Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Family (1990)

Jeremy Kemp: Robert Picard

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Quotes 

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You don't know, Robert. You don't know... They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy and I couldn't stop them.

  [sobs] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I should have been able to stop them. I tried... I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough! I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them, I should've, I should...!

  Robert Picard : So - my brother is a human being after all. This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it. You have a simple choice now: live with it below the sea with Louis - or above the clouds with the Enterprise.

  [they help each other up from the ground] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You know, I think you were right, after all. I think I did come back so that you could help me.

  Robert Picard : Yeah... Do you know what? I still don't like you, Jean-Luc.

• [last lines] 

  Marie Picard : [on René]  He's still out there.

  Robert Picard : Mm-hm.

  Marie Picard : Dreaming about starships and adventures... It's getting late.

  Robert Picard : Yeah... But let him dream, hm?

• Robert Picard : [presenting a bottle of wine]  Jean-Luc, here is a little of the '47. Do not drink it all at once, and if possible, try not to drink it alone.

• [the Picards are drinking wine] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : This the '46?

  Robert Picard : '47. You've been drinking too much of that artificial stuff. What do you call it? Synthehol? Spoiled you. Ruined your palate.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : On the contrary. I think that synthehol heightens one's appreciation for the genuine article.

• Marie Picard : [when finding Jean-Luc and Robert covered with mud]  Have you two been fighting?

  Robert Picard : Fighting? No, certainly not!

• Robert Picard : I always thought you needed a little humiliation. Or was it humility? Either would do.

• Robert Picard : Why did you come back, Jean-Luc? Did you come back because you wanted me to look after you again?