"Chain of Command" Line-by-Line!

TROI: Yes, sir.

 

RIKER: Aye, sir.
(Jellico goes into his Ready room)
RIKER: Well, I'll say this for him. He's sure of himself.

 

TROI: No, he's not.

 

[Precipice bottom]

PICARD: The installation should be about three hundred meters this way.

 

CRUSHER: I don't suppose we'll be able to find another way to get back up there.

 

WORF: I doubt it.

 

CRUSHER: That's what I thought.

 

[Caverns]

(the wonderfully flat passageway leads them to a dead end)

PICARD: There's a lava tube beyond here that runs for seventy five meters, then it connects with another chamber. We need to get through here. This tube opens up beyond this crack. We could widen the opening, then we should be able to crawl through. Mister Worf!

 

WORF: A phaser set to level sixteen should suffice.

 

PICARD: Make it so!
(Worf melts the rock face away)
PICARD: Well done, Mister Worf.

 

[Observation lounge]

JELLICO: Gul Lemec, a pleasure.

 

LEMEC: May I present my aides, Glin Corak and Glin Tajor.

 

JELLICO: Welcome aboard. For the past three weeks you've been massing troops in staging areas, assembling strike forces, and pulling ships from their normal patrols. We will not stand for this clearly provocative behavior.

 

LEMEC: I see the Federation spy network has again provided you with faulty information. We are conducting routine training operations, nothing more.

 

JELLICO: Then I'm sure you won't mind if we send a few starships into this sector for our own training operations.

 

LEMEC: Your fleet deployments do not concern us. However, we are very concerned about your refusal to vacate those territories along the border which are clearly Cardassian.

 

JELLICO: You gave up your claims on those territories when you signed the armistice. You couldn't take those worlds by force, so you want us to give them to you at the bargaining table.

 

TROI: Captain, please, we should listen to them.

 

RIKER: Gul Lemec, as you know. the systems are still subject to negotiation by the terms of the treaty.

 

LEMEC: Negotiations which we have pursued in good faith. Unfortunately, the Federation has not been as forthcoming.