Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Next Phase (1992)

Michelle Forbes: Ensign Ro Laren

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• [last lines] 

  Ro Laren : I was raised with Bajoran beliefs. And I even followed some of the practices. But I never really believed in a life after death. And then suddenly I was dead... and there was this other life. And that made me feel like I'd been pretty arrogant, to discount everything I'd been taught, you know? Now I don't know what to believe.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Hmm... Well, maybe we should develop our own interphase device. If it can teach Ro Laren humility, it can do anything.

  [both laugh heartily] 

• [Ro and La Forge are entering their spirited memorial service] 

  Ensign Ro Laren : I don't believe this - they think we're dead and they're having a party?

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Yeah. It's perfect!

• [after an accident, Ro thinks they are dead and some kind of spirits] 

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : But... my uniform! My VISOR! Are you saying I'm some blind ghost with clothes?

  Ensign Ro Laren : I don't have all the answers. I've never been dead before.

• Ensign Ro Laren : [visiting Picard in his ready room]  Captain...

  [stops short, not knowing what to say] 

  Ensign Ro Laren : I don't believe this. I'm dead. You can't even hear me, and I'm still intimidated by you.

• Ensign Ro Laren : [still phased, to Riker]  Now I s'ppose I'll never know what you were gonna say about me.

  [shoots him in the head with a phased disruptor] 

• [Data is asking Worf for advice about La Forge's and Ro's funeral; the "ghostly" La Forge and Ro are watching] 

  Lt. Commander Data : Ensign Ro was a Bajoran. Her beliefs should be reflected as well. However, their death rituals are quite complicated.

  Ensign Ro Laren : [groans]  Oh, please, not the death chant.

  Lieutenant Worf : The Bajoran death chant is over two hours long.

• Ro Laren : [to Picard]  I just... wanted to say thank you - for trusting in me when no one else would.