Counting coup

Extrait du script Code of honor (STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, première saison, par Katharyn Powers et Michael Baron). Scène 28 (continuée):


PICARD
(continuing)
Proceed with your analysis.

DATA
It is a highly structured society
in which people live by strict
codes of honor. For example, what
Lutan has done is similar to what
certain American Indians once did,
called "counting coup." That's
from an obscure language called
French --

PICARD
A language which for centuries
on Earth represented civilization,
Mister Data.

DATA
Indeed?

RIKER
I suggest you drop it, Mister
Data.