Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Redemption (1991)

Robert O'Reilly: Gowron

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• Gowron : [after several Council members have sided with the Duras family]  Can you not see what you are doing? Are you blind to what they represent? Then go. Your blood will paint the way to the future.

• [Worf has refused Gowron's request to ask Picard and Starfleet for their support in a potential Klingon civil war] 

  Gowron : You come to me and demand the restoration of your family honor and now... you hide behind Human excuses. What are you, Worf? Do you tremble and quake with fear at the approach of combat? Hoping to talk your way out of a fight like a Human? Or do you hear the cry of the warrior, calling you to battle, calling to glory like a Klingon?

• Gowron : You both fought as warriors. You have proven your hearts are Klingon. I return your family honor. I give you back that which was wrongfully taken from you. Let your name be spoken once again. You are Worf, son of Mogh.

• Gowron : Lursa and B'Etor are feared. And fear is power.

• Lieutenant Worf : I believe you to be a man of honor, Gowron. I ask you: restore my family name.

  Gowron : Worf - you killed Duras. I consider that no small favor. But what you ask is impossible.

  Lieutenant Worf : But after your installation...

  Gowron : The grasp of Duras reaches out from the grave. Much of the Council is still loyal to his family. I must have the Council's support, to survive. I cannot expose their treachery. You chose to accept this disgrace, for the good of the Empire. Now you must live with your decision, like a Klingon.

• Gowron : We must move quickly if we are to be successful.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Successful?

  Gowron : Yes. At preventing a Klingon civil war.