Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
James Cromwell: Zefram Cochrane
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : I gotta take a leak.
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Leak? I'm not detecting any leak.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Don't you people from the 24th century ever pee?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Leak! I get it. That's pretty funny.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Excuse me.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Please! Don't tell me it's all thanks to me! I've heard enough about the great Zefram Cochrane! I don't know who writes your history books or where you get your information from, but you people got some pretty funny ideas about me!
[smirks]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : You all look at me as if I'm some kind of... saint, or visionary or something!
Cmdr. William Riker : I don't think you're a saint, Doc. But you did have a vision. And now we're sitting in it.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : You wanna know what my vision is? Dollar signs, money! I didn't build this ship to usher in a new era for humanity. You think I wanna go to the stars? I don't even like to fly! I take trains! I built this ship so that I could retire to some tropical island... filled with
[smirks]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : naked women. THAT'S Zefram Cochrane. THAT'S his vision. This other guy you keep talking about, this historical figure? I never met him. I can't imagine I ever will.
Cmdr. William Riker : Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
Cmdr. William Riker : [smiles] You did, ten years from now.
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[the Vulcans have landed to meet Cochrane]
Vulcan : Live long and prosper.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Thanks.
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Cmdr. William Riker : Doctor, tomorrow morning when they detect the warp signature from your ship and realize that humans have discovered how to travel faster than light, they decide to alter their course and make first contact with Earth, right here.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Here?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Well, actually, over there.
Cmdr. William Riker : It is one of the pivotal moments in human history, Doctor. You get to make first contact with an alien race! And after you do... everything begins to change.
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Your theories on warp drive allow fleets of starships to be built and mankind to start exploring the Galaxy.
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : It unites humanity in a way no one ever thought possible. When they realize they're not alone in the universe, poverty, disease, war - they'll all be gone within the next fifty years.
Cmdr. William Riker : But unless you make that warp flight tomorrow morning before eleven fifteen, none of it will happen.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek.
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[Riker, LaForge and Cochrane have made humanity's first warp speed test flight]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Is that Earth?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : That's it!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : It's so small...
Cmdr. William Riker : It's about to get a whole lot bigger.
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[Lily and Zefram had a few too much to drink at a bar]
Lily Sloane : You're going to regret this tomorrow.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : One of the things you should have learned about me by now is that I don't have regrets.
[leaving the bar, Cochrane pulls Lily back]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Come on, Lily. One more round.
Lily Sloane : [pulling Cochrane off her] Z, you've had enough. I'm not going up in that thing with a drunken pilot.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Well I sure as hell am not going up in there sober.
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Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Look, Doc, we can't do this without you!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : I don't care. I don't want to be a statue.
Cmdr. William Riker : Doctor...
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : You stay away from me!
[runs off]
Cmdr. William Riker : We don't have time for this.
[pulls out a phaser and stuns Cochrane who falls in a creekbed]
Cmdr. William Riker : [to Geordi] You told him about the statue?
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[Cochrane, Riker and LaForge are on board the Phoenix, preparing to go into warp]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Engage!
[Riker and LaForge grin at each other knowingly]
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Cmdr. William Riker : Deanna! Deanna!
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Will, don't turn off the that...!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Who is this jerk? And who told him he could turn off my music?
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Will Riker, Zefram Cochrane.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Is he a friend of yours?
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Yes.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Husband?
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : No.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Goood.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race... and you're here to stop them?
Cmdr. William Riker : That's right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Hot damn! You're heroic.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [to Riker] I've got a 4-alarm hangover. It's either from all that whiskey, or your laser beam. Or both. But I'm ready to make history.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Now this, Dena...
Deanna Troi : Deanna.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [as he pours Deanna a drink] ... is the good stuff.
Cmdr. William Riker : Dr. Cochrane...
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : To the Phoenix... may she rest in peace.
[both drink, then choke]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Oohh... Okay, that wasn't so good.
[tosses bottle away]
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[as Deanna counts down the Phoenix's ignition, Cochrane -- believing earlier that he'd forgotten something -- snaps his fingers]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Oh, God! Now I remember!
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : What?
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [checking his pockets] Where is it? We can't lift off without!
Cmdr. William Riker : Geordi, we've gotta abort!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [suddenly finds a green disk] No, no! Wait! I found it!
[slams disk into player]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Let's rock and roll!
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Seven... Six...
[she rips off her headphones as Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" blares over the stereo and the Phoenix takes off]
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Cmdr. William Riker : [looking up at the moon] Look at that.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : What, you don't have a moon in the 24th century?
Cmdr. William Riker : Sure we do. It just looks a lot different. There are 50 million people living on the moon in my time. You can see Tycho City, New Berlin, even Lake Armstrong on a day like this.
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Lt. Barclay : Commander, this is what we're thinking of using to replace the damaged warp plasma conduit.
[smiles at Cochrane]
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : [examines the unit] Yeah, Reg... yeah, that's good. But you're going to need to reinforce this copper tubing with a nanopolymer.
Lt. Barclay : [nods quickly and turns to Cochrane] Dr. Cochrane, I know this sounds silly, but could I shake your hand?
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [sighs heavily, clearly not wanting to egg on Barclay's enthusiasm, but reluctantly extends his hand]
Lt. Barclay : Oh! Thank you, Doctor! You have no idea what an honor it is to work with you on this project!
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Reg...
Lt. Barclay : I never thought I would ever meet the man who invented warp drive! I...
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : *Reg!*
Lt. Barclay : Hmm?
[realizes he's fawning]
Lt. Barclay : Oh! Yes, of course, I'm sorry...
[nervously shuffles off]
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Well, well, well. What do we got here? I love a good peep show.
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Lily Sloane : [spotting the Borg sphere in the sky] What is that?
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [not seeing anything] That is the constellation Leo.
Lily Sloane : [pointing] No. That.
[taking cover as the sphere begins firing on the settlement]
Lily Sloane : It's an ECON!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : After all these years?
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [seeing the Enterprise in the sky] That's a trick.
[looking for a model or miniature he thinks is there]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : How'd you do that?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : It's your telescope.
Deanna Troi : That's our ship, the Enterprise.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [looking again] And, uh, Lily's up there right now?
Deanna Troi : That's right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Can I talk to her?
Cmdr. William Riker : We've lost contact with the Enterprise. We don't know why yet.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : So, what is it you want me to do?
Cmdr. William Riker : Simple. Conduct your warp flight tomorrow morning just as you planned.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Why tomorrow morning?
Cmdr. William Riker : Because at 11:00, an alien ship will begin passing through this solar system.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Alien. You mean extraterrestrials? More bad guys?
Deanna Troi : Good guys. They're on a survey mission. They have no interest in Earth. Too primitive.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [seeing a Vulcan disembark from its ship] My god. They're really from another world.
Cmdr. William Riker : And they're going to want to meet the man who flew that warp ship.
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Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Would you mind taking a look at this?
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Yeah.
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : I tried to reconstruct the intermix chamber from what I remember in school. Tell me if I got it right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : School? You learned about this in school?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Oh, yeah. Basic Warp Design is a required course at the Academy. The first chapter is called... "Zefram Cochrane".
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [seeing Earth as they launch into space] Oh, wow!
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : You ain't seen nothing yet.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [seeing the Enterprise up close from the Phoenix] Sweet Jesus!
Cmdr. William Riker : Relax, Doctor. I'm sure they're just here to give us a send-off.
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Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : You know, I wish I had a picture of this.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : What?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Well, you see, in the future, this whole area becomes an historical monument. You're standing almost on the exact spot where your statue's gonna be.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Statue?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : [pantoming as he talks] Oh, yeah! It's marble, a-about 20 meters tall, and you're looking up at the sky, and your hand's sort of reaching toward the future.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Do they have to keep doing that?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : It's just a little hero worship, Doc. To tell you the truth, I can't say I blame them. We all grew up hearing about what you did here. Or what you're about to do.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Now, this, Deena...
Deanna Troi : Deanna!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : This - is the good stuff.
[pouring shots of Tequila]
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Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : I probably shouldn't even tell you this, but I went to Zefram Cochrane High School.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Really?