Star Trek: Picard
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 9: "Hide and Seek" Quotes
Borg queen: What is this?
Jurati: The history of the Borg. Or the only history that matters, the ending. How it always ends for you. A lone Borg-slayer, a united Federation, and they come for you. For your top-shelf, over-reaching, Icarus-worthy arrogance.
Borg queen: Prattling on is your choice of weapon. I can wait. You can't be sad forever.
Jurati: Do the Math. In this or any other universe, you always lose. It's why you fight so hard. You live with the death knell of your species across infinite timelines. You fear loss just like we do. You long for what we all long for. Connection. Longevity. Discovery. Only you offer it without choice.
We have to create our own destiny. Captains of ships and captains of industry. To men like us, love and fear... the same thing. A means to an end.
Adam Soong
Borg queen: You'd have a cohort pulled from the dying? Recruit from derelict ships? Flotsam of space? You'd have us collect scraps.
Jurati: And offer second chances. What if we take this ship and build a better Borg? A real collective based not on assimilation but salvation.
Jurati: Think about it. A Borg collective that embraces the uniqueness of its members.
Borg queen: You ask us to embrace weakness.
Jurati: I'm positing that what you've written off as weakness is actually strength.
Imagine. Members who would fight harder for what they chose. Who would lose no battles because they made no enemies. Who would not be discarded and replaced. Attachments could grow and deepen.
Jurati
Rios: This isn't my timeline. The future's yours. It's his. I'm just trying to protect it.
Teresa: What if your future is here, and it was always supposed to be?
There are moments in time we wish we could travel back to. Memories. Pieces of life better lived in reverse. In those moments, tragic endings might rewind into joyful beginnings. Moments of loss into those of gains.
Picard
My mother was ill, I'm told, but I only ever thought she was inspired.
Picard
Love can be a source of great grief and immense pain, a tremendous guilt, a reason to run from ourselves or away from each other. Love can be a curse, but always and completely, it's a gift.
Tallinn
