Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Sarek (1990)
Gates McFadden: Doctor Beverly Crusher
Quotes
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[Picard is overcome with Sarek's intense emotions]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : NOOO! It is... It is... wrong! IT IS WRONG! A lifetime of discipline washed away, and in its place...
[laughs awkwardly, then grunts]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Bedlam. BEDLAM! I'm so old. There is nothing left but dry bones, and dead friends. Oh... tired. Oh, so tired.
Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : It will pass, all of it. Just another hour or so, you're doing fine, just hold on.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : NO! This weakness disgusts me! I HATE IT! Where is my logic? I'm betrayed by... desires. Oh, I want to feel, I want to feel... everything. But I am... a Vulcan. I must feel nothing! Give me back my control!
[he sobs uncontrollably]
Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : Jean-Luc!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Pe- Perrin... Amanda... I - wanted - to give you - so much more. I wanted to show you such... t- t- tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock... Amanda... Did you know? P-Perrin, can you - know... how - much I - love - you? I - do - LOVE YOU!
[Picard weeps heavily, then manages to compose himself]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Beverly...
Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : I'm here, Jean-Luc. I'm not going anywhere.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's... quite difficult. The anguish of the man. The despair... pouring out of him, all those feelings. The regrets.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [sobs] I c- I can't... stop them! I can't stop them, I can't. I can't...!
Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : [comforting him] Don't even try.
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Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : [Dr. Crusher, in unexplained bout of irrational anger has slapped her son, Wesley. She is deeply shocked and hurt by what she had just done] ... And then I just slapped him. Really hard. *I* slapped Wesley.
Counselor Deanna Troi : Do you know why you did it?
Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : [heartbroken] I've NEVER hit my son in his life.
Counselor Deanna Troi : [serious] Beverly, This is important. What were you thinking when you hit Wesley.
Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : I wasn't thinking anything. I was... just angry.
Counselor Deanna Troi : And Weseley didn't provoke you in any way? It wasn't anything he said, or anything he did?
Commander Dr. Beverly Crusher : [at a loss] No, that was just it. It was a sudden burst of anger. I still can't believe I did it.
Counselor Deanna Troi : I don't know why you did it either. But I can tell you that I've heard the same kind of story from ten different people in the last two days.