Who Watches the Watchers Line-by-Line

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  1. May 20

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    PICARD: I am...Jean Luc Picard.
    (Nuria falls to her knees, face down)
    PICARD: Please, get up. Get up. You must not kneel to me.
     
  2. Athena28

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    NURIA: You do not wish it?
     
  3. Orac

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    Picard: I do not deserve it. Look at me. Look at me. Feel the warmth of my hand, the rhythm of my pulse. I'm not a supreme being. I'm flesh and blood, like you.
     
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    NURIA: Not like me.
     
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    Picard: Like you. Different in appearance, yes. But we are both living beings. We are born, we grow, we live and we die. In all the ways that matter, we are alike.
     
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    NURIA: But you are the Picard!
     
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    PICARD: There is something I want you to see.
     
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    (The doors open and she jumps back)
    NURIA: What a wondrous place. Even the walls obey your command.
     
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    Picard: Wondrous, yes, but not miraculous. The doors merely work differently from the ones you know.
     
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    NURIA: That is my home?
     
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    PICARD: Seen from far, far above.
     
  12. HopefulRomantic

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    NURIA: Yet we do not fall. I never imagined I would see the clouds from the other side. Your powers are truly boundless.
     
  13. Orac

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    Picard: Nuria, your people live in huts. Was it always so?
     
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    NURIA: No. We have found remnants of tools in caves. Our ancestors must have lived there.
     
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    Picard: So why do you now live in huts?
     
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    NURIA: Huts are better. Caves are dark and wet.
     
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    Picard: If huts are better, why did you once live in caves?
     
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    NURIA: The most reasonable explanation would be that at one time we didn't know how to make huts.
     
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    PICARD: Just as at one time you did not know how to weave cloth, how to make a bow.
     
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    NURIA: That would be reasonable.