Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
The Royale (1989)
Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Quotes
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [reading "Hotel Royale" in his ready room] "It was a dark and stormy night..."
[pauses and sighs]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : That's not a promising beginning.
Counselor Deanna Troi : It may get better.
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[Picard and Riker discuss Fermat's Theorem]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I find it stimulating. Also, it puts things in perspective. In our arrogance, we feel we are so advanced, and yet we cannot unravel a simple knot tied by a part-time French mathematician, working alone without a computer.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Curiouser and curiouser...
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Counselor Deanna Troi : [listening to Mickey D. and the bellboy] I don't believe this dialogue. Did humans really talk like that?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Not in real life. Remember, everything that's going on down there is taken from what Colonel Richey calls "a second-rate novel".
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[last lines]
Commander William T. Riker : None of it makes any sense.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Like Fermat's Theorem, it's a puzzle we may never solve.