R: |
Only got an hour to go, Doc. How you feeling?
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Co: |
I got a 4-alarm hangover, either from the wisky or your laser beam...
or both, but I'm ready to make history. Ha ha ha...
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De: |
Troi to Commander Riker.
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R: |
Riker here.
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De: |
We're ready to open the launch door.
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R: |
Go ahead!
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Co: |
Oh...
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R: |
Look at that.
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Co: |
What? You don't have a moon in the 24th century?
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R: |
Sure we do. Just looks a lot different. There are 50 million people
living on the moon in my time. You see Tycho city, New Berlin, even lake
Armstrong on a day like this.
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Co: |
Uh-huh.
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R: |
And you know, Doctor?
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Co: |
Please. Don't tell me it's all thanks to me. I've heard enough about the
great Zefram Cochrane. I don't know who writes your history books
or where you get your information from, but you people got some
pretty funny ideas about me. You all look at me as if I'm some kind
of saint or visionary or something.
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R: |
I don't think you're a saint, Doc, but you did have a vision,
and now we're sitting in it.
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Co: |
You wanna know what my vision is. Dollar signs, money. I didn't build
this ship to usher in a new era for humanity. You think I want to go to the stars?
I don't even like to fly. I take trains. I built this ship so that
I could retire to some tropical island filled with naked women. That's
Zefram Cochrane. That's his vision. This other guy you keep talking
about, this historical figure... I never met him. I can't imagine
I ever will.
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R: |
Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let
history make its own judgements."
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Co: |
That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
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R: |
You did...10 years from now.
You got 58 minutes, Doc. You better get on that checklist.
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Wo: |
Wait. Captain, our weapons are useless. We must activate the auto-destruct
sequence and use the escape pods to evacuate the ship.
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P: |
No!
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Cr: |
Jean-Luc, if we destroy the ship, we destroy the Borg.
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P: |
We're going to stay and fight.
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Wo: |
Sir, we have lost the Enterprise. We should not sacrifice ....
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P: |
We have not lost the Enterprise, Mr. Worf. We're not going to lose
the Enterprise, not to the Borg, not while I'm in command. You have
your orders.
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Wo: |
I must object to this course of action.
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P: |
Your objection is noted.
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Wo: |
With all due respect, sir, I believe you are allowing your personal
experience with the Borg to influence your judgement.
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P: |
You're afraid. You wanna destroy the ship and run away. You coward!
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Cr: |
Jean-Luc.
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Wo: |
If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand.
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P: |
Get off my bridge.
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