MARINER: “Okay so one time Boimler dragged me to the Starship History Museum.”
BOIMLER: “Dragged? You ran up to the door!”
MARINER: “No, I didn’t. It was boring. I hated it.”
Course laid in.
Our position is so close to the point where we entered the void, the difference isn’t worth mentioning.
“Tasha, don’t!”
“I must! Because I grew up on a world that allowed things like this court! And it was people like these that saved me from it! This so-called court should get down on its knees to what Starfleet is! What it represents!”
I’m going to make this easy for you, Mr. Crusher. Either you tell Adm. Brand what happened, or I will.
Help him up.
Fascinating.
This is your thirty-fifth attempt to elicit an emotional response from me.
I think when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And, finally, it becomes so familiar that one can’t ever remember feeling any other way.
“Do you suppose that’s all they ever had, sir?”
“No, but that’s all they have left.”
My assignment is to study crew reaction in emergency conditions.
She would lie. She would cheat. She would even murder me — the captain, the entire crew of the Enterprise! — to keep you here, with her.
We are brothers.
Sybok couldn’t POSSIBLY be your brother…
…because I happen to KNOW…
…for a FACT…
…that you don’t HAVE a brother!
KIRA: You’re acting more like a Starfleet officer who’s more interested in intelligence reports and Cardassian politics than in actually hurting Cardassians. You have one of the most powerful ships in this quadrant under your command. Why aren’t you out attacking every Cardassian outpost along the border?
RIKER: Because these stakes here are far greater than border outposts.
KIRA: Not for the Maquis, there’re not, because the Maquis are terrorists and the only thing terrorists care about is attacking the enemy. I know. I was a terrorist. And if I’d had this ship then, I would’ve destroyed Deep Space Nine. I would’ve hit the Cardassians so hard they would have screamed for peace, but I certainly wouldn’t have gone flying off into the middle of Cardassia on some wild goose chase.
RIKER: I guess we’re different kinds of terrorists.
KIRA: No, you’re trying to be a hero. Terrorists don’t get to be heroes.
RIKER: We’ll see.
Ahab spent years hunting the white whale that crippled him — a quest for vengeance — but, in the end, it destroyed him and his ship.
Have a glorious day.
Today is a good day to die.
And yet you were the one who said fear was necessary for command.
RIKER: Preserving life, all life, is very important to us.
ARMUS: Why?
RIKER: We believe that everything in the universe has the right to exist.
ARMUS: An interesting notion which I do not share.