Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Allegiance (1990)
Stephen Markle: Kova Tholl
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Quotes
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[Esoqq picks up a food disc]
Esoqq : What is this?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Food.
Esoqq : The *only* food?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It would seem so.
[Esoqq tastes the disc, then throws it away]
Esoqq : POISON!
Kova Tholl : Does this mean there's nothing here for you to eat?
[Esoqq examines Kova Tholl intently]
Esoqq : You!
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Esoqq : My given name is Esoqq. It means 'Fighter'.
Kova Tholl : I'll bet half the names in the Chalnoth language mean 'Fighter'.
Esoqq : Mizarians. Your names all mean 'Surrender'!
Kova Tholl : We are a peaceful race. A race of thinkers.
Esoqq : A race of cowards.
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Kova Tholl : My race has no enemies.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : None? In the last three hundred years of Mizarian history, your planet has been conquered six times!
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Kova Tholl : It's well known that my species possesses superior intelligence, and, uh, I am considered among the brightest of my people.
Mitena Haro : And the least modest.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Esoqq, I've been trying to determine if we have a common enemy. Someone with a reason for confining us here.
Esoqq : There are Chalnoth who would kill me if they could. But kidnap? There is no reason.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You have many enemies.
Esoqq : None of consequence. I've slain all the ones who mattered. That shocks you, Bolian?
Mitena Haro : A little.
Esoqq : [to Tholl] And you?
Kova Tholl : Oh, I'm not surprised. I've heard about your race. You're uncivilised. You have no laws, no system of government.
Esoqq : The Chalnoth have no use for laws or governments. We are strong. We obey no one.
Kova Tholl : You live in anarchy, murdering one another. That mentality may get us all killed.
Esoqq : And you may be the first!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Both of you. This is getting us nowhere.
Kova Tholl : Neither is asking us useless questions, Picard.