Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Chain of Command, Part II (1992)

Jonathan Frakes: Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker

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Quotes 

• Captain Edward Jellico : Let's drop the ranks for a moment. I don't like you. I think you're insubordinate, arrogant, willful, and I don't think you're a particularly good first officer. But you are also the best pilot on the ship.

  Commander William T. Riker : Well... Now that the ranks are dropped, Captain, I don't like you either. *You* are arrogant, and closed-minded. You need to control everything and everyone. You don't provide an atmosphere of trust, and you don't inspire these people to go out of their way for you. You've got everybody wound up so tight, there's no joy in anything. I don't think you're a particularly good captain.

• [Riker has barely avoided a Cardassian warship in the nebula] 

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Do I wanna know how close that was?

  Commander William T. Riker : No. Get ready to deploy the mines.