Star Trek: Picard
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 4: "Absolute Candor" Quotes
So space turns out to be super boring. Go figure.
Dr. Jurati
Dr. Jurati: What's your book about?
Rios: The existential pain of life with the consciousness of death and how it defines us as human beings.
Dr. Jurati: That's not a conversation-killer at all.
Man can't even take a guilt trip without using a starship.
Raffi
In general, the captain keeps his own company.
Hospitality Hologram
Raffi: Vashti is a hotbed for the Romulan Rebirth movement. But you're just going to drop in and pick yourself up a nun?
Dr. Jurati: Okay, well NOW, somebody has to tell me what we're talking about.
They are NOT assassins and you CANNOT hire them. The Qowat Milat have to choose you.
Picard
Rios: Romulan warrior nuns
Dr. Jurati: That's a real thing?
Raffi: Do you remember what we used to say back then?
Picard: One impossible thing at a time.
Dr. Jurati: What's the Way of Absolute Candor?
Picard: It's their primary teaching. Total communication of emotion without any filter between thought and word. And it runs entirely counter to everything that the Romulans hold dear.
Anyone else think that the Way of Absolute Candor sounds potentially annoying?
Dr. Jurati
Rios: This used to be home?
Picard: Of a sort. For a moment.
A promise is a prison...do not make yourself another's jailer.
Zani
