Illuin - I think I could have some pretty intense debates with you regarding TNG.
BEFORE TNG I was an Earl Grey Drinker, and now every time anyone asks me if I want something to drink, I reply "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot." The classic Picard line.
Hummm...what are some of your favorite TNG lines? I think Picard had the best one liners for the most part. Here are some of my favorite quotes. (and yes, I am an IMDB junkie)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf, do you remember your zero g combat training?
Lt. Commander Worf: I remember how it made me sick to my stomach.
[
Picard puts his hand on the Phoenix]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's a boyhood fantasy... I must have seen this ship hundreds of times in the Smithsonian but I was never able to touch it.
Lieutenant Commander Data: Sir, does tactile contact alter your perception of the Phoenix?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, yes! For humans, touch can connect you to an object in a very personal way, make it seem more real.
[
Data also puts his hand on The Phoenix]
Lieutenant Commander Data: I am detecting imperfections in the titanium casing... temperature variations in the fuel manifold... it is no more "real" to me now than it was a moment ago.
Cmdr. Deanna Troi: [
observing from a catwalk] Would you three like to be alone?
Capt. Picard: We are what we are. And we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we shall be judged!
Q: Oh, but it is, and we have. Time may be eternal, Captain, but our patience is not. It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars; make room for other more worthy species.
Capt. Picard: You're going to deny us...
travel through space?
[
the courtroom erupts in laughter]
Q: You obtuse piece of flotsam! You're to be denied *existence*. Humanity's fate has been sealed: you will be destroyed.
Capt. Picard: Q, what is going on?
Q: I told you. You're dead, this is the afterlife, and I'm
God.
Capt. Picard: [
laughs scornfully] You are not God!
Q: Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out, or smite you, or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago under the inept ministrations of Dr. Beverly Crusher.
Capt. Picard: No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed.
Capt. Picard: Starfleet is not an organization that ignores its own regulations when they become inconvenient.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Ambassador, with great respect for all that you have achieved on behalf of the Federation, this sort of... cowboy diplomacy, will not easily be tolerated anymore.
Ambassador Spock: "Cowboy diplomacy"?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: From the moment I met you, I knew you were gonna be trouble.
Vash: You look like a man who can handle trouble.
Joval: The Horga'hn is the Risian
symbol of sexuality. To own one is to call forth its powers. To display it is to announce you are seeking jamaharon.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [
exasperated] Riker!
Joval: Do you seek jamaharon?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I don't even know what it means. The Horga'hn is for a friend.
Joval: I see. Someone close to you?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: That's right.
Joval: Someone you love?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I wouldn't go that far.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, Ensign Laren, please sit down.
Ensign Ro Laren: Ensign Ro, sir.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I beg your pardon?
Ensign Ro Laren: The Bajoran custom has the family name first, the individual's name second. I am properly addressed as 'Ensign Ro'.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'm sorry, I didn't know.
Ensign Ro Laren: No, there's no reason you should. It's an old custom. Most Bajora these days accept the distortion of their names in order to assimilate. I do not.
Computer: Ten seconds to auto-destruct.
Commander William T. Riker: [
worried] Captain?
Capt. Picard: Abort auto-destruct sequence!
Computer: Riker, William T., do you concur?
Commander William T. Riker: Yes, absolutely, I do indeed concur wholeheartedly!
Computer: Auto-destruct canceled.
[
everyone breathes a huge sigh of relief]
Capt. Picard: A simple "yes" would have sufficed, Number One.
Commander William T. Riker: I didn't want there to be any chance of misunderstanding.
[
the crew are transformed into characters from Robin Hood]
Doctor Beverly Crusher: If he's Little John, that's makes you...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I know. Robin Hood.
Lieutenant Worf: Sir, I protest. I am *not* a
merry man!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I've just been paid a visit from Q.
Commander William T. Riker: Q? Any idea what he's up to?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: He wants to do something "nice" for me.
Commander William T. Riker: I'll alert the crew.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. La Forge, my reputation as a litigator, not to mention my immortal soul, is in serious jeopardy.
Doctor Beverly Crusher: A penny.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What?
Doctor Beverly Crusher: For your thoughts; penny for your thoughts.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Do you have one?
Doctor Beverly Crusher: I'm sure the replicator will have one on file.
Capt. Picard: Return that moon to its orbit.
Q: I have no powers - Q the ordinary.
Capt. Picard: Q the liar; Q the misanthrope!
Q: Q the miserable, Q the desperate! What must I do to convince you?
Lieutenant Worf: Die.
Q: Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good
books lately?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I must be out of my mind.
Doctor Pulaski: Starfleet will probably agree with you.
YIKES - I think I got carried away. That wasn't even half of what IMDB had on file. Sorry.

Enjoy!
And who , besides me, thinks that Vash was the best thing to ever happen to Picard?! I cannot get anyone to see my point on view on this!
