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At 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
by hawkice 6y ago
At 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.