Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Donna Murphy: Anij

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• Captain Picard : I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.

  Anij : It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn.

• Anij : Have you ever experienced a perfect moment in time?

  Captain Picard : A perfect moment?

  Anij : When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live in that moment.

  Captain Picard : Seeing my home planet from space for the first time.

  Anij : Yes. Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception. We've discovered that a single moment in time can be a universe in itself, full of powerful forces. Most people aren't aware enough of the now to even notice.

• Captain Picard : Don't panic!

  Anij : I've been shot at, thrown into the lake out of a ship that's come to abduct us - what's there to panic about?

• Anij : At one time, we explored the galaxy just as you do.

  Captain Picard : You have warp capability?

  Anij : Capability, yes. But where can warp drive take us except away from here?

• Captain Picard : In 300 years, you never learned to swim?

  Anij : I just haven't got around to it yet.

• Captain Picard : We were under the impression they were being held against their will.

  Anij : It's not our custom to have guests here at all, let alone hold anyone against their will.

  Sojef : The artificial life form would not allow them to leave. In fact, he told us they were our enemies and that more would follow.

  Anij : Are you our enemy?

  Sojef : Anij.

  Captain Picard : My people have a strict policy of non-interference in other cultures. It's our Prime Directive.

  Anij : Your directive apparently doesn't include spying on other cultures.

• Data : [discovering a Federation ship in the middle of a Ba'ku lake]  It is a holographic projection. Incomplete, I might add.

  Captain Picard : What you're seeing is a computer-driven image created by photons and force fields.

  Anij : I know what a hologram is, Captain. The question is, why would anyone want to create one of our village?

  Captain Picard : Data, if you were following the children and discovered this ship...

  Data : It is conceivable I was shot to protect the secret of its existence.

  Captain Picard : Why would they duplicate this village, except to deceive the Ba'ku?

  Anij : Deceive us?

  Captain Picard : To move you off this planet. You go to sleep one night in the village, wake up the next morning on this flying holodeck, transported en masse. Within a few days, they're relocated on a similar planet without ever realizing it.

  Data : Why would the Federation or the Son'a wish to move the Ba'ku?

  Captain Picard : I don't know.