The Best Star Trek: Discovery, Season 2, Episode 9 Quotes

- Biometric data indicates the victim died at least two weeks ago.
- Bodies are frozen solid.

Captain: I'm curious. Did you sideline the Enterprise because you knew I'd never stop reminding you of that?
Admiral: You sat out the war, because if we'd lost to the Klingons, we wanted the best of Starfleet to survive. And as this conversation makes clear, that was you, and all you represent.
Captain: [taken aback] Thank you.
Admiral: You're welcome. Now will you get off my ass, so we can get back to work?

- Aye, sir.
- Lieutenant detmer, set a course for section 31 headquarters.
- Yes, captain.
- Admiral, with your permission.
- Sooner we get there, the better.
- Hit it.

- Airiam, what are you doing?
- Airiam, stand down. That is an order.
- Do you hear me? I said, stand down.
- Commanderairiam, ineed you to stop.

- I think the corruption may be with the navigator, which, you know, isn't important at all.
- It just holds the map to the entire mycelial network.
- You have traveled that network hundreds of times.
- You know it well enough to travel between two points without assistance.
- Perhaps you simply lack faith in your own abilities.

- It can destroy all other sentient life in the galaxy.
- Yes, that's what Spock saw in his vision.
- I'll delete whatever she managed to upload.
- Damn it. I can't get in.
- Delete the data remotely?
- I can't access the system, and I definitely can't hack airiam.

Admiral: I understand this is more than you bargained for. But you cannot abandon the mission, Chris. Whether I can issue orders or not, we have to get a team onto that station and reset Control.
Captain: What is it about the look on my face that suggests I've changed my mind?

- Begin evasive maneuvers.
- Pattern lambda ten.
- Yes, sir.
- You should go help now.
- But you said not to leave.
- I've got this, and they need you.

- Lieutenant detmer, sending the route to you now.
- One other thing I should mention.
- The shields will have to be down.
- -Why?
- The mines are attracted to them.
- Nothing's ever easy.
- Lower shields and take us closer.

- Searching for data to help the decryption.
- For all the benefits of my augmentation, its storage capacity is not infinite.
- Your species is barzan, yes?
- Your augmentation allows you to breathe in our atmosphere?
- Why are you asking?
- Curiosity.

- Well, uh...
- Unless I can reroute power to the adjacent conduit, isolate the corruption, fix it and the spore drive...
- We'll all get arrested, so...
- If you wanna save the galaxy, start by helping me.
- A fair point.

- Well, perhaps you're defending him because you're his sister.
- Not by blood.
- He's telling the truth about the murders.
- Or he believes he is.
- Forgive me, admiral, but I fail to understand your doubt.
- Is the test you administered inaccurate?
- The test is 100 percent accurate.
- But so is this.

- I'll look after her, captain.
- Okay.
- Good luck, everyone.
- Dismissed.
- Look at you, going off on a mission.
- Don't forget about us little people.
- I will do my best, Keyla.
- Mm-hm.

- Everything is because of you.
- Because of me?
- Michael.
- Open the airlock.
- Please tell everyone I love them.
- You have to find project daedalus.
- What is project daedal...?

- Captain, I'm seeing clear signs of a struggle.
- There's more blood.
- Looks like someone tried to pry these doors open.
- Or keep them from shutting.
- Any sense of who was fighting whom?
- Not yet.

Admiral: Sometimes, in war, the terrible choice is the only choice.
Captain: Giving up our values in the name of security is to lose the battle in advance.

[Burnham has taken out a game of 3D chess]
Spock: I am attempting to understand why the Red Angel chose me to expose a threat to the entire galaxy. And your solution is to play chess?
Michael: When the Red Angel showed you visions you couldn't reconcile, it caused you to question your ability to examine the world logically. What better way to return to logic than via the game that represents it?
Spock: It is arrogant of you to assert that my present manner of thinking requires fixing at all.
Michael: It is arrogant of you to assert it doesn't. Or you're just afraid you'll lose.
Spock: All right, Michael. Let's play chess.

- Pi Alpha two.
- Commander Burnham.
- Delta seven.
- Lieutenant owosekun.
- Omega one.

Spock: Perhaps he needs distance from you not because he no longer has feelings for you, but because he no longer knows how to feel about himself.

- A future in which all sentient life in our galaxy was eradicated.
- In a few minutes...
- Discovery will become the most wanted ship in the galaxy.
- My experience as a fugitive suggests only one course of action.
- And what is that?
- We run.

- What could cause an entire station to malfunction?
- Commander Burnham, commander nhan, you're on with the captain.
- Commander, what is airiam doing?
- Trying to restore admiral Cornwell's access to control.
- No, she's not. Stop her.
- What the hell was that?

- Commander Burnham, we need you on the bridge.
- I'm on my way.
- Yellow alert. Take us in.

- I can't shake these blade mines, captain.
- They seem to be anticipating our moves.
- Switch to pattern gamma four.

- What do you think killed him?
- That's a really good question.
- Restoring power and gravity now, commander.
- Burnham to discovery. At least four dead.
- I'm guessing we 7! Find more.
- But we've got gravity and atmosphere restored.

- And as this conversation makes clear, that was you and all you represent.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Now will you get off my ass so we can get back to work?

- Tell them to order section 31 to stand down.
- Sensors are saying that we're upside down.
- Those are blackout mines.
- They interfere with navigation.
- Blackout mines?
- The helm is not responding.
- It is, lieutenant.
- You're flying blind, just like in the academy.

- Like a game, after a few moves, it anticipates what we'll do.
- Recommendations?
- To introduce randomness and chaos, sir.
- Lieutenant detmer, trust your training.
- You can do this.
- Mr. Saru, we need an evasive pattern.
- Uh, beta nine, detmer.

- Do you understand?
- No, that's okay. You got this.
- Please.
- Tilly.
- Yeah. Okay.
- Commander.
- Dropping us out of warp now, captain.

- But discovery is harboring wanted criminals and is, itself, a fugitive vessel.
- It was too dangerous to allow you in proximity to our base.
- We'll see what starfleet has to say.
- Bryce?
- Sir, they're still not responding.
- That is because my order to attack came directly from starfleet command.

- None of it is in her head anymore.
- Those memories meant everything to her.
- Find out what she downloaded in their place.
- Lieutenant Bryce, open a secure channel to Burnham and nhan only.
- Mr. Stamets, how are we doing on that spore drive?
- I'll be ready when you are.
- Good. We might need it very soon.

- You need to identify why you're really angry.
- There is nothing to identify.
- I am angry. Pure and simple.
- Because you feel you failed as a vulcan or as a human?
- What I feel is that failure is liberating.
- And for the first time,
- I enjoy expressing emotion.

- It is arrogant of you to assert that my present manner of thinking requires fixing at all.
- It is arrogant of you to assert it doesn't.
- Or you're just afraid you'll lose.
- All right, Michael.
- Let's play chess.

- I disappoint him, he disappoints me.
- The sun sets, a new day begins.
- Oh, you're a philosopher now.
- And you're a human.
- And you cannot presume to know sarek's mind.

- Captain, still no life signs, and gravity is out.
- Please be careful.
- Standing by to beam you out.

- That new?
- I used to keep it... private.
- But I think I like having it out now.
- Is this from the same beach?
- Our last day together.
- Our shuttle back home went down, and...