Patrick Stewart credited as playing...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Data, find a way to defeat that shield.
- Lt. Commander Data: That may be impossible sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Things are only impossible until they're not!
- [Picard has quoted Starfleet Regulation 6.57 to Radue, in order to justify Dr. Crusher's presence during negotiations]
- Lt. Commander Data: Captain, I am not aware of Regulation 6.57.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No, Data, neither am I.
- Lt. Commander Data: I see, sir. Oh - I see, sir!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: We do not condone your actions. You're attempting to salve your conscience by offering us goods in exchange for our children.
- Radue: Why do you want them back so badly? You can always have more.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You are trifling with the primal instincts of our species. I must warn you that human parents are quite willing to die for their children.
- Radue: [over audio] We're ready to receive you, Commander Riker, and two of your colleagues.
- [instantly, Riker, Troi and Crusher are transported away]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Interesting choices.
- Radue: Captain, let us begin discussions regarding appropriate compensation.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Compensation? You have stolen our children away from... away from their classrooms, away from their bedrooms, and you talk about compensation? You claim to be a civilized world, and yet you've just committed an act of utter barbarity!
- Radue: Captain, we will continue these discussions when you've calmed down.
- [ends transmission]