Captain Picard Quotes in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Admiral Matthew Dougherty: Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people.

Captain Picard: How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? Hmm? A thousand, fifty thousand, a million? How many people does it take, Admiral?

Commander Riker: Our guests have arrived. They're eating the floral arrangements on the banquet tables.

Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: I guess they don't believe in cocktails before dinner.

Counselor Deanna Troi: Oh, my God. Are they vegetarian? That's not in there.

Captain Picard: Perhap we should have the chef whip up a light balsamic vinaigrette, something that goes well with chrysanthemums.

Captain Picard: Mr. Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?

Lieutenant Commander Worf: No sir, I have not had a chance to meet all the new crew members since I have been back.

Captain Picard: Do you remember when we used to be explorers?

Captain Picard: If a court-martial is the only way to tell the Federation what is happening here, Admiral... I welcome it.

Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: You either need a new uniform or a new neck.

Captain Picard: Yew-cheen-chef-faw. My collar size is exactly as it was at the academy.

Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Of course it is.

Captain Picard: We're going to stop by Sector 441 on our way to the Goran system.

Geordi La Forge: They *are* in opposite directions.

Captain Picard: Data, what's the last thing you remember?

Data: [singing] His nose should pant, and his lip should curl...

Captain Picard: From the mission.

[there is a blemish on Worf's face]

Captain Picard: Have you been in a fight, Mr Worf?

Lieutenant Commander Worf: [sighs] No sir... it is a "gorch".

Captain Picard: Gorch?

Data: [whispers] Pimple, sir.

Captain Picard: Oh... it's hardly noticeable.

Captain Picard: I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.

Anij: It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn.

Captain Picard: Don't panic!

Anij: I've been shot at, thrown into the lake out of a ship that's come to abduct us - what's there to panic about?

Admiral Matthew Dougherty: We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.

Captain Picard: Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?

Captain Picard: [to Worf] Straighten your baldric.

Captain Picard: Ru'afo, we're getting too old for this.

Ad'har Ru'afo: After today, that won't be a problem... for either of us.

[to 300-year-old Anij]

Captain Picard: I should warn you - I've always been attracted to older women.

Captain Picard: In 300 years, you never learned to swim?

Anij: I just haven't got around to it yet.

Anij: Have you ever experienced, a perfect moment in time?

Captain Picard: A perfect moment?

Anij: When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live, in that moment.

Captain Picard: Seeing my home planet from space, for the first time.

Anij: Yes. Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception.

Anij: ...We've discovered that a single moment in time can be a universe in itself, full of powerful forces. Most people aren't aware enough of the now to even notice.

Captain Picard: Will, Geordi: go back and put a face on what's happening here. Make the council see the Baku. It's too easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering of a people you don't know.

Captain Picard: [to Gallatin/Golna] Here you are, closing those eyes, trying not to see what bitterness has done... Turned you into a coward - a man who denies his own conscience.

Captain Picard: I'm not letting go of him!

[last lines]

Captain Picard: Picard to Enterprise. Seven to beam up.

Captain Picard: [exchanges glances with Anij one last time]

Captain Picard: Energize.

[the Enterprise crew dematerialize]