Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Redemption II (1991)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• Lt. Commander Data : Captain, I wish to submit myself for disciplinary action. I have disobeyed a direct order from a superior officer. Although the result of my actions proved positive, the ends cannot justify the means.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : No, they can't. However, the claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history. Starfleet doesn't want officers who will blindly follow orders without analyzing the situation. Your actions were appropriate for the circumstances. And I have noted that in your record.

  [Data acknowledges with a nod and turns to leave] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Mr. Data... Nicely done!

• [Commander Sela has claimed to be Tasha Yar's daughter] 

  Guinan : How much do you know about what happened to the last ship called Enterprise?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Enterprise-C? It was lost at the battle of Narendra III, defending a Klingon outpost from the Romulans.

  Guinan : And the survivors?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : There were stories of prisoners taken back to Romulus, but these were only rumors.

  Guinan : No. There were survivors. And Tasha Yar was one of them.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Guinan - that was 23 years ago. Tasha Yar was only a child.

  Guinan : I know that. But I also know she was aboard that ship. And she was not a child. And I think... you sent her there.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : How can that be?

  Guinan : I don't know. I just know that you did.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Tasha died - a year before you came on the Enterprise. You never met her.

  Guinan : I know that.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : If you have only a vague intuition...

  Guinan : You can't just dismiss this. If I'm right, then you are responsible for this whole situation.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I think it's time that I met Commander Sela.

• [Picard has asked Sela about her mother, Tasha Yar] 

  Sela : One night, when I was four years old, she came to me. She bundled me up, and she told me to stay quiet as we left the compound. I realized she was taking me away; she was taking me away from my home, my father... So I cried out. My father offered her life; he gave her a home; he gave her a child, and how did she repay him? By betrayal. They executed her!

  [she turns away and looks out the window for a moment, then turns back] 

  Sela : Everything in me that was Human died that day with my mother. All that's left now is Romulan. Never doubt that.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [smiling]  Doubts? I'm full of them. But nothing you have told me today can convince me that what your are saying is true.

• [Picard has managed to persuade Starfleet Command to establish a blockade against the Romulans] 

  Commander William T. Riker : Nicely done. I hope we know what we're doing.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : So do I, Number One.

• [last lines] 

  Lieutenant Worf : Request permission to return to duty, sir.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Granted.