Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 4: "Memento Mori" Quotes
Exploration can exact a heavy toll. As a captain, there is no loss more devastating than that of a crew member.
Pike
As we honor the lives that’ve been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.
Pike
Uhura: Engineering is a lot like linguistics.
Hemmer: Is that so?
Uhura: Sure, both are dependent on how seemingly unrelated systems communicate.
Hemmer: Big ideas. To impress me, you’re going to need to do better than theorize.
Uhura: Challenge accepted.
Pike: That brown dwarf that you mentioned before. It’s pretty much a gas giant, right? Where exactly is it?
Spock: Two hundred million kilometers away. But, Captain, it is tethered in orbit around a black hole.
Ortegas: Like, how big of a black hole?
Pike: One problem at a time.
Pike: Helm, full impulse to Spock’s mark.
Ortegas: Aye, aye. Full impulse. To a giant gas cloud of death. Why not?
M’Benga: You said you were fine.
Una: I was mistaken.
Ortegas: The Gorn? Really? We’re out here fighting the Boogyman? No one has even seen one, so how are we supposed to take them on?
La’an: I’ve seen them. They aren’t supernatural, but they are monsters.
The Federation teaches that if we can find a way to empathize with an enemy, then they can one day become our friends. They’re wrong. Some things in this universe are just plain evil.
La’an
Have you ever seen eyes that are both dead and hungry at the same time?
La’an
We are prey. When they hunt, they are unrelenting. The truth is plenty of people have seen the Gorn. They just don’t live long enough to talk about it.
La’an
Pike: How ya holding up?
La’an: The enemy doesn’t care about my feelings, Captain, so I don’t waste my time having any.
La’an: I’ve always been blunt. That’s just who I am.
Pike: Direct. Looking at outcomes. Not emotion.
La’an: Exactly.
Pike: But right now your job isn’t just about orders. It’s about hope. Belief can be the difference between victory and defeat. Get a crew to believe in miracles and they might just give you one.
La’an: I will make that adjustment, but I will not lie to them.
Pike: The best miracles are born from truth.
