Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Allegiance (1990)

Stephen Markle: Kova Tholl

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Quotes 

• [Esoqq picks up a food disc] 

  Esoqq : What is this?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Food.

  Esoqq : The *only* food?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It would seem so.

  [Esoqq tastes the disc, then throws it away] 

  Esoqq : POISON!

  Kova Tholl : Does this mean there's nothing here for you to eat?

  [Esoqq examines Kova Tholl intently] 

  Esoqq : You!

• Esoqq : My given name is Esoqq. It means 'Fighter'.

  Kova Tholl : I'll bet half the names in the Chalnoth language mean 'Fighter'.

  Esoqq : Mizarians. Your names all mean 'Surrender'!

  Kova Tholl : We are a peaceful race. A race of thinkers.

  Esoqq : A race of cowards.

• Kova Tholl : My race has no enemies.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : None? In the last three hundred years of Mizarian history, your planet has been conquered six times!

• 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.