Gates McFadden credited as playing...
Doctor Beverly Crusher
- [Picard is overcome with Sarek's intense emotions]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: NOOO! It is... It is... wrong! IT IS WRONG! A lifetime of discipline washed away, and in its place...
- [laughs awkwardly, then grunts]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Bedlam. BEDLAM! I'm so old. There is nothing left but dry bones, and dead friends. Oh... tired. Oh, so tired.
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: It will pass, all of it. Just another hour or so, you're doing fine, just hold on.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: NO! This weakness disgusts me! I HATE IT! Where is my logic? I'm betrayed by... desires. Oh, I want to feel, I want to feel... everything. But I am... a Vulcan. I must feel nothing! Give me back my control!
- [he sobs uncontrollably]
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: Jean-Luc!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Pe- Perrin... Amanda... I - wanted - to give you - so much more. I wanted to show you such... t- t- tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock... Amanda... Did you know? P-Perrin, can you - know... how - much I - love - you? I - do - LOVE YOU!
- [Picard weeps heavily, then manages to compose himself]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Beverly...
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: I'm here, Jean-Luc. I'm not going anywhere.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's... quite difficult. The anguish of the man. The despair... pouring out of him, all those feelings. The regrets.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [sobs] I c- I can't... stop them! I can't stop them, I can't. I can't...!
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: [comforting him] Don't even try.
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: [Dr. Crusher, in unexplained bout of irrational anger has slapped her son, Wesley. She is deeply shocked and hurt by what she had just done] ... And then I just slapped him. Really hard. *I* slapped Wesley.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Do you know why you did it?
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: [heartbroken] I've NEVER hit my son in his life.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [serious] Beverly, This is important. What were you thinking when you hit Wesley.
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: I wasn't thinking anything. I was... just angry.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: And Weseley didn't provoke you in any way? It wasn't anything he said, or anything he did?
- Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher: [at a loss] No, that was just it. It was a sudden burst of anger. I still can't believe I did it.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I don't know why you did it either. But I can tell you that I've heard the same kind of story from ten different people in the last two days.