Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Allegiance (1990)
Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Well. I think this charade has gone far enough.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Haro] Don't you?
Mitena Haro : I don't understand.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh yes, you do. This isn't a holding cell. It's a laboratory maze, a carefully structured test. It's an experiment to see how well we react under pressure.
Esoqq : How do you know?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's the only explanation. Look at the four of us. We do have something in common: we all react differently to authority.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Tholl] You, the collaborator, defer to whoever has control.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Esoqq] You, the anarchist, reject authority in any form. I, a Starfleet captain, trained to command.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Haro] And you, a Starfleet cadet, sworn to obey a superior officer's authority. - Our captors have placed us here, and have devised obstacles for us to overcome. They give us food, which Esoqq can't eat, to make him a threat. They give us a door we can't open - until the four of us cooperate. And each time we succeed, they deal us reverses, to set us against each other again,
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Haro] while *you*... observe our reactions.
Mitena Haro : Sir, I've been trying to help...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I found it unlikely that a first-year cadet would know of the Enterprise's visit to Mintaka III, so I tested you. Starfleet has classified the Cor Caroli V plague a secret. No cadet would have knowledge of that incident.
Mitena Haro : [whispering] Captain...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : So, you may as well drop this pretense. I'm not playing any further. I'm quitting this game! As far as I am concerned, this experiment is over!
Mitena Haro : You are correct, Captain Picard.
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Alien #1 : [after being trapped in a force field] Captain, our species cannot bear captivity!
Alien #2 : We were merely... curious, we meant no harm.
Alien #1 : We did not, after all, injure you in any way.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it.
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[Esoqq picks up a food disc]
Esoqq : What is this?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Food.
Esoqq : The *only* food?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It would seem so.
[Esoqq tastes the disc, then throws it away]
Esoqq : POISON!
Kova Tholl : Does this mean there's nothing here for you to eat?
[Esoqq examines Kova Tholl intently]
Esoqq : You!
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [Picard has returned to the Enterprise, his double having been unmasked] ... The replica was convincing?
Commander William T. Riker : Very convincing, but... not perfect.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : How so?
Commander William T. Riker : [DELETED LINE] Well, sir... I find it hard to believe that a *Frenchman* would lead his crew in singing the official naval march of the *United Kingdom*... even if he knew the lyrics.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [DELETED LINE] Very astute, Number One... I've never claimed to be a singer at all.
[Riker smirks]
Commander William T. Riker : [DELETED LINE] That, too.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I look forward to reading your report, Commander... At least, I *think* I do.
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Kova Tholl : My race has no enemies.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : None? In the last three hundred years of Mizarian history, your planet has been conquered six times!
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Commander William T. Riker : What is our mission?
False Captain Picard : I'm under no obligation to tell you that.
Commander William T. Riker : If you don't, you force me to take command of this vessel.
False Captain Picard : On what grounds?
Commander William T. Riker : You are endangering this ship for no reason.
False Captain Picard : No reason *you're* aware of.
Commander William T. Riker : That's not good enough. Your behavior has been erratic.
False Captain Picard : Erratic enough to justify mutiny? Do you honestly believe you have sufficient evidence to convince a board of inquiry?
Commander William T. Riker : No, I don't. But I can't let you risk the lives of this crew.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Now get off my ship.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Esoqq, I've been trying to determine if we have a common enemy. Someone with a reason for confining us here.
Esoqq : There are Chalnoth who would kill me if they could. But kidnap? There is no reason.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You have many enemies.
Esoqq : None of consequence. I've slain all the ones who mattered. That shocks you, Bolian?
Mitena Haro : A little.
Esoqq : [to Tholl] And you?
Kova Tholl : Oh, I'm not surprised. I've heard about your race. You're uncivilised. You have no laws, no system of government.
Esoqq : The Chalnoth have no use for laws or governments. We are strong. We obey no one.
Kova Tholl : You live in anarchy, murdering one another. That mentality may get us all killed.
Esoqq : And you may be the first!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Both of you. This is getting us nowhere.
Kova Tholl : Neither is asking us useless questions, Picard.