Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Rightful Heir (1993)

Michael Dorn: Lieutenant Worf

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Have you lost your faith in Sto-vo-kor?

  Lieutenant Worf : To lose something, one must first possess it.

• Lt. Commander Data : I once had what could be considered a crisis of the spirit.

  Lieutenant Worf : You?

  Lt. Commander Data : Yes. The Starfleet officers who first activated me on Omicron Theta told me I was an android - nothing more than a sophisticated machine with human form; however, I realized that if I was simply a machine, I could never be anything else. I could never grow beyond my programming. I found that difficult to accept, so I chose to believe... that I was a person, that I had the potential to be more than a collection of circuits and subprocessors. It is a belief which I still hold.

  Lieutenant Worf : How did you come to your decision?

  Lt. Commander Data : I made... a leap of faith.

• Kahless : You still do not believe it is me, do you, Worf?

  Lieutenant Worf : I want to believe.

  Kahless : That is a beginning.

• Lieutenant Worf : [on the impact of Kahless' return]  It will be glorious!

  Gowron : It will be war!

• [Worf has suggested that Kahless be made Emperor and spiritual leader of the Klingon world] 

  Koroth : The title is meaningless without the power to back it up!

  Lieutenant Worf : Real power comes from within the heart.

• Lieutenant Worf : Even if he is not the real Kahless, he is the rightful heir to Kahless.

• Lieutenant Worf : I went to Boreth to find my faith. For a time, I thought I had, but my heart is empty again. I do not know what to believe.

• Kahless : Are you contemplating yet another question for me? After three days, I'm beginning to wonder if you know how to do anything else.

  Lieutenant Worf : Questions are the beginning of wisdom, the mark of a true warrior.

  Kahless : Do not forget that a leader need not answer questions of those he leads. It is enough that he says to do a thing, and they will do it. If he says to run, they run. If he says to fight, they fight. If he says to die - they die.

• Koroth : What is the story of The Promise, Worf?

  Lieutenant Worf : When Kahless had united our people and gave them the laws of honor, he saw that his work was done, so one night he gathered his belongings and departed for the edge of the city to say goodbye.

  Koroth : The people wept. They did not want him to go.

  Lieutenant Worf : Then Kahless said: "You are Klingons. You need no one but yourselves. I will go now to Sto-vo-kor, but I promise, one day I will return." Then Kahless pointed to a star in the sky and said: "Look for me there, on that point of light."

• Lieutenant Worf : It is true - Kahless has returned!

• Lieutenant Worf : Like many of our people, they need something to believe in, just like I did. Something larger than themselves, something that will give their lives meaning.

• Kahless : What is it you are doing?

  Lieutenant Worf : I was getting my tricorder.

  Kahless : Tricorder? Is it a weapon?

  Lieutenant Worf : No. No. It is a tool.