Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Code of Honor (1987)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• Lt. Commander Data : What Lutan did is similar to what certain American Indians once did called "counting coup." That is from an obscure language known as French. Counting coup...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Mr. Data. The French language, for centuries on Earth, represented civilization.

  Lt. Commander Data : Indeed? But surely, sir...

  Commander William T. Riker : [sotto voce]  I suggest you drop it, Mr. Data.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Understanding has made friends of many different people. We've had a good beginning, Lutan.

• [Dr. Crusher is faced with an epidemic plague on a Federation planet] 

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Damn. Where are the calluses we doctors are supposed to grow over our feelings?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Perhaps the good ones never get them.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : By our standards, the customs here, their... code of honor, is the same kind of pompous, strutting charades that endangered our own species a few centuries ago. We evolved out of it because no one tried to impose their own set of... I'm sorry, this is becoming a speech.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : You're the Captain, sir. You're entitled.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Hmm - not entitled to ramble on about something everyone knows. Carry on.

• Yareena : Natasha Yar, I challenge you. A struggle to the death!

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : No! The challenge is unequivocally refused.

  Lutan : Then you shall have no treaty, no vaccine and no Lieutenant Yar!

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : This is Captain Picard aboard the Starfleet vessel Enterprise. Please do us the honor of visiting our vessel.

• Lutan : I find it odd, Captain, that a man of your experience has such difficulty in understanding ordinary politeness.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Such as the politeness of saying 'please' before abducting someone?

  Lutan : The expression 'please' is used only when requesting the person back.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Yours is a different world.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's a great pity you began by abducting my Security Officer, Lutan, because I should tell you, I do admire the hospitality you offer here.

  Lutan : I am in the grip of forces you do not understand.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Some of it I do understand. She is a rather lovely female.

• Lutan : A code of honor protects one, Captain, like a magic cloak.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I will order Lieutenant Yar to fight. And may your cloak bring you all you deserve.