Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Loud as a Whisper (1989)
Howie Seago: Riva
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Riva : [after Riva's Chorus were slain and they beamed back, Riva is ranting in sign language] Stupid false egoistical...
[rambles on with back turned to camera]
Riva : ... tired of everything... three dead! What will we do now?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : How did this happen?
Commander William T. Riker : A total surprise. Apparently a member of one of the factions didn't like the idea of peace.
Riva : ...any time think
[Rubs hands through hair in frustration]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I don't understand what you're trying to say.
[Pleading gesture to Troi]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Counselor.
Riva : I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to myself!
Counselor Deanna Troi : Riva, go slowly.
Riva : What!
Counselor Deanna Troi : Slowly.
Riva : I'm not talking to him anyway.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Can you write it out?
Riva : No! Leave me alone!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I am so sorry that your friends were killed.
Riva : I don't need your pity!
Riva : [Riva and Picard are talking simultaneously] ... tired of all of you hearing people not understanding me! I'm not talking to you anyway.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I'm sorry, I-I don't know what you are trying to tell me. We have to find some way to communicate with him.
Riva : I'm tired of you hearing people, arg!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Data, he knows some kind of gestural language. Find out which one and learn it.
Lt. Commander Data : Aye, sir.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Counselor, take him to Sick Bay. Maybe Pulaski can help.
Riva : I - my friends are dead! I-
[Picard grabs Riva's head]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Listen to me! You are not alone! Do you understand? We are all in this together... now.