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This is probably the most poignant quote from any Star Trek Show “The claim, ‘I was only following orders,’ has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history.” Picard and Data |
“Haven’t we grown beyond the point where we resolve our problems with physical conflict?”
Dr. Katherine
Pulaski to Riker
TNG / Up the
Long Ladder
“Poverty was eliminated on Earth a long time ago. And a lot of other things disappeared with it: hopelessness…despair…cruelty…”
Troi to Samuel
Clemens
TNG / Time’s
Arrow, Part II
“Young lady, I come from a time when men achieved power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor….where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace…and power is an end unto itself…And you’re telling me…that isn’t how it is anymore?’
Clemens to
Troi
TNG / Time’s
Arrow, Part II
“Why do you
resist? We only wish to raise…quality of life …for all species.”
“I like
my species the way it is.”
Locutus of
Borg and Worf, on the threat of a assimilating the Klingon Empire
TNG / The Best
of Both Worlds. Part II
“As you examine
your life, do you find you have missed your humanity?”
“I have
no regrets.”
“No regrets? That
is a human expression.”
“Yes.
Fascinating.”
Data and
Spock, on Spock’s life as a half –Vulcan, suppressing his human half.
TNG /
Unification, Part II
“Just because something’s old doesn’t mean you throw it away.”
La Forge to
Captain Montgomery Scott
TNG / Relics
“You know, Jean-luc, it’s lucky for you we met. If it wasn’t for me…if it wasn’t for me, you’d still be back there sitting in the sun…relaxing.”
Vash to Picard
TNG /
Captain’s Holiday
“I never met a chocolate I didn’t like.”
Troi to Riker
TNG / The Game
“That’s the wonderful thing about crayons… they can take you to more places than a starship.”
Guiana to
young Ro
TNG / Rascals
“You’ve got a lot to learn about humans if you think you can torture us or frighten us into silence.”
Picard to Q
TNG / Haven
“Humans constantly think one thing and say another.”
Troi to
Lwaxana
TNG / Haven
“Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you.”
Riker to
Picard
TNG /
Imaginary friend
“China was thought to be a myth until Marco Polo travelled there.”
Picard to
Wesley
TNG /
Contagion
“You never really look for something until you need it.”
La Forge to Hanna
TNG / The Masterpiece Society
“You cannot put a price on a life.”
Picard to Daimon Bok
TNG / Bloodlines
“Our children are not for sale at any price.”
Beverly to Radue
TNG / When the Bough breaks
“It’s a funny thing about being a parent. There aren’t any tech manuals, no quick read-outs to get you through the next set of variables. You’ve just got to wing it from day to day…”
Kyle Riker to Will Riker
TNG / The Icarus Factor
“The Book of Love, chapter four, paragraph seventeen: When your girlfriend arrives with a gift, stop whatever it is you’re doing and give her your undivided attention.”
Jenna and Data
TNG / In Theory
“A warrior does not let a friend face danger alone.”
Worf to Riker
TNG / The Outcast
“I believe truth is in the eye of the beholder.”
“Isn’t that supposed to be ‘beauty’?
“’Truth,’ ‘beauty’…works for a lot of things.”
Guinan and Ro
TNG / Ensign Ro
“Respect is earned, not bestowed.”
Troi to Kyle Riker
TNG / The Icarus Factor
“Is anybody out there?”
“Yes.”
Sarjenka and Data. A child initiates
first contact with a passing space traveller
TNG / Pen Pals
“Cowards take hostages---Klingons do not.”
Worf to Tasha
TNG / Heart of glory
“The victors invariably write the history to their own advantage.”
Picard to Worf
TNG / Contagion
“But what if I’m wrong?”
“Then you’re wrong. It’s arrogant to think you’ll never make
a mistake.”
Wesley and Riker, on command
TNG / Pen Pals
“How did you like command?”
“Comfortable chair.”
Riker and Worf
TNG / The Emissary
“I don’t understand their humor either.”
Worf to data on humans
TNG / The Naked Now
“Given the choice between slim and none, I’ll take slim any day…”
Riker to Picard
TNG / Deja Q
“Only fools have no fear.”
Worf to Wesley
TNG / Coming of Age
“There’s an unfortunate tendency in most cultures to fear what they don’t understand.”
Picard to Worf
TNG / Contagion
“Sometimes what we imagine can be just as scary as something real.”
Troi to Clara Sutter
TNG / Imaginary Friend
“I am superior, sir, in many ways. But I would gladly give it up to
be human.”
“Nice to meet you, Pinocchio.”
Data and Riker
TNG / Encounter at Farpoint
“My name is Guinan. I tend bar. And I listen.”
Guinan to Ro
TNG / Ensign Ro
“I don’t see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a
Vulcan.”
“No, sir. I am an android.”
McCoy and Data
TNG / Encounter at Farpoint
“One is my name and the other is not.”
Data to Pulaski, on proper
pronunciation of ‘Data’
TNG / The Child
“I don’t bite…Well, that’s wrong; I do bite.”
K’Ehleyr to Worf, on Worf being
uncomfortable around her
TNG / The Emissary
“Not even a bite on the cheek for old time’s sake?”
K’Ehleyr to Worf
TNG / Reunion
“Is this how you handle all of your personnel problems?”
“Sure. You’d be surprised how far a hug goes with Geordi or
Worf…”
Troi and Riker, on comforting her
TNG / The Loss
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