I looked for you. Now, here you are, using the blood on my hands to make yourself a saint.

M’Benga

Klingons will never admit it, but the Federation has much better ships.

Dak’Rah

Una: On a recent mission, Spock was able to parley with a Klingon captain…
Spock: I must admit it has ignited a curiosity in me, a desire to experience more of your culture.
Dak’Rah: There’s nothing to experience. They are a war-mongering race, limited by ideology.

I apologize. My distaste for the past colors my words.

Dak’Rah

Pike: How can we represent a Federation that believes in peace if we say some people aren’t allowed to make up for their past?
Una: I agree with you, in the abstract. But the people he hurt – some of them right here on this crew – might not find forgiveness so easily. It isn’t fair for us to ask them to just let it go.

I know why you’re here. You want me to make you feel okay. To say you’ve done enough.

M’Benga

Federation or not, everyone is on their own journey.

Una

All of us have to remember what we love most about back home. We fight for them. We fight, hoping it doesn’t change us, hoping we don’t come home different. But if we don’t fight, we don’t win. The disease takes over, and none of us have a home to go back to.

M’Benga

Ensign Inman: I just wish we could stop this without all this dying.
M’Benga: We have to fight so the people we love can have a chance to live in peace. That’s Starfleet.

Ortegas: Trust me I know Klingons. This guy with the peace treaties, that’s not Klingon.
Uhura: So, you don’t trust Ambassador Rah because he believes in peace?

I told you I didn’t start the fight, but I’m glad he’s dead.

M’Benga

Chapel: Better make that two.
M’Benga: Mine’s a double.
Chapel: Even better.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Quotes

Pike: Send someone else. You don't want me in command of that ship.
April: You're getting us confused. You don't want you in command.

No matter how many stars there are in the sky. No matter how many galaxies swirl beyond our own. No matter the mathematical probabilities or the number of times we say, 'We are not alone in the universe,' our first visit from the stars is always the province of children's stories and science fiction. First contact with aliens always lives squarely in the impossible. First contact is just a dream until one day, it isn't.

Una