- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Things were never easy between us, were they?
- Lieutenant Worf: No.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: It's my fault. If I'd been more like you, we wouldn't have had so many problems.
- Lieutenant Worf: No. If you had been more like me, these people would not be here now. You gave them a chance at a new life.
- [last lines]
- Lieutenant Worf: I will have to explain all of this to Mother and Father.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: They won't understand.
- Lieutenant Worf: They may. I will tell them... that you are happy.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: The village will need a new chronicle. Someone has to begin it. My child will need a father. My place is here. I'm finally taking responsibility.
- Lieutenant Worf: You were never good at drawing. How will you keep a chronicle?
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I learn quickly.
- Lieutenant Worf: Then perhaps there is hope.
- Lieutenant Worf: [to Nikolai] You have not changed. You still expect people to solve the problems you create.
- [Vorin is drawing the chronicle of his village]
- Vorin: Doesn't your village keep a chronicle?
- Lieutenant Worf: Not in this manner.
- Vorin: Then how do you teach your children their history? Who their ancestors were, where they come from?
- Lieutenant Worf: We... tell each other stories. Make up songs.
- Vorin: Stories change with each person who tells them. This - this will always be the same.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I wasn't going to let those people die just because your Captain started quoting Federation dogma to me.
- Lieutenant Worf: Your duty was to respect the Captain's orders and to uphold the Prime Directive.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Duty. That's all that really matters to you, isn't it? Well, I refuse to be bound by an abstraction.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: This is one of those times when we must face the ramifications of the Prime Directive and honor those lives which we cannot save.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I find no honor in this whatsoever, Captain. You will forgive me if I don't stay.
- [Vorin has learned that his home is gone]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Vorin, listen to me. We can visit many other worlds. We can take you to one where you can build a new life.
- Vorin: A new life?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: A chance for your culture, your people, to survive and grow.
- Vorin: How can we grow, when everything that made us who we are is gone?
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: [Nikolai has illicitly beamed aboard a colony of Boralaans to one of the Enterprise's Holodecks to save them from a planetary catastrophe] You worry too much, Worf. You always did. Everything will work out.
- Lieutenant Worf: You have disgraced yourself. And you have disgraced me. And I want nothing more to do with you.
- Tarrana: Look!
- [the holo-grid is beginning to show through Nikolai's simulation of Boraal in a pool of water]
- Lieutenant Worf: Do not worry. It is an omen.
- Dobara: What does it mean?
- Lieutenant Worf: It is the sign of LaForge. It is a message to travelers. It is said when these lines appear and disappear in a pool of water...
- [the scene cuts to Engineering where LaForge is listening on the com-channel]
- Lieutenant Worf: ... the road ahead will be filled with good fortune.
- Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Hang in there, Worf.
- [works some controls]
- Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Give me just a second. There, that should do it.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: [the simulation stabilises] You see. Our journey is already blessed. The road ahead is long. Let us have a meal together and then we'll make preparations to leave.
- [after the Boraalans have dispersed]
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Worf, very good work. Apparently, we don't make such a bad team after all.
- Lieutenant Worf: [Worf can barely hide his contempt] We are not a team. I am here because Captain Picard ordered me here.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Worf, don't we both share the same goal? Aren't we both trying to make this plan work?
- Lieutenant Worf: Only because you forced us into it.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I'm not ashamed of what I did. I'm not sorry I saved their lives.
- Lieutenant Worf: You have not changed. You still expect people to solve the problems you create.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I'm not here to work out the issues of our childhood. I'm here to save a people who I care about, and if that upsets you, then so be it.
- [Nikolai storms off]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: He would have died even if we hadn't interfered.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: But he wouldn't have died alone and afraid.
- Dobara: [about Nikolai] He is a brave and compassionate man, and I love him. Please, go to him. Make things right between you. I want us to be a family.
- Lieutenant Worf: "Us"?
- Dobara: Yes. I want you to consider yourself my brother. After all...
- [she takes Worf's hand and places it on her belly]
- Dobara: ...you're going to be the uncle of my child.
- Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: [to Worf, who has been surgically altered into a Boraalan] You've changed a lot in four years.