Grayson: How are your mom and dad?
Talla: My mom’s good. My dad’s also good. He’s his usual self.
Grayson: Work hard, play hard?
Talla: I think the fleet’s the only thing keeping him from pursuing a full-time career as an alcoholic. But if the uniform’s on, we can handle it.

Bortus: What is this place?
Malloy: An old Earth high school in the middle of the forest on an alien planet. Completely normal. How’s your day going?

Malloy: What’s today’s date?
Student: Uh, I think it’s the nineteenth.
Malloy: No, no, the year. What’s the year?
Student: What are you, high?
Malloy: Possibly. That’s what I’m trying to find out.

Student: You pay [Randall] not to beat you up. We’ve all been through it. I had to do it all freshman year. Then I got, like, massive on TikTok, and he stopped messing with me cause my followers would flame his ‘Gram.
Bortus: What?

Malloy: Why do you hang them like this?
Bortus: We honor the dead by raising them for a period of nine days. Traditionally, it is to allow them to resolve any unfinished affairs on Maclus before moving onward.
Malloy: Oh, that’s considerate.

If you can control someone’s perception of reality, peaceful conquest is easy.

Mercer

‘Evolved’ is an arcane term in this case. Evolution is blind and drunk. It stumbles along by trial and error and emerges with a barely adequate excuse for a being. No offense.

Dinal

The cultivation of the mind becomes a lot less stressful when you don’t have to worry about dying.

Dinal

Bortus: Why would you wish to experience death?
Dinal: Immortality has its rewards, but after a while, the drive to advance begins to atrophy. Once you’ve seen it all and done it all and time has no worth, all that’s left is idle play. We’ve become complacent because none of us can conceive of our own mortality.

Well, I’m glad you got your existential rocks off, but the fact is, you put us through hell.

Mercer

Malloy: What’s it like? Immortality?
Dinal: You outgrew your gods and your nations as we did. You left your training wheels behind and you made it to the stars. Your next hurdles are really no different. You simply must outgrow self. These abstractions that you inhabit for now – captain, explorer, husband, man – they are irrelevant when you become one with the cosmos. And when you do, sculpting a universe will be as simple as blinking an eye.

Here’s to reality, with all its troubles.

Malloy

The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 3 Quotes

Bortus: What is this place?
Malloy: An old Earth high school in the middle of the forest on an alien planet. Completely normal. How’s your day going?

Grayson: How are your mom and dad?
Talla: My mom’s good. My dad’s also good. He’s his usual self.
Grayson: Work hard, play hard?
Talla: I think the fleet’s the only thing keeping him from pursuing a full-time career as an alcoholic. But if the uniform’s on, we can handle it.