Best Trek Monolog

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From time to time on Trek, people engage in monologs. One of my favorites is when Beverly Crusher get caught in Wesley's warp bubble experiment and finds herself on a Enterprise that seems to be losing both people and size. Her friend a Doctor Quaise came on board, they he is no longer on the ship, and one by one people start to vanish. Finally, it's just her and the computer, in one scene she asks the computer how big is the universe, the computer reply was "The Universe is 80 meters long" the running dialog after that is pretty cool. Gates McFadden does a really good job in this episode.

In the Voyager episode "One" Seven monologs a few time, and it's pretty also, however, Dr Crusher get my vote for best monolog on Trek. Can anyone think of other monologs on trek??

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Picard's speech in "The Drumhead". Hands-down, awesome.

 

[DRMidnite]

Picard's speech in "The Drumhead". Hands-down, awesome.

Agreed!!!!!!!

 

[LaBarre]

Picard in First Contact - the whole Ahab scene in the Observation Lounge - "the line must be drawn HeeAah!"

 

[GodThingFormerly]

"We're on a thousand planets and spreading out. We cross fantastic distances, and everything's alive, Cochrane. Life everywhere. We estimate there are millions of planets with intelligent life. We haven't begun to map them. Interesting?" - Capt. James T. Kirk (Metamorphosis).

"They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon or that we hadn't gone on to Mars or the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not... because... Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk. Risk is our business. That's what the starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?" - Capt. James T. Kirk (Return to Tomorrow).

"Captain. No, I don't really expect an answer. But I've got one. Something I seldom say to a customer, Jim. In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk." - Dr. Leonard McCoy (Balance of Terror).

TGT

 

[jgdst]

One that always sticks in my mind is one of the few things (possibly the only thing) from that mess that was the Franchise finale was Archer's speech at the end:

"When I took command ten years ago, I saw myself as an explorer. I thought all the risks would be worth it, because just beyond the next planet, just beyond the next star, there would be something magnificent, something noble."

I suppose he's talking about the mission, in particular the effects of the Xindi mission, but I think there's a layer of irony in it considering the fan (and most of the cast) opinion of the episode

 

[sbk1234]

"We're on a thousand planets and spreading out. We cross fantastic distances, and everything's alive, Cochrane. Life everywhere. We estimate there are millions of planets with intelligent life. We haven't begun to map them. Interesting?" - Capt. James T. Kirk (Metamorphosis).

"They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon or that we hadn't gone on to Mars or the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not... because... Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk. Risk is our business. That's what the starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?" - Capt. James T. Kirk (Return to Tomorrow).

"Captain. No, I don't really expect an answer. But I've got one. Something I seldom say to a customer, Jim. In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk." - Dr. Leonard McCoy (Balance of Terror).

TGT

Not that TGT and I often agree, but in this case, he's right on the money. I'll also add - and I can't quote it - the one from Ultimate Computer where Kirk quotes from Sea Fever and talks about the "stars and the ship." That is the speech where I first saw that Star Trek was really about something more than ray guns and pointed ears.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

"That is the exploration that awaits you—not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."

-Q, All Good Things

 

[Kaych]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one:

"So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing, a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it... Computer, erase that entire personal log." - Captain Benjamin Sisko, In the Pale Moonlight

or

"War is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers...but we're not going to kill...today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill...today!" - Captain James T. Kirk, A Taste Of Armageddon

 

[Rÿcher]

"...let's make sure that history never forgets the name Enterprise"

 

[Kaych]

Just something I noticed, most of these (including my latter one) are actually quotes and not monologues. So are quotes fine, or do you mean actual monologues? i think there are very few REAL monologues in trek.

 

[JiNX-01]

"Up until about 100 years ago, there was one question that burned in every human, that made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them. Are we alone? Our generation is privileged to know the answer to that question. We are all explorers driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet the more I've experienced, the more I've learned that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there, the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us, to each other. The final frontier begins in this hall. Let's explore it together."

-- Captain Jonathan Archer ​

 

[Mordock]

"If you can't take a little bloody nose-maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous-with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross-but it is not for the timid."

Q, "Q Who?"


"I'm overwhelmed, Captain Picard. I'm quite overwhelmed. I go home each night to a loving wife, two beautiful daughters, and eat the evening meal together as a family. I think that's important. And they always ask me if I've had a good day. ... I will have to say that this morning I was the leader of the universe as I know it. This afternoon, I'm only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day."

Chancellor Durken, "First Contact"

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Two that haven't been mentioned:

1) Kirk's "In every revolution..." speech

2) Picards summation to the JAG in "Measure of a Man".

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Aamin Marritza breaking down in "Duet":

"That's not true! I'm alive! I'll always be alive! It's Marritza who's dead! Marritza; who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman. Who would every night, cover his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming for mercy while the Bajorans... (weeps uncontrollably). I covered my ears every night... I couldn't bear to hear those horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors, and do nothing. Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead."

 

[Mysterion]

From DS9: Eddington's "you're no better than the Borg" speech to Sisko.

 

[Enterprise1981]

From "The First Duty" and featured in "The Picard Song". Another version has him flinging his finger in Wesley's face. "The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth whether it is scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based! And if you can't find within yourself to tell the truth, you don't deserve to wear that uniform."

 

[casey]

Definitely Picard in "The Drumhead."

 

[Finnegan]

It was kinda' hokey, but I always liked kirk's little speech at the end of "The Omega Glory".

 

[sbk1234]

"I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie."