James Cromwell credited as playing...
Prime Minister Nayrok
- [the Angosian Prime Minister with his staff and the away team of the Enterprise are held at gunpoint by Roga Danar and his fellow inmates]
- Prime Minister Nayrok: Captain, you must do something. Call your ship.
- Capt. Picard: Quite right, Prime Minister.
- [he activates his combadge]
- Capt. Picard: Enterprise, prepare to beam the away team back.
- Prime Minister Nayrok: You were programed to survive. You can survive at the Lunar V settlement.
- Roga Danar: To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Roga, tell them what you want.
- Roga Danar: We want our lives back. We want to come home.
- Prime Minister Nayrok: I am not prepared to negotiate under threat, Danar. But if you will put down your weapons and return peaceably to Lunar V... I would be willing.
- Roga Danar: Mr. Prime Minister, with all due respect, you will have to force us. Or at least try.
- [Danar and his fellow soldiers storm into the government building]
- Capt. Picard: [as Worf reaches for his phaser] No, Worf! All of you, don't respond! Don't provoke them further! Keep those weapons down unless you wish to be killed!
- Prime Minister Nayrok: Do as he said.
- Roga Danar: No! Don't! Shoot us, destroy us. Do what you have to. But you will *not* ignore us.
- [no response]
- Roga Danar: Go on, do it!
- [he charges his weapon and fires a blast into the wall, but the Angosians still do not raise their weapons]
- Roga Danar: Cowards!
- Capt. Picard: Yes, and you're not programmed to murder cowards. So if they will not fight back, what will you do?
- Roga Danar: We will not go back.