Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Unification I (1991)

Mark Lenard: Sarek

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Sarek... We're a part of each other. I know that he has caused you pain. But I also know... that you love him.

  Sarek : Tell him, Picard...

  [Sarek struggles to perform the Vulcan salute. Picard assists him, then returns the hand gesture] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Peace and long life.

  Sarek : Live long and... and... Live long and...

  [starts sobbing] 

  Sarek : Spock... my son...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : ...and prosper.

• Sarek : I never knew what Spock was doing. When he was a boy, he would disappear for days into the mountains. I would ask him where he had gone, what he had done; he'd refuse to tell me. I insisted that he tell me; he would not. I forbade him to go; he ignored me. I punished him; he endured it, silently. But always, he returned to the mountains. One might as well ask the river not to run. But secretly, I admired him, that proud core of him that would not yield.

• Sarek : I gave Spock the benefit of experience. Of logic. He never listened... Never listened...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's been suggested that Spock might have defected.