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top ten episodes | Star Trek The Next Generation
↳ 6. Chain of Command

Picard - “What I didn’t put in the report was that at the end he gave me a choice between a life of comfort or more torture. All I had to do was to say that I could see five lights, when in fact, there were only four.”
Troi - “You didn’t say it?”
Picard - “No, no, but I was going to. I would have told him anything. Anything at all. But more than that, I believed that I could see five lights.”