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Worf: "Doctor, I will not attempt to leave sickbay
without your approval. The restraining field is not
necessary."
Beverly: "Worf, there is no restraining field." |
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Beverly: "Be my guest. Just don't expect a lot of
conversation. He is in full Klingon-mode: honorable,
strong and closed-minded." |
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Troi:
"He's been injured, Alexander, and he's...
embarrassed. To have anyone see him now would make him
feel worse... even if it were you."
Alexander: "This is part of that Klingon stuff,
isn't it? My mother always said that Klingons had a lot of
dumb ideas about honor."
Troi: "Alexander, that... "Klingon stuff" is very
important to your father."
Alexander: "Well, it isn't very important to me. I
don't care about being Klingon, I just want to see my
father." |
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Russell:
"Well, I'd say your patient's recovery is going well.
I've never seen anyone up on their feet so soon after this
kind of surgery." [...] "You're not even going to
acknowledge what I did for him are you? You just can't
admit that it was my research which made this possible."
Beverly: "I'm delighted that Worf is going to
recover. You gambled. He won. Most of your patients aren't
so lucky. You scare me, Doctor. You risk peoples' lives
and justify it in
the name of research. But genuine research takes time...
sometimes a lifetime of painstaking,
detailed work to get results. Not you -- you take
shortcuts... right through living tissue. You
put your "research" ahead of your patients, and as far as
I'm concerned, that's a violation of
our most sacred trust. No one remembers the patients who
died unnecessarily... not in the
glow of a remarkable achievement like this one, do they?
I'm sure the work you've done here will be hailed as a
stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, Doctor. I'm not
sure I could." |
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Picard:
"You or I could learn to live with a disability of
this kind. But to Worf... his life ended when those
containers fell on him. We don't have to agree with it...
we don't have to understand it... but we do have to
respect his beliefs."
Riker: "I can respect his beliefs, but Worf wants
me to take an active role in ending his life." |
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Riker: "I
hate everything about it... the casual disregard for
life... the way it tries to cloak suicide in some glorious
notion of honor. I may have to respect your beliefs... but
I don't have to
like them."
Worf: "It is not something I expect you to
understand."
Riker: "No... All you really expect me to do is
bring you the knife and then walk away, so you can kill
yourself in peace. Well, I'm not going to make it that
easy for you." |
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