Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Allegiance (1990)

Joycelyn O'Brien: Mitena Haro

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Well. I think this charade has gone far enough.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Haro]  Don't you?

  Mitena Haro : I don't understand.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh yes, you do. This isn't a holding cell. It's a laboratory maze, a carefully structured test. It's an experiment to see how well we react under pressure.

  Esoqq : How do you know?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's the only explanation. Look at the four of us. We do have something in common: we all react differently to authority.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Tholl]  You, the collaborator, defer to whoever has control.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Esoqq]  You, the anarchist, reject authority in any form. I, a Starfleet captain, trained to command.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Haro]  And you, a Starfleet cadet, sworn to obey a superior officer's authority. - Our captors have placed us here, and have devised obstacles for us to overcome. They give us food, which Esoqq can't eat, to make him a threat. They give us a door we can't open - until the four of us cooperate. And each time we succeed, they deal us reverses, to set us against each other again,

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Haro]  while *you*... observe our reactions.

  Mitena Haro : Sir, I've been trying to help...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I found it unlikely that a first-year cadet would know of the Enterprise's visit to Mintaka III, so I tested you. Starfleet has classified the Cor Caroli V plague a secret. No cadet would have knowledge of that incident.

  Mitena Haro : [whispering]  Captain...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : So, you may as well drop this pretense. I'm not playing any further. I'm quitting this game! As far as I am concerned, this experiment is over!

  Mitena Haro : You are correct, Captain Picard.

• Kova Tholl : It's well known that my species possesses superior intelligence, and, uh, I am considered among the brightest of my people.

  Mitena Haro : And the least modest.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Esoqq, I've been trying to determine if we have a common enemy. Someone with a reason for confining us here.

  Esoqq : There are Chalnoth who would kill me if they could. But kidnap? There is no reason.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You have many enemies.

  Esoqq : None of consequence. I've slain all the ones who mattered. That shocks you, Bolian?

  Mitena Haro : A little.

  Esoqq : [to Tholl]  And you?

  Kova Tholl : Oh, I'm not surprised. I've heard about your race. You're uncivilised. You have no laws, no system of government.

  Esoqq : The Chalnoth have no use for laws or governments. We are strong. We obey no one.

  Kova Tholl : You live in anarchy, murdering one another. That mentality may get us all killed.

  Esoqq : And you may be the first!

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Both of you. This is getting us nowhere.

  Kova Tholl : Neither is asking us useless questions, Picard.