Jean-Luc Picard
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Jean-Luc Picard (13 July 2305 -) is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films.
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- With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. - quoting Aaron Satie in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Drumhead"
- "Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!"
– Picard's introduction spoken during the opening credits of each episode.
- "Make it so!"
– Picard's common utterance to crew to execute an order; various episodes.
- "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us."
– Picard to Riker after being assimilated by the Borg in "The Best of Both Worlds".
- "They took everything I was! They used me to kill ... and to destroy. And I couldn't stop them! I should've been able to stop them. I tried so hard!"
Robert Picard: "So my brother is a human being after all. This will be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time." – Picard's tearful confession to his brother Robert in "Family".
- "Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated."
– Picard's emerging on the Enterprise-E bridge in Star Trek: First Contact; a takeoff on "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated", popularly attributed to Mark Twain.
Q: "It's an unknown – isn't that enough?" Picard: "If you'd earned that uniform you're wearing, you'd know it's the unknown that brings us out here!" – "Encounter at Farpoint"
- "There...are...four...lights!"
– Picard's final retort to Madred after being released from Cardassian captivity in "Chain of Command: Part II", asserting that he could not be subjugated.
- "One thing is clear: you'll never look at your hairline the same way again."
– Picard to Jason Vigo, his supposed newly-found son, in "Bloodlines".
- "Dr. Fesbinder gave an hour long dissertation on the ionization of warp nacelles before he realized that the topic was supposed to be psychology."
La Forge: "Why didn't anybody tell him?" Picard: "There was no opportunity. There was no pause. He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic." – A humorous scene in "Timescape".
- "Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk."
– Picard relating the concept of co-operation, using an ancient Earth legend, to an alien whose culture communicates entirely with metaphors, in "Darmok".
- "Shut up, Wesley!"
– Picard in "Datalore".
- "On the starship Enterprise, no one is alone. No one."
- Picard, "The Bonding"
- "You have the bridge ... Mr. Troi."
– Picard to Riker, just after his marriage to Troi is interrupted by a Starfleet mission, in Star Trek: Nemesis.
- "They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far and no further!"
- Picard on the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact
- Tea. Earl grey. Hot. - Various (often said near a replicator).
- Engage! - Various
- To each his own, number one - TNG Season 3 Episode 19: Captain's Holiday
- Will, what the hell are you still doing here? - just prior to the Battle for Sector 001.
- Lily Sloane: Jean Luc! Blow up the damn ship!!
- Picard: NO! NOOOOOOO!!! *smashes a display case in anger*
- Star Trek: First Contact
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