Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Booby Trap (1989)
Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Quotes
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [of the Promellian battle cruiser] It is exactly as they left it, Number One - 'in the bottle'.
[Data and Worf, like Riker earlier, look at him rather blankly]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The ship in the bottle... Oh, good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?
Lieutenant Worf : I did not play with toys.
Lt. Commander Data : I was never a boy.
Chief Miles O'Brien : I did, sir.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [pleased] Thank you, Mr. O'Brien.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You know, Number One, you missed something not playing with model ships. They were the source of imaginary voyages, each holding a treasure of adventures. Manning the earliest spacecraft, flying an aeroplane, with only one propeller to keep you in the sky. Can you imagine that?
[sighs]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Now the machines are flying us.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Is it possible... we've fallen into the same snare that killed them? A thousand-year-old booby trap?
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [returning from the Promellian battle cruiser] Thrilling. That was... absolutely thrilling. And I was right, Number One. There were ghosts on board that old ship. One of them actually spoke to us.
Commander William T. Riker : A friendly one, I hope?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : My own counterpart - the Captain's final message, praising his crew.
Commander William T. Riker : I hope you'll be as thoughtful when the time comes.
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[La Forge has suggested an alternative way to get out of the energy trap instead of letting the computer fly the ship]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Have you analyzed the risk factor?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : The numbers say it's even money. It's no better than turning it over to the computer, but no worse either - but I say forget the numbers! There's no way the computer can compensate for the human factor, the, the intuition, the experience.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : And the wish to stay alive.