Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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I would never tell you not to hope.
Una
Pelia: Hello, Scotty.
Scotty: Professor.
Pike: You two know each other?
Pelia: One of my best students. Who sadly received some of my worst grades.
Admiral April: I think it’s safe to say that we don’t understand the Gorn.
Pike: Well, I’ve seen them up close and personal, and they’re not hard to understand, Bob. They’re monsters.
Admiral April: ‘Monster’ is a word to describe those who don’t understand us.
Pike: And sometimes a monster’s just a monster.
Uhura: Old zombie movie trick.
Spock: Zombie movie?
Una: Yeah. Dress up like you’re dead so the zombies don’t notice you. You’ve never seen one?
Spock: A zombie, no. A movie, yes. But I will add some to my research.
Pike: Sometimes, hope is a choice.
La’an: Yeah, you’ve told me that one before.
Pike: Maybe I’m just saying it cause I need to hear it. It’s why we’re here, on this planet.
Ortegas: You ran from the Gorn in a shuttle? How are you not dead?
Scotty: Firstly, I jury-rigged the engines to increase their capacity, and secondly, I figured out how to hide in plain sight.
M’Benga: Sounds resourceful.
Ortegas: And mysterious.
Scotty: When an armada of human-eating lizards comes my way, I can get quite… creative.
Batel: Dr. Korby doesn’t mind you arriving a little early?
Chapel: I mean, it’s space. Does anyone ever get there when they say they will?
Batel: Fair point.
Batel: How you holding up?
Pike: I mean, I’m not bursting into song every ten minutes, so that’s a minor victory.
Batel: Very minor.
Sam Kirk: Last time I saw the Gorn, I was scared out of my wits. But I’d appreciate another chance to… study them up close.
La’an: With a phaser?
Sam Kirk: How else will we determine how best to kill them?
M’Benga: I would like to aid in that study.
Uhura: Nitrogen grenades?
Spock: Renders anything in a ten meter range frozen.
La’an: Deadly for a cold-blooded lizard.
M’Benga: Deadly for anyone.
All things seem trivial in the face of death.
Spock
Uhura: I have a theory. I think since we’re in a musical reality, we actually following the rules of musicals.
Pike: So when do characters in musicals usually begin to sing?
Una: When their emotions are so heightened, that words won’t suffice.
