Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Conundrum (1992)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Your next priority will be to retrieve any information you can about this ship's mission. Contact the Operations Officer to assist you.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Aye, sir.

  Ensign Ro Laren : He's in Ten Forward, waiting tables.

• ["Mac Duff" has been revealed as a Satarran bent on annihilating the Lysians] 

  Commander William T. Riker : With all the power that MacDuff had, to alter our brain chemistry and manipulate the computers, it's hard to believe he needed the Enterprise.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The Satarran weapons technology was no more advanced than the Lysian. One photon torpedo would have ended their war.

  Commander William T. Riker : It almost did.

• [the Enterprise has "orders" to destroy the Lysian command center - orders that no one can confirm] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I feel as though I've been handed a weapon, sent into a room, and told to shoot a stranger. Well, I need some moral context to justify that action. And I don't have it. I'm not content simply to obey orders. I need to know that what I'm doing is right.

  Commander MacDuff : So do I. I'd feel a lot better if all the questions were answered. And if you want to abandon our mission until our memories return, that's your choice, but... I must ask you: is it right to risk prolonging this war? To allow the needless deaths of thousands on both sides, solely on the basis of our moral discomfort?

• Lieutenant Worf : Now we are ready.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The question is... for what?

• [first lines] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [voiceover]  Captain's log, stardate 45494.2. We're investigating a series of subspace signals that may indicate intelligent life in the Epsilon Silar system. We are within sensor range.