Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Hunted (1990)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• Capt. Picard : [after talking with the Prime Minister]  "A matter of internal security." The age-old cry of the oppressor.

• Capt. Picard : In your own words, this is not our affair. We cannot interfere in the natural course of your society's development. And I'd say it's going to develop significantly in the next few minutes.

• Capt. Picard : Prime Minister, even the most comfortable prison is still a prison.

• 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.

• [the Angosian Prime Minister with his staff and the away team of the Enterprise are held at gunpoint by Roga Danar and his fellow inmates] 

  Prime Minister Nayrok : Captain, you must do something. Call your ship.

  Capt. Picard : Quite right, Prime Minister.

  [he activates his combadge] 

  Capt. Picard : Enterprise, prepare to beam the away team back.

• Capt. Picard : They're your brothers, your sons. And you turned your backs on them.

• 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.

• Commander William T. Riker : Status report, Mr. Data.

  Lt. Commander Data : I am afraid the prisoner has eluded us, sir.

  Capt. Picard : [incredulous]  Eluded the Enterprise?

• Capt. Picard : Lunar V - an orbiting gulag.

• 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.

• Capt. Picard : Number One - will you note in our report that if the government of Angosia survives the night, we will offer them Federation assistance in their efforts to reprogram their veterans.

  Commander William T. Riker : And if the government doesn't survive?

  Capt. Picard : I have a feeling they will choose to.

• [Danar and his fellow soldiers storm into the government building] 

  Capt. Picard : [as Worf reaches for his phaser]  No, Worf! All of you, don't respond! Don't provoke them further! Keep those weapons down unless you wish to be killed!

  Prime Minister Nayrok : Do as he said.

  Roga Danar : No! Don't! Shoot us, destroy us. Do what you have to. But you will *not* ignore us.

  [no response] 

  Roga Danar : Go on, do it!

  [he charges his weapon and fires a blast into the wall, but the Angosians still do not raise their weapons] 

  Roga Danar : Cowards!

  Capt. Picard : Yes, and you're not programmed to murder cowards. So if they will not fight back, what will you do?

  Roga Danar : We will not go back.

• Capt. Picard : You are dangerous. They're only victims. You made them what they are. You asked them to defend your way of life and then you discarded them.