50 Best Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 2 Quotes

- Now where have you gone to, my friend?
- Forgive the intrusion, captain, but I need some answers.

- Shaka.
- When the walls fell.

- We're almost there, commander.
- Lefler, shunt the overload to the phase transition sequencers in transporter 1.
- Yes, sir.
- La forge to o'brien.
- Go ahead, commander.
- Confirm phase sequencer linkage.
- Link confirmed.
- Ready whenever you are, sir.

- Riker: Your captain is under attack.
- Drop your particle field.
- Kai/ash.
- When it rises.
- They have closed the channel.
- O'brien: O'brien to bridge.
- I can't hold him, commander.

- Sorry, captain.
- Shaka.
- When the walls fell.

- New friends, captain?
- I can't say, number one.
- But at least they're not new enemies.

- His arms wide.
- Because he's holding them apart.
- In generosity.
- In giving.
- In taking?
- Tembo. His arms wide.

- Mirab with sails unfurled.
- Tembo. His arms open.
- Tembo.
- At rest.
- Thank you.
- Data: Power has been restored, sir.

Commander William T. Riker: New friends, Captain?
Captain: I can't say, Number One. But at least they're not new enemies.

- Aye, commander.
- Sir, the tamarians are fully capable of stopping a shuttle.
- I'm aware of that.
- But disrupting our transporter beam and firing on a shuttle are two entirely different things.
- I'm betting they're not gonna push it that far.

- Darmok and jalad.
- On the ocean.
- Sokath!
- His eyes open.
- The beast of tanagra.
- Uzani. His army.
- Shaka. When the walls fell.

[repeated line]
Captain: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Tamarian: Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

- Rai and jiri at lungha.
- Shaka.
- When the walls fell.
- Zima at anzo.
- Zima and bakor.
- Darmok at tanagra.
- Shaka! Mirab. His sails unfurled.
- Darmok.
- Mirab!
- Temarc!
- The river temarc.

Counselor: All our technology and experience - our universal translator, our years in space, contact with more alien cultures than I can even remember...
Lt. Commander Data: I have encountered 1,754 non-Human races during my tenure in Starfleet.
Counselor: And we still can't even say hello to these people.

Lt. Commander Data: Their ability to abstract is highly unusual. They seem to communicate through narrative imagery, a reference to the individuals and places which appear in their mytho-historical accounts.
Counselor: It's as if I were to say to you... "Juliet on her balcony."
Doctor: An image of romance.
Counselor: Exactly. Imagery is everything to the Tamarians. It embodies their emotional states, their very thought processes. It's how they communicate, and it's how they think.
Commander William T. Riker: If we know how they think, shouldn't we be able to get something across to them?
Lt. Commander Data: No, sir. The situation is analogous to understanding the grammar of a language, but none of the vocabulary.
Doctor: If I didn't know who Juliet was or what she was doing on that balcony, the image alone wouldn't have any meaning.
Counselor: That's correct. For instance, we know that Darmok was a great hero, a hunter, and that Tanagra was an island. But that's it. Without the details, there's no understanding.

Captain: Sokath - his eyes uncovered.

Tamarian: Chenza at court - the court of silence.

Captain: The Tamarian was willing to risk all of us, just for the hope of communication. Connection. Now the door is open between our peoples. That commitment meant more to him than his own life.

- We will have tipped our hand to the tamarians.
- But that's a chance we have to take.
- Agreed.
- La forge, proceed.
- We 're on it. La forge out.
- Riker to transporter room 1.
- O'brien here, commander.
- Stand by, Mr. O'brien.

- But enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods.
- And gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying: "He who was my companion through adventure and hardship is gone forever."

Captain: [interpreting Dathon's tale of Darmok and Jalad] They arrive separately. They... They struggle together against a common foe, the Beast at Tanagra. "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!"
Captain: Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
Captain: [translating] They left together. "Darmok and Jalad on the ocean."

Captain: Zinda - his face black, his eyes red.

Captain: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Captain: Mirab, his sails unfurled.

[Chief O'Brien is trying to beam Picard back]
Chief: I've got a piece of him, Commander, but that's all.

Captain: Uzani - his army with fist open... his army with fist closed.

- I was curious. I meant no harm.
- Shaka!
- Tembo. His arms wide. Tembo.
- No, enough!
- I'm not going to fight you.
- You will just have...
- Darmok and jalad.
- At tanagra.

[first lines]
Captain: Captain's log, stardate 45047.2 - The Enterprise is en route to the uninhabited El-Adrel system. Its location is near the territory occupied by an enigmatic race known as "The Children of Tama."

- An army, with fist open to lure the enemy, with fist closed to attack!
- That's how you communicate, isn't it?
- By citing example.
- By metaphor.
- Uzani's army with fist open.
- Sokath! His eyes uncovered!

Captain: Kiazi's children - their faces wet.

- What now, captain?
- Will you attack me in my sleep?
- If I don't freeze to death first.
- Darmok of kanza. Jalad and kiteo.
- Picard of the federation.
- Of the starship enterprise.
- Of the planet earth.

Captain: But are they truly incomprehensible? In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe that these are qualities that we have in sufficient measure.

- I understand your sacrifice, captain.
- Unfortunately, if our friend out there has its way, no one will ever know what you tried to do.

- Data: Nine meters and closing.
- The energy output of the entity has doubled, commander.
- Six meters.
- La forge: La forge to bridge.
- You have phasers.
- Fire.
- Their particle beam emitters are inoperative, sir.
- Scattering field is down, sir.
- O'brien, energize.

[repeated line]
Captain: Temba, his arms wide.

- I'll take that course when it's the last one left.
- Who the hell are these people?
- There's got to be some way to get through to them.
- As I have said, with further study it may be possible.
- Then do it. Deanna, help him.
- I want something by 0900 hours.

Captain: Rai and Jiri at Lungha.

- He may be dead, sir.
- If we know that, so do the tamarians.
- Riker to la forge.
- La forge: La forge here.
- I need those phasers.
- Sir, sensors are tracking the entity.
- It is approaching captain picard's position.

Tamarian: Kailash, when it rises.

- Dathon: Darmok and jalad.
- Picard: You want to fight with me.
- Is that it? A challenge?
- Darmok and jalad.
- I don't know who or what darmok or jalad are, but I certainly didn't come here to start a war.
- Darmok and jalad at tanagra.

Capt. Picard: Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra!

Captain: Gilgamesh, a king. Gilgamesh, a king. At Uruk. He tormented his subjects. He made them angry. They cried out aloud, "Send us a companion for our king! Spare us from his madness!" Enkidu, a wild man... from the forest, entered the city. They fought in the temple. They fought in the streets. Gilgamesh defeated Enkidu. They became great friends. Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
Captain: [faintly] At Uruk.
Captain: The... the new friends went out into the desert together, where the Great Bull of Heaven was killing men by the hundreds. Enkidu caught the Bull by the tail. Gilgamesh struck him with his sword.
Captain: [laughing] Gilgamesh.
Captain: They were... victorious. But... Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods. And Gilgamesh... wept bitter tears, saying, "He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever."

- The ocean.
- Darmok on the ocean.
- A metaphor.
- For being alone?
- Isolated.
- Darmok on the ocean.

Captain: The river Temarc - in winter.

Captain: [to the fallen Dathon] I understand your sacrifice, Captain. Unfortunately, if our friend out there has its way, no one will ever know what you tried to do.

- 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.

- Where is he?
- The tamarians have transported captain picard to the planet's surface along with their own captain.
- Riker: Riker to o'brien!
- It will not be possible to transport, sir.
- The tamarian ship has created a particle scattering field on the planet's ionosphere.

Tamarian: Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.

Captain: You hoped that something like this would happen, didn't you? You knew there was a dangerous creature on this planet, and you knew from the tale of Darmok that a danger shared might sometimes bring two people together. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. You and me, here, at El-Adrel.