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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) More at IMDbPro »

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

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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.

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Data: I feel obliged to point out that the environmental anomalies may have stimulated certain rebellious instincts common to youth, which could affect everyone's judgment... Except mine of course.
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Okay Data. What do *you* think we should do?
Data: Saddle up, lock and load!

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Commander Riker: You think it's possible for two people to go back in time, undo a mistake they've made?
Counselor Deanna Troi: On this ship? Anything's possible...

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

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[Referring to his clean-shaven face]
Commander Riker: Smooth as an android's bottom.

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Ad'har Ru'afo: I'm going to miss these flesh-stretching sessions, my dear.

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Data: In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device.

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Geordi La Forge: I've never seen a sunrise. Not the way you see it.

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[to Deanna]
Commander Riker: I kiss you and you say "yuck"?

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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?

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Commander Riker: Our guests have arrived. They're eating the floral arrangements.
Counselor Deanna Troi: Oh my God, are they vegetarian? That's not in the book!
Captain Picard: Have the chef whip up a light balsamic vinaigrette. Something that goes well with chrysanthemums.

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Data: I seem to be missing several memory engrams.
[Geordi shows him several microchips he is holding in his hand]
Data: There they are.

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Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: You either need a bigger suit or a smaller neck.
Captain Picard: My collar size is the same as it was in the Academy.
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Of course.

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Lieutenant Commander Worf: The Son'a wish to negotiate a cease-fire. It may have to do with the fact that we only have three minutes of air left.

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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.

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[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.

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[about Worf's pimple]
Commander Riker: Klingons never do anything small, do you?

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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.

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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.

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[to 300-year-old Anij]
Captain Picard: I should warn you - I've always been attracted to older women.

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Captain Picard: In 300 years, you never learned to swim?
Anij: I just haven't got around to it yet.

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Lieutenant Commander Worf: [after disabling a drone with his phaser-compression rifle] Definitely feeling aggressive tendency, sir!

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Ad'har Ru'afo: Admiral Dougherty will not be joining us for dinner. Activate the collector.

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Admiral Matthew Dougherty: It was for the Federation... it was all for the Federation!

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Counselor Deanna Troi: Have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up?
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Not that we care about that in this day and age.
Counselor Deanna Troi: Uh huh.
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: [notices Data] Thank you, Data.
Data: [walks over to Worf]
Lieutenant Commander Worf: I've an odd craving for the blood of a live Kolar beast.
Data: And have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up? Not that we care about tha...

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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?

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Captain Picard: [to Worf] Straighten your baldric.

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[first lines]
[children playing hide and seek]
child: There he is. Let's get him, come on!

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[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]

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Sona Officer: He wouldn't?
Lieutenant Commander Worf: Yes, he would!

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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.

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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.

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