Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Emergence (1994)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [on Data's suggestion that the new life form may be dangerous]  The intelligence that was formed on the Enterprise didn't just come out of the ship's systems. It came from us, from our mission records, personal logs, holodeck programs, our fantasies. Now, if our experiences with the Enterprise have been honorable, can't we trust that the sum of those experiences will be the same?

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"]  Shakespeare was witnessing the end of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern era. And Prospero finds himself in a world where his powers are no longer needed. So we see him here, about to perform one final creative act before... giving up his art forever.

  [possibly an intended allegory for the upcoming conclusion of the series] 

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I know about the Orient Express, but what is it doing on Prospero's island?

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : It isn't really the train itself that I'm interested in.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : What then?

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : It's the experience.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : If the ship is truly an emerging intelligence, then we have a responsibility to treat it with the same respect as any other being.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [citing from "The Tempest"]  O brave new world, That has such people in't.