- [Picard's secret backup of cloaked Klingon warbirds has materialized surrounding the Romulans]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What shall it be, Tomalak?
- Commander Tomalak: You will still not survive our assault.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: And you will not survive ours. Shall we die together?
- [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.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: On what basis, Admiral, am I to decide? Hmm? Your good word? Are you willing to help us overpower the Romulan B-type warbirds we may encounter? Are you prepared to help us detect them through their cloaking shields?
- [the Admiral doesn't reply]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well, you see my problem, Admiral. You ask us for faith, in circumstances which are hardly possible to believe, compounded by lies and your refusal to tell us what you know.
- Admiral Jarok: I cannot betray my people!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You already betrayed your people, Admiral! You've made your choices, sir! You're a traitor! Now, if the bitter taste of that is unpalatable to you, I am truly sorry. But I will not risk my crew because you think you can dance on the edge of the Neutral Zone. You've crossed over, Admiral. You make yourself comfortable with that.
- Admiral Jarok: Do you... have any children, Captain Picard, a family?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No.
- Admiral Jarok: Hmm... Then you have sacrificed too much for your career.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, this is all very interesting...
- [Jarok raises a hand to silence him]
- Admiral Jarok: There comes a time in a man's life that you cannot know. When he looks down at the first smile of his baby girl and realizes, he must change the world for her - for all children. It is for her that I am here. Not to destroy the Romulan Empire, but to save it. For months, I tried desperately to persuade the High Command that another war would destroy the Empire. They got tired of my arguments. Finally, I was censured, sent off to command some distant sector. *This* was my only recourse. I... will never see my child smile again. She will grow up believing that her father is a traitor. But she will grow up - if you act, Picard. If we stop this war before it begins.
- 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.
- Lt. Commander Data: I am told by various crew members that this viewport is their favorite on the ship.
- Admiral Jarok: [as Setal] Hm... I thought it would bring me some comfort. But these are not my stars. Even the heavens are denied me here.
- Admiral Jarok: [as Setal] You're the android. I know a host of Romulan cyberneticists that would love to be this close to you.
- Lt. Commander Data: I do not find that concept particularly appealing.
- Admiral Jarok: Nor should you.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [quoting Shakespeare's "Henry V"] Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king, who led them to it.
- Admiral Jarok: Lieutenant Worf, I like him. To be more accurate, I understand him. A warrior, proud, fearless, living only for combat. Exactly the type that will get us all killed if we're not careful.
- Admiral Jarok: [as Setal] Oh, what a fool I've been - to come looking for courage in a lair of cowards.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: There is much to be done. We have less than 48 hours to prevent a war - or perhaps... to start one.
- Admiral Jarok: [as Setal] This. This is my home now, my future. I have sacrificed everything. It must not be in vain. Arrange a meeting between myself and Captain Picard. Tell him Admiral Jarok wants to see him.
- 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.
- [Data is intently observing "Setal"]
- Admiral Jarok: [as Setal] I take it you have never seen a Romulan before.
- Lt. Commander Data: That would be an incorrect assumption.
- Admiral Jarok: Then why do you invade my privacy?
- Lt. Commander Data: I was attempting to ascertain what my 'guts' tell me about you.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I don't know, Data, my gut tells me we ought to be listening to what this guy's trying to tell us.
- Lt. Commander Data: Your gut?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It's just a... a feeling, you know, an instinct. Intuition.
- Lt. Commander Data: But those qualities would interfere with rational judgment, would they not?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You're right, sometimes they do.
- Lt. Commander Data: Then... why not rely strictly on the facts?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Because you just can't rely on the plain and simple facts. Sometimes they lie.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Listen to what Shakespeare is telling you about the man, Data. A king who had a true feeling for his soldiers would wish to share their fears with them on the eve of battle.