"You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity instead of defying you."

"The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous."

":Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think."

":Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself."

"Things are only impossible until they're not!"

"I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. „What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!“"

":Jean-Luc Picard: In revenge, there never is. Let the dead rest... and the past, remain the past. Enterprise, lock on. Beam me home, Riker."

":William Riker: Removed from command, sir. And placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance. Seems there was no profit in it."

":Jean-Luc Picard: Bok! Where is Bok?!"

":[Picard has just been released from Bok's mind control device]"

"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."

"Sometimes, Riker, the best way to win a fight is not to be there."

"Let's see what's out there. Engage."

"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are."

"Let's see what this galaxy class starship can do."

"The past is written, but we are left to write the future."

"I came here to finde safety. But one is never safe from the past."

"Never, never! You still have a choice. Make the right one now."

"Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be."

"[voiceover] Captain's Personal Log. The crew has responded with the dedication I've come to expect of them. And like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn."

"If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united."

"Patience. Diplomacy is a very exacting occupation. We will wait."

"How many people does it take, admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people DOES IT TAKE, admiral?'"

"Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Make it so."

"Lieutenant Commander Data: Course laid in, sir."

"Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data, lay in a course for the 24th century. I suspect our future is there waiting for us."

"Borg Queen: Such a noble creature. A quality we sometimes lack. We will add your distinctiveness to our own. Welcome home, Locutus. Data, you are free to go."

"Jean-Luc Picard: It's not too late. Locutus could still be with you, just in the way you wanted. An equal. Let Data go and I will take my place at your side, willingly without any resistance."

"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."

"Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated."

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal."

"It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence."

"Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too."

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

"Make it so."

"You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble."

"Fat lady, who did this to you?"

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light."

"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure."

"If your determination to shut your eyes will carry you so far, Cornelius, then we have reached a parting of the ways. You must act as you see fit and I must act as I see fit."

"Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed."

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

"You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"

"It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies."

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."