Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Hunted (1990)

Marina Sirtis: Counselor Deanna Troi

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• Counselor Deanna Troi : [of Danar]  He's intelligent, thoughtful - typically Angosian. I know what he's done. But when I'm with him, I cannot believe that he is randomly and deliberately violent. In fact, inherently, he has a non-violent personality.

  Capt. Picard : Counselor, it took five men to restrain him. And he took apart half the transporter room in the process.

• Prime Minister Nayrok : You were programed to survive. You can survive at the Lunar V settlement.

  Roga Danar : To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Roga, tell them what you want.

  Roga Danar : We want our lives back. We want to come home.

  Prime Minister Nayrok : I am not prepared to negotiate under threat, Danar. But if you will put down your weapons and return peaceably to Lunar V... I would be willing.

  Roga Danar : Mr. Prime Minister, with all due respect, you will have to force us. Or at least try.

• Roga Danar : I assume we are returning to Lunar V?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : That terrifies you.

  Roga Danar : I just killed three men to get out of there, Counselor. And I'm fully capable of killing you as well. That's a terrifying thought, isn't it? Even to me.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Do they mistreat you there?

  Roga Danar : [chuckles]  Not at all. I'm comfortable, well-fed and housed... No, no, the Angosians take good care of their prisoners. It's simply a matter of never being able to leave.

• Capt. Picard : And my understanding is that these men are programed to survive, is that correct?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Yes, Captain.

  Capt. Picard : And that they will not kill unless their survival is at stake?

  Lt. Commander Data : It is against their nature to do so, Captain.

  Capt. Picard : Then let us hope they do not believe their survival is at stake.

• [Deanna is talking to Danar in the holding cell] 

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I want to help, if I can.

  Roga Danar : [sarcastic]  Unlock the door.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : Perhaps when this planet becomes a member of the Federation, we'll be able...

  Roga Danar : I will not be there to see it, Counselor. Because even with this overwhelming demand to survive that they've built into my soul... I would rather die than return to Lunar V.

• Capt. Picard : Mr. Danar, I'm transferring you to Angosian Security. They're en route, they will arrive shortly. I wanted to tell you... I have no choice. The Prime Minister insisted, and we have no right to refuse.

  Roga Danar : Well, you would be foolish to consider it otherwise, Captain, for they are very correct. I am dangerous. There is no place for me in a civilized society.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I do not believe that.

  Lt. Commander Data : Nor do I.

  Capt. Picard : I respect my officers' judgments. I wish I could help further. If a way appears, I will.

  Roga Danar : I appreciate your telling me that face to face.

  Capt. Picard : I thought you deserved that much.

  Roga Danar : And you deserve to know that I must use whatever means I can to escape.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : [while talking to the imprisoned Roga Danar]  Why do you have all this anger toward me?

  Roga Danar : A girl with long dark hair broke my heart a long time ago. Out of bitterness and resentment, I turned to crime.

  [laughs it off] 

  Roga Danar : How about this one? My mother abandoned me when I was a little boy. I never got the guidance that a wild young man needed.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Why are you doing this?

  Roga Danar : Playing games? Isn't that what you do, Counsellor? Isn't that what all of you mind control experts do?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I am not a mind control expert. I came here because I sensed you were in pain.

  Roga Danar : And what do you sense now?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : The pain is gone.

  Roga Danar : It's interesting, isn't it?