Use this log of activity to assist your participation in Talk Like Picard Day. It includes a daily program selection for the week leading into the holiday, a selection of phrases for you to use in everyday conversation if possible, and some project recommendations. Stand up straight, pause for emphasis, and Talk Like Picard.
Daily Program
Date: September 22
Program: Star Trek the Next Generation 2.3 “Elementary, My Dear Data”
Quote: Soon she’ll be shipshape and Bristol fashion.Date: September 23
Program: Star Trek the Next Generation 6.18 “Starship Mine”
Quote: I plan on leaving the same way you do. On your ship.Date: September 24
Program: Star Trek: Generations
Quote: What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived.Date: September 25
Program: Star Trek the Next Generation 6.10-11 “Chain of Command”
Quote: There are four lights!Date: September 26
Program: Star Trek: First Contact
Quote: The line must be drawn here!Date: September 27
Program: Picard 3.10 “The Last Generation”
Quote: I've come to believe that the stars have always been in my favor.Date: September 28
Program: Star Trek the Next Generation 5.25 “The Inner Light”
Quote: Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
Conversational Quotes
Make it so.
Engage.
Tea. Earl grey. Hot.
To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination.
The line must be drawn here! This far and no further!
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
Things are only impossible until they are not.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth.
That is what it is to be human: to make yourself more than you are.
You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose.
We have powerful tools: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity.
The past is written, but the future is left for us to write.
To be alive is a responsibility as well as a right.
There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle. It’s just a matter of finding it.
I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
Fear is an incompetent teacher.
Hope and the odds make poor bedfellows.
The dreams are lovely. It’s the waking up I’m beginning to resent.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Projects
Make your own communicator pin.
Recruit your bridge crew.
Repair the transporter room.
Defend the Enterprise.
Enjoy a tea tasting ceremony.
Social Media
Mention Talk Like Picard Day with #talklikepicard
Post a Picard meme.
Post a reel performing a Picard mannerism or quote.
Post a photo of your projects and activities.