Insurrection Line-by-Line

[Vulcan Princess]

Picard: How can there be an order to abandon the Prime Directive?

 

[Leandar]

Dougherty: The Prime Directive doesn't apply. These people are not indigenous to this planet. They were never meant to be immortal. We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Who the Hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?!

 

[Vulcan Princess]

Dougherty: Jean-Luc, there are six hundred people down there. We'll be able to use the regenerative properties of this radiation to help billions. ...The Son'a have developed a procedure to collect the metaphasic particles from the planets rings.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: A Planet in Federation Space.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

Dougherty: That's right. We have the planet. They have the technology. ...A technology we can't duplicate. You know what that makes us? ...Partners.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Our "partners" are nothing more than petty thugs.

 

[Leandar]

Dougherty: On Earth, petroleum once turned petty thugs into world leaders. Warp drive transformed a bunch of Romulan thugs into an Empire. We can handle the Son'a. I'm not worried about that.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: I'm sure some people said the same thing about the Romulans a hundred years ago...

 

[Leandar]

Dougherty: With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. ...An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your Chief Engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. ...Would you take that away from him?

 

[Vulcan Princess]

Dougherty: With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. ...An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your Chief Engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. ...Would you take that away from him?

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: There are metaphasic particles all over the Briar Patch, why does it have to b this one planet?

 

[Leandar]

Dougherty: It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damned thing work. Don't ask me to explain it. I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. When it's over, the planet will be uninhabitable for generations.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Admiral, delay the procedure. Let me people look at the technology.

 

[Leandar]

Dougherty: Our best scientific minds already have. We can't find any other way to do this.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Then the Son'a can establish a seperate colony on the planet until we do.

 

[Leandar]

Dougherty: It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that long. Besides, they don't want to live in the middle of the Briar Patch. ...Who would?

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: The Ba'ku. We are betraying the principles on which the Federation was founded. It's an attack on its very soul. And it will destroy th Ba'ku, just as cultures have been destroyed by every other forced relocation throughout history.

 

[Leandar]

Dougherty: Jean-Luc, we are only moving six hundred people.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: How many people does it take Admiral...before it becomes wrong? Hm? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A Million? How many people does it take Admiral?