- Lieutenant Worf: You look for battles in the wrong place. The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within.
- [he thumps against his chest]
- Lieutenant Worf: Here, here is where we meet the challenge. It is the weaknesses in here a warrior must overcome.
- Captain Korris: No.
- Lieutenant Worf: You have talked of glory and of conquest, and legends we will write.
- Captain Korris: Yes. The birthright of every Klingon.
- Lieutenant Worf: Yet in all you say, where are the words 'duty', 'honor', 'loyalty'? Without which a warrior is nothing!
- Lieutenant Worf: Why do you mock me? Why do you wish to anger me?
- Captain Korris: Only to see if it is still possible.
- Lieutenant Worf: It is.
- [one of the rescued Klingons has died]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Is there any special arrangement you would like for the body?
- Captain Korris: It is only an empty shell now. Please treat it as such.
- Captain Korris: Tell me, what is it like for the hunter to lie down with the prey? Have they tamed you? Or have you always been docile?
- Lieutenant Worf: What burns in their eyes, fires my soul. I hear their words, and I see it all as it was. Part of me longs for that time.
- Captain K'Nera: It's bred in the bone. We all do.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: That, right there... What is that?
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: That's Commander Riker.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Ah! To me it's just a... an undefined form standing in a... in a visual frenzy.
- [Picard sees Data through La Forge's VISOR]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: There's an aura around him.
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: Well, of course, he's an android.
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: I thought for a minute we had a problem.
- Lieutenant Worf: Oh?
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Yes, it looked like Korris was going to hold that little girl as a hostage.
- Lieutenant Worf: That is not our way. Cowards take hostages. Klingons do not.
- [Worf has refused Korris's offer to join him]
- Captain Korris: You are a sham! My words were dust upon the ground. Your blood has no fire. You are weak like them! I don't care what you look like. You are no Klingon!
- Lieutenant Worf: Perhaps not.
- [shoots Korris]
- [Worf has expressed his gratitude to Captain K'Nera for offering him a position on his ship, which earns him inquiring looks from the entire bridge crew]
- Lieutenant Worf: I was just being polite, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Ah! Commendable, Lieutenant.
- [...]
- Lieutenant Worf: Really. I have no desire to leave the Enterprise.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [surprised about Worf's persistence] Good.
- Lt. Commander Data: I believe, sir, that was the first time outsiders have witnessed the Klingon death ritual.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I can understand them looking into the dying man's eyes. But the howling?
- Lt. Commander Data: It was a warning.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: To whom?
- Lt. Commander Data: They are warning the dead, sir: "Beware, a Klingon warrior is about to arrive."
- Captain Korris: To fit in, the Humans demand that you change the one thing that you cannot change. But because you cannot, you do. That, too, is the mark of a warrior. You said I mock you. I do not. I salute you!
- Captain Korris: I have tasted your heart! You have been with them, but you are still of us! Do not deny the challenge of your destiny. Get off your knees and soar! Open your eyes, and let the dream take flight!