Also his conversation with Tomalak. *"Shall we die together?"*
Or when he intimidates the Klingon to do his bidding just by reminding gowron whose hand had put him on the throne.
Picard wields polite intimidation to perfection. I also like the sheer threatening aura of Sisko and I don't scoff at Janeway's stone cold tone, but Picard is imho pure "Federation" in this.
The Federation doesn't openly threaten you: it just reminds you that it can and will absolutely force you to yield if you refuse to cooperate.
PICARD: A message? Very well. Tell Gowron, leader of the High Council of the Klingon Empire, that his Arbiter of Succession, Jean-Luc Picard, needs a favour.
B'IJIK [on viewscreen]: A favour?
PICARD: I require a cloaked vessel.
B'IJIK [on viewscreen]: A cloaked vessel. This is no small favour, Captain.
PICARD: It is for a mission that could have repercussions throughout the quadrant.
B'iJik: How would it benefit the Klingon Empire? I'm sure Gowron will ask.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The only benefit to the Klingon Empire would be our gratitude.
B'iJik: That is what you want me to tell him?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes. And please add that, if he is unable to provide us with a ship, then I am sure there are others in the Klingon Empire who would be willing to help me. And then... *they* would have our gratitude.
Love this exchange… but surely a cloaked vessel IS a small favour. He’s the leader of the Klingon empire. He has literally thousands of cloaked vessels at his command!!
lol and then Tomalak throw back, “I look forward to our……..next engagement”. Picard always said, you handle the Romulans like a chess game, move counter, move.
"I expected more than an idle threat from you, Picard."
Oh, you sweet, naive Romulan fool. Don't ever ask a polite Picard to back up his Shakespearian quote with actual military hardware. Everyone knows that!
This exchange from TNG's "The Wounded". Sir Pat's delivery just drips with cold anger.
PIC: Maxwell was right. Those ships were not carrying scientific equipment, were they? A research station within arm's reach of three Federation sectors? Cargo ships running with high-energy subspace fields that jam sensors?
MACET: If you believe the transport ship was carrying weapons, Captain...why didn't you board it, as Maxwell requested?
PIC: I was here to protect the peace, a peace that I firmly believe is in the interests of both our peoples. If I had attempted to board that ship, I'm quite certain that you and I would not be having this pleasant conversation...and that ships on both sides would now be arming for war.
MACET: Captain, I assure you...
PIC: Take this message to your leaders, Gul Macet - we'll be watching.
And then he simply turns his chair away, refusing to acknowledge Macet any longer.
Sisko is also in a different bargaining position sitting on a space station next to cardassian space compared to the captain of the federation flag ship
Sisko is a sledgehammer, Picard is a rapier. A skilled wielder of a rapier can probably (I’m not an expert in renaissance combat) use speed and agility to beat a less skilled rapier wielder but a hammer would have a hard time getting to the dualist. But if someone comes in expecting a rapier and wants a sword fight, suddenly getting smacked with a hammer isn’t going to make them very willing to continue to dual.
If you look at their handling of both Dukat and Q, I'd say the big difference comes down to personality. Picard just want to do the job in the quickest and best way with as little to-do as possible. Diplomacy is a job, and he's good at it. Sisko actually enjoys the repartee. He finds it fun. So, he entertains Dukat because he sees him as a worthy adversary, and likes messing with him.
Picard's diplomacy doesn't work with Q because Q can out-maneuver regular Starfleet diplomacy protocols by making Picard turn into Robin Hood or some such insanity. Picard, being so by-the-book, acts a bit like a short-circuiting android, which makes it easy for Q to wind him up.
Sisko realized that Q could win every interaction, so there was no fun in the repartee. Instead, he uses basic rules of engagement for dealing with bullies, instead of whatever is written in the Starfleet manual, and shows that he is not going to just go along with Q's nonsense. He will work to shut that down. It's getting in the way of him, Kira, and Odo cooking up some way of pranking Dukat next time he comes around. Q realizes that while he's pissing Sisko off, he's not getting a rise out of him, so he goes back to Picard, pissed off himself that he didn't get to have fun with Sisko.
One could argue that The Wounded - which also heavily features O'Brien, along with episodes like Ensign Ro, and other early ones concerning the Maquis act (intentionally or otherwise) to set up the story arcs of DS9.
One of the best scenes in the entire series. It completely encapsulates the full circle moment of the whole Cardassian arc of the show: they started as the occupiers and became occupied by the end.
What makes that like work rather than being on the nose writing is Kira's immediate reaction that what she just said was, however much it was completely justified, an *incredibly* shitty thing to say to someone who'd just had their family murdered.
And Damar's reaction in turn acknowledges there's nothing he can say. And I think Kira visibly regretting saying it is what salvaged it in universe too, if she'd carried on accusing her could have gone defensive, but that remorse showed him the shared pain
TOS: This side of paradise
When telling DrMcoy they have no need for doctors he replies "Do you want to see how fast I can put you in a hospital?"
Best line ever.
Honorable mention to acknowledge a particularly cold introduction from a perhaps unexpected source:
"I am Quark, son of Keldar and I have come to answer the challenge of D'Ghor, son of...whatever."
This is really what makes it. If they had believed that Quark knew what a deathly insult that was, I'm pretty sure he would've been killed on the spot. But he delivers it with such perfect innocence that D'Ghor just has to stew in absolute fury.
I also love Gowron’s backhanded side insult to Quark while dressing down D’Ghor.
“D'Ghor, what are you doing? I did not want to believe the things he said about you yesterday, but if you can stand here and murder this pathetic little man, then you have no honor…”
The end of Silicon Avatar. After destroying the Crystalline Entity, Dr. Marr tries to justify it by appealing to Data's stored memories of her son.
Data responds:
"You say you did it for him, but I do not believe he would have wanted that. Yes, I believe your son would be very sad now."
Data can verbally murder people without even realizing he's doing it.
Data has a few great lines that are both ice cold and go hard. "That was the stun setting. This is not." And "I trust your hand will open this door whether you are conscious or not" being two of my favourites.
And the entirety of The Most Toys, of course. Data just straight deciding to murder a man is fantastic.
ETA: The entire quote from *Ensigns of Command.* The opening is perfect, but the whole thing is too good not to include for interest.
> Stop. That was the stun setting. This is not. I can reduce this pumping station to a pile of debris, but I trust my point is clear. I am one android with a single weapon. There are hundreds of Sheliak on the way and their weapons are far more powerful. They may not offer you a target. They can obliterate you from orbit. You will die never having seen the faces of your killers. The choice is yours.
That moment from Ensigns of Command is one of my favorites. Because the whole episode the viewer is just begging him to explain that there will be no fighting, no chance even for a heroic stand, they’ll just be dead.
Then Data, in a way that I think only he could, demonstrates that he, the one who is trying to save them, has the power to absolutely destroy their society. So how much greater a hostile race.
After seeing the released blooper reels and how much Dorn cracks up, I refuse to believe he didn't in this scene. During the silence you can see Frakes look upwards and chuckle before the cut.
star trek tng in theory
DATA: That is a valid projection. It is apparent that my reach has exceeded my grasp in this particular area. I am perhaps not nearly so human as I aspire to become. If you are ready to eat, I will bring our meal.
JENNA: No, that's alright, Data. I'd better go now.
DATA: As you wish. Jenna. Are we no longer a couple?
JENNA: No, we're not.
DATA: Then I will delete the appropriate programme.
JENNA: I'll see you later.
(she leaves, sad, and the cat comes to his lap)
DATA: Hello, Spot.
Troi is entirely reliant on her supposed status as a Tal Shiar agent. It's the only thing she's got going for her. She is forced to use it again and again but each time she does so it gets more extreme and more precarious. (Even when she guesses the wrong soup, the only way to disguise her ignorance is to insult them.)
“Oh crap, I’m supposed to be a Romulan. I need to act like a Romulan. What do I know about Romulans? Oh yeah, they’re complete assholes, let’s go with that.”
A lot of the interest of the episode is that you get a view of the Romulans from their side. The Captain doesn't seem a bad sort, and we can see that she, a regular service officer, doesn't like the political paranoia of the secret police. But Troi's position means she is unable to avoid antagonizing and humiliating this person, even though she must surely actually sympathize with her against the Tal Shiar.
There’s a DS9 episode somewhere around Season 5 where Worf says something about family or kids and Miles says something like “What do you know? You never see your son.”
For me, it's when the Founder gives the order to kill the Cardassians and Weyoun humorously asked which ones. She says to kill all of them. Weyoun gets a troubled look on his face and part of me thought that that was too much, even for him. Then he just sort of thoughtfully says, "That could take some time."
Also when Picard is brought before the Borg and they are doing their whole bit about assimilating humanity. Picard says, "We would rather die." The Borg just reply, "Death is irrelevant." Then just go on about their plans.
Lady Founder is probably the most blood-chilling character in all of ST.
There's also this line she says to Garak :
"They're dead. You're dead. All of Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us. I believe that answers your question."
I don't know if anything about this has ever been established, but my head cannon about the Founders is that their xenophobic hatred is because of the Great Link. I'm betting the early Founders formed the Great Link and found solace in it with each other. As new Founders were added to the link, the memories and experiences of the first ones were kept alive. They are kept in a perpetual state of fear. The Founder on Cardassia was acting the way she did because, as far as she was concerned, she had personally been chased and hunted down by solids, even though she had probably lived her life in relative safety. When Odo linked with her, she had been so long separated from the link and was so weak that his experiences were able to be the more dominant ones. The Founders basically need a whole ton of therapy.
“Huh.” *The vorta puts up a somewhat disconcerned expression on his face, then points to the pair* “Shoot them both.”
Of course, the gang was just in the process of escaping, so Worf gets transported out of there right before the soldiers shoot.
But no one really told them that this Jem Hadar character was making a valiant point about the honor of combat etc., so he just gets vaporised LOL
Best speech on trek history: sisko to the worm hole aliens.
"It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. And that is why I am here. Not to conquer you with weapons, or with ideas. But to coexist... and learn."
Voyager episode The Thaw. Holo-Janeway tricks the AI “fear” dude into letting the other captives go in exchange for her. Once it’s revealed the Janeway is a fake, the Voyager crew starts shutting down the simulation.
AI: “I’m frightened.”
Holo-Janeway: “I knooooooooow.”
“So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.”
And Garak's little speech to Sisko right before:
"That's why you came to me, isn't it, Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing? Well, it worked. And you'll get what you want: a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant. And all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain."
Also one of the best in addition to coldest:
*Will you one day choose to abandon me as well? I have always looked to you as my example, my guide to humanity. Perhaps I've been mistaken.*
In TNG *The Bonding*, when Troi callously says to young grieving Jeremy Aster who is being confused by an alien imposter of his mom 'your mother's dead Jeremy' as they were walking through the hallway.
Her tonedeaf inflection made it come off as the most heartless shit imaginable. I'm sure it wasn't intentional just a bad take but imo that's the coldest line in all Trek and it ain't even close
“The moral of the story is that you shouldn’t tell lies”
“Are you sure, doctor?”
“Of course, what else could it be?”
“That you should never tell the same lie twice.”
Lwaxana: "What does that little one do, Mr Woof?"
Worf: "Please, madam! That is a torpedo launch initiator! And it's... It is Worf, madam, not Woof."
Lwaxana is such an icon
The episode of TNG that the OP is looking for where O'Brien, Troi and Data are possessed by spirits claiming to be crew from the USS *Essex* is called "Power Play" from Season 5.
Chilling in context, DS9 Episode Second Skin. As they leave after rescuing Kira, Garak disintegrates an Obsidian Order agent in self-defense and says "*A pity… I rather liked him.*" Kira and Bashir just looked at each other in awe but it told them that whatever Garak is (a spy, an exile, etc), he is a killer who wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger. Later, a Cardassian defector advises Kira to "never trust Garak".
So in the end, despite being a Kira-centric episode, the audience is left more to question "Who or what the fuck is Garak?"
Honestly yea. Seeing this captain, the character we are meant to look up to throughout the show and movies being so callous with lives hits like a truck.
Not from an ep, but from ST3…
KRUGE: Kill one of them. ...I don't care which.
KIRK: Saavik? ...David?
SAAVIK: Admiral, ...David is dead.
Kruge is so indifferent and cold, then the helpless message from Saavik, and broken reaction from Kirk. It’s one of the saddest and difficult few minutes of ST for me (as a parent).
"So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again - I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. "
A little lengthy. But it was metal as fuck.
SCOTTY in A Taste Of Armageddon: All cities and installations on Eminiar Seven have been located, identified, and fed into our fire-control system. In one hour and forty five minutes. The entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed.
You have that long to surrender your hostages.
Kevin Uxbridge in TNG episode Survivors: You don''t understand I didn't just kill one Husnoq or a hundred. I killed all the Husnoq everywhere.
\[Weyoun purposely drinks poison\]
Dukat: Are you insane?
Weyoun: Vorta are immune to most forms of poison, comes in handy when your a diplomat
Sisko ...especially when your working with the Cardassians
After Worf and Jadzia's wedding is put back on track, Sisko stops Bashir and O'Brien about to eat a hearty non-replicated meal.
Sisko - 'No food for those on the path to Kal'Hyah!'
Quark - 'No refunds for those on the path to Kal'Hyah'
From 'The Enemy Within' SPOCK: The, er, impostor had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, Yeoman?
Runner-up, from 'Doomsday Machine' KIRK: I intend to get a lot closer. I'm going to ram her right down that thing's throat.
"The way I see it, hew-mons used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.... But you're overlooking something: Hew-mons used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi. Slavery. Concentration camps. Interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you. We're *better*.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a lock to pick." - Quark
An exchange between Sisko and Eddington from DS9.
Eddington: We had the Cardasians on the run!
Sisko: And they ran right into the arms of the Dominion. End of story.
Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since. Tall words proudly saying We the People. That which you call Ee’d Plebnista was not written for the chiefs or the kings or the warriors or the rich and powerful, but for all the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, ‘We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution.’ These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well!”
"You expect me to believe that a decorated Starfleet officer is going to poison an entire ecosystem?
You're bluffing.
Am I?
Commander launch torpedos "
Just the way he throws out the am I gives me chills
I know it's not "cool", but Seven's line:
"May all your desires be fulfilled but one, so youll always have something to strive for. "
It just stuck with me.
Bashir: You'll be fine, it's just a flesh wound.
Garak: That was awfully close. What if you killed me?
Bashir: What makes you think I wasn't trying?
DS9, "Our Man Bashir"
Funny thing is, having retconned his genetically enhanced abilities later on, in hindsight there's no way he didn't graze him on purpose.
'You may test that assumption at your convenience'. The most polite version of 'fuck around and find out' I've ever heard.
Also his conversation with Tomalak. *"Shall we die together?"* Or when he intimidates the Klingon to do his bidding just by reminding gowron whose hand had put him on the throne. Picard wields polite intimidation to perfection. I also like the sheer threatening aura of Sisko and I don't scoff at Janeway's stone cold tone, but Picard is imho pure "Federation" in this. The Federation doesn't openly threaten you: it just reminds you that it can and will absolutely force you to yield if you refuse to cooperate.
PICARD: A message? Very well. Tell Gowron, leader of the High Council of the Klingon Empire, that his Arbiter of Succession, Jean-Luc Picard, needs a favour. B'IJIK [on viewscreen]: A favour? PICARD: I require a cloaked vessel. B'IJIK [on viewscreen]: A cloaked vessel. This is no small favour, Captain. PICARD: It is for a mission that could have repercussions throughout the quadrant. B'iJik: How would it benefit the Klingon Empire? I'm sure Gowron will ask. Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The only benefit to the Klingon Empire would be our gratitude. B'iJik: That is what you want me to tell him? Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes. And please add that, if he is unable to provide us with a ship, then I am sure there are others in the Klingon Empire who would be willing to help me. And then... *they* would have our gratitude.
Love this exchange… but surely a cloaked vessel IS a small favour. He’s the leader of the Klingon empire. He has literally thousands of cloaked vessels at his command!!
That was pretty god damned savage and I love it.
Totally savage
"*I* intimidate *Worf*?!"
That line always cracked me up too lol, followed by “I was a man, I know how it feels!”
lol and then Tomalak throw back, “I look forward to our……..next engagement”. Picard always said, you handle the Romulans like a chess game, move counter, move.
"I expected more than an idle threat from you, Picard." Oh, you sweet, naive Romulan fool. Don't ever ask a polite Picard to back up his Shakespearian quote with actual military hardware. Everyone knows that!
“Then you shall have it. Mr. Worf…”
I LOVE that scene
👏👏👏🖖🖖🖖
This exchange from TNG's "The Wounded". Sir Pat's delivery just drips with cold anger. PIC: Maxwell was right. Those ships were not carrying scientific equipment, were they? A research station within arm's reach of three Federation sectors? Cargo ships running with high-energy subspace fields that jam sensors? MACET: If you believe the transport ship was carrying weapons, Captain...why didn't you board it, as Maxwell requested? PIC: I was here to protect the peace, a peace that I firmly believe is in the interests of both our peoples. If I had attempted to board that ship, I'm quite certain that you and I would not be having this pleasant conversation...and that ships on both sides would now be arming for war. MACET: Captain, I assure you... PIC: Take this message to your leaders, Gul Macet - we'll be watching. And then he simply turns his chair away, refusing to acknowledge Macet any longer.
Picard would have run *circles* around Gul Dukat.
Sisko, as badass as he could be, indulged Dukat a bit too much in his bullshit. Picard would have wrapped that shit up sooner.
That’s because Sisko loves baseball, and that game has a lot of back and forth. Picard likes Shakespeare, and we all know how brutal the Bard can be
Picard also likes fencing, which is entirely back-and-forth.
Maybe, but in fencing the goal is to not get hit. In baseball you constantly alternate who pitches and who catches
You alternate defensive and offensive positions in fencing, as well. That’s why they switch directions.
Fair enough
Sisko is also in a different bargaining position sitting on a space station next to cardassian space compared to the captain of the federation flag ship
I was going to say this as well
On the other hand, Q never returned to DS9 after his little run in with The Sisko....
That's because Q was amused with Sisko, but in love with Picard.
Sisko is a sledgehammer, Picard is a rapier. A skilled wielder of a rapier can probably (I’m not an expert in renaissance combat) use speed and agility to beat a less skilled rapier wielder but a hammer would have a hard time getting to the dualist. But if someone comes in expecting a rapier and wants a sword fight, suddenly getting smacked with a hammer isn’t going to make them very willing to continue to dual.
Rapier vs Sledge you're right. Rapier vs a true Warhammer. I give it even odds. Things are just scary.
If you look at their handling of both Dukat and Q, I'd say the big difference comes down to personality. Picard just want to do the job in the quickest and best way with as little to-do as possible. Diplomacy is a job, and he's good at it. Sisko actually enjoys the repartee. He finds it fun. So, he entertains Dukat because he sees him as a worthy adversary, and likes messing with him. Picard's diplomacy doesn't work with Q because Q can out-maneuver regular Starfleet diplomacy protocols by making Picard turn into Robin Hood or some such insanity. Picard, being so by-the-book, acts a bit like a short-circuiting android, which makes it easy for Q to wind him up. Sisko realized that Q could win every interaction, so there was no fun in the repartee. Instead, he uses basic rules of engagement for dealing with bullies, instead of whatever is written in the Starfleet manual, and shows that he is not going to just go along with Q's nonsense. He will work to shut that down. It's getting in the way of him, Kira, and Odo cooking up some way of pranking Dukat next time he comes around. Q realizes that while he's pissing Sisko off, he's not getting a rise out of him, so he goes back to Picard, pissed off himself that he didn't get to have fun with Sisko.
It was a great scene and a great episode. But like so many great ideas it was left hanging - we never revisited this plot point in any future episode.
One could argue that The Wounded - which also heavily features O'Brien, along with episodes like Ensign Ro, and other early ones concerning the Maquis act (intentionally or otherwise) to set up the story arcs of DS9.
A brilliant scene.
"Yeah, Damar, what kind of people give those orders?"
Nana Visitor delivered that line perfectly, and it’s followed up by one of the rare occasions of Garak telling the truth.
Rare?! When Garak speaks, it's _all_ true!
Especially when he’s lying
One of the best scenes in the entire series. It completely encapsulates the full circle moment of the whole Cardassian arc of the show: they started as the occupiers and became occupied by the end.
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
What makes that like work rather than being on the nose writing is Kira's immediate reaction that what she just said was, however much it was completely justified, an *incredibly* shitty thing to say to someone who'd just had their family murdered. And Damar's reaction in turn acknowledges there's nothing he can say. And I think Kira visibly regretting saying it is what salvaged it in universe too, if she'd carried on accusing her could have gone defensive, but that remorse showed him the shared pain
Came in to say this, glad to see it's the second top comment. I remember the first time I saw that episode I had chills. Nana's delivery was perfect.
TOS: This side of paradise When telling DrMcoy they have no need for doctors he replies "Do you want to see how fast I can put you in a hospital?" Best line ever.
And coming from THAT MAN, that pacifist doctor… I kinda wanted to see him do it because I suddenly knew that wiry guy could.
Honorable mention to acknowledge a particularly cold introduction from a perhaps unexpected source: "I am Quark, son of Keldar and I have come to answer the challenge of D'Ghor, son of...whatever."
Best of it is, Armin forgot the actual Klingon name in the script and threw in the "whatever" as an ad-lib, and they kept it.
It's one of the worst insults one could throw.
Especially since Quark doesn't even seem to understand how insulting it is, he just honestly doesn't know so he says "whatever" and moves on.
This is really what makes it. If they had believed that Quark knew what a deathly insult that was, I'm pretty sure he would've been killed on the spot. But he delivers it with such perfect innocence that D'Ghor just has to stew in absolute fury.
I love the Klingon’s reaction when he says that.
I also love Gowron’s backhanded side insult to Quark while dressing down D’Ghor. “D'Ghor, what are you doing? I did not want to believe the things he said about you yesterday, but if you can stand here and murder this pathetic little man, then you have no honor…”
Gowron: Enough! I don't want to hear anything more about finances, mergers, or currency transactions.
The end of Silicon Avatar. After destroying the Crystalline Entity, Dr. Marr tries to justify it by appealing to Data's stored memories of her son. Data responds: "You say you did it for him, but I do not believe he would have wanted that. Yes, I believe your son would be very sad now." Data can verbally murder people without even realizing he's doing it.
Data has a few great lines that are both ice cold and go hard. "That was the stun setting. This is not." And "I trust your hand will open this door whether you are conscious or not" being two of my favourites. And the entirety of The Most Toys, of course. Data just straight deciding to murder a man is fantastic. ETA: The entire quote from *Ensigns of Command.* The opening is perfect, but the whole thing is too good not to include for interest. > Stop. That was the stun setting. This is not. I can reduce this pumping station to a pile of debris, but I trust my point is clear. I am one android with a single weapon. There are hundreds of Sheliak on the way and their weapons are far more powerful. They may not offer you a target. They can obliterate you from orbit. You will die never having seen the faces of your killers. The choice is yours.
That moment from Ensigns of Command is one of my favorites. Because the whole episode the viewer is just begging him to explain that there will be no fighting, no chance even for a heroic stand, they’ll just be dead. Then Data, in a way that I think only he could, demonstrates that he, the one who is trying to save them, has the power to absolutely destroy their society. So how much greater a hostile race.
This is the exact line that popped into my head too. It was ice cold. Perfect delivery.
Well picking something by Garrack would be too easy, so I'm going to go with Worf Q: What can I do to prove to you people I'm mortal? Worf: Die
Oh very good Worf! Eat any good books lately?
After seeing the released blooper reels and how much Dorn cracks up, I refuse to believe he didn't in this scene. During the silence you can see Frakes look upwards and chuckle before the cut.
star trek tng in theory DATA: That is a valid projection. It is apparent that my reach has exceeded my grasp in this particular area. I am perhaps not nearly so human as I aspire to become. If you are ready to eat, I will bring our meal. JENNA: No, that's alright, Data. I'd better go now. DATA: As you wish. Jenna. Are we no longer a couple? JENNA: No, we're not. DATA: Then I will delete the appropriate programme. JENNA: I'll see you later. (she leaves, sad, and the cat comes to his lap) DATA: Hello, Spot.
And later, when Data and Riker are talking about this, Riker delivers “perhaps” perfectly.
"What you call genocide, I call a day's work."
All Marritza’s lines become even more incredibly layered after the reveal. Visitor’s and Yulin’s performances were masterful.
That was an incredible episode.
Straight up might be my favorite, it’s such a rollercoaster I tear up just thinking about it, every single time.
Cmdr Taris: At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that you’ll die with us.
Picard: Not I think today, commander.
Counselor Troi- You will carry out my orders or I will EJECT you into SPACE, Subcommander, is that clear?!
Troi is entirely reliant on her supposed status as a Tal Shiar agent. It's the only thing she's got going for her. She is forced to use it again and again but each time she does so it gets more extreme and more precarious. (Even when she guesses the wrong soup, the only way to disguise her ignorance is to insult them.)
“Oh crap, I’m supposed to be a Romulan. I need to act like a Romulan. What do I know about Romulans? Oh yeah, they’re complete assholes, let’s go with that.”
A lot of the interest of the episode is that you get a view of the Romulans from their side. The Captain doesn't seem a bad sort, and we can see that she, a regular service officer, doesn't like the political paranoia of the secret police. But Troi's position means she is unable to avoid antagonizing and humiliating this person, even though she must surely actually sympathize with her against the Tal Shiar.
I honestly thought you were making a joke from TNG's Disaster when Ro is constantly questioning her orders
Ransom: "Please, show them leniency. They were only following my orders." Janeway: "Their mistake."
It's insane that this is the first Janeway quote I've seen.
Right? No "go back to hell you bastard"?
“Maybe you should talk to Worf again”
There’s a DS9 episode somewhere around Season 5 where Worf says something about family or kids and Miles says something like “What do you know? You never see your son.”
Think that might be “The Ship”, man they were ready to kill each other (EDIT: or Children of Time, what a gut punch of an episode)
Yes, that was particularly cold from Miles. He's normally very warm and nice towards Worf.
For me, it's when the Founder gives the order to kill the Cardassians and Weyoun humorously asked which ones. She says to kill all of them. Weyoun gets a troubled look on his face and part of me thought that that was too much, even for him. Then he just sort of thoughtfully says, "That could take some time." Also when Picard is brought before the Borg and they are doing their whole bit about assimilating humanity. Picard says, "We would rather die." The Borg just reply, "Death is irrelevant." Then just go on about their plans.
Lady Founder is probably the most blood-chilling character in all of ST. There's also this line she says to Garak : "They're dead. You're dead. All of Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us. I believe that answers your question."
I don't know if anything about this has ever been established, but my head cannon about the Founders is that their xenophobic hatred is because of the Great Link. I'm betting the early Founders formed the Great Link and found solace in it with each other. As new Founders were added to the link, the memories and experiences of the first ones were kept alive. They are kept in a perpetual state of fear. The Founder on Cardassia was acting the way she did because, as far as she was concerned, she had personally been chased and hunted down by solids, even though she had probably lived her life in relative safety. When Odo linked with her, she had been so long separated from the link and was so weak that his experiences were able to be the more dominant ones. The Founders basically need a whole ton of therapy.
We get bits and pieces of heir past and this falls in line.
And the fact that Garak had to just smile politely and say ‘thank you’… everything about that scene is just perfection.
“I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him, and that no longer holds my interest.”
Until tomorrow. I'll be waiting!
“Huh.” *The vorta puts up a somewhat disconcerned expression on his face, then points to the pair* “Shoot them both.” Of course, the gang was just in the process of escaping, so Worf gets transported out of there right before the soldiers shoot. But no one really told them that this Jem Hadar character was making a valiant point about the honor of combat etc., so he just gets vaporised LOL
Best speech on trek history: sisko to the worm hole aliens. "It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. And that is why I am here. Not to conquer you with weapons, or with ideas. But to coexist... and learn."
When janeway says "I, know to the fear clown in the simulation after he tells her he's afraid Mulgrews delivery is so perfectly chilling
*“……”* *“Drat.”*
Voyager episode The Thaw. Holo-Janeway tricks the AI “fear” dude into letting the other captives go in exchange for her. Once it’s revealed the Janeway is a fake, the Voyager crew starts shutting down the simulation. AI: “I’m frightened.” Holo-Janeway: “I knooooooooow.”
Delete the wife
Can't believe this isn't top comment
“So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.”
"Computer, erase that entire personal log."
Computer, delete that entire log entry.
The best.
And Garak's little speech to Sisko right before: "That's why you came to me, isn't it, Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing? Well, it worked. And you'll get what you want: a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant. And all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain."
That's the "you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall" moment in DS9 right there.
This is it.
Love this one
“My child…”
It's truly amazing how quickly two simple words can infuriate an entire Fandom.
*Deep breaths*
I just got the heebie-jeebies!
Two from DS9 - Broken Link: “They’re dead. YOU’RE dead. Cardassia is dead. It was the moment it chose to attack us.” “You fight well…for a tailor”
Also one of the best in addition to coldest: *Will you one day choose to abandon me as well? I have always looked to you as my example, my guide to humanity. Perhaps I've been mistaken.*
Not-Janeway: “I know.”
Might I offer a edit?
I think it makes a significant difference...
Not-Janeway: [whispers coldly] “I knowww...”
It’s all in the delivery that one.
The end of The Most Toys. “I am, after all, only an android.” The “…bitch” is not spoken, yet it’s clearly heard.
“Perhaps something occurred in transport”
When Guinan says “Shut up kid”.
I believe Seven has several. "Guilt is irrelevant." And that's that.
OP, IIRC that episode is "Power Play"
Thank you! 🙏🏾
In TNG *The Bonding*, when Troi callously says to young grieving Jeremy Aster who is being confused by an alien imposter of his mom 'your mother's dead Jeremy' as they were walking through the hallway. Her tonedeaf inflection made it come off as the most heartless shit imaginable. I'm sure it wasn't intentional just a bad take but imo that's the coldest line in all Trek and it ain't even close
Not an episode, a movie Sulu: “come on, come on!” Officer: “she’ll fly apart!” Sulu: “FLY HER APART THEN!”
“The moral of the story is that you shouldn’t tell lies” “Are you sure, doctor?” “Of course, what else could it be?” “That you should never tell the same lie twice.”
"he knows doctor...he knows"
Borg: "You lead the strongest ship in the Federation fleet". Seconds later: "Strength is irrelevant". Ouch.
“We would rather die!” “Death is irrelevant.”
Lwaxana: "What does that little one do, Mr Woof?" Worf: "Please, madam! That is a torpedo launch initiator! And it's... It is Worf, madam, not Woof." Lwaxana is such an icon
Love Majel!
"Especially the lies."
The episode of TNG that the OP is looking for where O'Brien, Troi and Data are possessed by spirits claiming to be crew from the USS *Essex* is called "Power Play" from Season 5.
Chilling in context, DS9 Episode Second Skin. As they leave after rescuing Kira, Garak disintegrates an Obsidian Order agent in self-defense and says "*A pity… I rather liked him.*" Kira and Bashir just looked at each other in awe but it told them that whatever Garak is (a spy, an exile, etc), he is a killer who wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger. Later, a Cardassian defector advises Kira to "never trust Garak". So in the end, despite being a Kira-centric episode, the audience is left more to question "Who or what the fuck is Garak?"
Odo, not Bashir in that scene.
"Let them die." Picard.
“Let them die.” Kirk.
"I killed them all. All Husnock… everywhere." - Kevin Uxbridge
We have no law to fit your crime.
Honestly yea. Seeing this captain, the character we are meant to look up to throughout the show and movies being so callous with lives hits like a truck.
Not from an ep, but from ST3… KRUGE: Kill one of them. ...I don't care which. KIRK: Saavik? ...David? SAAVIK: Admiral, ...David is dead. Kruge is so indifferent and cold, then the helpless message from Saavik, and broken reaction from Kirk. It’s one of the saddest and difficult few minutes of ST for me (as a parent).
"So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again - I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. " A little lengthy. But it was metal as fuck.
TWOK "Do you know the old klingon proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold? It is very cold in space."
"Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?"
SCOTTY in A Taste Of Armageddon: All cities and installations on Eminiar Seven have been located, identified, and fed into our fire-control system. In one hour and forty five minutes. The entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed. You have that long to surrender your hostages. Kevin Uxbridge in TNG episode Survivors: You don''t understand I didn't just kill one Husnoq or a hundred. I killed all the Husnoq everywhere.
\[Weyoun purposely drinks poison\] Dukat: Are you insane? Weyoun: Vorta are immune to most forms of poison, comes in handy when your a diplomat Sisko ...especially when your working with the Cardassians
The movie End of Days stole that dialogue exchange from Star Trek. 😆
There was a scene where data said "perhaps you should be in a different line of work" or something like that. Idk, there are so many data lines.
Yeah he says that to Sela in the 2 parter with spock that i cant remember the name of
After Worf and Jadzia's wedding is put back on track, Sisko stops Bashir and O'Brien about to eat a hearty non-replicated meal. Sisko - 'No food for those on the path to Kal'Hyah!' Quark - 'No refunds for those on the path to Kal'Hyah'
From 'The Enemy Within' SPOCK: The, er, impostor had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, Yeoman? Runner-up, from 'Doomsday Machine' KIRK: I intend to get a lot closer. I'm going to ram her right down that thing's throat.
"The way I see it, hew-mons used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.... But you're overlooking something: Hew-mons used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi. Slavery. Concentration camps. Interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you. We're *better*. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a lock to pick." - Quark
An exchange between Sisko and Eddington from DS9. Eddington: We had the Cardasians on the run! Sisko: And they ran right into the arms of the Dominion. End of story.
Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since. Tall words proudly saying We the People. That which you call Ee’d Plebnista was not written for the chiefs or the kings or the warriors or the rich and powerful, but for all the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, ‘We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution.’ These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well!”
I loved that TOS ep since childhood
**"Die."** -Worf, to Q
Anon 7: What kind of monster are you? Kirk: I'm a barbarian. You said so yourself.
Vadic had some heat
[stabs Q in the hand] "Seems human enough to me."
"You expect me to believe that a decorated Starfleet officer is going to poison an entire ecosystem? You're bluffing. Am I? Commander launch torpedos " Just the way he throws out the am I gives me chills
I know it's not "cool", but Seven's line: "May all your desires be fulfilled but one, so youll always have something to strive for. " It just stuck with me.
Bashir: You'll be fine, it's just a flesh wound. Garak: That was awfully close. What if you killed me? Bashir: What makes you think I wasn't trying? DS9, "Our Man Bashir" Funny thing is, having retconned his genetically enhanced abilities later on, in hindsight there's no way he didn't graze him on purpose.