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

submitted 5 days ago by stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip to c/star_trek@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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[–] virtual_farmer@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honoured dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world, a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel that sacrifice a vain or empty one... and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, ...his was the most ...human.

[–] stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Shatner did a great job with this one! It's still sad, even when you've seen the later movies.