Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Homeward (1994)

Brian Markinson: Vorin

Quotes 

• [Vorin is drawing the chronicle of his village] 

  Vorin : Doesn't your village keep a chronicle?

  Lieutenant Worf : Not in this manner.

  Vorin : Then how do you teach your children their history? Who their ancestors were, where they come from?

  Lieutenant Worf : We... tell each other stories. Make up songs.

  Vorin : Stories change with each person who tells them. This - this will always be the same.

• Vorin : The chronicle is the life of our village. Without that past, our future means nothing.

• [Vorin has learned that his home is gone] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Vorin, listen to me. We can visit many other worlds. We can take you to one where you can build a new life.

  Vorin : A new life?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : A chance for your culture, your people, to survive and grow.

  Vorin : How can we grow, when everything that made us who we are is gone?