Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
The Inner Light (1992)
Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Quotes
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Capt. Picard : Seize the time, Meribor. Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
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Eline : [referring to Picard's "starship"] Was your life there so much better than this? So much more gratifying, so much more fulfilling, that you cling to it with such stubbornness?
Capt. Picard : Eline...
Eline : It must have been extraordinary. But never in all the stories you've told me... have you mentioned anyone who loved you as I do.
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Capt. Picard : I always believed that I didn't need children to complete my life. Now I couldn't imagine life without them.
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Eline : The rest of us have been gone a thousand years. If you remember what we were, and how we lived, then we'll have found life again.
Capt. Picard : Eline...
[the probe is launched]
Eline : Now we live in you. Tell them of us... my darling.
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Batai : We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the future. Someone who could be a teacher. Someone who could tell the others about us.
Capt. Picard : Oh... Oh, it's me... Isn't it? I'm the someone. I'm the one it finds. That's what this launching is. A probe that finds me, in the future.
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Capt. Picard : [on his flute] When did I learn to play this?
Eline : I'm afraid you never did, dear. You do keep trying.
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Capt. Picard : You say I've been ill?
Batai : For more than a week. Eline should have put you in the hospital, but she insisted on caring for you herself.
Capt. Picard : Eline?
Batai : Your wife. If you don't remember that, maybe it's safer not to go home.
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Capt. Picard : I'd like to ask your permission to build something.
Eline : Kamin, you've built your telescope, your laboratory, you don't need my permission for something new.
Capt. Picard : In this case, I think I do.
Eline : What is it?
Capt. Picard : A nursery.
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Eline : [collecting Kamin's shoes] Don't forget these. I won't put them away for you again.
Capt. Picard : [as Kamin] Yes, ma'am.
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Capt. Picard : A good scientist doesn't function by conjecture.
Meribor : A good scientist functions by hypothesizing and then proving or disproving that hypothesis. That's what I did.
Capt. Picard : Hey, why don't you spend more time with that young man Dannick?
Meribor : You are changing the subject.
Capt. Picard : No, I'm not. I'm just hypothesizing... that he's in love with you.
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Capt. Picard : Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
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Capt. Picard : A good scientist doesn't function by conjecture...
Meribor : [quoting her father] "A good scientist functions by hypothesizing and then proving or disproving that hypothesis."
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Capt. Picard : [referring to the "launching"] Did everyone know about this except me?
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Capt. Picard : It just saddens me to see you burdened with the knowledge of things you can't change.
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Capt. Picard : It breaks my heart to look at him.
Meribor : Who?
Capt. Picard : My grandson. It breaks my heart. He deserves a rich full life and he's not going to get one.
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Capt. Picard : What is it they're launching?
Meribor : You know about it, Father. You've already seen it.
Capt. Picard : Seen it? What are you talking about? I haven't seen any missile.
Batai : Yes you have, old friend. Don't you remember?
Capt. Picard : Batai?
Batai : You saw it just before you came here.
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Capt. Picard : What is this place?
Eline : You're still feverish.
Capt. Picard : Computer, freeze program.
[nothing happens]
Capt. Picard : Computer, end program.
[nothing happens]
Eline : Kamin.
Capt. Picard : Picard to Enterprise.
[nothing happens]
Eline : Kamin, please don't get up. You're still not well.
Capt. Picard : I asked you, what is this place?
Eline : This is your home, of course.
