It's a super-cool story. It's just that it's in a completely devastating way.

Burnham

We left everything that I have ever known or loved behind me for the sake of creation. Right? If you think about it, let's be honest, I saved all the things. And then I shot out of a wormhole and I hit a guy.

Burnham

Burnham: You guys have a real problem if your couriers are stealing stuff and then colliding with thousand-year-old women in space.
Orion: What cargo was he hauling?
Burnham: I don't know. But it was temperature-sensitive and really valuable so it's probably ice cream.

Burnham: Do you think I'm compensating for something?
Book: They sprayed you with that stuff, didn't they?
Burnham: They did.

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Orion: Give us the code. Now.
Book: Ok, fine. Sticky.
Andorian: What?
Book: S-T-I-C-K-Y
Orion: What kind of code is that?
Book: That's the damn code, all right? Pick your own code on your own ship.

Burnham: What is it like, feeling everything?
Book: Uncomfortable. My family are killers. Poachers. Every so often one like me shows up in the gene pool. I don't know, something to do with balance, I guess.

Book: How much did you leave behind?
Burnham: Nine hundred and thirty years.
Book: Why?
Burnham: To ensure the future. A future.
Book: Thank you.

Sadil: Hope is a powerful thing.
Burnham: Sometimes, it's the only thing
Sadil: Our numbers are few. Our spirit is undiminished.

I watched this office every day as I have for forty years believing, one day, others like me would walk through that door. And my hope was not in vain. Today is that day and that hope is you, Commander Burnham.

Sadil

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 1 Quotes

Burnham: Listen.
Book: I listen better without holding that antique to my head. Want to put that down?
Burnham: No.

Burnham: I am telling you, stop. Nobody has to get hurt.
Book: You might.
Burnham: I am not fighting you. You're fighting me.