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"The Drumhead" Line-by-Line

PICARD: Oh, yes. That's how it starts. But the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. Something is wrong here, Mr Worf. I don't like what we have become.

Picard stands up and walks away.
 
[Picard's quarters]

^PICARD: There you are, Mr. Tarses. Would you care for some lemon?

TARSES: No, thank you, sir. This is fine.
 
Tarses: Yes, sir. All my life I wanted to be in Starfleet. I went to the Academy's training programme for enlisted personnel. I took training as a medical technician and I served at several outposts. The day that I was posted to the Enterprise was the happiest day of my life.
 
Tarses: My parents wanted me to. And then I thought about it. I used to sit under this big tree near the parade grounds.
 
Picard: I spent many an hour there. It was my favourite spot to study.
 
TARSES:I used to sit under that tree and watch the drills. Picture myself an officer. I know it would have made my mother very happy but...
 
TARSES: No. I was 18... and eager. The last thing I wanted was to spend four years sitting in classrooms. I wanted to be out there, traveling the stars. I didn't want to wait for anything. And now it's done, isn't it? My career in Starfleet is finished.
 
Tarses: It doesn't matter, I lied on my application and that mistake will be with me for the rest of my life.
 
Admiral Satie and her assistant are walking in a corridor.

SATIE: Mr Worf has found a brother who still ives on Mars Colony. Contact someone there and have him interviewed.
 
Satie: And start a background check into all his friends in the academy training program.
 
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