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

M’Benga: Erica! Everything all right?
Ortegas: No. The Butcher of J’Gal is in there and everyone’s acting like he’s the frickin’ Dali Lama.

Pike: I’m just shocked that Rah would attack him like that.
Chapel: I guess, it just goes to show, no one ever really knows what goes on in anyone’s heart.

M’Benga: Careful. Deltan parsley in excessive amounts.
Pike: And in small amounts, delicious.

Ortegas: He’s pretending. I sense it. And I don’t want to play along.
M’Benga: Sometimes, you pretend something long enough, becomes the truth. So let’s pretend the war doesn’t bother us. At least, for tonight.
Ortegas: Put on the Starfleet face?
M’Benga: It’s a good face.

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

M’Benga: I didn’t start the fight, Chris.
Pike: This whole situation is… It’s complicated.
M’Benga: Is it? Rah was living a lie. I saw his true face. What if I told you he murdered children? Not his men. He did it. What if I started the fight then? Would that be so bad?

Peace is not a destination. It’s a journey. It’s a state of mind.

Dak’Rah

I keep putting in requests but apparently a watched pot doesn’t get the oil.

Martinez

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.

La’an: One time traveler is a security threat. Two is…
Una: … a disaster.
Mariner: Thought you said they were cool.

Mariner: Dude, do you know how worried I was? You disappeared in a vortex while I was in charge. For all I knew, you were dead or stuck in a dystopian San Francisco in the middle of a riot.
Una: Anybody noticed that their references are weirdly specific?
Spock: Indeed.

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