Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Thursdays on Paramount+Una Chin-Riley Quotes
Uhura: Old zombie movie trick.
Spock: Zombie movie?
Una: Yeah. Dress up like you’re dead so the zombies don’t notice you. You’ve never seen one?
Spock: A zombie, no. A movie, yes. But I will add some to my research.
I would never tell you not to hope.
Secrets I keep safe inside / A skill I perfected so I could survive / It worked before / It doesn’t serve me anymore / I wish I never learned how to be / So good at keeping secrets.
Uhura: I have a theory. I think since we’re in a musical reality, we actually following the rules of musicals.
Pike: So when do characters in musicals usually begin to sing?
Una: When their emotions are so heightened, that words won’t suffice.
Admiral April’s last message confirmed that the improbability field has now spread to twelve Federation ships. He let me know in a surprisingly beautiful baritone that he wants us to stop this now, by the way.
James Kirk: Y’know, my brother, he always described you as the First Officer that I thought I should be like. Someone who keeps a necessary distance from her crew because she knows she has to make hard decisions.
Una: I’m aware of the reputation I’ve had on this ship. But recently, I’m trying a new approach. More hands-on.
James Kirk: My last First Officer definitely kept his distance. And no one questioned him.
Una: I call that style of command a first mistake. The kind that makes my head shake. And my heart break.
James Kirk: We’re singing again.
Una: We’re singing again, and it’s making me confess things I’d never express.
Spock: There appears to be an incoming warp signal heading our way fast. The signal has Klingon encryption.
Una: The last thing anyone wants is singing Klingons.
Una: On a recent mission, Spock was able to parley with a Klingon captain…
Spock: I must admit it has ignited a curiosity in me, a desire to experience more of your culture.
Dak’Rah: There’s nothing to experience. They are a war-mongering race, limited by ideology.
Pike: How can we represent a Federation that believes in peace if we say some people aren’t allowed to make up for their past?
Una: I agree with you, in the abstract. But the people he hurt – some of them right here on this crew – might not find forgiveness so easily. It isn’t fair for us to ask them to just let it go.
Federation or not, everyone is on their own journey.
Your flagrant disregard for temporal protocols by telling me this is deeply troubling, but thanks all the same.
