Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Half a Life (1991)

Michelle Forbes: Dara

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• Dara : Father, come home. This is wrong.

  Dr. Timicin : Dara, if I could show you the work I have begun. There's still so much for me to do.

  Dara : There is nothing for me to look at. It is irrelevant.

  Lwaxana Troi : Your father's work may save your world, my dear. I would hardly consider that irrelevant.

  Dara : [ignoring her]  All I'm concerned with now is you, not your work. Your work is over. It is your time to rest.

  Lwaxana Troi : Perhaps you will feel differently as you get a little older - say approaching sixty.

  Dara : My father taught me to cherish the Resolution. I don't know how you have poisoned him to reject it.

  Lwaxana Troi : It's an obscene ritual.

  Dara : How dare you! How dare you criticize my way of life and my beliefs!

  Dr. Timicin : Please. Please, Dara. Please.

  Dara : Where will you go?

  Dr. Timicin : [sighs]  I don't know.

  Dara : And where will you die? I cannot bear the thought of you being laid to rest on some other world. That you will not lie beside my mother. That I will not be able to lie beside you when my Resolution comes. I'm sorry. I don't know how you can... go on with your life knowing that each day is an insult to everything we believe in. Father, I love you. But I am ashamed.