Our mentor, Philippa Georgiou, knew the value of another set of trusted eyes, especially in times of crisis. I asked you to be those eyes for me when I became captain. Now, it would be my honor and, indeed, my privilege, to do the same for you as your Number One, if you will have me.

Saru

Tilly: Life is just a blink. It is one heartbeat in the entire lifespan of the universe. Just don't think I really understood that before.
Saru: How we choose to spend our moments, in the short time that we have, matters.

Discovery, today we seek to understand a threat like none our galaxy has faced before. We know the cost of its destructive power all too well. We lost colleagues, friends, and Kwejian. Countless lives. Histories. Futures. We won't let their deaths be in vain. And we are going to make damned sure nothing like this happens again. Not on our watch. Not on our watch.

Burnham

Stamets: The gravitational Doppler shift from our scans is way off.
Burnham: Meaning?
Stamets: Meaning I have no idea what we're looking at. It's bizarre. And that is a scientific observation.

Captain! Good news, we know when the next disturbance is going to hit. Bad news, it's in two seconds.

Tilly

Stamets: You know, I was told to follow your lead. That you would let me know what you needed.
Book: What are you talking about?
Stamets: I'm talking about me trying to be sensitive, and you being you.

Book: Ever since you found out I could run the spore drive, your ego got bruised, and you blamed me.
Stamets: Nothing to do with it.
Book: What is it, then?
Stamets: You remind me of how helpless I was. When I look at you, all I can see is how close I got to losing everything. You were the one who saved my family. I wasn't able to do anything. I hate that feeling.

Detmer: Without navigational sensors, he won't be able to gauge the right angle. He can't just feel it.
Burnham: Maybe there's a way he can. Tilly, can you turn this holo-rendering into programmable matter?
Tilly: Oh, you bet. Uh, why would I do that?

Hey, Book. It's just us now. You and me. And I need you to listen to me. You couldn't have saved them. There is nothing you could have done. You couldn't have known.

Burnham

Things just don't feel the same way that they used to. Something's off, or I'm off.

Tilly

Y'know, for so many years, I told myself I didn't need family, didn't need Kwejian. But then I found my brother again, a nephew I didn't even know I had. And when I looked at Leto, I saw a new beginning. For all of us. We'd give him a future. Where there was a home and family. And love. And nothing he couldn't do.

Book

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 2 Quotes

Tilly: Life is just a blink. It is one heartbeat in the entire lifespan of the universe. Just don't think I really understood that before.
Saru: How we choose to spend our moments, in the short time that we have, matters.

Our mentor, Philippa Georgiou, knew the value of another set of trusted eyes, especially in times of crisis. I asked you to be those eyes for me when I became captain. Now, it would be my honor and, indeed, my privilege, to do the same for you as your Number One, if you will have me.

Saru