I like the cut of your ears
I am honored. 
Because they were just a Cold War analog in TOS, and with that winding down they had to do something else with them.
Good they may be, tho difficult they remain. Honor, much importance to them it has. Mind what you have learned! Cut you up they will!
A thousand throats can be cut in a single night by a running man.
Hmmpf! Yoda of Borg am I. Assimillated you will be, yes. Futile, resistance is!
Despite his holodiction, he was a pretty capable engineer.
Remind us what that was, please?
Ya gotta love a culture that comes up with maxims like that.
Can you imagine NASA sending a mentally unbalanced yet highly capable engineer on a mission to Mars? People like that are simply not selected to serve for years in a confined environment populated by relatively normal colleagues, especially when billions of dollars of equipment are at stake. That’s why we have such things as psychological screening.
Humor…it is a difficult concept.
Fan pic.
But the Federation isn’t NASA. They send thousands to space. They are not all the best and the brightest. Someone has to be the C student. Not all of them can graduate top of their class.
Barclay was one of my favorite characters because he was not a superman. (actually he was just shy at first, but later was turned super awesome and boring)
[Beverly Hofstadter’s voice]: You rationalize that very well. :rolleyes:
I’m not sure it was a maxim, or at least not before that episode. The leader Klingon is talking to his wife when one of the male officers pipes in:
Leader: We must take the ship.
Wife: They are four hundred to our forty!
Officer: Four thousand throats can be cut in one night - by a running man.
The officer is pointing out that speed and determination can even the odds. I don’t get the impression he’s just quoting or paraphrasing some Klingon proverb. He might be coining one, though…
Later on, when the Leader says “Only a fool fights in a burning house”… that sounds proverbial.
PICARD: Thank you, Counselor. :rolleyes:
It sounded to me as though it were.
Also, that “four thousand” figure seems a bit high to me. Is there a source for it?
I saw “Day of the Dove” a couple of weeks ago on Space, and I remember it as “a thousand,” just like every other time I’ve seen the episode since 1970.
The Klingon opera. “The Death of Kayless”.
I also remember it as a thousand.
Kayless or Kahless? :dubious:
“The Unforgettable.” Cool!
You are correct, Sir.
Kahless (pronounced KAY-less; Klingon letters: “qeylIS”)
^:)^
“Who set the pattern for his planet’s tyrranies.” Double-plus cool!