Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Interface (1993)

Jonathan Frakes: Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker

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• Commander William T. Riker : My mother died when I was a baby. All I had was pictures and the stories that my father used to tell me about her. I begged him to tell those stories over and over. When I was five and I went to school, I started to tell my new friends those same stories, pretending that she was alive. Then I started believing that she was alive, that she had just gone away, but that she was coming back. The teacher got wind of this. She and my father had this talk with me. They told me it was important to accept the fact that my mother was dead and that she wasn't coming back and all the hoping in the world wouldn't make it so. In my mind, that was the day that my mother actually died. I cried all that night, but after that, it started feeling better.

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  Commander William T. Riker : [unseen]  Geordi, have you found it yet?

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Not yet. I'm starting to get some fumes. Ammonia, chlorine, potassium chloride.