Tied for 4th most-quoted character in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998): in 6 of its 46 quotes
Most scenes with: Adhar Ru'afo (5), Jean-Luc Picard (5)
Am I to understand that you are not releasing my men, captain?
We found the holoship.
Ru'afo, why don't you let the captain and me--
NO!!!
This entire mission has been one Federation blunder after another. You will return my men... or this alliance will end with the destruction of your ship.
We are betraying the principles upon which the Federation was founded. It's an attack upon its very soul. And it will destroy the Ba'ku... just as cultures have been destroyed in every other forced relocations throughout history.
Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people.
How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people does it take, Admiral?
I'm ordering you to the Goran system. I'm also ordering the release of the Son'a officers. File whatever protest you wish to, Captain. By the time you do, this will all be done.
Order them to surrender, and I promise, you won't be court-martialed.
If a court-martial is the only way to let the people of the Federation know what is happening here, I welcome it.
You've brought the Federation in the middle of a blood feud, Admiral. The children have returned to expel their elders, just as they were once expelled, except that Ru'afo's need for revenge has now escalated into patricide.
It... was for the Federation. It was all for the Federation.
We're taking this ship out of here. This mission is over.
It is not over.
It is over!
If you launch the injector while the planet's still populated, the Federation will pursue you until--
The Federation... [forces two curved bars together and they bend down next to Dougherty's head] will never know what happened here.
The admiral will not be joining us for dinner.
You're looking well, Jean-Luc. Rested.
I won't let you move them, Admiral. I will take this to the Federation Council.
I'm acting on orders from the Federation Council.
How can there be an order to abandon the Prime Directive?
The Prime Directive doesn't apply. These people are not indigenous to this planet. They were never meant to be immortal. We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.
Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?
Jean-Luc, there are 600 people down there. We'll be able to use the regenerative properties of this radiation to help billions. The Son'a have developed a procedure to collect the metaphasic particles from the planets rings.
A planet in Federation space.
That's right. We have the planet. They have the technology. A technology we can't duplicate. You know what that makes us? Partners.
Our 'partners' are nothing more than petty thugs.
On Earth, petroleum once turned petty thugs into world leaders. Warp drive transformed a bunch of Romulan thugs into an empire. We can handle the Son'a. I'm not worried about that.
Someone probably said the same thing about the Romulans a century ago.
With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your chief engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. Would you take that away from him?
There are metaphasic particles all over the Briar Patch. Why does it have to be this one planet?
It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damn thing work. Don't ask me to explain it. I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. When it's over, the planet will be uninhabitable for generations.
Admiral, delay the procedure. Let my people look at the technology.
Our best scientific minds already have. We can't find any other way to do this.
Then the Son'a can establish a separate colony on the planet until we do.
It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that long. Besides, they don't want to live in the middle of the Briar Patch. Who would?
The Ba'ku. We are betraying the principles upon which the Federation was founded. It's an attack upon its very soul. And it will destroy the Ba'ku... just as cultures have been destroyed in every other forced relocation throughout history.
Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people.
How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong, hm? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people does it take, Admiral?
