Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Enemy (1989)

Michael Dorn: Lieutenant Worf

Quotes 

• [Worf has refused to serve as donor for a seriously injured Romulan] 

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Lieutenant, I understand your feelings about the Romulans, but this is not the time or the place...

  Lieutenant Worf : If you had seen them kill your parents, you would understand, Doctor. It is always the time and place for those feelings!

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : *This* Romulan didn't murder your parents. And you are the only one who can save his life.

  Lieutenant Worf : Then he will die.

• Lieutenant Worf : I am asked to give up the very lifeblood of my mother and my father to those who murdered them!

  Commander William T. Riker : So you blame all Romulans for that?

  Lieutenant Worf : Yes!

  Commander William T. Riker : Forever? What if someday, the Federation made peace with the Romulans?

  Lieutenant Worf : Impossible.

  Commander William T. Riker : That's what your people said a few years ago, about Humans. Think how many died on both sides in that war. Would you and I be here now like this, if we hadn't been able to let go of the anger and the blame? Where does it end, Worf? If that Romulan dies... does his family carry the bitterness on another generation?

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Lieutenant - sometimes, the moral obligations of command are less than clear. I have to weigh the good of the many against the needs of the individual, and try to balance them as realistically as possible. God knows, I don't always succeed.

  Lieutenant Worf : I have not had cause to complain, Captain.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh. Lieutenant, you wouldn't complain even if you had cause.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Commander, how is it that we were not informed of the presence of the second Romulan on Galondon Core?

  Commander Tomalak : A simple misunderstanding, Captain Picard. I was obviously misinformed as to the size of the craft. I assure you, I intended no deception.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Of course not.

  Commander Tomalak : You doubt my good faith?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Let's just say my faith would be reinforced by a gesture from you - such as powering down your disruptors.

  [Tomalak turns and nods to someone offscreen] 

  Lieutenant Worf : Disruptors powering down.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Thank you. Commander, we will return your officer, and escort your ship to the Neutral Zone.

  Commander Tomalak : That is acceptable.

• Lieutenant Worf : [on how to deal with the injured Romulan]  My Starfleet training tells me one thing. But everything I am tells me another.

• [first lines] 

  Commander Riker : Placing beam-out marker. Return transport: 14 minutes 40 seconds. Is your view any better, Geordi?

  Lieutenant Commander La Forge : Not too bad, Commander. A lot of charged-particle precipitation, but I can compensate.

  Lieutenant Worf : Communicators are dysfunctional.

  Commander Riker : Tricorders?

  Lieutenant Worf : Readings only within five metres.

  Commander Riker : Good thing we didn't bring Data. We'd be unscrambling his circuits for a week.