Star Trek: Picard
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 9: "Hide and Seek" Quotes
Jurati: Millions of species, planets, and still, you always needed more.
Borg queen: Perfection takes time, dear.
Jurati: This was never about perfection, or evolution, or any of that bullshit. It was never enough because you're just like me. Lonely.
So myopically linear. You see the branch but not the tree.
Borg queen
You know that signal you used to puppet around your Borg? Well, I used it to slap a fractal lock on this ship's systems. Welcome to the world's biggest paperweight.
Jurati
Maurice Picard: Play anything you want. Just don't break anything.
Yvette Picard: Maurice, must you be such a curmudgeon? It's a lovely day.
Maurice: Wars have been fought on lovely days. Industry and discovery don't reserve themselves for a slight chance of rain. So I've been told.
Young Picard: Curmudgeon.
Adam Soong: I'm not... Well, I wasn't the violent man, Picard. This is all very new to me.
Picard: Oh, the promise of legacy reveals the rot that is hidden underneath it.
The enemy of every experiment is the rogue variable, the unknown. That is what you are to me.
Adam Soong
Think faster, or the memory will escape through the hole in your head.
Tallinn
Seven: A dozen Borg between us and the ship. Fifty yard sprint across open terrain. And all we have is a knife and a corkscrew.
Raffi: And an ice pick.
Raffi: You really would make a great captain. When we get out of this...
Seven: We're not getting out of this.
Raffi: No, probably not.
You have no idea what this is like for me, do you? A miracle cure surrounded by miracles knowing, win or lose, I'll have to let them go.
Dr. Ramirez
The brilliance you see in the night sky, Jean-Luc, that exquisite light? It's just an echo really of a star that has long since faded. Like me! When you remember me, Jean-Luc, promise, promise me you will ignore the coldness of the dying star, and remember instead her light and the infinite love she so very much had for you.
Yvette
Species thrive without love. Kingdoms conquer without fear. But it is the imperfect nature of all organic things to fight an unwinnable battle against an undefeatable foe. Death.
Borg queen
