TNG's best quotes

[BlueStuff]

I'm sure I can't be alone in finding "Let's make sure history never forgets... the name... Enterprise." from Yesterday's Enterprise to be a spectacularly awesome fist-pump inducing line!

Other favorites?

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

"I'm a role model."

The delivery is just PERFECT. Patrick Stewart is so great at comedy when he's not hamming it up like he tends to with his voice-over work (even though that can be quite hilarious at times, too)

 

[DWF]

William T. Riker: Fate. It protects fools, little children, and ships named "Enterprise."

Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid.

Picard: I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been… is over. From this time forward, you will service… us.
Riker: Mr. Worf... fire.

I liked all these.

 

[Amaris]

This one always gives me the giggles:

Q: "Let us pray...for understanding and for compassion."
Picard: "Let us do no such damn thing!"

Watched this one last night:

Worf: "Enter."
Deanna (upon seeing the shattered table): "Did the table do something wrong ?"

And one of my favorite last moments, or as I refer to it, the scene that makes me tear up every. single. time.:

Picard: "I should have done this a long time ago."
Troi: "You were always welcome."
Picard: "So, five-card stud, nothing wild... and the sky's the limit."

Jebus, I'm tearing up right now as I read it! Damn you, Star Trek, and all your memorable, wonderful characters!

 

[Ziz]

Does ST:G count?

Picard: "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived."

 

[Canadave]

"You know, there are some words that I've known since I was a schoolboy: 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as both wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."

- Picard, "The Drumhead"

 

[BDJ]

Sir! I am NOT a Merry Man!!! - Worf in Qpid

 

[BDJ]

OH and ...
Yesterday's Enterprise
Worf and Guinan in Ten Forward:

Guinan: "It's called prune juice!"
Worf (smiling): "A Warriors Drink!"

 

[Cakemixo]

Picard: If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.

 

[spooky spice]

"I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile."

"he's biting that female!"

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."
"Shaka, when the walls fell."
"Temba, his arms wide!"
"Darmok and Jalad on the ocean."
"Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel."

 

[Finn]

Not the best line in TNG, but one of these rare instances where Picard is being a smart ass.

Troi: You could return to the Academy... get another degree...brush up on your Latin.

Picard: And be Wesley's roommate, I suppose.

 

[SPCTRE]

Riker (to Wesley): "In your situation, it's important to ask yourself one question: What would Picard do?"

 

[FormerLurker]

CorporalCaptain, that's "Temba, his arms open!"

"It is a good day to die, Duras, and the day is not yet over!" Worf, to guess-who?

 

[Mr Silver]

Here are a few gems...

Worf: (to Lwaxana) "It is Worf, Madam"

Data: "However theoretica...."
Picard: (annoyed) "Data"

Picard: "He's nothing but a flim-flam man!"

Picard: "Then they would have our...gratitude"

 

[CorporalCaptain]

CorporalCaptain, that's "Temba, his arms open!"

According to this transcript, Dathan always says "Temba, his arms wide," while Picard says either that or "Temba, his arms open", which fits my memory. When I prepared my post I used Memory Alpha, although I redid some of the punctuation. Unfortunately, I don't have a DVD of it, or I'd rewatch it once again.

 

[Tiberius]

+1 for "Mister Worf... Fire!"

 

[scorpius1701]

Thank you for the drinks.

 

[HarryM]

Picard: The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. And if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!

 

[indolover]

Picard: Mr. Worf, do you see what is happening here?
Worf: Sir?
Picard: This is rather like a drumhead trial.
Worf: I do not understand.
Picard: Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum on the battlefield and commence summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishments severe. Appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed.
Worf: But we know there is a traitor. J'Dan has already admitted his guilt.
Picard: That's true, and he'll answer for his crime.
Worf: Tarses has all but done the same.
Picard: How?
Worf: He refused to answer the question about his Romulan grandfather!
Picard: That is not a crime, Worf! Nor can we infer his guilt because he did not respond.
Worf: If a man were not afraid of the truth, he would answer!
Picard: Oh no. We cannot allow ourselves to think that. The Seventh Guarantee is one of the most important rights granted by the Federation. We cannot take a fundamental principle of the constitution and turn it against a citizen!
Worf: Sir, the Federation does have enemies. We must seek them out!
Picard: Oh yes. That's how it starts. But the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. Something is wrong here, Mr. Worf. I do not like what we've become.