The Best Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3, Episode 1 Quotes

- We have to go.
- -Go, go, go!
- -Oh.

- True believers.
- Of course.
- I don't know how much of the Federation still exists.
- I simply do my part to keep it alive.
- Now...
- I ask you to do me a great honor.

- -Sticky.
- -What?
- S-T-I-C-K-Y.
- What kind of code is that?
- That's the damn code, all right?
- Pick your own code on your own ship.
- {beeping]

- Stand here.
- The Andorians and the Orions are working together?
- They don't get a lot of walk-ins here.
- Follow my lead. Try not to get us shot.
- {Andorian] Next, step up.
- {whirring and chirping]

- Set temporal coordinates for location 5499 section 16, course heading 214, mark five. initiate final signal upon closure of spatial rift, then initiate self-destruct sequence.
- Activate propulsion, now!
- Sequence initiated.
- {gasps]

- Nope.
- -Are you gonna tell me what's in the hole?
- -Nope.
- Stop! Freeze!
- Don't move.
- Don't.
- Drop your weapons.

- {Ithor] Don't shoot it.
- It's served fresh.
- It looks smaller on the holo.
- It's not moving. Is it dead?
- {snarling]
- {whispering] Close your eyes.

- {Burnham gasps]
- {laughing]
- What?

- Give me the dilithium.
- Throw it, you can come with me.
- I am done being reflexively supportive!
- Come on!
- Where is the comms array?

Cleveland: This is what my planet used to be like. Until I had to leave it behind. How much did you leave behind?
Michael: Nine hundred and thirty years.
Cleveland: Why?
Michael: To ensure the future. *A* future.
Cleveland: Thank you.

Michael: I may have broken your nose earlier. I apologize.
Cleveland: You saying that in case we die?
Michael: Yup.

- and then colliding with thousand-year-old women in space.
- What cargo was he hauling?
- I don't know, but it was temperature-sensitive and valuable, so it's probably ice cream.
- -Is he still in the building?
- -What's his name?
- -Book.
- -{grunts]

- {grunts]
- You all right?
- -Yeah.
- -Yeah?
- I really, really didn't know how this day was gonna turn out.
- -{laughs]
- -{sighs]
- Okay, good.

- Everybody's got a story.
- A broken tricorder won't cut it.
- I need all the dilithium I can get to finish my run.
- When I get out of this,
- I am coming for you.
- You and everybody else.
- I'm sorry.
- {drone] Do not move. You are under arrest.

- -Life support failure.
- -{groans]
- Life support failure.
- Life support failure.
- Life support failure.
- {grunts]
- {grunting]

- Whoa!
- Oh, uh...
- -Book?
- -Stay still, please.
- No, no.
- Molly, no!
- {speaking in alien language]

- To ensure the future.
- A future.
- Thank you.
- I didn't do it alone.
- I have no idea how to start looking for my ship.
- I think I know someone who could help.

- And I've waited so long to see it on that wall.
- {Burnham] Mr. Sahil, you are as real a Federation officer as any I have ever met.
- If you would do me the honor, we need an acting communications chief who can keep searching for my ship.
- Will you accept the commission?

Ithor the Orion: [referring to Booker] What cargo was he hauling?
Michael: I don't know, but it was temperature-sensitive, and really valuable, so it's probably ice cream.

- One more to come home.
- {computer] Your code is accepted, Book.
- Welcome to Sanctuary Four.
- Sanctuary?
- {roars]
- {Book speaking in alien language]
- {Book laughing]

- I listen better without you holding that antique to my head.
- -You want to put that down?
- -No.
- Okay. On three?
- -One--
- -I'm counting!
- Fine, you count. Damn.
- One... two... three.

- {Cosmo]
- Get our cargo back first.
- {weapon whirring]
- Aw, man. [chuckles]
- {grunting]
- {screams]

- -That was an accident!
- -No one comes out here by accident!
- I am telling you, stop!
- Now, nobody has to get hurt.
- -You might.
- -I am not fighting you!
- You're fighting me. My name--
- I don't want to know.
- {grunting]

- All time travel technology was destroyed after the Temporal Wars. Outlawed.
- There was no other way.
- For me... or my crew.
- I have to find them. I have to.

Cleveland: You believe in ghosts.
Michael: What does that mean?
Cleveland: That badge on your shirt. Sometimes you see a guy with one of those badges getting himself all worked up about the Federation. The old days. True believers. Can't handle that it's gone.

- Do you think I'm compensating for something?
- They sprayed you with that stuff, didn't they?
- They sure did.
- Adrenaline will knock it out of you in a bit.
- Okay.
- {laughing]

Aditya: Commander Burnham, now I'll tell you a secret. I'm not a commissioned officer. You see, my father was, his father before him. But, unlike them, I was never officially sworn in. There has been no one to do it. Yet, I watched this office every day, as I have for 40 years, believing one day, others like me would walk through that door; that my hope was not in vain. Today is that day. And that hope is you, Commander Burnham.
Michael: [to Booker, smiling] True believers.

- phaser, Delta shield.
- Commander Michael Burnham, Starfleet.
- Commander Michael Burnham,
- Science Officer, U.S.S. Discovery.
- Serial number, SC0064-0974 SHN.
- Science Officer, U.S.S. Discovery.
- Serial number SC0064-0974 SHN.

- {grunts]
- Stand up.
- {grunting]
- Walk.
- {theme song playing]

- What about the other sectors?
- I only have access to these sectors.
- You've been cut off from the other sectors? Entirely?
- Long-range sensors failed decades ago.
- I have not been able to scan beyond 30 sectors since then.
- I would imagine it is the same for all others.

- A hundred, 120 years ago?
- Before I was born.
- No.
- No, the Federation isn't just about ships and warp drive.
- It's about a vision and all those who believe in that vision.
- That's nice.
- Do yourself a favor and take off that badge before we get to Requiem.

- Hang on.
- {both grunt]
- We have to move, they'll be tracking the--
- I need to call my ship.
- {Book] First things first.
- {grunting and yelling]

- I may have broken your nose earlier.
- I apologize.
- -You saying that in case we die?
- -Yup!
- Book, come on.
- It's still charging!
- {groans]
- -Okay, you're about to be really mad!
- -What?

- Something like.
- {groans]
- -Got a bite to it.
- -Mm-hm.
- Probably still wrap it though.
- You carry a handkerchief?
- Man's gotta blow his nose.

- -You're welcome.
- -{grunts]
- -{Burnham] You pushed me off a cliff.
- -I told you, you were gonna be mad.
- If you're thinking about punching me again, we're alive.
- I could've guessed coordinates inside a rock.
- But they'll find us soon enough.
- Haven't been shot in a while.

[repeated line]
Cleveland: [regarding Michael's identity and origin] I don't want to know.

- {computer] Rebooting.
- Rebooting.
- Come on! Come on, come on!
- Reboot complete.
- Increase power to reverse thrusters and activate impact shield!
- {grunts]

- I have nowhere to go back to.
- The only thing I can do right now is trust something... or someone, and I am sorry you don't want it to be... but it's you.
- So please.
- Please help me.

- Apparently, I have antiques.
- Can you get the dilithium you need for this? It's a tricorder.
- -Cover that uniform. Try to look normal.
- -You ever gonna tell me your name?
- Book. My name is Book.
- {beeping]
- Your cargo is temperature sensitive?

- {computer] Unable to comply.
- {gasps]
- Initiate heat shield!
- {computer] Emergency heat shield initiated.
- Fatal impact imminent, propulsion systems unresponsive.
- -Full system reboot!
- -Rebooting.

- I'll send the last signal.
- I'll send it through the wormhole when we get to the other side.
- I will watch the stars for it.
- Burnham to Discovery, let's go.
- {Saru] We are on our way.
- {birds chirping]

- So what?
- It doesn't belong to you, it belongs to itself.
- Open your damn mind.
- Nope.
- {computer] Warning: Space-time anomaly detected.
- {alarm blaring]