"Chain of Command" Line-by-Line!

PICARD: I know that the burial vaults of the First Hebitian civilization are said to be magnificent.

 

MADRED: Apparently when they were first unearthed two hundred years ago, they were. The burial vaults contained unimaginably beautiful artefacts made of jevonite, a rare, breathtaking stone. But most of those objects are gone.

 

PICARD: What happened to them?

 

MADRED: What happens to impoverished societies. The tombs were plundered, priceless treasures stolen, a few were preserved in museums but even those were eventually sold in order to pay for our war efforts.

 

PICARD: That war cost you hundreds of thousands of lives. It depleted your food supplies, left your population weakened and miserable and yet you risk another war.

 

MADRED: Let's not waste time arguing about issues we can't resolve. Would you care to tour the Hebitian burial vaults?

 

PICARD: What I would like is to be returned to my ship.

 

MADRED: My dear Captain, you are a criminal. You have been apprehended invading one of our secret facilities. The least that will happen is for you to stand trial and be punished. But I am offering you the opportunity for that experience to be civilized.

 

PICARD: What is the price of that opportunity?

 

MADRED: Cooperation. We need to know the Federation's defence strategy for Minos Korva.

 

PICARD: You've injected me with drugs. Surely you must realize that I've already answered truthfully every question you've put to me.

 

MADRED: Captain, we have gone to great lengths to lure you here because we know that in the event of an invasion, the Enterprise will be the command ship for the sector encompassing Minos Korva.

 

Picard: Then it seems you have more knowledge of the situation than I.

 

(Cardassian thugs grab Picard. He struggles against them.)

MADRED: Wasted energy, Captain. You might come to wish you hadn't expended it in such a futile effort.

 

PICARD: Torture is expressly forbidden by the terms of the Seldonis Four convention governing treatment of prisoners of war!

 

WOW! This has been a busy place today.

(A metal piece is lowered from the ceiling, and Madred takes a knife from his desk.)

MADRED: Are you in good health? Do you have any physical ailments I should know about? Beautiful, isn't it? The stone is jevonite. And now you know why it is so highly prized. From this point on, you will enjoy no privilege of rank, no privileges of person. From now on, I will refer to you only as Human. You have no other identity.

(Madred cuts Picard's clothes off and leaves them around his ankles. Naked, his hands are manacled and attached to the metal piece above his head. Then the piece is raised so Picard is hanging just above the floor.)

 

First Officer's log, supplemental. I have returned from the rendezvous point in the Lyshan system with Doctor Crusher and Lieutenant Worf. Captain Picard's fate is still unknown.

 

First Officers Log: Supplemental. I have returned from the rendezvous point in the Lyshan system with Doctor Crusher and Lieutenant Worf. Captain Picard's fate is still unknown.

 

[Sickbay]

CRUSHER: There was no chance to go back for the Captain. We barely made it back to the Ferengi cargo ship ourselves.

 

JELLICO: You were smart not to try.