Bortus: Of course! Without Rudolph's nose, Santa would not have been able to complete his voyage.
LaMarr: Looks like Santa got pretty lucky, huh?
Bortus: Christmas would have been ruined if Rudolph had been euthanized at birth as his father wished.
Malloy: Yeah, I don't know if that was ever on the table.
Bortus: What was clearly a deformity became a supreme advantage. One can never know.

Bortus: It is my understanding that striking a fellow officer is a court martial offence
Kitan: Well, I won't tell if you won't. Although a Xelayan female against a Moclan... I'm sure the crew would love to take bets. Here we go. Round one! Ding, ding!
Bortus: What is 'ding,ding'?
Kitan: Never mind.

Mercer: I'm just policing myself because we all know how easy it is to judge another culture's way of life just because it's alien to us.
Grayson: But you have to balance that against some universal code of ethics

Grayson: I'd have been pretty pissed off if my parents had made the unilateral decision to make me a guy.
Mercer: And, while it may have saved me an entire marriage if they had, it still would've been wrong.

Being a girl is not a condition. There are no health risks. Having a vagina doesn't give you a lisp. I mean, depending on how you use it.

Mercer

Vasquez: Perhaps we settle this the traditional way
Mercer: You mean a show down. If that's the way you want it.
Vasquez: No, senor. We will have a dance contest.... I have taken many years of jazz and tap. If you can beat me in a dance-off, I will surrender.

I am a Union doctor on a Union ship and I will not perform a sex change on a newborn infant

Dr. Finn

Yaphit: And then there's this cough. *cough* *cough* right?
Dr. Finn: You don't have lungs which means you don't have a cough.

Dr. Finn: Yaphit, there's nothing wrong with you
Yaphit: Oh, I'm pretty sure there is, doc. I haven't been retaining fluids like I usually do. My quarters look like a swamp. It's a mess.

The Orville Season 1 Episode 3 Quotes

Yaphit: And then there's this cough. *cough* *cough* right?
Dr. Finn: You don't have lungs which means you don't have a cough.

Dr. Finn: Yaphit, there's nothing wrong with you
Yaphit: Oh, I'm pretty sure there is, doc. I haven't been retaining fluids like I usually do. My quarters look like a swamp. It's a mess.