Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Patrick Stewart: Picard

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• Admiral Matthew Dougherty : Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people.

  Captain Picard : How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? Hmm? A thousand, fifty thousand, a million? How many people does it take, Admiral?

• Commander Riker : Our guests have arrived. They're eating the floral arrangements on the banquet tables.

  Cmdr. Beverly Crusher : I guess they don't believe in cocktails before dinner.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Oh, my God. Are they vegetarian? That's not in there.

  Captain Picard : Perhap we should have the chef whip up a light balsamic vinaigrette, something that goes well with chrysanthemums.

• Captain Picard : Mr. Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : No sir, I have not had a chance to meet all the new crew members since I have been back.

• Captain Picard : I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.

  Anij : It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn.

• Anij : Have you ever experienced a perfect moment in time?

  Captain Picard : A perfect moment?

  Anij : When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live in that moment.

  Captain Picard : Seeing my home planet from space for the first time.

  Anij : Yes. Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception. We've discovered that a single moment in time can be a universe in itself, full of powerful forces. Most people aren't aware enough of the now to even notice.

• Captain Picard : Do you remember when we used to be explorers?

• Captain Picard : If a court-martial is the only way to tell the Federation what is happening here, Admiral... I welcome it.

• Cmdr. Beverly Crusher : You either need a new uniform or a new neck.

  Captain Picard : Yew-cheen-chef-faw. My collar size is exactly as it was at the academy.

  Cmdr. Beverly Crusher : Of course it is.

• Captain Picard : We're going to stop by Sector 441 on our way to the Goran system.

  Geordi La Forge : They *are* in opposite directions.

• Captain Picard : Data, what's the last thing you remember?

  Data : [singing]  His nose should pant, and his lip should curl...

  Captain Picard : From the mission.

• Captain Picard : Don't panic!

  Anij : I've been shot at, thrown into the lake out of a ship that's come to abduct us - what's there to panic about?

• Anij : At one time, we explored the galaxy just as you do.

  Captain Picard : You have warp capability?

  Anij : Capability, yes. But where can warp drive take us except away from here?

• [there is a blemish on Worf's face] 

  Captain Picard : Have you been in a fight, Mr Worf?

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : [sighs]  No sir... it is a "gorch".

  Captain Picard : Gorch?

  Data : [whispers]  Pimple, sir.

  Captain Picard : Oh... it's hardly noticeable.

• [to 300-year-old Anij] 

  Captain Picard : I should warn you - I've always been attracted to older women.

• Captain Picard : In 300 years, you never learned to swim?

  Anij : I just haven't got around to it yet.

• Captain Picard : Bridge to Commander Worf... Worf?

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : Captain?

  Captain Picard : I don't know how they do it on Deep Space 9, but on the Enterprise, we still report for duty on time.

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : [Worf jumps out his bunk, bashes his head] 

  [on intercom] 

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : Sorry sir, I'm on my way.

  Captain Picard : We'll skip the court martial this time. Picard out.

• Captain Picard : We were under the impression they were being held against their will.

  Anij : It's not our custom to have guests here at all, let alone hold anyone against their will.

  Sojef : The artificial life form would not allow them to leave. In fact, he told us they were our enemies and that more would follow.

  Anij : Are you our enemy?

  Sojef : Anij.

  Captain Picard : My people have a strict policy of non-interference in other cultures. It's our Prime Directive.

  Anij : Your directive apparently doesn't include spying on other cultures.

• Data : Captain, the boy is afraid of me.

  Captain Picard : It's nothing personal, Data. You have to remember, these people have rejected technology.

  Data : I am the personification of everything they have rejected.

  Captain Picard : Until this week, that young man probably never saw a machine, let alone one that walks and talks.

• Captain Picard : Mr. Worf, our job is to come up with a plan to safely capture Data.

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : I've already had Commander La Forge modify this tricorder with one of Data's actuation servos. Its operational range is only four meters, but it will shut him down.

  Captain Picard : Good to have you back, Mr. Worf.

• Admiral Matthew Dougherty : We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.

  Captain Picard : Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?

• Captain Picard : [to Worf]  Straighten your baldric.

• Captain Picard : [to Gallatin/Golna]  Here you are, closing those eyes, trying not to see what bitterness has done to the Son'a. How it's turned Rua'fo into a madman. And you? It's turned you into a coward - a man who denies his own conscience.

• Admiral Matthew Dougherty : Commander Data attacked us in a mission scout ship yesterday. Ru'afo and I have decided to send in an assault team.

  Captain Picard : Commander Worf and I are working on several tactical plans to save...

  Ad'har Ru'afo : Your android has turned dangerously violent, Captain. Considerable damage was done to my ship. He must be destroyed.

  Admiral Matthew Dougherty : I know what Data means to Starfleet, Jean-Luc, but our crew is at the mercy of those people on the planet.

  Captain Picard : If our first attempt to capture Data fails... I will terminate him. I should be the one to do it. I'm his captain... and his friend.

  Admiral Matthew Dougherty : All right. You have 12 hours, Captain. Then I want you out of the Briar Patch. In the meantime, we'll head out to the perimeter to call for Son'a reinforcements, in case you fail.

  Captain Picard : Understood.

  Admiral Matthew Dougherty : Good luck, Captain. Dougherty out.

• Captain Picard : Do you have everything you need from Command?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I've downloaded all the files on the duck-blind mission and the Son'a.

  Captain Picard : You have two days to become experts.

• Captain Picard : When was the last time we aligned the torque sensors?

  Perim : Two months ago, sir.

  Captain Picard : They don't sound right.

  Geordi La Forge : [checking]  The torque sensors *are* out of alignment. By 12 microns. You could hear that?

  Captain Picard : When I was an ensign, I could detect a 3-micron misalignment.

• Data : [discovering a Federation ship in the middle of a Ba'ku lake]  It is a holographic projection. Incomplete, I might add.

  Captain Picard : What you're seeing is a computer-driven image created by photons and force fields.

  Anij : I know what a hologram is, Captain. The question is, why would anyone want to create one of our village?

  Captain Picard : Data, if you were following the children and discovered this ship...

  Data : It is conceivable I was shot to protect the secret of its existence.

  Captain Picard : Why would they duplicate this village, except to deceive the Ba'ku?

  Anij : Deceive us?

  Captain Picard : To move you off this planet. You go to sleep one night in the village, wake up the next morning on this flying holodeck, transported en masse. Within a few days, they're relocated on a similar planet without ever realizing it.

  Data : Why would the Federation or the Son'a wish to move the Ba'ku?

  Captain Picard : I don't know.

• Geordi La Forge : I had to reconstruct Data's neural net and replace these. They contain memory engrams.

  Captain Picard : How were they damaged?

  Geordi La Forge : By a Son'a weapon. There's no doubt about it, Captain. That's what caused Data to malfunction.

  Captain Picard : But the Son'a report claims that they didn't fire until after he malfunctioned.

  Geordi La Forge : Well, I don't believe it happened that way.

  Captain Picard : Why would they fire on him without provocation?

  Geordi La Forge : All I know is that he was functioning normally until he was shot. Then his fail-safe system was activated.

  Captain Picard : Fail-safe?

  Geordi La Forge : His ethical and moral subroutines took over all of his basic functions.

  Captain Picard : But you're saying he still knew the difference between right and wrong.

  Geordi La Forge : In a sense, that's all he knew. The system was designed to protect Data against anyone who might try to take advantage of his memory loss.

  Captain Picard : And yet he attacked us, and he told the Ba'ku that we were a threat.

• Captain Picard : Ru'afo, we're getting too old for this.

  Ad'har Ru'afo : After today, that won't be a problem... for either of us.

• Captain Picard : Will, Geordi: go back and put a face on what's happening here. Make the council see the Baku. It's too easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering of a people you don't know.

• Captain Picard : I'm not letting go of him!

• [last lines] 

  Captain Picard : Picard to Enterprise. Seven to beam up.

  Captain Picard : [exchanges glances with Anij one last time] 

  Captain Picard : Energize.

  [the Enterprise crew dematerialize]