Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
We'll Always Have Paris (1988)
Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Quotes
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Jenice Manheim : I've thought a lot about this over the years, and perhaps you're leaving out your greatest fear - the real reason you left.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Which was?
Jenice Manheim : That... life with me would have somehow made you... ordinary.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [ponders this, then laughs embarrassed] You're wonderful. And am I that transparent?
Jenice Manheim : Only to me.
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[last lines]
Commander William T. Riker : I've only been there once, but they've got this great club - I don't remember the name of it. They serve those blue concoctions.
Counselor Deanna Troi : It's across the square from the Zanza Men's Dance Palace.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's called the Blue Parrot Cafe - and you're buying.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Data, I want this to be an away team of one - you. I don't think there's any reason to risk anyone else.
Lt. Commander Data : It is reasonable, sir. After all, I am a machine, and dispensable.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : In-dispensable is the appropriate word.
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Lt. Dean : [during a fencing lesson] Interesting move, sir. What technique was that?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The technique of a desperate man.
Lt. Dean : Interesting move, sir. What technique was that?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The technique of a desperate man.
Lt. Dean : [aware of repeating themselves exactly] Captain, what was that?
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Jenice Manheim : You've done well. A great starship on the far reaches of the galaxy... It's everything you'd hoped.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [laughs awkwardly] Not exactly. Nothing works just as you hope.
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Jenice Manheim : Why didn't you come to meet me that last day in Paris?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I was afraid.
Jenice Manheim : Oh! I didn't want *this*!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : What?
Jenice Manheim : The truth.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh, you want me to lie?
Jenice Manheim : Of course! A nice, soft, painless lie.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh, I got the days confused, I thought it was Tuesday when it was Wednesday. I went to the Café Moulin instead of the Café des Artistes.
Jenice Manheim : Ah! That's better. It was raining and you couldn't find a cab.
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[in another time distortion, Picard, Riker and Data, inside a turbolift, come face to face with themselves outside the turbolift]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [inside turbolift] It's us before we stepped into the turbolift.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [outside lift] It's happening again.
Lt. Commander Data : [outside] I feel no disorientation.
Lt. Commander Data : [inside] Nor do I.
[turbolift doors close, leaving the outside crew alone in the corridor]
Commander William T. Riker : What was that?
Lt. Commander Data : I believe what could be termed as The Manheim Effect is becoming more pronounced.
Commander William T. Riker : This is where we started, if we are us.
Lt. Commander Data : Oh, we are us, sir, but they are also us; so, indeed... we are both us, at different points along the same time continuum.
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Jenice Manheim : [after Paul and Janice Manheim have been beamed aboard the Enterprise] Jean-Luc. I thought the voice sounded familiar.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Hello.
Jenice Manheim : I should have known. Who else would have charged to my rescue?
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Dr. Paul Manheim : [of Jenice] Perhaps I'm not a man who should have a woman like her. She deserves better.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You underestimate her. I know. Because *I* once did.
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Lt. Commander Data : I see time as a constant, whereas humans perceive time as flexible, hence the expression "time flies when you're having fun," which until now has always confused me.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Well, I want you to put a stitch in time, and, uh... save much more than nine.
Lt. Commander Data : Sir?
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Commander William T. Riker : [about the time distortion] The captain of the Lalo described it as a hiccup.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Hiccup?
Lt. Commander Data : Actually, sir, that may be an incorrect analogy.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : How so, Data?
Lt. Commander Data : A hiccup is a spasmatic inhalation with closure of the glottis, accompanied by a peculiar sound. If we were to continue this analogy to a body function, what occurred would be best represented by...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Enough, Data.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Dr. Manheim, I'm Captain Picard.
Dr. Paul Manheim : The same one?
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Gabrielle : [downcast] He's not coming. Why? What did I do to drive him away?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [reflective] Maybe you did nothing, maybe he had no choice. Maybe he was afraid.
Gabrielle : Of what? Of me?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh, of being... connected. Rooted. Perhaps, if he's as young as you are, he doesn't know yet exactly what it is he wants to do. Maybe...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [reflects some more, then sighs] Enough of this self-indulgence. Exit!
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Jenice Manheim : I expect you to always come charging to my rescue.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I'll do my best.
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[first lines]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [voiceover] Captain's log, stardate 41697.9. We're en route to Sarona 8 for much-needed shore leave. The entire crew is looking forward to the diversion. On a personal note, I have allowed myself the luxury of a head start.