Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Thursdays on Paramount+Erica Ortegas Quotes
Ortegas: You ran from the Gorn in a shuttle? How are you not dead?
Scotty: Firstly, I jury-rigged the engines to increase their capacity, and secondly, I figured out how to hide in plain sight.
M’Benga: Sounds resourceful.
Ortegas: And mysterious.
Scotty: When an armada of human-eating lizards comes my way, I can get quite… creative.
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.
Ortegas: Trust me I know Klingons. This guy with the peace treaties, that’s not Klingon.
Uhura: So, you don’t trust Ambassador Rah because he believes in peace?
M’Benga: Erica! Everything all right?
Ortegas: No. The Butcher of J’Gal is in there and everyone’s acting like he’s the frickin’ Dali Lama.
Ortegas: He’s pretending. I sense it. And I don’t want to play along.
M’Benga: Sometimes, you pretend something long enough, becomes the truth. So let’s pretend the war doesn’t bother us. At least, for tonight.
Ortegas: Put on the Starfleet face?
M’Benga: It’s a good face.