Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

First Contact (1991)

Carolyn Seymour: Mirasta Yale

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• Mirasta Yale : Our ideology is based on the assumption that the Malcorian is a supreme life form, and our world is the center of the universe. Your arrival will change our entire understanding of life - and some will not want it to change.

• Mirasta Yale : [visiting the Enterprise]  When I was a child, my parents would take me to the planetarium, and we would sit in the dark, and it was as if I was on a spaceship, on my way to another world, to meet people on other planets. Part of me keeps waiting for the lights to come up, and the program to end.

• [Mirasta Yale has asked to stay on the Enterprise and leave her planet] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I have to believe that you cannot be fully prepared for the realities of space travel.

  Mirasta Yale : I have been prepared for the realities of space travel since I was nine years old and sitting in a planetarium!

• Mirasta Yale : If you tell the Chancellor about Commander Riker, you will undermine everything that you hope to accomplish here. Durken will assign Krola, our Minister of Security, to find him - and Krola has his own political agenda. He will perceive you as the greatest threat that our people have ever known, and he will not hesitate to use Riker to prove that he is correct.

• Chancellor Durken : If I did not depend so much on your expertise in space matters, I would have asked for your resignation.

  Mirasta Yale : I felt I was acting in the best interests of our people, Chancellor.

  Chancellor Durken : When you are selected to occupy this office, then you will have the privilege of deciding the best interests of our people!