Star Trek: Discovery
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 1: "Kobayashi Maru" Quotes
Book: Why would you say 'carnivore' to the butterfly people?
Burnham: They are NOT butterfly people. Why do you even have a pet? Why don't you just have a hologram goldfish?
Book: I had one. Grudge ate it.
Burnham: Who eats a hologram?
In truth, we are on an island together. We must ask ourselves, 'Do we honor our interconnection? Or do we curl inward, like a leaf folds from its tree?'
Saru
Book: Should do what politicians do. Don't punch them in the head.
Burnham: I'll do my best.
Today, we reopen Starfleet Academy for the first time since The Burn. And in this moment, I feel that anything is possible. You are tomorrow's ensigns, lieutenants, commanders, and captains. And in this new world, all of you will go where no one has gone before and you will make the path by traveling it.
Burnham
Tilly: Did you know there are people out there who don't have to put up with space-time shenanigans?
Burnham: I bet they sleep great.
Tilly: Mmmm... Good for them.
Those cadets. That feels like one thousand years ago. And yesterday. Which it was, simultaneously.
Tilly
Adira: She made me an ensign, so she has faith in me. I just want to show her she made the right choice.
Gray: You're going to be great. And when I incorporate...
Adira: How about 'get a body'?
Gray: ...get a body, and I start kicking ass doing my own stuff, I'd expect you to say the same thing to me.
One cannot have all the lives one desires. A choice is always necessary.
Saru
Leadership is about balance, knowing what weight is yours to carry and what isn't.
President
Burnham: Define 'ready'
President: The willingness to accept all potential outcomes of a command decision and an ability to make the hard call, regardless. It's a matter of experience, really.
In a time of rebuilding, there is a very fine line between a pendulum and a wrecking ball.
President
