Star Trek: Picard (TV Series)

The Bounty (2023)

Ed Speleers: Jack Crusher

Quotes 

• Jack Crusher : [the console sparks]  It's probably not supposed to do that.

  Ensign Sidney La Forge : Inducers overheating. I don't know how to stop the chain reaction.

  Geordi La Forge : But I do. And you...

  [looks at Jack Crusher] 

  Geordi La Forge : ...stay away from my daughter.

  Ensign Sidney La Forge : Dad?

• Alandra La Forge : So, staying or going?

  Ensign Sidney La Forge : Staying.

  Jack Crusher : Brilliant. Oh, and just to be clear, I caused quite a lot of this. And your sister, on more than one occasion, has flown us out of the mess I made. Rather wonderfully, I might add.

  Alandra La Forge : Okay, let's reset our phasers.

  Jack Crusher : All of which is a preamble to me asking two very simple questions. One... how well do you know this museum? Two... what's your temperance for some, shall we say... minor larceny?

• Seven of Nine : [Jack Crusher sits in the captain's chair]  Off.

  Jack Crusher : Mmm... I'm just trying it out.

  [Seven brings up a ship on the view screen] 

  Jack Crusher : Oooh. Let me see. That one is the Defiant.

  [Seven brings up another ship on the view screen] 

  Jack Crusher : Mmm, that's the New Jersey.

  [Seven brings up another ship on the view screen] 

  Jack Crusher : Oh, wow. Well, this one is my personal favourite: Kirk's Enterprise. All those perfectly clean retro lines. Yep, I'm definitely a Constitution-class man.

  Seven of Nine : That's a fair amount of history for somebody who doesn't give a damn about Starfleet.

  Jack Crusher : Oh no, I've always loved a starship, well before I knew anything about my old man.

  [Seven brings up another ship on the view screen] 

  Jack Crusher : Oh. Oh, she's a beauty. Which one's that?

  Seven of Nine : The USS Voyager. She made her name further out than... any of those other relics had ever gone. I was reborn there. She was my home. Her crew were my family. And now...

  Jack Crusher : You're just trying to find another. We all long for connection. But we're just a little bit alone, aren't we? Stars in the same galaxy, but light-years between us.

  Seven of Nine : Oh, you are definitely your father's son. He, too, has a knack for the, um, poetic drive-by observation. Can be very annoying. But it can also make a person feel seen.

  Jack Crusher : Yeah, well, I can't say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn't entirely unfamiliar.

  [Seven chuckles, then brings up another ship on the view screen] 

  Jack Crusher : Ah. What's that one? Is that a... is that a Klingon Bird-of-Prey?

  Seven of Nine : The HMS Bounty, pulled from the bottom of the San Francisco Bay.

  Jack Crusher : Yeah, right. The whole whale thing.

  Seven of Nine : Story goes they had a hell of a time finding it. It disappeared.

  Jack Crusher : Because the cloaking device had reactivated.

• Jack Crusher : I'm sorry about Riker. Look, I can be a lot of things. Mostly the prick at the bar who says things he can't take back. Maybe... a bit cocky.

  Jean-Luc Picard : A bit?

  Jack Crusher : However... I think I have some virtues as well. I'm mostly caring. Often tenacious, principled. I hope. And occasionally clever. All of those things, I get from my mother. Bot I can also be brave, loyal, and far wiser than I have any right to be. Until a week ago... I didn't know where those traits came from. Maybe you didn't just give me some bullshit disease. Maybe... you gave me some of the good bits as well.

  Jean-Luc Picard : Maybe.

• Jack Crusher : [Looking at Voyager]  Which one is that?