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Clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) - Half a Life (S04E04)

"What you're really saying"
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"is you got rid of the problem by getting rid of the people."
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"It may sound that way"
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"but it is a time of transition..."
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"one generation passing on the responsibilities of life"
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"to the next."
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"What about the responsibility of caring for the elderly?"
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"That would place a dreadful burden on the children."
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"We raise them, we care for them, we suffer for them"
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"we keep them from harm their whole lives."
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"No parent should expect to be paid back"
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"for the love they've given their children."
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"Well, why the hell not?"
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"Oskoids."
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"What's that?"
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"You should have tried it while you were still alive."
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"No reason to bother now."
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"Why 60?"
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"Why not 62? 58?"
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"A reasonable age had to be set."
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"But it's not reasonable, certainly not in your case."
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"to my family and colleagues while I am this way..."
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"in full command of my faculties"
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"knowing that they will always remember me"
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"as a strong and vigorous man."
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"But it makes no sense."
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"Some of your people could still be active at 70 or 80"
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"and others might be seriously ill at 50."
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"How cruel of you to make them wait so long to commit suicide."
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"makes it uniform for everybody."
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"To ask individual families"
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"to decide when their elders are to die..."
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"that would be heartless."
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"I agree."
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"Why not let everybody die when they die?"
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"Lwaxana..."
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"Yes, almost seven."
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"I mean, not some vague memory of someone who once loved him"
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"but a real, living person who does love him."
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"I attended the Resolution of my parents"
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"when it was their time."
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"It was beautiful."
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"Lwaxana, this is a custom that I have known"
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"and accepted all my life."
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"The women of Betazed used to wear these enormous wigs"
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"with large holes in the center"
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"Yes?"
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"First, it was a fashion"
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"then it went on long enough to become a custom..."
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"a tradition..."
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"but it was uncomfortable for the woman"
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"and cruel to the animal."
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"So then one day, one very formidable woman"
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"finally said so..."
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"refused to ever wear another of those wigs."
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"Fairly soon, the custom stopped."
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"She had the courage to stand up and fight for change."
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"Timicin, there is no one more qualified"
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"more experienced, or more likely to save their planet than you"
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"and they would have you kill yourself."
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"Younger scientists will take my place."
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"the work will continue."
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"Your planet has what, 30, 40 years left?"
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"What if your scientists can't find the answer without you?"
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"What chance do you think your grandson has"
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"Enough, please!"
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"It is my time, Lwaxana"
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"and that is the way it is."
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"If it's time has come, let it die."
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"Where?"
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"Convection boundary uncoupling."
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"The reaction... caused"
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"gas turbulence of a totally unexpected magnitude."
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"Why?"
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"There was evidence of a delayed surface shock."
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"No, I'd anticipated that."
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"I thought I'd anticipated all possible variables"
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"but stars, you know, they're like living entities in a way..."
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"quite unpredictable."
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"You know..."
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"I wouldn't be at all surprised if this were a result of..."
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"42 seconds into the test, there is a sudden rise"
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"in the level of hydrogen-alpha emissions."
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"I'm right, aren't I?"
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"There had to be neutron migration"
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"within the star's inner core as the reaction grew."
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"Perhaps, Doctor, but there is no known method"
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"for controlling a neutron migration."
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"Yes, yes, but theoretically, it is possible."
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"Using these test results, we could construct"
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"a new computer model of the energy dynamic of a star"
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"that can test a new detonation program."
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"It's just a matter of time."
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"A matter of time."
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"Timicin."
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"Time for you to leave us then."
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"Captain..."
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"asylum aboard the Enterprise."
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"Timicin, I cannot believe this."
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"Why asylum?"
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"Asylum from what?"
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"I turn 60 in four days, Minister."
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"Yes, and your family and colleagues"
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"as a people, the wisdom of the Resolution."
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"Are they forcing you into this?"
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"Are you being coerced?"
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"Coerced? No."
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"Our only influence, Minister, is by example."
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"Timicin's decision is his own free will, I assure you."
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"I cannot believe that a man of Timicin's stature"
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"would freely choose to reject his own culture."
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"No one on Kaelon II understands this project as I do."
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"There are new theories"
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"With my guidance, it could be done in half that time."
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"I must finish my work."
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"Others started your work, others will finish it."
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"It has always been this way. It always will."
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"Captain, scanners indicate two Kaelon warships"
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"rising on an intercept course."
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"Acknowledged, Commander."
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