Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Home Soil (1988)

Walter Gotell: Kurt Mandl

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You're a man obsessed with what you do. Who knows what an obsessed man will do to keep going. Kill, perhaps?

  Kurt Mandl : [suppressed voice]  I create life... I don't take it!

• Kurt Mandl : [about terraforming]  You see grand romantic concepts. I see unyielding rock under an ocean of sand.

• Kurt Mandl : Picard, I must... point out again that we were assured, not once but many times, by the best scientific minds in the Federation, that this planet has no life. No life! And we were not looking. And therefore we did not see.

• Kurt Mandl : I wanted to create a place where living things could thrive. And all the while, I was about to destroy the life that is there.