"Everybody here thinks you're crazy."

"And brave."

"...and brave. Adios, kid."

"The Tal Shiar had a tracker inside your girl Jurati, and it looks like she killed Bruce Maddox."

"Well, that's bad news."

"Uh. Yeah. Unless you like giant, all-encompassing, paranoid conspiracy theories, then it's, you know, kinda awesome. You know, in a horrible way."

"In bad situations, it's so important to try and find something positive."

"That's a hell of a report."

"And you thought I was a desperate old man. Quixotic, paranoid, possibly senile..."

"Let's just leave it at 'quixotic'."

"And now the windmills have turned out to be giants."

"You want an apology?"

"I want a squadron."

"Jean-Luc..."

"Clancy! Out there, in the Vayt system, right now, beings who have as much right to life and liberty as you and I or Commander Data are being hunted down by an enemy who seeks to exterminate them..."

"Jean-Luc!"

"No, Clancy. If you say this is not a job for Starfleet, then I'm sorry, but you are a waste of space!"

"Admiral Picard, with all due respect and at long last, shut the fuck up. I'm sending a squadron to rendezvous with you at DS12. Now stay put until they get there."

"Though, when you lost your mind, you certainly did it with panache. Breaking a Borg Cube by the sheer force of your despair."

"So... Captain Alonzo Vandermeer. Is that his Walkman?"

"One more thing, I have a brain abnormality. I've known for years. I never had any symptoms, so I never thought much about it. However, just before we left the Earth, I learned that my condition was more acute. The prognosis was terminal, and there is no effective treatment. There will be no further discussion. Anyone who treats me like a dying man will run the risk of pissing me off. Is that clear?"

"I take it my face looks familiar."

"I feel as if I'm looking at Data."

"Data if he had gotten old and gone soft. Must be disturbing. I know it is for me. Doctor Altan Inigo Soong, mad scientist. My father had me, but he created Data... a fact he never let me forget."

"What you did. Shame on you, Agnes. You put out a small, bright candle shedding its light in a vast darkness. You owe a great debt."

"After everything that you've done for me... I need to say... thank you. I love you, JL. Oh, you don't have to say it back to me. I just..."

"I don't?"

"Not unless you want to. Oh, s... Yeah. No, it's fine. It's fine."

"Okay."

"Okay."

"I love you too, Raffi."

"Picard, try to see this from our point of view. You choose if we live, you choose if we die. You choose! We have no choice! You organics have never given us one."

"To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination."

"They've left us behind, Picard! They're generations beyond us!"

"In one sense, yes, but in another, as you said, they are children. And until now, the only teachers that they've had are a couple of hermits, and the fear of extermination. But fear is an incompetent teacher. Yes, they have life. But no one is teaching them what it's for. To be alive is a responsibility, as well as a right."

"How are they supposed to learn that lesson in six minutes, and eleven seconds?"

"The way that children learn most things, by example."

"So, how do we hold off 218 warbirds until Starfleet gets here? If they get here? … Are you not answering to build suspense, or…?"

"At the present moment, Dr. Jurati, I am trying to pilot a starship for the first time in a very long time, without exploding or crashing! If that is alright with you."

"No, totally, good call. One impossible thing at a time."

"Raffi? You were quite right."

"We often refer to space as the final frontier. But the older I get, the more I come to believe… that the true final frontier is time."

"I think your answers are not in the stars and they never have been. Also, I suggest that we drink. Because I think there's one final frontier yet to come."

"Do you recall what I said to you when last we parted ways? The trial never ends."

"What the hell are you doing here?"

"You've been talking a lot about second chances. Well, my friend, welcome to the very end of the road not taken."

"Oh, you undersell yourself, Jean-Luc. You are more than just a piece. Why, you're the very board upon which this game is played."

"Q, I am too old for your bullshit!"

"In the name of the Confederation, I fought for a pure universe. One by one, with the aid of the brave crew of the CSS World Razer, we conquered the stars. We sought out and subjugated savage civilizations, boldly conquered warlike alien worlds, increased the wealth and resources for future generations of humanity. And you could be Earth's next great hero because a safe galaxy is a human galaxy."

"So, to be clear, wake a queen who could kill us all, beam from a ship with no power, and find a Watcher who may or may not exist."

"What you have just done here is more difficult, and vastly more dangerous than you realise."

"And what is that?"

"You've impressed me."

"Hey! Hey! You mind stopping that noise?"

"Why does the past hurt so much?"

"Dr. Soong, I presume?"

"Do you have any idea how many crackpots contact me about my work? I get everything from basement-dwelling Nazis to... rich heiresses who want me to clone their fucking cats."

"We've been on this path for quite some time. But now, what was once theory, just endless studies and tests, has finally become our reality. We are sending humans further than we have ever gone before."

"You know, your voice does this funny little thing when you say her name. Who is she, anyhow?"

"Oh, no one of importance"

"Thanks for that. Now I know what it looks like when you lie"

"I do miss Locutus."

"I'm a hundred percent sure he doesn't miss you."

"Picard! Adam Soong. I believe we have a friend in common. A Mister Q"

"He's not a friend"

"That's what he said about you."

"You're Renée Picard, astronaut of the Europa Mission. You must be capable of such great things to have come this far."

"You remind me a bit of my mother. She, too, loved the stars. And she, too... struggled."

"Sometimes fear is a friendly reminder you're not ready for something."

"No. Fear is fear. It doesn't speak in riddles. Fear means you're smart. You understand the risks."

"So, what are you afraid of?"

"I don't know where I would begin."

"And you found a way to live with it?"

"I found that even in the darkest circumstances, there is a light. Sometimes, only a glimmer. Trust that light. Find a way back, no matter what it takes."

"Your mother... was very lucky to have you."

"So, this is your mind, sober. I bet five-drink Picard is a blast."

"Are you from outer space?"

"No. I'm from Chile. I just… I work in outer space."

"You'll do so much with this pain. You'll save worlds with it."

"You're dying."

"Another quality I sincerely loathe about your species. Empathy."

"I know a haunted man when I see one. The things we hold onto. The pieces of emotional shrapnel that drive us all our lives."

"I assume a lecture on the futility of resistance is not going to be necessary?"

"And now, for my truth. I am Human but I am from the future, the 25th century to be precise. And I am here to save Earth. To save the entire galaxy, in fact. But to do so, it seems… I need your help."

"You know, you should have joined Starfleet."

"I tried. After Voyager. Starfleet shut me down because…"

"You were Borg?"

"Janeway went to bat for me, threatened to resign. But, I gave it up. Went full Ranger."

"I remember now. In a cloudy moment of extreme melancholy, my mother hung herself here in this place. And for all I've lived, all I've seen and done, I suppose this is the moment I've kept myself from remembering."

"Did you know that space is so vast, so infinite, it takes billions of years for that tiny pinprick of light to make that lonely journey from its star to our eyes? The brilliance you see in the night sky, Jean-Luc, that exquisite light, it's just an echo, really, of a star that has long since faded. Like me."

"And you are...?"

"That's a very long and very complicated story."

"Honestly, I've got nothing pressing."

"OK. A long time ago, I was known as Wesley Crusher. But now, I am a traveller of all of space and time."

"I never fit, you know? Nothing stuck. I mean, I was living alone on a cargo ship with five holographic versions of myself. Not very encouraging. But then, I met you. I never had a family in any real way. You changed all that. All of you did. This is where I belong. Jean-Luc… I'm home."

"Make a good future."

"Farewell, mon capitaine. It's time for me to go. But not alone. Isn't that the point of all this? See you out there."

"You just saved billions of lives."

"That was the idea, mister."