Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
The Icarus Factor (1989)
Diana Muldaur: Doctor Katherine Pulaski
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Quotes
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[Kyle Riker has challenged Will to an anbo-jyutsu match]
Counselor Deanna Troi : In spite of human evolution, there are still some traits that are endemic to gender.
Doctor Pulaski : You think that they're going to knock each other's brains out because they're men?
Counselor Deanna Troi : Human males are unique. Fathers continue to regard their sons as children even into adulthood, and sons continue to chafe against what they perceive as their fathers' expectations of them.
Doctor Pulaski : It's almost as if they never really grow up at all, isn't it?
Counselor Deanna Troi : Perhaps that's part of their charm, and why we find them so attractive.
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Doctor Pulaski : Poor guy. Picked up the flu virus at our last stop at Nasreldine.
Kyle Riker : Sounds nasty. What's the therapy?
Doctor Pulaski : Tryptophan-lysine distillate, with a generous dose of PCS.
Kyle Riker : PCS?
Doctor Pulaski : "Pulaski's chicken soup".
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Doctor Pulaski : Did he ever tell you why he never remarried?
Commander William T. Riker : What woman would have him, with an ego like that?
Doctor Pulaski : I would have, in a cold minute.
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Doctor Pulaski : [on seeing Kyle Riker after, as it seems, a very long time] This is more than a surprise; it's total shock.
Kyle Riker : You mean you didn't bake me a cake?
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Kyle Riker : How about a drink?
Doctor Pulaski : How about a kiss?
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Chief Miles O'Brien : Those are Klingon painstiks. I once saw one of them used against a two-ton Rectyne monopod. Poor creature jumped five meters at the slightest touch. Finally died from excessive cephalic pressures.
Wesley Crusher : You mean...?
Chief Miles O'Brien : That's right. The animal's head exploded like...
Doctor Pulaski : I think that's enough, Chief O'Brien.
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Kyle Riker : I thought about you a lot.
Doctor Pulaski : Kyle, I don't need to hear what you don't need to say.
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Doctor Pulaski : [to Will Riker] You know, if I were you, going out on the Aries, I'd jettison the emotional baggage you're still carrying around.