Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 6: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" Quotes
Pike: Are you the boy’s father?
Gamal: Strictly in the biological sense.
M’Benga: So, in theory, your implants might realign peptide bonds within any degraded protein.
Gamal: At the bare minimum.
M’Benga: If this is true, disease and suffering will be things of the past.
Gamall: On Majalis, we have a saying, ‘Let the tree that grows from the roots of sacrifice lift us where suffering cannot reach.’ We have no disease of any kind.
Alora: Why were you on that ship?
Kier: To fulfill my oath. And to renounce everything this floating hell stands for.
Sam Kirk: Tell her for me you deserve a full-hour.
La’an: You can tell me yourself, Lieutenant.
Sam Kirk: I would, but I’m conflict-averse?
Gamal: I was wrong. I deserve to be in here, Commander. I know that. I didn’t just violate the law of my planet, I violated my own principles, my most deeply-held beliefs.
Una: Why?
Gamal: For him. For my son.
He chooses it freely, and we honor his sacrifice.
Alora
Alora: Serving Majalis is his destiny. His reason for being. Without him, Majalis could not be.
Pike: You plugged a kid into a machine. What’s it going to do to him?
Alora: We don’t know.
Pike: Will he suffer?
Alora: Yes. We don’t pretend otherwise. We live in gratitude for him, and when a new First Servant ascends, we will live for her.
Pike: Your whole civilization, all your… this, it’s all founded on the suffering of a child.
Alora: Can you honestly say that no child suffers for the benefit of your Federation? That no child lives in poverty or squalor while those who enjoy abundance look away? The only difference is we don’t look away. And because of that, the suffering is borne on the back of only one. It’s what makes it a sacred honor. That’s why I choose our way.
