Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The High Ground (1990)

Richard Cox: Kyril Finn

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• Kyril Finn : This is a war for independence. And I am no different than your own George Washington.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Washington was a military general, not a terrorist.

  Kyril Finn : The difference between generals and terrorists, Doctor, is only the difference between winners and losers.

• Kyril Finn : Captain, the Federation has a lot to admire in it. But there's a hint of moral cowardice in your dealings with non-aligned planets. You're doing business with a government that is crushing us, and you say you're not involved? You're very, very much involved. You just don't wanna get dirty.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : What happened to them?

  Kyril Finn : It's the inverter. It's given our cause a new life, but... it asks for our lives in return.

• Kyril Finn : How much innocent blood has been spilled for the cause of freedom in the history of your Federation, Doctor? How many good and noble societies have bombed civilians in war, have wiped out whole cities? And now that you enjoy the comfort that has come from their battles, their killing, you frown on my immorality? I'm willing to die for my freedom, Doctor. And in the finest tradition of your own great civilization, I'm willing to kill for it too.

• Kyril Finn : I am fighting the only war that I can against an intractable enemy. Now I'm fighting a big war against a more powerful adversary. Can't you see how that helps me?

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : I'm afraid I can't.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : He's added another chair to the negotiating table.

  Kyril Finn : *You* added the chair, Captain; I am simply forcing you to sit in it.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : [some of the Ansata terrorists]  What happened to them?

  Kyril Finn : It's the inverter. It's given our cause a new life, but it asks for our lives in return.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : What does it do?

  Kyril Finn : We transport through a dimensional shift that the Rutian sensors can't trace.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Dimensional shifting? You can't do that with humanoid tissue.

  Kyril Finn : There are risks... the designers warned us. But... it works.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : [Beverly scans Finn with her tricorder]  You're showing the same distorted readings. Not as severe as the others, but...

  Kyril Finn : [brushes it off]  It doesn't matter.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : It does if it kills you.

  Kyril Finn : Don't you know? A dead martyr's worth ten posturing leaders.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : You've scared the hell out of me, Finn! You've controlled me through fear, just like you've tried to control this whole continent!

  Kyril Finn : You haven't tasted real fear yet, Doctor.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Is that the best you can do? Is fear the only weapon you have?

  Kyril Finn : No, but... it's a good one.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : You know what scares me the most, Finn? It scares me to think that you might win this fight, and gain real power!

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : You should be drawing, not killing people.

  Kyril Finn : I can do both.

• Kyril Finn : Don't you know? A dead martyr's worth ten posturing leaders.