Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

I Borg (1992)

Whoopi Goldberg: Guinan

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• Third of Five : We are Borg.

  Guinan : Aren't you gonna tell me you have to assimilate me?

  Third of Five : You wish to be assimilated?

  Guinan : No, but that's what you... things do, isn't it?

  [the Borg nods] 

  Guinan : Resistance is futile?

  Third of Five : Resistance is futile.

  Guinan : It isn't. My people resisted when the Borg came, to assimilate us. Some of us survived.

  Third of Five : Resistance... is not futile?

  Guinan : No. But thanks to you, there are very few of us left. We're scattered throughout the galaxy. We don't even have a home anymore.

  Third of Five : What you are saying... is that you are lonely.

  Guinan : What?

  Third of Five : You have no others. You have no home. We... are also lonely.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It is what it is. And in spite of efforts to turn it into some kind of pet, I will not alter my plans.

  Guinan : Fine. But if you don't talk to him at least once, you may find that decision a lot harder to live with than you realize.

• Guinan : I need to hear you say that you are sure... you're doing the right thing.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : If you're here to persuade me not to use the invasive program...

  Guinan : No. I think I need you to persuade me.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Two days ago, you were so upset about the Borg even being on the ship that you tore my foil out of my hand. And now you're here questioning whether it should be treated as the enemy.

  Guinan : No. But when you talk to him face to face, can you honestly say you don't have any doubt?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I haven't talked to it.

  Guinan : Why not?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I saw no need.

  Guinan : If you're gonna use this person...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's not a person, dammit, it's a Borg!

  Guinan : If you are going to use this person to destroy his race, you should at least look him in the eye once, before you do it. Because I am not sure he is still a Borg.

• Guinan : [about fencing]  I don't think I like this sport.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Last week when you scored two touches, you liked it well enough.

• Guinan : I was thinking how you said the other day that my foil was dipping. That I should get some exercise and strengthen my arm.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Well, a strong forearm is certainly an advantage in fencing.

  Guinan : And bartending.

• Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : [about Hugh]  He's nothing like what I expected.

  Guinan : How so?

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : I don't know, it's... it's like he's just... some kid who is far away from home.

  Guinan : Do you know that you are the second person today to refer to that Borg as though it was some sort of lost child?

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Anyway, I'm having second thoughts about what we're doing here. I mean, programming him like some sort of walking bomb, sending him back to destroy the others.

  Guinan : Let me tell you something. When that kid's big brothers come looking for him, they're not gonna stop till they find him. And then they're gonna come looking for us. And they will destroy us. And they will not do any of the soul-searching that you are apparently doing right now.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Then why don't you go and talk to him? It might not be so clear cut then.

  Guinan : Because I wouldn't have anything to say.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : [sighs]  Then why don't you just listen? That is what you do best, isn't it?

• [Guinan feigns injury during a fencing match. Picard, concerned, lowers his foil, and Guinan quickly scores a touch] 

  Guinan : You felt sorry for me. Look what it got you.

  [after an earlier discussion on whether it was wise to care for the Borg for humanitarian reasons]