Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

All Good Things... (1994)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• [last line of the series] 

  Capt. Picard : So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit.

• Capt. Picard : I sincerely hope that this is the last time that I find myself here.

  Q : You just don't get it, do you, Jean-Luc? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did.

  Capt. Picard : When I realized the paradox.

  Q : Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. *That* is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

• Capt. Picard : Mr. Data, you are a clever man - in any time period.

• Capt. Picard : [of Q]  He's always had a certain fascination with humanity, with myself in particular. I think he has more than a passing interest in what happens to me.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : That is true. Q's interest in you has always been very similar to that of a master and his beloved pet.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : Personally, I think you just enjoy waking everybody up in the middle of the night.

  Capt. Picard : Actually, I really like running around the ship in my bare feet.

• Captain Beverly Picard : I've prepared quarters for you on deck 5. You might want to get some rest.

  Picard : No, I'm fine. I don't need rest.

  Captain Beverly Picard : Nell, please escort the Ambassador to his quarters.

  Picard : Look, you're treating me as if I am an invalid. But I do have a few years left in me yet. I do not want to be led around, and I do not want to be patronized!

  Captain Beverly Picard : You're right. I'm sorry.

  Picard : Now I'll go and get some rest.

• Q : The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did.

  Capt. Picard : Are you saying that it worked? We collapsed the anomaly?

  Q : Is that all this meant to you? Just another spatial anomaly, just another day at the office?

  Capt. Picard : Did it work?

  Q : Well, you're here, aren't you? You're talking to me, aren't you?

  Capt. Picard : What about my crew?

  Q : [scoffs]  The anomaly, my ship, my crew; I suppose you're worried about your fish, too. If it puts your mind at ease - you've saved humanity, once again.

• Captain Beverly Picard : Jean-Luc, crossing into Klingon territory, it's absurd. But then I never could say "no" to you.

  Picard : Oh, so that's why you married me.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [in the past timeline]  Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

  Enterprise Computer : That beverage has not been programmed into the replication system.

• Geordi La Forge : Hello, Captain. Or should I call you 'Ambassador'?

  Picard : Oh, I haven't been called that for some time either.

  Geordi La Forge : How about 'Mr. Picard'?

  Picard : How about 'Jean-Luc'?

• [Worf has denied the Pasteur to cross the border into Klingon space, referring to "regulations"] 

  Picard : Well, I know that I am an old man and I am out of touch. But the Worf that I remember was more concerned with things like honor and loyalty than rules and regulations. But that was a long time ago, and maybe you're not the Worf I once knew.

  [Worf curses in Klingon] 

  Worf : You have always used your knowledge of Klingon honor and tradition to get what you want from me.

  Picard : Because it always works, Worf! Your problem is that you really *do* have a sense of honor, and you really *do* care about trust and loyalty. Don't blame me for knowing you so well.

• Picard : Beverly, I cannot believe that you are not willing to stay here until we...

  Captain Beverly Picard : [interrupting]  Don't you ever question my orders on the bridge of my ship again!

  Picard : Damn it, I was just trying to... Look, there are larger concerns here. What you don't understand is...

  Captain Beverly Picard : [interrupting]  I understand that you would never have tolerated that kind of behavior back on the Enterprise, and I won't here. I don't care if you're my ex-captain *or* my ex-husband!

• Capt. Picard : I prefer to look on the future as something which is not written in stone. A lot of things can happen in 25 years.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : [kisses him]  A lot of things can happen...

• Q : The trial never ended, Captain. We never reached a verdict. But now we have. You're guilty.

  Capt. Picard : Guilty of what?

  Q : Of being inferior. Seven years ago, I said we'd be watching you, and we have been - hoping that your ape-like race would demonstrate *some* growth, give *some* indication that your minds had room for expansion. But what have we seen instead? You, worrying about Commander Riker's career. Listening to Counselor Troi's pedantic psychobabble. Indulging Data in his witless exploration of humanity.

  Capt. Picard : We've journeyed to countless new worlds. We've contacted new species. We have expanded our understanding of the universe.

  Q : In your own paltry, limited way. You have no *idea* how far you still have to go. But instead of using the last seven years to change and to grow, you have squandered them.

• Commander Tomalak : [of Picard's proposal]  Has Starfleet Command approved this arrangement?

  Capt. Picard : No.

  Commander Tomalak : I like it already. Agreed.

• Capt. Picard : We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!

  Q : Oh, but it is, and we have. Time may be eternal, Captain, but our patience is not. It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars, make room for other more worthy species.

  Capt. Picard : You're going to deny us travel through space?

  Q : [laughs]  No! You obtuse piece of flotsam! You're to be denied *existence*. Humanity's fate has been sealed. You will be destroyed.

• Ensign Chilton : Captain Picard?

  Picard , Captain Beverly Picard : Yes?

• Jessel : [in the future timeline]  How'd you like your tea?

  Picard : Tea? Earl Grey, hot.

  Jessel : Course it's hot! What d'you want in it?

  Picard : Nothing.

• Capt. Picard : [learning that he successfully collapsed the anomaly]  Thank you.

  Q : For what?

  Capt. Picard : You had a hand in helping me get out of this.

  Q : I was the one that got you into it. A directive from the Continuum. The part about the helping hand, though... was my idea.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : Look, I don't know whether you've slept in the past or in the future. But I'm sure you haven't slept in the present. Now, get some rest, or I'll have you relieved and sedated.

  Capt. Picard : Yes, sir.

• Picard : It's like the chicken and the egg, Will, the chicken and the egg! We-we think it started in the past, but it didn't. It started right here, in the future! That's why it's getting larger in the past.

  Data : I think I know what the Captain is talking about. If I'm not mistaken, he's describing a paradox.

  Picard : Yes, right, that's it!

• [Q has given Picard the chance to ask ten yes/no questions] 

  Capt. Picard : ...Is it part of a Romulan plot, a ploy to start a war?

  Q : No and no.

  [crowd jeers] 

  Q : *Five* down!

  Capt. Picard : That's only four!

  Q : "Is it a Romulan plot?" "Is it a ploy to start a war?" Those are *separate* questions.

  Capt. Picard : [sighs]  Did you create the anomaly?

  Q : No, no, no!

  [laughs] 

  Q : You're going to be so surprised when you realize where it came from...

  Q : [suddenly menacing]  if you ever figure it out.

  Capt. Picard : Are you responsible for my shifting through time?

  Q : I'll answer that question if you promise you won't tell anyone.

  Q : [leans in, whispers]  Yes!

  Capt. Picard : Why?

  Q : Sorry! That's not a yes or no question. You forfeit the rest of your questions.

• [reading his orders to take command of the Enterprise, during which he is distracted several times by visions of Q's laughing and jeering minions from "Encounter at Farpoint"] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : "To Captain Jean-Luc Picard, stardate 41148... You are hereby requested and required to take command... to take command of the USS Enterprise as of this date. Signed, Rear Admiral Norah Satie, Starfleet Command."

  [the visions get the better of him] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Red alert! All crew to battle stations!

  Lt. Tasha Yar : You heard him! Move!

• Picard : Q? What is going on here? Where is the anomaly?

  Q : [pretending to be deaf]  Where is your mommy? Well, I don't know.

• Capt. Picard : We demonstrated to you that mankind had become peaceful and benevolent. You agreed and you let us go on our way. Now why am I standing here again?

  Q : Oh, you'd like me to connect the dots for you, lead you from A to B to C, so that your puny mind could comprehend? How boring.

• Capt. Picard : The last time that I stood here was seven years ago.

  Q : Seven years ago! How little do you mortals understand time. Must you be so linear, Jean-Luc?

  Capt. Picard : You accused me of being the representative of a... a barbarous species.

  Q : I believe my exact words were "a dangerous, savage child-race."

• Admiral William T. Riker : All right, let's get out of here.

  Picard : No, Will, we can't! We have to save humanity!

• Lt. Tasha Yar : Captain, so far we've obeyed every order, no matter how far-fetched it might have seemed. But if we're to risk the safety of the ship and crew, I think we have to ask you for an explanation.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I understand your concerns, Lieutenant; and I know that if I were in your position, I would be doing the same thing - looking for answers. But you're not gonna find any, because I don't have any to give you. I know it is difficult for you to understand, but we have to take the ship into the very center of the phenomenon and create a static warp shell. Now, this will put the ship at risk. Quite frankly, we may not survive. But I want you to believe that I am doing this for a greater purpose, and that what is at stake here is more than any of you can possibly imagine. I know you have your doubts about me, about each other, about this ship. All I can say is that although we have only been together for a short time, I know that you are the finest crew in the fleet. And I would trust each of you with my life. So, I am asking you for a leap of faith - and to trust me.

• Picard : This is not my time. I don't belong here.

  Geordi La Forge : What?

  Picard : I was somewhere else a few moments ago.

  Geordi La Forge : What do you mean? You've... you've been right here with me.

  Picard : No, no, no! I was somewhere else. I was... It was a long time ago, there was someone talking. I was t... I w... I-I... I was talking to someone. Beverly. I was talking to Beverly!

  Geordi La Forge : It's okay, Captain. Everything's gonna be all right.

  Picard : I'm not senile, you know. This did happen! I-I... I was here, I was talking to you, and then... and then I was somewhere else. I was, er... I was on the Enterprise. I was back on the Enterprise. At least I... I think that's where it was. I was in sickbay! I, er... Well, it-it might, it might have been a hospital...

  Geordi La Forge : Captain, I think we should go back to the house and call your doctor.

  Picard : Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking; "It's the Irumodic Syndrome. He's beginning to lose his mind, the old man." Well, it's not that! And I'm not daydreaming either!

• Picard : Data, find the USS Pasteur. I... I have some pull with the Captain. At least, I used to have.

• Captain Beverly Picard : [offering Picard her captain's chair]  Once more, for old times' sake?

  Picard : [sits down]  Engage.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [Riker has just learned that Troi and Worf have begun a relationship]  Will, this time-shifting, when it happens, I experience a momentary disorientation. If that should happen during a crisis, Will, I want you to take command immediately.

  [Riker, glaring into space, is clearly not listening] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Number One?

  Commander William T. Riker : [coming to himself]  I'm sorry. Be prepared to take command, aye, sir.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Speaking of disorientation, are *you* all right?

  Commander William T. Riker : I'm just a little distracted. I'm fine.

• Picard : Now tell me one thing: this anomaly we're looking for - will that destroy humanity?

  Q : You're forgetting, Jean-Luc - *you* destroy humanity.

• Picard : Well, time has been good to you.

  Geordi La Forge : [patting his stomach]  A little too good, in some places.