Sam Kirk: Last time I saw the Gorn, I was scared out of my wits. But I’d appreciate another chance to… study them up close.
La’an: With a phaser?
Sam Kirk: How else will we determine how best to kill them?
M’Benga: I would like to aid in that study.

Uhura: Nitrogen grenades?
Spock: Renders anything in a ten meter range frozen.
La’an: Deadly for a cold-blooded lizard.
M’Benga: Deadly for anyone.

Pike: Sometimes, hope is a choice.
La’an: Yeah, you’ve told me that one before.
Pike: Maybe I’m just saying it cause I need to hear it. It’s why we’re here, on this planet.

Spock: Imagine an area of space where quantum uncertainties collapse so rapidly and randomly that new realities are created. In one such reality, people sing… uncontrollably.
Pelia: A musical reality.
Spock: Indeed.
La’an: So what’s next? More improbability? Or will we just suddenly poof into bunnies.
M’Benga: I would prefer not to be a bunny either.

La’an: When people sing, they are confessing highly personal, emotional information.
Pike: Lieutenant, are you telling me our emotions constitute a security threat?

Our security is only as strong as our unity.

La’an

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