Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Power Play (1992)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• [the spirits of the convicts are caught in a containment field] 

  Troi/"Shumar" : Nooo!

  Troi/"Shumar" : [threatens Picard with her phaser]  Let them go or you will all die!

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Your threats are meaningless now.

  O'Brien/"Kelly" : We are still in control of these three bodies. We will not let them go.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Have you prepared to sacrifice the lives of these others? They'll all die when the cargo bay hatch is blown.

  Data/"Mullen" : You will die too, Picard!

  Keiko O'Brien : I would die to save the life of my child.

  Lieutenant Worf : To die defending one's ship is the hope of every Klingon.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : If you each know the officers you inhabit, then you know they're equally ready to give their lives for this ship. Free them now - and I will return you to the moon's surface.

  [after a long pause, Troi slowly backs off] 

  Troi/"Shumar" : I advise you, Picard, not to pass our way again.

• [Picard has offered himself as a hostage in exchange for the injured in Ten Forward] 

  Commander William T. Riker : Sir, putting you down there only strengthens their position.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Number One, so long as they're on board this ship, I'm a hostage no matter where I am. We all are.

• Lieutenant Worf : Spiritual possessions of this sort have been reported throughout Klingon history. It is called jat'yIn - the taking of the living by the dead.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Human history is full of many similar legends.

  Lieutenant Worf : Then you believe they may be telling the truth?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Not for one moment.

  Lieutenant Worf : Sir, they know much about the Essex. If it *is* the spirit of Captain Shumar...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Then he should be behaving very much better, don't you think?

• Troi/"Shumar" : Once we almost escaped, on board the Essex. But that ship was incapable of eluding this moon's electromagnetic storms.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : D'you really think that using their identities would gain our sympathy?

  Troi/"Shumar" : It was a better approach than asking you to allow hundreds of condemned prisoners on board.

• [first lines] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [voiceover]  Captain's log, stardate 45571.2. We are going into orbit around an unexplored M-class moon of Mab-Bu 6. Though the moon was reported to be uninhabited, we have picked up a weak distress call.