Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Jonathan Frakes: Riker
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Lt. Commander Worf : The Defiant?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Adrift but salvageable.
Cmdr. William Riker : Tough little ship.
Lt. Commander Worf : Little?
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Cmdr. Deanna Troi : [very drunk] Look. He wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink with him. And then, it took three shots of something called "tequila" just to find out that HE was the one we're looking for! And I've spent the last twenty minutes trying to keep his hands off me! So don't go criticizing my counseling techniques!
Cmdr. William Riker : Alright.
[laughs]
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : It's a primitive culture! I'm just trying to blend in.
Cmdr. William Riker : You're blended alright.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Please! Don't tell me it's all thanks to me! I've heard enough about the great Zefram Cochrane! I don't know who writes your history books or where you get your information from, but you people got some pretty funny ideas about me!
[smirks]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : You all look at me as if I'm some kind of... saint, or visionary or something!
Cmdr. William Riker : I don't think you're a saint, Doc. But you did have a vision. And now we're sitting in it.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : You wanna know what my vision is? Dollar signs, money! I didn't build this ship to usher in a new era for humanity. You think I wanna go to the stars? I don't even like to fly! I take trains! I built this ship so that I could retire to some tropical island... filled with
[smirks]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : naked women. THAT'S Zefram Cochrane. THAT'S his vision. This other guy you keep talking about, this historical figure? I never met him. I can't imagine I ever will.
Cmdr. William Riker : Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
Cmdr. William Riker : [smiles] You did, ten years from now.
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Cmdr. Deanna Troi : If you're looking for my professional opinion as ship's counselor: he's nuts.
Cmdr. William Riker : I'll be sure to note that in my log.
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Cmdr. William Riker : Doctor, tomorrow morning when they detect the warp signature from your ship and realize that humans have discovered how to travel faster than light, they decide to alter their course and make first contact with Earth, right here.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Here?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Well, actually, over there.
Cmdr. William Riker : It is one of the pivotal moments in human history, Doctor. You get to make first contact with an alien race! And after you do... everything begins to change.
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Your theories on warp drive allow fleets of starships to be built and mankind to start exploring the Galaxy.
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : It unites humanity in a way no one ever thought possible. When they realize they're not alone in the universe, poverty, disease, war - they'll all be gone within the next fifty years.
Cmdr. William Riker : But unless you make that warp flight tomorrow morning before eleven fifteen, none of it will happen.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek.
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Cmdr. William Riker : We finished our first sensor sweep of the neutral zone.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh, fascinating. Twenty particles of space dust per cubic meter, 52 ultraviolet radiation spikes, and a class-2 comet. Well, this is certainly worthy of our attention.
Cmdr. William Riker : Captain, why are we out here chasing comets?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Let's just say Starfleet has every confidence with the Enterprise and her crew - they're just not sure about her Captain. They believe that a man who was once captured and assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a situation where he would face them again. To do so would introduce "an unstable element to a critical situation."
Cmdr. William Riker : That's ridiculous. Your experience with the Borg makes you the perfect man to lead this fight.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Admiral Hayes disagrees.
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Cmdr. William Riker : Mr. Worf, you do remember how to fire phasers?
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[Riker, LaForge and Cochrane have made humanity's first warp speed test flight]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Is that Earth?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : That's it!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : It's so small...
Cmdr. William Riker : It's about to get a whole lot bigger.
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Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Look, Doc, we can't do this without you!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : I don't care. I don't want to be a statue.
Cmdr. William Riker : Doctor...
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : You stay away from me!
[runs off]
Cmdr. William Riker : We don't have time for this.
[pulls out a phaser and stuns Cochrane who falls in a creekbed]
Cmdr. William Riker : [to Geordi] You told him about the statue?
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Cmdr. William Riker : Deanna! Deanna!
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Will, don't turn off the that...!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Who is this jerk? And who told him he could turn off my music?
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Will Riker, Zefram Cochrane.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Is he a friend of yours?
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Yes.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Husband?
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : No.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Goood.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race... and you're here to stop them?
Cmdr. William Riker : That's right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Hot damn! You're heroic.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Now this, Dena...
Deanna Troi : Deanna.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [as he pours Deanna a drink] ... is the good stuff.
Cmdr. William Riker : Dr. Cochrane...
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : To the Phoenix... may she rest in peace.
[both drink, then choke]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Oohh... Okay, that wasn't so good.
[tosses bottle away]
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[as Deanna counts down the Phoenix's ignition, Cochrane -- believing earlier that he'd forgotten something -- snaps his fingers]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Oh, God! Now I remember!
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : What?
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [checking his pockets] Where is it? We can't lift off without!
Cmdr. William Riker : Geordi, we've gotta abort!
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [suddenly finds a green disk] No, no! Wait! I found it!
[slams disk into player]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Let's rock and roll!
Cmdr. Deanna Troi : Seven... Six...
[she rips off her headphones as Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" blares over the stereo and the Phoenix takes off]
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Cmdr. William Riker : [looking up at the moon] Look at that.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : What, you don't have a moon in the 24th century?
Cmdr. William Riker : Sure we do. It just looks a lot different. There are 50 million people living on the moon in my time. You can see Tycho City, New Berlin, even Lake Armstrong on a day like this.
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Cmdr. William Riker : Bizet?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Berlioz.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [destroying the Borg sphere] They were firing at the surface. Location?
Cmdr. William Riker : [going to a console] Western hemisphere, North American continent. Looks like a missile complex in central Montana.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Missile complex. The date. Data, I need to know the exact date.
Lieutenant Commander Data : April 4th, 2063.
Cmdr. William Riker : April 4th, the day before first contact.
Lieutenant Commander Data : Precisely.
Dr. Beverly Crusher : Then the missile complex must be where Zefram Cochrane is building his warp ship.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : That's what they came here to do, stop first contact.
Cmdr. William Riker : How much damage, Lieutenant?
Lt. Hawk : Can't tell. Long-range sensors are still offline.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : We have to go down there, find out what happened. Data, Beverly, you're with me. Have a security team meet us in transporter room 3.
[heading to the turbolift]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Computer, mid-21st century civilian clothing. Number One, you have the bridge.
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Cmdr. William Riker : How many ships?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : One. And it's on a direct course for Earth. They will cross the Federation border in less than an hour. Admiral Hayes is mobilizing a fleet in the Typhon sector.
Lieutenant Commander Data : At maximum warp, it will take us three hours, 25 minutes...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : We're not going.
Cmdr. William Riker : What do you mean we're not going?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Our orders are to patrol the Neutral Zone in case the Romulans decide to take advantage of the situation.
Deanna Troi : [confused] The Romulans?
Lieutenant Commander Data : Captain, there has been no unusual activity along the Romulan border for the last nine months. It seems highly unlikely they would choose this moment to start a conflict.
Dr. Beverly Crusher : Does Starfleet feel we need more shakedown time?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : Captain, we've been out in space nearly a year now. We're ready. The Enterprise-E is the most advanced starship in the fleet. We should be on the front line.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I have gone over all this with Starfleet Command. Their orders stand. Number One, set a course for the Neutral Zone.
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Lieutenant Commander Data : [pursuing the Borg sphere] Sensors show chronometric particles emanating from the sphere.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : They're creating a temporal vortex.
Cmdr. William Riker : Time travel.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : What is the status of the Borg cube?
Lieutenant Commander Data : It has sustained heavy damage to its outer hull. I am reading fluctuations in their power grid.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Onscreen.
[seeing the action]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Number One, open a channel to the fleet.
Cmdr. William Riker : [tapping buttons] Channel open, sir.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : This is Captain Picard of the Enterprise. I'm taking command of the fleet. Target all of your weapons onto the following coordinates.
[tapping buttons on Data's console]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Fire on my command.
Lieutenant Commander Data : Sir. The coordinates you have indicated do not appear to be a vital system.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Trust me, Data.
Cmdr. William Riker : The fleet's responded, sir. They're standing by.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Fire.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [exiting the temporal vortex] Report.
Cmdr. William Riker : Shields are down, long-range sensors are offline, main power's holding.
Lieutenant Commander Data : According to our astrometric readings, we are in the mid-21st century. From the radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere, I would estimate we have arrived approximately ten years after the Third World War.
Cmdr. William Riker : Makes sense. Most of the major cities have been destroyed, very few governments left, 600 million dead. No resistance.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [seeing the Enterprise in the sky] That's a trick.
[looking for a model or miniature he thinks is there]
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : How'd you do that?
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge : It's your telescope.
Deanna Troi : That's our ship, the Enterprise.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [looking again] And, uh, Lily's up there right now?
Deanna Troi : That's right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Can I talk to her?
Cmdr. William Riker : We've lost contact with the Enterprise. We don't know why yet.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : So, what is it you want me to do?
Cmdr. William Riker : Simple. Conduct your warp flight tomorrow morning just as you planned.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Why tomorrow morning?
Cmdr. William Riker : Because at 11:00, an alien ship will begin passing through this solar system.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane : Alien. You mean extraterrestrials? More bad guys?
Deanna Troi : Good guys. They're on a survey mission. They have no interest in Earth. Too primitive.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [seeing a Vulcan disembark from its ship] My god. They're really from another world.
Cmdr. William Riker : And they're going to want to meet the man who flew that warp ship.
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Dr. Zefram Cochrane : [seeing the Enterprise up close from the Phoenix] Sweet Jesus!
Cmdr. William Riker : Relax, Doctor. I'm sure they're just here to give us a send-off.