Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Birthright, Part II (1993)

Alan Scarfe: Tokath

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• Lieutenant Worf : You robbed the Klingons of who they were. You dishonored them.

  Tokath : By not slitting their throats when we found them unconscious?

  Lieutenant Worf : I do not expect you to understand. You are a Romulan.

• Tokath : When I informed the High Command that the Klingons wanted to remain here, I was told that unless I stayed to oversee them myself, they would be killed. My decision ended my military career.

  Lieutenant Worf : Why did you do it?

  Tokath : I don't expect you to understand. You're a Klingon.

• Tokath : Well, Worf - you've had quite an effect on the young people.

  Lieutenant Worf : I have done nothing more than show them who they are.

  Tokath : No. You have shown them what you want them to be.

• Tokath : We've put aside the old hatreds. Here, Romulans and Klingons live in peace. I won't allow you to destroy what we have.

  Lieutenant Worf : Do not deceive yourself. These people are not happy here. I see the sadness in their eyes.

  Tokath : That's not what I see when I look in my wife's eyes. I married a Klingon. So you see, when I warn you not to disrupt our lives here, I'm not speaking just as a jailor; but as a man protecting his family.

• Lieutenant Worf : And what about Toq? I saw what happened to him when he caught the scent of his prey on the wind. For the first time in his life, he felt powerful, and that is what he has been denied living here, and that is what you have tried to take away from him. Now, you may be content to sit here in the jungle and wither to old age, but Toq and the others have tasted what it is to feel truly alive, and they will not give that up now!

  Tokath : Enough of this. We could talk all night and not convince each other. I offer you a choice: live with us, as one of us...

  Lieutenant Worf : Or?

  Tokath : Or I will have you... put to death.

  Lieutenant Worf : Then that is what you will have to do.

• Tokath : I know that there are those among you who may question what I'm about to do - and you would not be wrong to do so. I have questioned myself. I have spent the night considering my decision, challenging myself to justify whether it *is* right, and I have reached the conclusion that it is absolutely necessary... to put this man to death. What we have built together would be destroyed by this man, and I cannot allow that to happen.

  Tokath : [to Worf]  I give you one last chance to accept our way of life.

  Lieutenant Worf : Those are eloquent words, Tokath, but the truth is, I am being executed because I've brought something dangerous to your young people: knowledge.