Batel: Dr. Korby doesn’t mind you arriving a little early?
Chapel: I mean, it’s space. Does anyone ever get there when they say they will?
Batel: Fair point.

Chapel: What if it’s another rejection?
Ortegas: Forget those Vulcans and their Science Academy. They don’t deserve you.
Chapel: But this fellowship is different. Dr. Korby’s a genius.
Ortegas: I’m supposed to know who that is?
M’Benga: He’s the Louis Pasteur of archeological medicine.
Ortegas: Yeah, no. Still means nothing.

War, it doesn’t leave you. It can bury itself, but it’s always there.

Pike: I’m just shocked that Rah would attack him like that.
Chapel: I guess, it just goes to show, no one ever really knows what goes on in anyone’s heart.

War, it makes sense if you’ve been there, but it will never make sense.

Chapel: Better make that two.
M’Benga: Mine’s a double.
Chapel: Even better.

Ortegas: Hey, what’s the future like? Do you have jet packs or what?
Chapel: We have jet packs now.
Ortegas: I know, but, like, smaller jet packs.

Chapel: Relationships, at least for humans, can be quantum things. Like Schrodinger’s Cat. They exist or they don’t depending on who’s observing them.
Spock: That is…
Chapel: … not how quantum superposition actually works? Yeah, I know. It’s a metaphor, Spock. A messy one. Just like whatever this is.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Quotes

Pike: Send someone else. You don't want me in command of that ship.
April: You're getting us confused. You don't want you in command.

No matter how many stars there are in the sky. No matter how many galaxies swirl beyond our own. No matter the mathematical probabilities or the number of times we say, 'We are not alone in the universe,' our first visit from the stars is always the province of children's stories and science fiction. First contact with aliens always lives squarely in the impossible. First contact is just a dream until one day, it isn't.

Una