Star Trek: Picard (TV Series)

Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2 (2020)

Patrick Stewart: Jean-Luc Picard

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• Jean-Luc Picard : [quotes the Tempest]  We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

• Jean-Luc Picard : It says a great deal about the mind of Commander Data that, looking at the human race with all its violence and corruption and willful ignorance, he could still see kindness, immense curiosity, and the greatness of spirit. He wanted, more than anything else, to be part of that. To be a part of a human family.

• Jean-Luc Picard : I always wished I could have said I was sorry that it was you and not me.

  Data : Captain, do you regret sacrificing your life for Soji and her people?

  Jean-Luc Picard : Not for an instant.

  Data : Then why would you imagine I regret sacrificing mine for yours?

• Soji : Picard, try to see this from our point of view. You choose if we live, you choose if we die. You choose! We have no choice! You organics have never given us one.

  Jean-Luc Picard : To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination.

• Will Riker : Acting Captain Will Riker, in command of the U.S.S. Zheng He.

  Commodore Oh : And?

  Will Riker : And it is my duty to inform you that the United Federation of Planets has designated planet Ghulion IV in the Vayt sector under the protection of Starfleet, according to the terms of the Treaty of Algeron.

  Commodore Oh : Too late! Our claim to this world takes precedence. Move aside.

  Will Riker : Afraid not.

  [plays Picard's transmission] 

  Jean-Luc Picard : I have a priority request to open diplomatic negotiations and protection for the inhabitants of Ghulion IV.

  Will Riker : General, or Commodore, or whatever you're calling yourself, right now, I'm on the bridge of the toughest, fastest, most powerful ship Starfleet has ever put into service. And I've got a fleet of them at my back. We've got our phasers locked on your warp cores. And nothing would make me happier than you giving me an excuse to kick your treacherous Tal Shiar ass. But instead, I'm going to ask you one time... to stand down.

• [last lines] 

  Jean-Luc Picard : Engage!

• Jean-Luc Picard : Fear is an incompetent teacher.

• [Riker contacts Picard after the Romulans retreat from Ghulion IV] 

  Jean-Luc Picard : Will! How the h...

  Will Riker : When I heard you sent an SOS, I asked for temporary reassignment. Just because I didn't try to talk you out of it didn't mean I was going to let you go it alone. I'm supposed to sit around in the woods making pizza while you have all the fun?

  [Picard chuckles] 

  Will Riker : Admiral Picard, I leave this situation in your capable hands.

  Jean-Luc Picard : Thank you, Will, for always having my back.

  Will Riker : I learned from the best.

  Jean-Luc Picard : I've got it from here.

  Will Riker : I'll see you around, my friend. Riker out.

  [transmission ends] 

  Jean-Luc Picard : Adieu.

• Jean-Luc Picard : Goodbye, Commander.

  Data : Goodbye, Captain.

• Dr. Agnes Jurati : They've left us behind, Picard! They're generations beyond us!

  Jean-Luc Picard : In one sense, yes, but in another, as you said, they are children. And until now, the only teachers that they've had are a couple of hermits, and the fear of extermination. But fear is an incompetent teacher. Yes, they have life. But no one is teaching them what it's for. To be alive is a responsibility, as well as a right.

  Dr. Agnes Jurati : How are they supposed to learn that lesson in six minutes and eleven seconds?

  Jean-Luc Picard : The way that children learn most things: by example.

• [Dr. Jurati has just reestablished contact with Soji at Picard's request] 

  Soji : Picard...

  Jean-Luc Picard : Soji, please. Power down the beacon. Show them how profoundly wrong they are about you. That you're not the enemy. You're not the destroyer. If that doesn't convince them, then they will have to answer to the Federation.

  Soji : The same Federation that banned us and threw us on the scrap heap?

  Jean-Luc Picard : If we wanted to destroy you, Soji, we would've joined forces with the Romulans. We would be training our phasers on you right now. We aren't. We won't! You know why? Because we trust you to make the right choice. I trust you, Soji. I know you. I believe in you. That's why I saved your lives. So that you could save ours in return. That's the whole point. That's why we're here. To save each other.

• Jean-Luc Picard : You don't remember your death? I can't forget it.

  Data : Apparently I ended my existence in the hope of prolonging yours.

  Jean-Luc Picard : That's right. Before I had even grasped the nature of our situation, you had conceived, and executed it. I was furious.

  Data : My apologies, Captain. But I am not certain I could have done otherwise.

  Jean-Luc Picard : True. That might have been the most Data thing you ever did.

• Jean-Luc Picard : Soji, I want you to reconsider your present course of action, and power down the beacon.

  Soji : You know that's not going to happen.

  Jean-Luc Picard : I have something I want to give you and your people. And I hope it will change your mind.

  Soji : And what's that?

  Jean-Luc Picard : My life. Picard out.

• Jean-Luc Picard : Data... am I dead?

  Data : Yes, Captain. Do you remember dying?

  Jean-Luc Picard : I think I do. Something in my head seemed to just go away... like a child's sand castle collapsing.