Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Up the Long Ladder (1989)

Michael Dorn: Lieutenant Worf

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• Lieutenant Worf : Madam, have you ever considered a career in Security?

  Brenna Odell : If it's anything like babysitting, I'm an authority!

• Lieutenant Worf : [about Klingon tea ceremony]  It is a test of bravery - of one's ability to look at the face of mortality. It is also a reminder that death is an experience best shared - like the tea.

  Doctor Pulaski : Worf, you're a romantic!

  Lieutenant Worf : It is among the Klingons that love poetry achieves its fullest flower.

• [Worf shows Odell how to use the replicator] 

  Danilo Odell : Whisky!

  [a glass materializes, Danilo sniffs it, takes a sip, and winces in disgust] 

  Danilo Odell : Terrible! It has no bite.

  Lieutenant Worf : [to replicator]  Chech'tluth!

  [a smoking Klingon goblet appears. Odell takes a sip... and then a deep breath, as his eyes cross] 

  Danilo Odell : [hoarsely]  Now, that's what I call a wee drop of the creature.

• Lieutenant Worf : I am fine.

  Doctor Pulaski : You're not fine, you fainted.

  Lieutenant Worf : I did not faint. Klingons do not faint.

  Doctor Pulaski : Excuse me, I'll rephrase: this Klingon suffered a dramatic drop in blood pressure; his blood glucose level dropped. There was deficient blood flow resulting from circulatory failure. In other words, he curled up his toes and lay unconscious on the floor.

  Lieutenant Worf : Doctor, there is no need to insult me.

• [Odell has complained about "lightning bolts" falling from the ceiling] 

  Danilo Odell : Yeah, what the hell was that thing?

  Lieutenant Worf : Automated fire system. A force field contains the flame until the remaining oxygen has been consumed.

  Danilo Odell : Ah, yeah, w-what if I had been under that thing?

  Lieutenant Worf : You would have been standing in the fire.

  Danilo Odell : Yeah, well, leaving that aside for the moment, I mean, what would have happened to me?

  Lieutenant Worf : You would have suffocated and died.

  Danilo Odell : Ye-ah, sweet mercy.

• Doctor Pulaski : Tell me, is your entire population made up of clones, Prime Minister?

  Lieutenant Worf : Clones?

  Commander William T. Riker : Clones?

  Prime Minister Granger : Clones.