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"All he has to do is say there are five lights"
by admiralspoo 6y ago
"All he has to do is say there are five lights"
- gameswithgo 6y agoit would be interesting to redo that episode, where there ARE actually 5 lights but picard keeps insisting their are 4 out of spite
- doubleunplussed 6y agoFwiw at the end of the episode Picard says to Riker: "You know, I really did see five lights".
- hawkice 6y agoAt the end, wasn't the comment that he believed he _could_ see five lights? It's possible this is a deliberate grammatical ambiguity, but I think it could also be read as "I was not just willing to say it, my reality was being destroyed".
- crooked-v 6y agoPICARD: I, er, I don't know where to begin. It was... TROI: I read your report. 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.