- Kurn: Gowron *spits* in your face when you ask him to give back what is rightfully ours. And you would support him?
- Lieutenant Worf: We cannot regain honor by acting dishonorably.
- Lieutenant Worf: Permission to leave the ship, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Permission granted. Qapla'!
- Lieutenant Worf: Goodbye.
- [last lines of season 4]
- Sela: We should not discount Jean-Luc Picard yet. He is Human; and Humans have a way of showing up when you least expect them.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf... Here I am lecturing you on a conflict of interest while I'm desperately trying to avoid one of my own.
- Lieutenant Worf: I have been told that patience is sometimes a more effective weapon than the sword.
- Lieutenant Worf: I was rescued from Khitomer - by Humans. Raised and loved by Human parents. I spent most of my life around Humans, fought beside them. But I was born a Klingon. My heart is of that world. I... do hear the cry of the warrior. I belong with my people.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Being the only Klingon ever to serve in Starfleet gave you a singular distinction. But... I felt that what was unique about you was your humanity: compassion, generosity, fairness. You took the best qualities of humanity and made them part of you. The result was a man who I was proud to call one of my officers.
- Gowron: [after several Council members have sided with the Duras family] Can you not see what you are doing? Are you blind to what they represent? Then go. Your blood will paint the way to the future.
- [first lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Captain's log, stardate 44995.3 - We're en route to the Klingon homeworld, where I will participate in the installation ceremony of Gowron, the next designated leader of the High Council. This visit should also provide an opportunity for one of my officers to correct a grave injustice.
- [Picard has been invited by the Duras sisters for tea to discuss the possible outcome of his awaited decision on the leader of the High Council]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [concluding] You have manipulated the circumstances with the skill... of a Romulan. My decision will be announced at high sun tomorrow. Excellent tea. Good day, ladies.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: All of my instincts, my training, my very being as a Starfleet officer are at odds with my responsibility as arbiter of the Klingon High Council. We walk the same tightrope between two worlds, you and I; we must try our very best to keep those two worlds separate - or we shall certainly fall.
- [Worf has refused Gowron's request to ask Picard and Starfleet for their support in a potential Klingon civil war]
- Gowron: You come to me and demand the restoration of your family honor and now... you hide behind Human excuses. What are you, Worf? Do you tremble and quake with fear at the approach of combat? Hoping to talk your way out of a fight like a Human? Or do you hear the cry of the warrior, calling you to battle, calling to glory like a Klingon?
- Guinan: [about Worf's son] At some point, he's gonna want to know what it's like to really be a Klingon - just as you're learning now.
- Gowron: You both fought as warriors. You have proven your hearts are Klingon. I return your family honor. I give you back that which was wrongfully taken from you. Let your name be spoken once again. You are Worf, son of Mogh.
- [Worf and Guinan during target practice]
- Guinan: You know, I had a bet with the Captain that I could make you laugh before you became lieutenant commander.
- Lieutenant Worf: Not a good bet today.
- Guinan: I've seen you laugh. I like it.
- Lieutenant Worf: Klingons do not laugh.
- Guinan: Oh, yes, they do. Absolutely they do. You don't. But I've heard Klingon belly laughs that'd curl your hair.
- [both continue with their target practice for a while]
- Guinan: Your son laughs. He's Klingon.
- Lieutenant Worf: He is a child and part Human!
- Guinan: That's right. And you're not; you're a full Klingon, except... you don't laugh.
- Lieutenant Worf: I believe you to be a man of honor, Gowron. I ask you: restore my family name.
- Gowron: Worf - you killed Duras. I consider that no small favor. But what you ask is impossible.
- Lieutenant Worf: But after your installation...
- Gowron: The grasp of Duras reaches out from the grave. Much of the Council is still loyal to his family. I must have the Council's support, to survive. I cannot expose their treachery. You chose to accept this disgrace, for the good of the Empire. Now you must live with your decision, like a Klingon.
- Gowron: We must move quickly if we are to be successful.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Successful?
- Gowron: Yes. At preventing a Klingon civil war.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Your discommendation is a facade to protect less honourable men. It is a lie. Lies must be challenged.