Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Defector (1990)

James Sloyan: Setol, Adm. Alidar Jarok

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• Admiral Jarok : One world's butcher is another world's hero. Perhaps I am neither one.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : On what basis, Admiral, am I to decide? Hmm? Your good word? Are you willing to help us overpower the Romulan B-type warbirds we may encounter? Are you prepared to help us detect them through their cloaking shields?

  [the Admiral doesn't reply] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Well, you see my problem, Admiral. You ask us for faith, in circumstances which are hardly possible to believe, compounded by lies and your refusal to tell us what you know.

  Admiral Jarok : I cannot betray my people!

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You already betrayed your people, Admiral! You've made your choices, sir! You're a traitor! Now, if the bitter taste of that is unpalatable to you, I am truly sorry. But I will not risk my crew because you think you can dance on the edge of the Neutral Zone. You've crossed over, Admiral. You make yourself comfortable with that.

• Admiral Jarok : Do you... have any children, Captain Picard, a family?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : No.

  Admiral Jarok : Hmm... Then you have sacrificed too much for your career.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Yes, this is all very interesting...

  [Jarok raises a hand to silence him] 

  Admiral Jarok : There comes a time in a man's life that you cannot know. When he looks down at the first smile of his baby girl and realizes, he must change the world for her - for all children. It is for her that I am here. Not to destroy the Romulan Empire, but to save it. For months, I tried desperately to persuade the High Command that another war would destroy the Empire. They got tired of my arguments. Finally, I was censured, sent off to command some distant sector. *This* was my only recourse. I... will never see my child smile again. She will grow up believing that her father is a traitor. But she will grow up - if you act, Picard. If we stop this war before it begins.

• Admiral Jarok : How do you allow Klingon pahtk to walk around in a Starfleet uniform?

  Lieutenant Worf : You are lucky this is not a Klingon ship. We know how to deal with spies.

  Admiral Jarok : Remove this tohzah from my sight!

  Commander William T. Riker : Your knowledge of Klingon curses is impressive. But as a Romulan might say, only a veruul would use such language in public.

• Lt. Commander Data : I am told by various crew members that this viewport is their favorite on the ship.

  Admiral Jarok : [as Setal]  Hm... I thought it would bring me some comfort. But these are not my stars. Even the heavens are denied me here.

• Admiral Jarok : [as Setal]  You're the android. I know a host of Romulan cyberneticists that would love to be this close to you.

  Lt. Commander Data : I do not find that concept particularly appealing.

  Admiral Jarok : Nor should you.

• Admiral Jarok : Lieutenant Worf, I like him. To be more accurate, I understand him. A warrior, proud, fearless, living only for combat. Exactly the type that will get us all killed if we're not careful.

• Admiral Jarok : [as Setal]  Oh, what a fool I've been - to come looking for courage in a lair of cowards.

• Admiral Jarok : [as Setal]  This. This is my home now, my future. I have sacrificed everything. It must not be in vain. Arrange a meeting between myself and Captain Picard. Tell him Admiral Jarok wants to see him.

• [Data is intently observing "Setal"] 

  Admiral Jarok : [as Setal]  I take it you have never seen a Romulan before.

  Lt. Commander Data : That would be an incorrect assumption.

  Admiral Jarok : Then why do you invade my privacy?

  Lt. Commander Data : I was attempting to ascertain what my 'guts' tell me about you.

• Admiral Jarok : I did it for nothing. My home... my family... For nothing.