Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
The Bonding (1989)
Susan Powell: Lt. Marla Aster
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Quotes
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Lt. Marla Aster : Your philosophy is curious, Captain. What is so noble about sorrow? I can provide him an existence where he will feel no pain, no anguish.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It is at the heart of our nature to feel pain - and joy. It is an essential part of what makes us what we are.
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Lt. Marla Aster : It is our duty to make him happy again.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Do you honestly believe he would be happy in... this total fiction, which you wish to create? What reason would he have to live? What you're offering him is a memory - something to cherish. Not to live in. It is part of our life cycle that we accept the death of those we love. Jeremy must come to terms with his grief. He must not cover it, or hide away from it. You see, we are mortal. Our time in this universe is finite. That is one of the truths that all humans must learn.
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[by posing as Lt. Aster, the energy life form intends to alleviate Jeremy's pain, which was accidentally caused by its species]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I appreciate your motives. But... his mother is dead. He must learn to live with that.
Lt. Marla Aster : I will be every bit his mother!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : But not his mother.
