The Best Star Trek: Discovery, Season 4, Episode 9 Quotes

- It's powered from the other side of the wormhole.
- Outside the galaxy.

[Burnham] Saru?
[Saru] We're trying, captain.
- Come on. Get out of there.
- Can you get a lock now?
- I'm working on it, captain.
- The shuttle's breaking apart.
[Burnham] Owosekun!
[Owosekun] Almost got them!

- We're working as fast as we can.
- We're crunching gigaquads of raw data.
- Can you crunch faster?
- Is there an acceptable answer other than yes?
- Nope.
- Then, yes.
[Detmer] That's it, captain.

- You wanna go to some home in another universe.
- I lost my entire home here.
- Don't you dare tell me how to do this.
- I'm firing another round of warning shots.
- Then we jump again. Get ready.
[Tarka] Damn it, enough!
- No!

[Tarka] Federation banned it for a good reason.
- A little goes a long way.
Book's Ship Computer: Is it enough to destroy the dma?
[Tarka] And then some.
- Careful.
- Careful.

- We need to use it well.
- If they manage to jump into the dma before we detain them, pursuit will become much more dangerous.
- Black alert.
- Activate cloak.
- Let's fly.

- You won't survive.
- I believe in book.
- But if I'm wrong, if anything happens,
- I know you'll save my team.
- Your team.
- Good luck, Michael.

- The detonation will stretch half a parsec. We need to go.
- Not until I know they're safe.
- The null-space bubble will protect the internal power source, not us.
- We're waiting until they jump.
- You tried. Let's go.
- Damn it. Black alert. Jump. Now.

- No more worlds will be destroyed.
- You can go back, I can go home.
- Once we get the power source.
- I just need to find it.
- No, it's here. It has to be.
- It's not here.

[Burnham] Thank you.
- Discovery,
- I'm on my way back.
- Cancel black alert.
- Book and tarka are standing down.
- Prepare for them in shuttlebay.

[Vance] If the dma is their mining equipment,
- I can only imagine what their weapons are like.
- And if their power supply is threatened, it will almost certainly be seen as a hostile act.
- Booker and tarka must be stopped.
- I know.

- And we'll do it the right way.
- Won't be long before book's here to try his way.
- And we'll be ready.
- Commander detmer, bring us in as close as possible.
- I wanna put ourselves between book's ship and that controller.
- And we are going to hold as long as we possibly can.

- We came here to put a stop to the dma.
- Shuttle, identify yourself.
[Burnham] Book, it's me.
- Michael?
- Commander Rhys, stand by.
- Aye, commander.

- Well, I wonder if I may ask a favor.
- On ni'var,
- I joined you in a thresh-Tor kashek meditation.
- I found it greatly helpful in settling my mind.
- I could use such help now.
- Of course.

- He's doing what he thinks is right, but he's not unreasonable.
- Tarka's the wild card here.
- We will have our phasers with us, but set to stun.
- Only to be used if necessity requires.
- I know you'll make the right call.
- Be safe.

- be an act of aggression.
- Not if we want peace.
- We have no idea where the controller is.
- We don't know what exactly we'll find when we jump in, so let's be prepared for anything.
- Black alert.

- Anyhow, I think it's time for me to get okay with some middle ground.
- I'd love to come back to discovery one of these days.
- If that's okay.
- Oh, you always have a home here.
- Good luck out there.
- You too.

- the heat blast will burn out our thermal regulators.
- We will avoid the blast if we dive in low.
- That'll blind book long enough for us to get out of here.
- Detmer, on my Mark, full power astern, adjust course, 1-8 Mark 4.
[Detmer] Aye, captain.
[Burnham] Here comes the blast.

- I would be pleased to join you, if you'd like.
- .I will...
- Consider that.
- Thank you, madam president.
- Of course.
- Good luck, Mr. Saru.

- Covert ops, I couldn't tell anyone.
- I read the reports.
- Bloody skirmishes in the outer sectors.
- This isn't the way I wanted to come back.
- But I figured better me than someone you don't know.
- I'm glad it's you.

- It doesn't matter.
- I lost half my team on my last mission waiting too long to make a call
- I knew needed to be made.
- I will not let that happen again.
- You said it yourself, the stakes are too high.
- It's time.
- I fear she may be right.