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| | Picard : | "They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Well no further... the line must be drawn here... and I will make them pay for what they've done!" |  |  | to Lily | 
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| | Cochrane : | "You think I want to go to the stars? I don't even like to fly! I take trains!" |  |  | to Riker | 
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| | Riker : | "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man and let history make it's own judgements." |  |  | quoting Cochrane | 
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   | Picard : | "You want to destroy the ship and run away, you coward!" |  | Worf : | "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!" |  | 
| | Picard : | "Actually, I think you are the bravest man I've ever known." |  |  | to Worf; apologising | 
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   | Queen : | "Do you always talk this much?" |  | Data : | "Not always. But often." |  | 
| | Cochrane : | "So you're all astronauts on some sort of... star trek?" |  |  | to Riker | 
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| | Picard : | "And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it." |  |  | quotes Moby Dick | 
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