Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Homeward (1994)
Paul Sorvino: Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko
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Quotes
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Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Things were never easy between us, were they?
Lieutenant Worf : No.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : It's my fault. If I'd been more like you, we wouldn't have had so many problems.
Lieutenant Worf : No. If you had been more like me, these people would not be here now. You gave them a chance at a new life.
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[last lines]
Lieutenant Worf : I will have to explain all of this to Mother and Father.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : They won't understand.
Lieutenant Worf : They may. I will tell them... that you are happy.
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Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : The village will need a new chronicle. Someone has to begin it. My child will need a father. My place is here. I'm finally taking responsibility.
Lieutenant Worf : You were never good at drawing. How will you keep a chronicle?
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I learn quickly.
Lieutenant Worf : Then perhaps there is hope.
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Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I wasn't going to let those people die just because your Captain started quoting Federation dogma to me.
Lieutenant Worf : Your duty was to respect the Captain's orders and to uphold the Prime Directive.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Duty. That's all that really matters to you, isn't it? Well, I refuse to be bound by an abstraction.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : This is one of those times when we must face the ramifications of the Prime Directive and honor those lives which we cannot save.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I find no honor in this whatsoever, Captain. You will forgive me if I don't stay.
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Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : [Nikolai has illicitly beamed aboard a colony of Boralaans to one of the Enterprise's Holodecks to save them from a planetary catastrophe] You worry too much, Worf. You always did. Everything will work out.
Lieutenant Worf : You have disgraced yourself. And you have disgraced me. And I want nothing more to do with you.
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Tarrana : Look!
[the holo-grid is beginning to show through Nikolai's simulation of Boraal in a pool of water]
Lieutenant Worf : Do not worry. It is an omen.
Dobara : What does it mean?
Lieutenant Worf : It is the sign of LaForge. It is a message to travelers. It is said when these lines appear and disappear in a pool of water...
[the scene cuts to Engineering where LaForge is listening on the com-channel]
Lieutenant Worf : ... the road ahead will be filled with good fortune.
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge : Hang in there, Worf.
[works some controls]
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge : Give me just a second. There, that should do it.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : [the simulation stabilises] You see. Our journey is already blessed. The road ahead is long. Let us have a meal together and then we'll make preparations to leave.
[after the Boraalans have dispersed]
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Worf, very good work. Apparently, we don't make such a bad team after all.
Lieutenant Worf : [Worf can barely hide his contempt] We are not a team. I am here because Captain Picard ordered me here.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Worf, don't we both share the same goal? Aren't we both trying to make this plan work?
Lieutenant Worf : Only because you forced us into it.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I'm not ashamed of what I did. I'm not sorry I saved their lives.
Lieutenant Worf : You have not changed. You still expect people to solve the problems you create.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I'm not here to work out the issues of our childhood. I'm here to save a people who I care about, and if that upsets you, then so be it.
[Nikolai storms off]
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Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : [to Worf, who has been surgically altered into a Boraalan] You've changed a lot in four years.