Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Too Short a Season (1988)

Clayton Rohner: Adm. Mark Jameson

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• Admiral Mark Jameson : Annie, with the golden hair.

  Anne Jameson : Flatterer. It's grey now.

  Admiral Mark Jameson : I see only the gold.

• Admiral Mark Jameson : I have found that peace, or the appearance of it, is often a prelude to war.

• Admiral Mark Jameson : [to Karnas]  You told me that old Peretor Sain had ordered your father's assassination. You told me that you wanted arms to destroy him. Peace... wasn't on your mind. All you wanted was revenge. And I gave you the weapons to do it.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : May I suggest a secured channel, Admiral?

  Admiral Mark Jameson : A sensible precaution, Picard. Make it so.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [to Data]  Make it so.

• Commander William T. Riker : What I don't understand, sir, is how Karnas knew that you were still... available.

  Admiral Mark Jameson : Still alive, you mean.

• Admiral Mark Jameson : There is no substitute, Lieutenant, for personal reconnoiter.

• Admiral Mark Jameson : Officially, the story is that, after two other mediators were murdered, I went in and negotiated with Karnas to bring out the hostages safely.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You're saying that's not the truth?

  Admiral Mark Jameson : It wasn't my... golden oratory that saved them, Captain. I gave Karnas the weapons he wanted.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You did *what*?

  Admiral Mark Jameson : I gave exactly the same weapons to his rivals - my interpretation of the Prime Directive. Let them solve their problems with those arms on an equal basis.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : And that decision plunged them into forty years of civil war.

• [Jameson is rejuvenating from an alien drug he has taken, much to the distress of his wife] 

  Admiral Mark Jameson : Annie, I did it for us.

  Anne Jameson : Oh, I'm sure you believed that. Until you had a chance to head up a mission, and to command again. And then, you just upended the bottle, or whatever it was, and damn everything!

• Admiral Mark Jameson : I always wound up in the observation lounge staring out at the stars, thinking.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Perhaps in this case re-thinking.

• Admiral Mark Jameson : I'm strong, I'm alert, I'm fit! I'm fitter than you are, Picard. And I'm getting younger!

• Admiral Mark Jameson : All I needed to get me out of that chair was the thought of walking the decks in command of a starship again.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Admiral, you only have the conn temporarily.

  Admiral Mark Jameson : A figure of speech. Of course she's your ship. I'll just keep an eye on her, for a while.

• Karnas : So, Jameson, I see time has not been kind.

  Admiral Mark Jameson : It seldom is, Karnas.