Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Inner Light (1992)

Margot Rose: Eline

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• Eline : [referring to Picard's "starship"]  Was your life there so much better than this? So much more gratifying, so much more fulfilling, that you cling to it with such stubbornness?

  Capt. Picard : Eline...

  Eline : It must have been extraordinary. But never in all the stories you've told me... have you mentioned anyone who loved you as I do.

• Eline : The rest of us have been gone a thousand years. If you remember what we were, and how we lived, then we'll have found life again.

  Capt. Picard : Eline...

  [the probe is launched] 

  Eline : Now we live in you. Tell them of us... my darling.

• Capt. Picard : [on his flute]  When did I learn to play this?

  Eline : I'm afraid you never did, dear. You do keep trying.

• Eline : Remember... Put your shoes away.

  Capt. Picard : I promise.

  [Eline passes away] 

• Capt. Picard : I'd like to ask your permission to build something.

  Eline : Kamin, you've built your telescope, your laboratory, you don't need my permission for something new.

  Capt. Picard : In this case, I think I do.

  Eline : What is it?

  Capt. Picard : A nursery.

• Eline : [collecting Kamin's shoes]  Don't forget these. I won't put them away for you again.

  Capt. Picard : [as Kamin]  Yes, ma'am.

• Eline : Batai.

  Batai : Yes, ma'am.

  Eline : Go home.

  Batai : Yes, ma'am.

• Capt. Picard : What is this place?

  Eline : You're still feverish.

  Capt. Picard : Computer, freeze program.

  [nothing happens] 

  Capt. Picard : Computer, end program.

  [nothing happens] 

  Eline : Kamin.

  Capt. Picard : Picard to Enterprise.

  [nothing happens] 

  Eline : Kamin, please don't get up. You're still not well.

  Capt. Picard : I asked you, what is this place?

  Eline : This is your home, of course.

• Eline : You've been dreaming of that starship of yours again, haven't you?