Star Trek Picard Quotes: 14 years after retiring from Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard lives a quiet life at Chateau Picard. But his peaceful life is interrupted when he is sought after by a mysterious woman named Dahj.
The series takes place 20 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, and follows Picard as he leaves retirement to investigate a mysterious new threat to the galaxy
The second season of Star Trek: Picard premiered on March 3, 2022. The third and final season premiered on February 16, 2023
Star Trek Picard Quotes
1- “Good morning, plastic people” -Pinkus
2- “Is that strange? To find beauty in imperfection?” -Soji
3- “People in the synthetic humanoid field tend to get a little ‘secret-plan’-ny.” -Dr. Jurati
4- “There’s no more despised people in the galaxy than the X-Bs. People either see us as property to be exploited or as a hazard to be warehoused. Our host, the Romulans, have a more expansive vision. They see us as both.” -Hugh
5- “I remember you from tomorrow.” -Ramdha
6- “Synths don’t just wake up one morning and turn homicidal.” -Raffi
7- “A promise is a prison…do not make yourself another’s jailer.” -Zani
8- “Man can’t even take a guilt trip without using a starship.” -Raffi
9- “When she looked at me, I felt seen. Even though she didn’t like what she saw.” -Soji
10- “I’m a trusting person, Narek. That’s my default. But — I don’t know — you kind of challenge my paradigm.” -Soji
11- “Because you could not save everyone, you chose to save no one.” -Zani
12- “Look at the math of it, is all I’m saying. You found her once. Odds are you’ll do it again.” -Rios
13- “Picard still thinks there’s a place in the galaxy for mercy. I didn’t want to disillusion him. Somebody out here ought to have a little hope.” -Seven
14- “The Romulans are in a two-hundred-and-fifty-year bad mood.” -Emmy
15- “Please, my friends. Choose to live.” -Elnor
16- “Her capacity to trust was a flaw in her programming.” -Troi
17- “When you lost your mind, you certainly did it with panache.” -Narissa
18- “Well, I’m done murdering people so… that’s a good thing.”
19- “My memories are all jumbled. It’s like watching a holo I know I’ve seen before but really can’t remember.” -Soji
20- “Say we do find a way to hold off the Romulans. We saved Soji. Now she and the golden children are free to call up the uber-synths and then VAPOR AND ASH, a galactic level biocidal event.” -Jurati
21- “Fear is an incompetent teacher.” -Picard
22- “Cheers, Big Ears.” -Picard
23- “We often refer to space as the final frontier. But the older I get, the more I’ve come to believe that the true final frontier is time. In command, as in life, what we do in crisis often weighs upon us less heavily than what we wish we had done. What could have been. Time offers many opportunities but it rarely offers second chances.” -Picard
24- “Fate has a way of surprising us.” -Picard
25- “I am not a man who needs a legacy. I want a new adventure.” -Picard
26- “I have slaughtered countless enemies over the years and considered sending their heads to all of you. But I was advised that that was… passive-aggressive.” -Worf
27- “One is never safe from the past.” -Picard
28- “One must access calm as much as fire.” -Worf
29- “Sometimes those who shine the brightest feel the sting of fear and melancholy in ways that others can never understand.” -Picard
30- “The most advantageous battle stance is being one within oneself.” -Worf
31- “There are moments in our lives we fear to relive, and others we long to repeat. While time cannot give us second chances, maybe people can.” -Picard
32- “There is no righteous cause. No good, no evil. You believe in your fight.” -Worf
33- “Time offers many opportunities, but it rarely offers second chances.” -Picard
34- “We cannot live in this reality. If we want to save the future, then we have to repair the past.” -Picard
35- “You can’t hide from the pain by being alone.” -William Riker
36- “You’re only ever really as good as those around you. Your crew become a part of you. Complete you. They lift you up to accomplish the things you never could do alone.” -Picard
37- “Your enemy’s aggression will always reveal their weakness.” -Worf
38- “Change always comes later than we think it should.” -Picard
39- “Distance offers no protection from time.” -Picard
40- “Move backward to go forward. Shatter to mend. The past is now.” -Borg queen
41- “Even in the darkest circumstances, there is a light. Sometimes only a glimmer. Trust that light. Find a way back. No matter what it takes.” -Picard
STAR TREK: PICARD: SEASON 2 QUOTES
42- “History’s darkest moments can be a tipping point for change. ” -Picard
43- “Peace, love, friendship. These are precious, because we know they cannot endure.” -Data
44- “There’s a difference between killing an attacking enemy and watching a wounded one die.” -Picard
45- “To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination.” -Picard
46- “So alone. And sometimes, it’s just too much, too heavy, to push through. And then a thought occurs. I could just stop trying. Lie down. Stop fighting. Let it take me. Like sleeping to death.” -Jurati
47- “We have powerful tools: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer.” -Picard
48- “You might want to point that thing at my head. My heart is solid duritanium.” -Picard
49- “Fear is fear. It doesn’t speak in riddles. Fear means you’re smart. You understand the risks.” -Picard
50- “Hope and the odds make poor bedfellows.” -Picard
51- “Raffi, right now your brains are in your fists.” -Seven
52- “The past is written, but the future is left for us to write.” -Picard
53- “Fear is an incompetent teacher.” -Picard
54- “To be alive is a responsibility, as well as a right.” -Picard
55- “To understand the true potential of the human genome is to envision a future free from disease. Imagine, if you will, I am a god. And as I look down at humanity, I see them at a crossroads. Will they evolve toward enlightenment? Or will there be a divergence into darkness?” -Adam Soong
56- “This is a very bumpy century, but I think I’m getting the hang of it.” -Rios
57- “We’re all hostages to what we love. The only way to truly be free is to love nothing. And how meaningless would that be?” -Q
58- “The true sovereign of nature. Giving life. Allowing life. And yet we know will be the thing that one day swallows us all.” -Therapist
59- “The thing is – obsession is only obsession until it pays off. Then, it’s diligence.” -Wells
60- “Species thrive without love. Kingdoms conquer without fear. But it is the imperfect nature of all organic things to fight an unwinnable battle against an undefeatable foe. Death.” -Borg queen
61- “I know something now. The secrets we keep, all the reasons we never tell someone we love them, they’re worthless.” -Tallinn
62- “We are an exploratory vessel. If that ship decides to engage us, we are outgunned, and I am not going to risk five hundred souls for two relics who think that a couple of brass medals make them golden boys.” -Shaw
53- “I have learned of late that one must access calm as much as fire, so I have been, as humans say, working on myself.” -Worf
64- “There are scars and shame on both sides.” -Worf
65- “Would you like to hear more about where my appetite for your brutal inevitable extinction comes from? I got it from Starfleet. You gave me the ability to mimic your blood, hold my form, pass every test. And you did so while inflicting more torment on me. And those I loved. So don’t tell me I have no regard for love! Or innocence! Or pain.” -Vadic
66- “It’s possible the answers to humanity and free will the Soongs have been asking all these centuries is here, now, in this Data.” -Geordi
67- “One’s personal space is a right.” -Worf
68- “Nothing is more elusive than a door the mind doesn’t wish to open.” -Troi
69- “If she wants me, then I’ll trade myself for answers, and when she’s close enough to give them, I’ll show her exactly who and what I am.” -Jack
70- “Good job routing transporter fields through phasers. You may have just invented the portable beam-me-up.” -Seven
71- “There are two turns of phrase a Klingon never admits to knowing. Defeat. And farewell.” -Worf
STAR TREK: PICARD: SEASON 3 QUOTES
72- “I am not a man who needs a legacy. I want a new adventure.”
73- “The point comes in a man’s life when he looks to the past to define himself, not just his future.” – Laris
74- “I have kept this train running for five years, thirty-six missions. You don’t get where you’re told to go by standing in front of it and then moving the track.” -Shaw
75- “You have no idea how hard it is to be in this world.” -Raffi
76- “As a former intelligence operative, here’s what I’m seeing. This isn’t paranoia. Her fear is genuine. This is a woman out of options, and she is asking you to help. Only you.” – Laris
77- “We are an exploratory vessel. If that ship decides to engage us, we are outgunned, and I am not going to risk five hundred souls for two relics who think that a couple of brass medals make them golden boys.” -Shaw
78- “With each ticking moment, I will take another piece of you. I’ll peck and I’ll jab. Everything that makes you you. Every system that makes your ship your ship. Until there’s nothing left but the choice to have given me what you could’ve given me now. But certainly, take your time.” -Vadic
79- “When your head goes to that place – the webs, the conspiracies – that’s when it all starts up. The drugs. The dark rabbit holes.” -Jay
80- “So, we have 500 guns pointed at our head. We try to run, we are vapor the second our nacelles light up. Help is days away. And this nebula is wreaking havoc on our long-range coms. We are essentially cornered. In space. Which has no corners.” -Shaw
81- “You can’t hide from the pain by being alone.” -Riker
82- “I had a Vulcan master who taught me about pride once. The natural evolution of pride is downfall.” -Krinn
83- “The moment we allowed her to board, we invited Death onto this ship.” -Beverly
84- “I have slaughtered countless enemies over the years and considered sending their heads to all of you, but I was advised that that was… passive-aggressive.” -Worf
85- “Nothing is more elusive than a door the mind doesn’t wish to open.” -Troi
86- “The future of the Borg does not lie in assimilation, but evolution.” -Borg Queen
87- “There are two turns of phrase a Klingon never admits to knowing. Defeat. And farewell.” -Worf
