Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Defector (1990)

Jonathan Frakes: Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  [Admiral Jarok has committed suicide] 

  Commander William T. Riker : [handing a data PADD to Picard]  A letter to his wife and daughter.

  Lt. Commander Data : Sir, he must have known it would be impossible for us to deliver it.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Today, perhaps. But if there are others with the courage of Admiral Jarok, we may hope to see a day of peace when... we can take his letter home.

• Admiral Jarok : How do you allow Klingon pahtk to walk around in a Starfleet uniform?

  Lieutenant Worf : You are lucky this is not a Klingon ship. We know how to deal with spies.

  Admiral Jarok : Remove this tohzah from my sight!

  Commander William T. Riker : Your knowledge of Klingon curses is impressive. But as a Romulan might say, only a veruul would use such language in public.

• Commander William T. Riker : [as the Enterprise approaches a suspected Romulan base]  I don't like it. I would've expected a greeting party.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You echo another noteworthy commander in similar circumstances, Number One. A countryman of yours - George Armstrong Custer, when his Seventh Cavalry arrived at the Little Big Horn.

  Commander William T. Riker : May we have better luck.