Admiral Perry: You're to rendezvous with the Krill vessel D'Voracos in twelve hours are Terra Zed 3.
Grayson: The D'Voracos?
Admiral Perry: Yes, it means 'Bringing of Blood.'
Mercer: Oh, that's cool.

Grayson: Captain Mercer, meet Captain Dalak
Mercer: It's good to meet you, Captain. We owe you one.
Dalak: Try to stay out of our way.

Dr. Finn: Lots of people say that home is wherever you make it.
Isaac: A human cliche.
Dr. Finn: Cliches become cliched precisely because they're valid enough to bear endless repetition.

Isaac: I am using my optical scanners to construct a spectrographic image of Kaylon. The star is very distant but repeated efforts will eventually yield a result.
Dr. Finn: You're taking a picture of home.

Halsey: I want a safeguard. An off-switch of some kind to make sure we can control him.
Mercer: That's exactly what caused the genocide on his home planet. We can't keep him in servitude like his Kaylon builders did.

Keyali: [Isaac] saved us. We have to try to save him.
Malloy: Yeah, but the only reason he HAD to save us is because he screwed us in the first place.

Captain, it seems we have a common enemy. I hope that means we can work towards finding a common ground.

Mercer

All right, buddy. Time to wash your mouth out with Gordon.

Malloy

Mercer: Evasive maneuvers. Narrow targeting scanners. Concentrate your fire.
Bortus: Scanners cannot penetrate their hull.
Mercer: Do... eeny-meeny-miney-mo. Pick a spot!

Malloy: Just so you know, this could rip the shuttle in half.
Grayson: I don't want to know.

Malloy: Piloting a shuttle out of the bay while the ship's at quantum speed is incredibly dangerous.
Grayson: How dangerous?
Malloy: On Day 1 of pilot training, they tell you don't ever attempt it.

Mercer: I've been on board a Krill ship. You haven't
Grayson: I'll take Gordon. He was there with you.
Malloy: Oh, man. Pee corner's looking real good right now.

The Orville Season 2 Quotes

Mercer: Y'know what the worst days are, Olix? The days when you can't stay busy. No Krill confrontations. No spatial anomalies. Just nothing going on. And all your thoughts just march inward.
Olix: So most days.

Mercer: How long you had that thing?
Bartender: I had the computer replicate it last week. I'm trying to warm the place up a little bit, y'know? Get a nice vibe going.
Mercer: The late-night-jazz-depressed-guy-at-the-bar vibe? I can help you with that.