Michael Dorn credited as playing...
Lieutenant Worf
- Tarrana: Look!
- [the holo-grid is beginning to show through Nikolai's simulation of Boraal in a pool of water]
- Lieutenant Worf: Do not worry. It is an omen.
- Dobara: What does it mean?
- Lieutenant Worf: It is the sign of LaForge. It is a message to travelers. It is said when these lines appear and disappear in a pool of water...
- [the scene cuts to Engineering where Geordi is listening on the com-channel]
- Lieutenant Worf: ... the road ahead will be filled with good fortune.
- Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Hang in there, Worf
- [works some controls]
- Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Give me just a second. There, that should do it.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: [the simulation stabilizes] You see. Our journey is already blessed. The road ahead is long. Let us have a meal together and then we'll make preparations to leave.
- [after the Borallans have dispersed]
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Worf, very good work. Apparently, we don't make such a bad team after all.
- Lieutenant Worf: [can barely hide his contempt] We are not a team. I am here because Captain Picard ordered me here.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Worf, don't we share the same goal? Aren't we trying to make this plan work?
- Lieutenant Worf: Only because you forced us into it.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I'm not ashamed of what I did. I'm not sorry I saved their lives.
- Lieutenant Worf: You have not changed. You still expect people to solve the problems you create.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I'm not here to work out the issues of our childhood. I'm here to save a people who I care about, and if that upsets you, then so be it.
- [storms out]
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Things were never easy between us, were they?
- Lieutenant Worf: No.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: It's my fault. If I'd been more like you, we wouldn't have had so many problems.
- Lieutenant Worf: No. If you had been more like me, these people would not be here now. You gave them a chance at a new life.
- [last lines]
- Lieutenant Worf: I will have to explain all of this to Mother and Father.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: They won't understand.
- Lieutenant Worf: They may. I will tell them... that you are happy.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: The village will need a new chronicle. Someone has to begin it. My child will need a father. My place is here. I'm finally taking responsibility.
- Lieutenant Worf: You were never good at drawing. How will you keep a chronicle?
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I learn quickly.
- Lieutenant Worf: Then perhaps there is hope.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I wasn't going to let those people die just because your Captain started quoting Federation dogma to me.
- Lieutenant Worf: Your duty was to respect the Captain's orders and to uphold the Prime Directive.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Duty. That's all that really matters to you, isn't it? Well, I refuse to be bound by an abstraction. The lives of the people of Boraal are for more important to me. You worry too much, Worf. You always did. Everything will work out.
- Lieutenant Worf: You have disgraced yourself. And you have disgraced me. And I want nothing more to do with you.
- [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.
- Dobara: [about Nikolai] He is a brave and compassionate man, and I love him. Please, go to him. Make things right between you. I want us to be a family.
- Lieutenant Worf: "Us"?
- Dobara: Yes. I want you to consider yourself my brother. After all...
- [she takes Worf's hand and places it on her belly]
- Dobara: ...you're going to be the uncle of my child.