Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation1987

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 44 minutes

Featuring a bigger and better USS Enterprise, this series is set 78 years after the original series -- in the 24th century. Instead of Capt. James Kirk, a less volatile and more mature Capt. Jean-Luc Picard heads the crew of various humans and alien… more »



Lal:
I watch them, and I can do the things they do, but I will never feel the emotions. I'll never know love.

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
It is a limitation we must learn to accept, Lal.

Lal:
Then why do you still try to emulate humans? What purpose does it serve except to remind you that you are incomplete?

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
I have asked myself that many times, as I have struggled to be more human. Until I realized, it is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are, Lal. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards.

Lal:
You are wise, Father.

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
It is the difference between knowledge and experience.

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