Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Ship in a Bottle (1993)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• [last lines] 

  Barclay : As far as Moriarty and the Countess know, they're halfway to Meles II by now. This enhancement module contains enough active memory to provide them with experiences for a lifetime

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : They will live their lives and never know any difference.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs, and all this might just be an elaborate simulation, running inside a little device sitting on someone's table.

  [everyone walks off, except Barclay] 

  Barclay : [tentatively]  Computer, end program.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Professor, I feel it necessary to point out that criminal behavior is as unacceptable in the 24th century as it was in the nineteenth - and very much harder to get away with.

  Moriarty : Don't worry, Captain. My past is nothing but a fiction, the scribblings of an Englishman dead now for four centuries. I hope to leave his books on the shelf, as it were.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I have come here to prevail on your intelligence and your insight.

  Countess Barthalomew : But not apparently my humility?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Credit where credit is due, madam. I can see you are a woman not only of breeding but of wit and sagacity.

  Countess Barthalomew : And you, sir, are a man of charm - and guile. You remind me of Viscount Oglethorpe. He was a man who could bewitch any woman who breathed.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : And do you suspect that that is my intent?

  Countess Barthalomew : I cannot be certain of your intent, but I am certain that you're the kind of man who usually gets what he wants.

• Moriarty : I have consciousness. Conscious beings have will. The mind endows them with powers that are not necessarily understood - even by you. If my will is strong enough, perhaps I can exist outside this room. Perhaps I can walk into your world right now.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Professor, I ask you to believe me. If you step out of that door, you will cease to exist.

  Moriarty : If I am nothing more than a computer simulation, then very little will have been lost, but if I am right...

  [he turns to the exit] 

  Moriarty : Mind over matter - cogito ergo sum.

  [he steps out of the holodeck onto the corridor, to everyone else's surprise] 

  Moriarty : I think - therefore I am!

• Moriarty : I ask only that I be allowed to explore this new world. Your vessel, for instance. What sea does she sail? Might we go above deck?

  [Picard and Dr. Crusher exchange a look] 

  Moriarty : Weather permitting, of course.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Professor... I think there are some things of which you should be made aware...

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Somehow... I have to find a way of giving him what he wants.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : What does a woman like you see in a man like Moriarty?

  Countess Barthalomew : He's an exciting man, Captain. He's brilliant. Incisive. He's ruthless. He has... an almost irresistible appeal.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : He's also an arch-criminal.

  Countess Barthalomew : Only because he was written like that.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Professor, it's good to see you again.

  Moriarty : If you'd missed my company, I should think you'd have summoned me before now.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I have just given the computer my command codes, thinking I would get control of the ship.

  Lt. Commander Data : You may have inadvertently given Professor Moriarty the means of gaining control of the real Enterprise.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Picard to bridge.

  Cmdr. William Riker : Riker here.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Number One, what is my present location?

  Cmdr. William Riker : Engineering. Is something wrong, sir?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : No. Thank you. Picard out. Our comm badges must be locked into the simulation. If that had been the real Commander Riker, he would have given my location as holodeck 3.