Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Malcolm McDowell: Soran

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• Picard : What you're about to do, Soran, is no different from when the Borg destroyed your world. They killed millions too. Including your wife, your children.

  Dr. Soran : [smiles, sighs]  Nice try. You know there was a time that I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came, and they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe, it's death. Afterwards, I began to realize that it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when. You will too, Captain. Aren't you beginning to feel time gaining on you?

  [enters control room of missile launcher] 

  Dr. Soran : It's like a predator; it's stalking you. Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies. But in the end, time is going to hunt you down... and make the kill.

  Picard : It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence.

  Dr. Soran : What if I told you I found a new truth?

  Picard : The Nexus?

  Dr. Soran : Time has no meaning there. The predator has no teeth.

• Dr. Soran : They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives.

  [softly] 

  Dr. Soran : I know you understand.

• Dr. Soran : [holding Kirk at gunpoint]  Actually, I am familiar with history, Captain. And if I'm not too much mistaken, you're dead.

• Dr. Soran : Have you ever considered a prosthesis that would make you look a little more... how can I say... more normal?

  Geordi : What's normal?

  Dr. Soran : "What's normal?" Well, that's a good question. Normal is what everyone else is and you are not.

• Dr. Soran : Now, if you'll have to excuse me, Captain. I have an appointment with eternity and I don't want to be late.

• Dr. Soran : Welcome, Captain. You must think I'm quite the madman.

  Picard : The thought had crossed my mind.

• Dr. Soran : [Kirk confronts Soran]  Just who the hell are you?

  Picard : He's James T. Kirk. Don't you read history?

• Dr. Soran : [Soran plans to destroy a populated star system]  Now if you don't mind, I'm rather busy.

• Picard : You don't have to do this, Soran. I'm sure we can find another way of getting you into this Nexus.

  Dr. Soran : I've spent 80 years looking for another way. Believe me, this is the only one.

• Dr. Soran : [Picard beams down to Veridian III]  I know why you're here. You're not entirely confident you can shoot down my probe, so you've come to dissuade me from my horrific plan. Good luck.

• Klingon Helm : We have entered orbit of Veridian III.

  Dr. Soran : Prepare to transport me to the surface.

  B'Etor : Wait. When do we our payment?

  Dr. Soran : [offering a data stick, then retracting it as she snatches at it]  This contains all the information you'll need to make a trilithium weapon.

  [she snatches at it again] 

  Dr. Soran : Hey. It's been coded. Once I'm safely to the surface, I'll transmit the decryption sequence to you.

  [she snatches at it yet again] 

  Dr. Soran : Not before.

• Geordi : What do you want?

  Dr. Soran : As you may or may not be aware, I am an El-Aurian. Some people call us a race of listeners. We listen. Right now, Mr. La Forge, you have my complete attention. I want to listen to everything you know about trilithium.

• Dr. Soran : [inspecting Geordi's VISOR]  Marvelous technology. This is a remarkable piece of equipment.

  Geordi : [sarcastic]  Glad you approve.

• Picard : Klingon vessel, we know what you're doing, and we will destroy any probe launched toward the Veridian star. We demand that you return our chief engineer and leave this system immediately.

  Dr. Soran : There's no time for this. Eliminate them.

  B'Etor : That is a Galaxy-class starship. We are no match for them.

  Dr. Soran : I think it's time we gave Mr. La Forge his sight back.

• Dr. Soran : You got careless. The Romulans came looking for their missing trilithium.

  B'Etor : Impossible. We left no survivors on their outpost.

  Dr. Soran : They knew it was on the observatory. If the Enterprise hadn't intervened, they would have found it.

  Lursa : They didn't find it! And now we have a weapon of unlimited power.

  Dr. Soran : No, Lursa, *I* have the weapon, and if you ever want me to give it to you, I would advise you to be a little more careful in the future.

  B'Etor : [putting a knife to his throat]  Perhaps we are tired of waiting.

  Dr. Soran : [chuckling in amusement]  Without my research, the trilithium is worthless, as are your plans to re-conquer the Klingon Empire.

• Geordi : Data, are you all right?

  Data : I believe the emotion chip has overloaded my positronic relay.

  Geordi : We'd better get you back to the ship.

  [tapping his combadge] 

  Geordi : La Forge to Enterprise.

  [getting static, he tries again] 

  Geordi : La Forge to Enterprise.

  Dr. Soran : Gentlemen, is there a problem?

  Geordi : Dr. Soran. Yeah. There seems to be some sort of dampening field in here. It's blocking our comm signal. Can you shut it off for us?

  Dr. Soran : Of course, I'd be only too happy to.

  [he backhands Geordi, knocking him out] 

  Data : [cowering as Soran aims a weapon at him]  Please. Please. No. Do not... . do not hurt me. Please, please.