Star Trek: Picard (TV Series)

Farewell (2022)

Patrick Stewart: Jean-Luc Picard

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• Q : You considered destroying it, didn't you? Well, let me ask, if that key's not there for the boy to find, does he grow up with his mother? Does the shame instantly lift? But you accepted your fate. You accepted *you*. You chose the Jean-Luc you are. You absolved yourself. And because you choose him, perhaps he will now be worthy enough for someone else to choose. Maybe this time, you will even give him the chance to be loved. I told you this was about forgiveness, Jean-Luc: yours.

  Jean-Luc Picard : Why?

  Q : Well, isn't that the eternal question? Know thyself.

  Jean-Luc Picard : There's been so much loss. So much death.

  Q : But you fixed all that.

  Jean-Luc Picard : Elnor. Tallinn.

  Q : Well... maybe not all of it. But Tallinn always dies in every timeline. This is the only one in which she meets Renee.

  Jean-Luc Picard : I ask you once again, why?

  Q : Finish the sentence.

  Jean-Luc Picard : Me. From the very beginning, for over 30 years... why me?

  Q : [hesitates]  I am moving on. In your parlance, I am dying.

  Jean-Luc Picard : Yes, I know.

  Q : Alone. I am dying alone. I do not want that for you. Humans... your griefs, your pains, fix you to moments in the past long gone. You're like butterflies with your wings pinned. My old friend, forever the boy who, with an errant turn of a skeleton key, broke the universe in his own heart. No more. You are now unshackled from the past. As I leave, I leave you free.

  Jean-Luc Picard : But... why does all this matter? Is something going to happen for which I will be required?

  Q : Must it always have galactic import? Universal stakes, celestial upheaval? Isn't one life enough? You ask me why it matters. It matters to me.

  [leans forward and takes Picard's face in his hands] 

  Q : You matter to me. Even gods have favorites, Jean-Luc. And you've always been one of mine.

• Q : Farewell, mon capitaine. It's time for me to go.

  Jean-Luc Picard : But not alone. Isn't that the point of all this?

  [Picard hugs Q; Q hesitates, then returns the hug, moved by the gesture] 

  Q : See you out there.