Mariner: I may hate protocol but I don't hate the ship. I don't hate the crew. I work with my best friends. The captain's my mom. I would do anything for her.
Vindicta: Oh, come on. No, you hate the captain. You complain about her non-stop. It's like your whole thing.
Mariner: Yeah, I mean she's hard on me, right? She's the captain! And I'm a pain in the ass. But if she kicked me off the Cerritos, I'd be done in Starfleet.

Billups: Hey, I know you might be a psychotic space raider whose boss just destroyed my ship, but you are all right in my book.
Rutherford: That's a book I'd read, cover to cover.

Freeman: Ok, look. Will you stop eating these guys if we give you food replicators?
Rat Overlord: Huh. I dunno. Can they make nutrient pellets?
Freeman: Yes!

Time to take this puppy off its leash! Warp me!

Freeman

You're yelling at me for spreading freedom because you don't feel like filing a report?

Mariner

Freeman: You're not going to the brig. You're going to therapy.
Mariner: What? You think I need therapy? No! It's the 80s, dude, we don't have psychiatric problems!

Wow. For a random space marauder, you really know your way around a starship.

Billups

Mariner/Vindicta: Oh, when are you going to give up the loving captain act?
Freeman: It's not an act. I'm overflowing with love and affection!

Mariner: Oooo, look! Shaxs' earring! You have to wear it. Come here, c'mere.
Tendi: I don't know. Isn't there like religious significance? I mean, some of his ear is still on it.

Mariner: The Lizardmen will no longer be subject to Rat oppression!
Rat Overlord: Aw, they're not oppressed. We raise them as food. They like it!
Lizardman: Well, we are delicious.

Rutherford: Sir, are you okay?
Billups: I'll live but the rest of the crew...
Rutherford: ... will be fine. I initiated a rapid repeating emergency transport sequence and beamed the entire crew before we crashed.
Billups: What? That's not possible.
Rutherford: No, it's a movie. You can beam whatever you want. You can do all sorts of beam-y stuff in a movie.

Q: I challenge you all to a duel. Pick your weapons! I pick the mind.
Mariner: Get out of here, Q! No, we're done with random stuff today! We're not dealing with any of your Q bullsh*t!
Q: Oh, s'il vous plait, Mariner, I want to put humanity to the ultimate test.
Mariner: I'm not French! Go find Picard!
Q: Oh, Picard! He's no fun. He's always quoting Shakespeare. He's always making wine...

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Quotes

Boimler: Romulan whiskey is against regulations!
Mariner: Yeah, because it's awesome.

First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is SECOND contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat...

Boimler