Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 3: "Ghosts of Illyria" Quotes
Pike: It’s funny how genetic modification still puts everyone on edge. Even you, it would seem.
Una: I just don’t like loose ends.
Pike: Suggestions, Mr. Spock?
Spock: Run.
Una: Anything else abnormal during transport you can think of?
Hemmer: Besides the landing party’s atoms almost getting mixed up into a puddle of bio-organic stew? No. I can sense that expression, you know.
Una: Oh, I know.
It seems to me things like this are exactly why the Federation is so wary of genetically modified species like the Illyrians. You start breaking down the genetic code, who knows what the unexpected consequences can be?
La’an
La’an: You don’t grow up with a bio-engineered mass murderer as your ancestor and not develop a thick skin.
Una: Khan Noonien-Singh
La’an: Made myself kind of an expert on him when I was a kid.
Una: I never think of you as a child.
I’d hope that someone with your last name would know that snap judgments made on genetics are faulty at best. Individuals are so much more.
Una
Spock: I believe there is a human phrase, ‘A watched kettle never boils.’
Pike: It’s a pot. And, in this case, I’m pretty sure we’re going to get hit with the scalding water.
Spock: You are deliberately mixing my metaphor in order to indulge your anxiety.
Pike: Any clue as to what happened to the colony?
Spock: I am only halfway through these records, Captain.
Pike: Consider maybe skipping to the end before the storm tears the building apart?
Pike: Does that thing have a setting for stun?
Spock: I am arming us with knowledge.
M’Benga: You put a lot of faith in Starfleet. That must be hard.
Una: Starfleet is right about a lot of things but not all of them. Not about us. If my blood…
M’Benga: I understand. Prejudices kept people from helping each other for centuries with no scientific justification. After we met our neighbors in the galaxy, we found new bigotries.
You’re an abomination. An Augment. That’s what the other kids called me when they heard my name. Augment! Monster! Like you are.
La’an
This is a thorough account of the colonists’ initiative to renounce their genetic engineering in order to join the Federation. It would seem, even in death, they wanted us to be aware of who they really were.
Spock
