Patrick Stewart credited as playing...
Picard
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [Quoting "Moby Dick"] And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.
- Lily Sloane: What?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "Moby-Dick".
- Lily Sloane: Actually, I never read it.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Ahab spent years hunting the white whale that crippled him, a quest for vengeance, but in the end, it destroyed him and his ship.
- Lily Sloane: I guess he didn't know when to quit.
- Lieutenant Commander Data: Captain, I believe I am feeling... anxiety. It is an intriguing sensation. A most distracting...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Data, I'm sure it's a fascinating experience, but perhaps you should deactivate your emotion chip for now.
- Lieutenant Commander Data: Good idea, sir.
- [beep]
- Lieutenant Commander Data: Done.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Data, there are times that I envy you.
- Lt. Commander Worf: The Defiant?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Adrift but salvageable.
- Cmdr. William Riker: Tough little ship.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Little?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'm about to commit a direct violation of our orders. Those of you who wish to object, you do so now. It will be noted in my log.
- Lieutenant Commander Data: Captain. I believe I speak for everyone here, sir, when I say...
- [pause]
- Lieutenant Commander Data: To hell with our orders.
- Lily Sloane: Jean Luc, blow up the damn ship!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No! Noooooooooo!
- [Smashes glass and model ships with his phaser]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done!
- Lily Sloane: You broke your little ships.
- [leaving]
- Lily Sloane: See you around, Ahab.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Initiate auto-destruct sequence. Authorization: Picard, 4 7 Alpha Tango.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher: Computer, Commander Beverly Crusher. Confirm auto-destruct sequence. Authorization: Crusher, 2 2 Beta Charlie.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Computer, Lieutenant Commander Worf. Confirm auto-destruct sequence. Authorization: Worf, 3 7 Gamma Echo.
- Computer: Command authorization accepted. Awaiting final command.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Destruct sequence: Alpha 1. 15 minutes, silent countdown. Enable.
- Computer: Auto-destruct in 15 minutes. There will be no further audio warnings.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher: So much for the Enterprise-E.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: We barely knew her.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher: Think they'll build another one?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Plenty of letters left in the alphabet.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century.
- Lily Sloane: No money? You mean you don't get paid?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. Actually, we're rather like yourself and Dr. Cochrane.
- Lieutenant Commander Data: [about the Borg Queen] She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible. And for a time, I was tempted by her offer.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time?
- Lieutenant Commander Data: 0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.
- [Picard takes the phaser from Lily, and inspects it]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Maximum setting. If you had fired this, you would have vaporized me.
- Lily Sloane: [sheepish] It's my first ray gun.
- Lily Sloane: You gotta go?
- [Picard nods "Yes"]
- Lily Sloane: I envy you... the world you're going to.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I envy YOU... taking these first steps into a new frontier. I shall miss you, Lily.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf... I regret some of the things I said to you earlier.
- Lt. Commander Worf: "Some"?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: As a matter of fact, I think you're the bravest man I have ever known.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Thank you, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You want to destroy the ship and run away, you coward.
- Lt. Commander Worf: If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand.
- [Picard puts his hand on the Phoenix]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's a boyhood fantasy... I must have seen this ship hundreds of times in the Smithsonian but I was never able to touch it.
- Lieutenant Commander Data: Sir, does tactile contact alter your perception of the Phoenix?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, yes! For humans, touch can connect you to an object in a very personal way, make it seem more real.
- [Data also puts his hand on the Phoenix]
- Lieutenant Commander Data: I am detecting imperfections in the titanium casing... temperature variations in the fuel manifold... it is no more "real" to me now than it was a moment ago.
- Cmdr. Deanna Troi: [observing from a catwalk] Would you three like to be alone?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Six years ago, they assimiated me into their collective. I had their cybernetic devices implanted throughout my body. I was linked to the hive mind. Every trace of individuality erased. I was one of them. So you can imagine, my dear, I have a somewhat unique perspective on the Borg, and I know how to fight them. Now if you will excuse me, I have work to do.
- Lily Sloane: I am such an idiot. It's so simple. The Borg HURT you, and now you're going to HURT them back.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: In my century, we don't succumb to revenge. We have a more evolved sensibility.
- Lily Sloane: BULLSHIT! I saw the look your face when you shot those Borg on the Holodeck. You were almost ENJOYING it!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: How dare you.
- Lily Sloane: Oh, come on, Captain. You're not the first man to get a thrill from murdering someone! I see it all the time!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: GET OUT!
- Lily Sloane: Or what? You'll kill me like you killed Ensign Lynch?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: There was no way to save him.
- Lily Sloane: You didn't even try! Where was your evolved sensibility then?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's not too late. Locutus could still be with you. Just in the way you wanted: an equal. Let Data go, and I will take my place at your side. Willingly, without any resistance.
- Borg Queen: Such a noble creature. A quality we sometimes lack. We will add your distinctiveness to our own. Welcome home... Locutus.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I don't have time for this.
- Lily Sloane: Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt your little quest. Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whale.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What?
- Lily Sloane: You do have books in the 24th century?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: This is not about revenge.
- Lily Sloane: LIAR!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: This is about saving the future of humanity!
- Cmdr. William Riker: We finished our first sensor sweep of the neutral zone.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, fascinating. Twenty particles of space dust per cubic meter, 52 ultraviolet radiation spikes, and a class-2 comet. Well, this is certainly worthy of our attention.
- Cmdr. William Riker: Captain, why are we out here chasing comets?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Let's just say Starfleet has every confidence with the Enterprise and her crew - they're just not sure about her Captain. They believe that a man who was once captured and assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a situation where he would face them again. To do so would introduce "an unstable element to a critical situation."
- Cmdr. William Riker: That's ridiculous. Your experience with the Borg makes you the perfect man to lead this fight.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Admiral Hayes disagrees.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Sir, we have lost the Enterprise. We should not sacrifice...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: We have not lost the Enterprise, Mr. Worf. We are not *going* to lose the Enterprise. Not to the Borg. Not while I'm in command.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf, do you remember your zero-G combat training?
- Lt. Commander Worf: I remember it made me sick to my stomach.
- [realizing what he's getting at]
- Lt. Commander Worf: What are you suggesting?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I think it's time that we took a little stroll.