I was thinking about the parallels the other day between the final scene in Preemptive Strike and this one from Generations. In both cases Picard doesn’t want to hear whatever Riker’s giving him, and one of them is dressed up in a costume. Picard doesn’t even talk to Riker in the first one as he’s digesting deep feelings of betrayal and disappointment and only goes through the barest motions of command in the other, hiding behind a mask and failing at it pretty quickly.

Main difference of course being that Riker was there firsthand when Ro betrayed him, that report just puts it in details. In Generations Riker is just handing off a report of what they found on the station and Soran wanting to meet with Picard, Picard’s just suffered the loss of his family and hasn’t told anyone about it yet.

Farragut and escorts

Doctor Crusher and Nurse Ogawa meet an injured La Forge in the transporter room.

The best of emotion!chip Data in Star Trek Generations

“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived. After all, Number One, we’re only mortal.”

 Star Trek Generations (1994) Dir. David Carson

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, commander of the Federation flagship.