Star Trek: Lower Decks
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 8: "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus" Quotes
Freeman: The Chonogami. A top-secret Starfleet prototype which can penetrate temporal barriers. ‘Chrono’ because it involves taking Time and folding it in on itself like the Japanese art form…
Mariner: Yeah, origami. Right, yeah, we get it.
Boimler: Don’t worry, ‘Crisis Point TWO’ is twice as good as the original.
Mariner: Crisis Point… No, you can’t just piggy back off my movie!
Boimler: Technically, it was my program first, so I can do what I want. Uh, Computer, arch.
Mariner: That doesn’t contractually obligate you to make a bad sequel.
Boimler: Freeman just explained that the Chronogami can be used to destroy any point in history.
Mariner: What, does it make an alternate cinematic timeline that runs concurrent to our own but with, like, different people playing younger versions of us?
Tendi: [laughs] Scientifically, that would be a bit of a reach.
I’m here for your research, not your heart.
Boimler
Gibson: They’re probably trying to buy Welarian-detronium to power the Chronogasmic Matrix!
Mariner: Yeah, Doc, you really wanna avoid that many made up words in a row.
We just spent, like, an hour getting the backstory of your McGuffin and now we’re NOT going after it?
Mariner
Boimler: We gotta do this!
Mariner: This? What is THIS? These random extras?
Random Extra: I am Knick-Knack.
Mariner: Case in point.
Boimler: Crisis Point was just a sad little tantrum so that you could murder the crew. This is an important examination of the human condition.
Mariner: Yeah. IE Bad move. I officially disown Crisis Point.
He was an exact copy of me. Had his own quarters on a cooler ship. But he died for no reason. I guess I was trying to make all of this matter because then I would matter. But trying to make this dumb movie important just proves that I’m not.
Boimler
Kityha: What truth do you seek?
Boimler: A man named William Boimler died. It was meaningless. What is life for?
Kityha: The purpose of life… is a life of purpose.
Boimler: O-kay. But what about what I was asking?
My movie is trash. It doesn’t have a deeper meaning and neither does life!
Boimler
Sulu: Brad, I’ve lost many friends. Some heroically. Some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.
Boimler: So if I spend my life worrying about a meaningless death, I’ll never find joy?
Sulu: I literally just said that.
