- 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.
- [Riker has reluctantly agreed to let the Captain visit the Ligonians on their planet]
- Commander William T. Riker: But I warn you. If you get hurt, I'll put you on report, Captain.
- Lt. Commander Data: Most interesting. Could this be human joke number 663?
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: Negative, Data. That's a Captain's order.
- 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.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Lutan is such... such a basic male image. And having him say he wants you...
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Yes, of course it made me feel good when he...
- [stops short]
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Troi, I'm your friend and you tricked me!
- Yareena: How could you not love him? Every woman loves him.
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: I fight for the vaccine. That's the truth.
- Yareena: The truth is I will kill you if I can. And believe me, I can. There's nothing else to say.
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: In my world it's a greater honor to refuse...
- Yareena: You are on our world!
- 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.
- [after Yareena's "death", she has renounced Lutan as her First One and chosen Hagon in his place]
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: How sad for you. You've lost everything.
- Lutan: I have my honor.
- [Yareena has decided to take Lutan as her Second One]
- Hagon: Well, as you see, Captain, you may excel in technology; but not in civilized behavior.