Star Trek: Picard
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Episode 4: "No Win Scenario" Quotes
Y’know, there will be a time when you will need to remember that no matter how bleak or unwinnable a situation, as long as you and your crew remain steadfast in your dedication, one to another, you are never ever without hope.
Picard
When we buried our son, I watched the coffin being lowered into the ground. It was only six feet, but it was so dark. It was like infinite emptiness. And you and I have traveled to the far reaches of space, and yet there is nothing, nothing to prove to me that there is anything after. And I have tried to shake that. Deanna, as you know, feels everything, but she couldn’t live with me feeling nothing and neither could I, which is why I left, and I came here. I was running from this, only to find it again.
Riker
This is the end, my friend.
Riker
Shaw: Hey, Hansen, bang-up job your heroes are doing with my ship. Love the view.
Seven: Can we talk?
Shaw: Officially, no.
Seven: Unofficially?
Shaw: No.
Jack: Given the state of the ship, the holodeck’s still open?
Picard: Well, it relies on a small independent power cell for this very reason, so that in times of distress, it can be a kind of sanctuary.
Jack: Right, everyone crams in here, pretending it’s some sort of paradise while the ship implodes around them.
They’re goo people. Walking, talking clay-dough. They can replicate a person on sight alone. Voice, mannerisms, speech patterns, but that’s it. Most of the time, you can tell. Ask them a question that they should know the answer to. Simple question, wrong answer, BOOM. Changeling.
Shaw
Shaw: You and I got off on the wrong foot. I underestimated you. You have great instincts. You are a natural leader. Make a great captain one day… Which is something I totally would say…
Seven: … if you were a Changeling and not just a dick.
Shaw: Now, you’re starting to catch on.
Face: Pursue.
Vadic: It is suicide.
Face: It is suicide to refuse.
Jack: Look, I get that you might think that I need this. That this might make it all better somehow. But I don’t. And I’m not saying this to be harsh. Some people need to be a part of something. Others don’t.
Picard: I think we all need connection, don’t we?
Forgive me. At some point, asshole became a substitute for charm.
Shaw
Beverly: We need to move with the waves.
Jack: We divert all power to thrusters.
Picard: And if we fly fast enough, the waves won’t roll over us, they will absorb us.
Jack: We match the speed with the wave, use the energy drawn from it and Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your aunt, we hightail out of the nebula, away from the gravity well, away from that ship out there, and away from our new friends, the space babies.
Beverly: Jack.
Riker: Space babies?
Beverly: This nebula is a womb and we are swimming in its amniotic fluid.
Let’s do what we spent our entire lives learning to be great at.
Beverly
