- Lieutenant Talas: You don't trust me.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: No offense, but when it comes to our weapons frequencies, I wouldn't trust my own mother.
- Lieutenant Talas: Is your mother considered a security risk?
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: It's... just an expression.
- Lieutenant Talas: An odd one. My mother's security clearance is higher than mine.
- Lieutenant Talas: [of Enterprise] I'd take this ship into combat myself.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Even with our primitive weapons?
- Lieutenant Talas: It's not the weapon. It's the soldier who wields it.
- Commander Shran: Your world is in jeopardy, and where are your friends - the Vulcans? Where is their mighty fleet? They couldn't even spare one officer.
- Commander Shran: [referring to T'Pol] She was forced to abandon her career to remain on your ship. A remarkably selfless act - for a Vulcan. But we've come to your aid. We've come into the Expanse when they refused. We're here to help you. If you don't want our assistance, then we'll leave you to deal with the Xindi on your own. Just like the Vulcans have done.
- Commander Shran: The last time we met, you helped my people avert a war. I don't like unpaid debts.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: We keep doing each other favors.
- Commander Shran: Isn't that how alliances are born?
- Commander Shran: Take us out of the system, but not too quickly. The Andorian Mining Consortium runs from no one.
- Lieutenant Talas: For what it's worth, Lieutenant, I'm not here to steal your secrets. It'd hardly be worth the effort.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: I beg your pardon?
- Lieutenant Talas: Last time I saw weapons like these was during my early tactical training.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Sorry I wasted your time on our "primitive" systems.
- Lieutenant Talas: Not at all. I found it nostalgic.
- Commander Shran: I can understand why you seek vengeance against these Xindi.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: I'd love to get my hands on whoever ordered that attack. But that's not why we're here.
- Commander Shran: You have no desire to make these people pay for the death of your sister?
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: I just want to make sure they don't get the chance to finish what they started.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: What's the situation in Engineering?
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Bad. The Armory?
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Worse.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: If you ever decide to leave the Imperial Guard, Starfleet could certainly use you.
- Lieutenant Talas: And if you get tired of exploring, you'd do well in the Imperial Guard.
- [the Andorians have appropriated the Xindi weapon for themselves]
- Commander Shran: [about the Vulcans] For 200 years, all that's kept them from invading Andoria is the threat of massive retaliation. With a weapon of this magnitude at our disposal, they wouldn't dare attack us.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: You're putting Earth at risk because of a border dispute with the Vulcans?
- Commander Shran: We disrupted the Xindi test, took their weapon. We may have helped *save* your world!
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I guess I'm not familiar with the Andorian concept of help!
- [Archer has destroyed the prototype weapon, which caused significant damage to Shran's ship]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Captain's starlog, supplemental - Commander Shran graciously declined our offer of help. The last we saw of them, they were limping away on auxiliary power.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: [of the Andorians] They're here to help, T'Pol.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: That doesn't mean we shouldn't exercise caution.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I'm not gonna ask them to work with guns at their heads just because you don't like them.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: You come from a military family?
- Lieutenant Talas: Four generations.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Huh... Three. On my father's side.
- Lieutenant Talas: He must be disappointed in you.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: What?
- Lieutenant Talas: Betraying your family tradition by serving on a ship of... exploration.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Actually, we haven't done much exploring for quite a while. But since you ask... he wasn't very pleased. The Royal Navy was his life.
- Lieutenant Talas: Perhaps he'd feel differently if he saw you now - fighting for the survival of your race.
- [Archer has punched Shran in the face]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: You like to talk about repaying debts? I've owed you that for a long time!
- [last lines]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: [to T'Pol] Why don't you and Trip join me for dinner tonight? I have some Andorian ale you might like to try.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: How did you get picked for this assignment?
- Commander Shran: I volunteered. It made sense. I've had the greatest amount of contact with pink... with humans.