The Best Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 19 Quotes

Captain: And Mr. Worf - the bridge wouldn't be the same without you.

Captain: I do not wish to anger you. We are, after all, brothers, lost among infidels.

- Especially considering how close you and Mr. Mordock are in overall score.
- You all have an hour to prepare for your last test.
Wesley: The psych test, sir?
- We prefer to think of it as a psychological evaluation based on reactions to various individual problems, but, uh, "psych test" will do.

[one of the rescued Klingons has died]
Doctor: Is there any special arrangement you would like for the body?
Captain: It is only an empty shell now. Please treat it as such.

- I have to study all the time.
- It's a good thing you're cute, Wesley, or you could really be obnoxious.
- See you later.
- Did you hear what she said, mordock?
- She said I was cute.
- Is that good, Wesley?
- Yes.

[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: I was just being polite, sir.
Captain: Ah! Commendable, Lieutenant.
[...]
Lieutenant: Really. I have no desire to leave the Enterprise.
Captain: [surprised about Worf's persistence] Good.

[Picard sees Data through La Forge's VISOR]
Captain: There's an aura around him.
Lieutenant: Well, of course, he's an android.

Lieutenant: Why do you mock me? Why do you wish to anger me?
Captain: Only to see if it is still possible.
Lieutenant: It is.

- To the best of your knowledge, has the captain ever falsified a log?
- Have you discussed this with him?
- Right now I'm asking you.
- If you want to discuss captain picard, bring him in and you ask him face to face.
- You are required to answer my questions, Mr. Riker, unless you're trying to cover something up.

- No less for me.
- But I promised cooperation and that's what we shall give.
- Sir.
- Remmick: I want some answers.
- Riker: Later.
- Remmick: You are ordered to cooperate...
- Not now. When it doesn't interfere with my duties, remmick.

Captain: 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?

[Worf has refused Korris's offer to join him]
Captain: 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: Perhaps not.
[shoots Korris]

- Besides, you would have done the same for me.
- Yes. I believe I would.
- Congratulations.
- Well, personally, I hate losing.
- So you'd better be ready next year,
- Wesley.
- I won't be easy to beat.

- Mr. Mordock will be finished with his "psych test" momentarily.
Wesley: Mordock.
- Are you all right?
- I will be.
- Chang: Mr. Crusher.
- You're next.

- You had to make a choice and you did.
- There's no right or wrong about it.
- Your greatest fear has been that you couldn't make that decision.
- Because of my father?
- Because cap...
- Because someone made that choice, and my father died.

- Did this full training include discipline?
- Mr. Remmick, young men sometimes make rash choices.
- Which is why Mr. Kurland will receive a strong refresher, specifically in discipline.
- I'll note that in my report.
- Full cooperation, number one.

- I think I should apologize, captain.
- No need, number one.
- Mr. Remmick's presence is unnerving, to say the least.
- Are you available now, Mr. Riker, or do you still have duties to perform?
- I'm available, Mr. Remmick.
- Any problem with using your ready room, captain?
- No, Mr. Remmick. Be my guest.

- Commander remmick, report to admiral Quinn.
- Remmick [over com]: On my way, sir.
- This has been a strain on our friendship.
- I know.
- Believe me, Jean-Luc, I regret that.
- But it has been necessary.

- I can't get it.
- Yes, you can. Don't fight it.
- Relax into it and let it come by itself.
- No, it's going too fast.
- Wesley, I can't do it.
- Yes, you can.
- You've got your rotation factor.
- Just put in your vector coordinates.

- What am I gonna do?
- I'm gonna crash.
- He needs another 50 seconds for the core to cool down before he can restart.
- Stay calm, Jake.
- We'll get you back.
- Please, help me.

Lieutenant: 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: Here, here is where we meet the challenge. It is the weaknesses in here a warrior must overcome.
Captain: No.
Lieutenant: You have talked of glory and of conquest, and legends we will write.
Captain: Yes. The birthright of every Klingon.
Lieutenant: Yet in all you say, where are the words 'duty', 'honor', 'loyalty'? Without which a warrior is nothing!

- Yes, sir.
- We've known one another for years.
- Tell me what you believe is wrong.
- Captain, it is vitally important that my orders be followed exactly.
- I'll be staying on the ship.
- As you wish, admiral.

- Allow me to introduce my staff.
- First officer William riker, chief medical officer Beverly crusher, chief of security Natasha yar.
- Well, what can we do for you?
- I need to speak with you.
- Certainly. This way. Number one?
- Alone.
- Is this a personal matter?
- Official business.
- Well, then, my first officer...
- Alone, captain.

Captain: How did they die?
Lieutenant: They died well.

- that would suggest mental lapses?
- Nothing.
- Not even the ferengi incident aboard his old starship, the stargazer?
- He was being controlled by a mind-altering machine, commander, without his knowledge.
- I would call that a mental lapse.

Lt. Commander Data: I believe, sir, that was the first time outsiders have witnessed the Klingon death ritual.
Captain: I can understand them looking into the dying man's eyes. But the howling?
Lt. Commander Data: It was a warning.
Captain: To whom?
Lt. Commander Data: They are warning the dead, sir: "Beware, a Klingon warrior is about to arrive."

Lieutenant: I thought for a minute we had a problem.
Lieutenant: Oh?
Lieutenant: Yes, it looked like Korris was going to hold that little girl as a hostage.
Lieutenant: That is not our way. Cowards take hostages. Klingons do not.

- Picard: Space, the final frontier.
- These are the voyages of the starship enterprise.
- Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Captain: 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!

Lieutenant: 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: It's bred in the bone. We all do.

- I'll serve you better here.
- This is where you belong.
- If you should need me...
- I've been playing politics too long.
- Perhaps I see conspiracies everywhere.
- Don't worry.
- Safe travels, my friend.

Captain: Brother, this peace, this alliance is like a living death to warriors like us.

- We 're orbiting re/va vii, where Wesley crusher is about to be tested for entrance into starf/eet academy.
- And to my great surprise,
- I have just learned that my old friend, admiral Gregory Quinn, is on relva vii and has requested to be beamed aboard the enterprise immediately.

- I appreciate the value of what you're offering.
- It's not a decision
- I can make quickly.
- I need an answer soon.
- All right.
- You'll have it tonight, admiral.
- Thank you.

- May I help you, Mr. Remmick?
- Keep doing whatever it is you're doing, commander data.

- Quite.
- You're dismissed, commander.
- Yes, sir.
- Captain picard.
- My tour in the inspector general's office will be up in six months.
- When I'm finished, this is where I'd like to serve, sir.

- But at least you kept your wits about you out there. Don't forget that.
- No, sir.
- And thank you.
- Thank you for...
- For saving my life.
- That's my job, young man.
- Yes, sir.

- Six seconds to impact.
- Hold on, Jake.
- It's going to be a little bumpy.
- Zero-one-five.
- Zero-one-nine.
- Restart the engine now.
- Pull up hard.

- throughout the federation.
- You have my complete support.
- You know that.
- That's not enough.
- I want to promote you to admiral and I want you to take over as commandant of starfleet academy.
- The academy?
- Yes.

Captain: That, right there... What is that?
Lieutenant: That's Commander Riker.
Captain: Ah! To me it's just a... an undefined form standing in a... in a visual frenzy.

- I stand by my decision.
- Mr. Remmick, you've talked to every member of this ship.
- I think you've had enough time to find out whatever it is you're looking for.
- Are you afraid if I keep looking
- I'll find that you're guilty?
- The only thing I'm guilty of is allowing this charade to go on so long.

- you have shown from the preliminary testing that any of you could easily qualify.
- Now this may be the most difficult, exhausting experience of your life.
- And the most exciting challenge.
- Expect the unexpected.
- May you all do your best.

Captain: 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: [about dishonorable death] When one of us dies that way, it diminishes us all.

- I'm here.
- I'm ready.
- Maybe they forgot.
- Breathe.
- Gotta remember to breathe.

- Computer: Last question on the hyperspace physics test.
- If the matter and ant/matter tanks on a galaxy-class starship are nine-tenths depleted, calculate the intermix ratio necessary to reach a starbase a hundred light years away at warp factor 8.
- Begin.