Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Homeward (1994)

Paul Sorvino: Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko

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• Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Things were never easy between us, were they?

  Lieutenant Worf : No.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : It's my fault. If I'd been more like you, we wouldn't have had so many problems.

  Lieutenant Worf : No. If you had been more like me, these people would not be here now. You gave them a chance at a new life.

• [last lines] 

  Lieutenant Worf : I will have to explain all of this to Mother and Father.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : They won't understand.

  Lieutenant Worf : They may. I will tell them... that you are happy.

• Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : The village will need a new chronicle. Someone has to begin it. My child will need a father. My place is here. I'm finally taking responsibility.

  Lieutenant Worf : You were never good at drawing. How will you keep a chronicle?

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I learn quickly.

  Lieutenant Worf : Then perhaps there is hope.

• Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I wasn't going to let those people die just because your Captain started quoting Federation dogma to me.

  Lieutenant Worf : Your duty was to respect the Captain's orders and to uphold the Prime Directive.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Duty. That's all that really matters to you, isn't it? Well, I refuse to be bound by an abstraction.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : This is one of those times when we must face the ramifications of the Prime Directive and honor those lives which we cannot save.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I find no honor in this whatsoever, Captain. You will forgive me if I don't stay.

• Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : [Nikolai has illicitly beamed aboard a colony of Boralaans to one of the Enterprise's Holodecks to save them from a planetary catastrophe]  You worry too much, Worf. You always did. Everything will work out.

  Lieutenant Worf : You have disgraced yourself. And you have disgraced me. And I want nothing more to do with you.

• Tarrana : Look!

  [the holo-grid is beginning to show through Nikolai's simulation of Boraal in a pool of water] 

  Lieutenant Worf : Do not worry. It is an omen.

  Dobara : What does it mean?

  Lieutenant Worf : It is the sign of LaForge. It is a message to travelers. It is said when these lines appear and disappear in a pool of water...

  [the scene cuts to Engineering where LaForge is listening on the com-channel] 

  Lieutenant Worf : ... the road ahead will be filled with good fortune.

  Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge : Hang in there, Worf.

  [works some controls] 

  Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge : Give me just a second. There, that should do it.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : [the simulation stabilises]  You see. Our journey is already blessed. The road ahead is long. Let us have a meal together and then we'll make preparations to leave.

  [after the Boraalans have dispersed] 

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Worf, very good work. Apparently, we don't make such a bad team after all.

  Lieutenant Worf : [Worf can barely hide his contempt]  We are not a team. I am here because Captain Picard ordered me here.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : Worf, don't we both share the same goal? Aren't we both trying to make this plan work?

  Lieutenant Worf : Only because you forced us into it.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I'm not ashamed of what I did. I'm not sorry I saved their lives.

  Lieutenant Worf : You have not changed. You still expect people to solve the problems you create.

  Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : I'm not here to work out the issues of our childhood. I'm here to save a people who I care about, and if that upsets you, then so be it.

  [Nikolai storms off] 

• Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko : [to Worf, who has been surgically altered into a Boraalan]  You've changed a lot in four years.