Star Trek: Picard
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Episode 6: "The Bounty" Quotes
Riker: I hope this key works. Otherwise, we’re gonna have to resort to some old-fashioned Klingon offense.
Worf: Captain Riker.
Riker: Worf, call me Will. Come on.
Worf: You should know that I now prefer pacifism to actual combat. Energize.
Riker: We’re all gonna die.
Worf: Tread lightly. We will not be prey. We will be… friendly energy.
Riker: I don’t understand the world anymore.
Leave it to you, Jean-Luc, to turn fatherhood into an intergalactic incident.
Geordi
Raffi: Can someone explain why a nineteenth century holo-villain is guarding a twenty-fifth century black site?
Moriarty: Oh, my dear, villain doesn’t do justice to my complexity and only reveals your simplicity.
Riker: At least somebody’s consistent.
What solvable puzzles you all are. Your unguarded expressions. Your visible scars. My, how time has spun you all apart. Such pathetic old warriors.
Moriarity
I shared that tune decades ago with another dear friend. One who dreamt of crows, and aspired to thwart Moriarty with the intellect of Holmes. Somebody who couldn’t whistle worth a damn.
Riker
Picard: Geordi, this is life or death.
Geordi: It’s always life or death, Jean-Luc. When has it not been? Which was fine, back in the day, when I chose to put my life on the line under your command, but you’ve just knowingly put my daughter in grave danger.
Jack: Oh, she’s a beauty. Which one’s that?
Seven: The USS Voyager. She made her name farther out than any of those other relics had ever gone. I was reborn there. She was my home. Her crew were my family. And now…
Jack: You’re just trying to find another.
Jack: We all long for connection. All just a little bit alone, aren’t we? Stars in the same galaxy but lightyears between us.
Seven: Oh, you are definitely your father’s son. He too has a knack for the poetic drive-by observation. Can be very annoying. But it can also make a person feel seen.
I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing is entirely unfamiliar.
Jack
Before I gifted Picard my gollum, my intention was to live beyond my years, to become my own legacy. Now I see, in my final days, that wasn’t just poor humanity, it was poor science. Because evolution is not an act of preservation, it’s addition.
Alton Soong
Geordi: You always want to impart the best aspects of yourself to them.
Picard: I’ve recently been reminded that we are not in control of what we pass on. The strengths, wisdom, talent, and also flaws, weaknesses, sins of our past.
