He snatched a land-mine before his ship was crushed, ran under the Walker, fired a magnetic cable from his harpoon gun at its metal underbelly, and hoisted himself up.Picard researched Soran""s background, learning that he was 300 years old and had lost his entire family when the Borg destroyed his planet - and then escaped with other refugees aboard theLakul; Picard learned from Guinan that Soran""s primary obsessive goal was to get back to the Nexus and remain there, and the energy ribbon was its "doorway"; the Nexus was addictive - "like being inside joy" and Soran who wished to return there "could be a very, very dangerous man"; Picard theorized that Soran was attempting to "make the ribbon come to him" starting with the Amargosa star""s explosion - hence his current journey to Veridian III to collapse or explode a Veridian star (that would consequently cause the destruction of all the planets in its system, including Veridian 4 with a population of 230 million) - the explosion would make the ribbon/Nexus accessible to Soran from the surface of Veridian III.The gates were open and the hills were beckoning...I can""t seem to stop singing wherever I am." In he hopes that Maria""s vocational goals are better suited elsewhere, he Mother Superior suggests that she leave the nunnery before she decides whether to become a monastic, cloistered nun: "It seems to be the will of God that you leave us.Knowing his father""s wishes, that he would have spared Pettigrew""s life and shown mercy, Harry prevented them from killing Pettigrew..a pinch of passion, and just a hint of lust!" She suggested that Fiona was unhappy (and wasn""t living "happily ever after") because - unlike all the other traditional fairy tales (including a mention ofPretty Woman (1990)), she had married an ogre: "Ogres don""t live happily ever after.