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What is your favorite Trek speech/monologue? (lemmy.zip)

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I was watching TNG 4x21 - The Drumhead last night, and after hearing Picard's speech I was reminded of just how many interesting monologues we've gotten over the years.

Sisko's saint in paradise speech from The Maquis Part 2, his speech to the Changelings in The Emissary Part 2, Garak's stories in The Wire, Marritza's speech in Duet, (can you tell I like DS9?) Spock's words to Ston in Amok Time, Kirk's risk is our business speech in Return to Tomorrow, Picard's speech in The Measure of a Man, and many others have stuck with me over the years.

However, my favorite is from the end of the TOS episode A Taste of Armageddon.

All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill today. - James T. Kirk

The quote works very well in the context of the episode, but I think it has many applications in life as well.

What are your favorite monologues in Star Trek?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Picard has so many. The one I always come back to for some reason is the one he gives while looking down on Mintaka III in Who Watches the Watchers. Although it takes a few more events to finally convince Nuria of his points, that first one and especially his quiet answer to her speculating that perhaps one day they would fly above the clouds too always gets me. That is what all good Trek first contact type stories are about, lifting others to the same level (when they're ready). It's also why the first Strange New Worlds episode is still my favorite. That's a great speech too, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I do like that type of story, and the speeches in both of those episodes were good!