Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV Series)

A Quality of Mercy (2022)

Anson Mount: Captain, Admiral Christopher Pike

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• Captain Christopher Pike : I'm very glad to see you.

  Spock : But you saw me only moments ago,

  Captain Christopher Pike : Right.

  Spock : You left the briefing suddenly. It was uncharacteristic.

  Captain Christopher Pike : Was it?

  Spock : But now, your demeanor appears changed. Having heard the boy's name, I cannot help but wonder if this pertains to your future.

  Captain Christopher Pike : Let's just say I think the universe is telling me that some fates are inescapable. And even if I could get out of mine, it might just fall to someone else.

  Spock : Someone you know?

  Captain Christopher Pike : Yes.

  Spock : Is that why you are very glad to see me? I believe I may owe you a debt of gratitude, Captain. Although for precisely what, I do not know.

• Lieutenant George Samuel 'Sam' Kirk : Look, I'm not gonna say that Jim isn't a pain in the ass. He is. He's a huge pain in the ass. But the truth is, he's as fine a captain as Starfleet has.

  Captain Christopher Pike : Okay, good to know.

  Lieutenant George Samuel 'Sam' Kirk : Like I said, he does like to bend the rules sometimes. No, more like all the time.

• Captain Christopher Pike : Do you want some coffee?

  Spock : I do not drink coffee. I do drink tea.

  Captain Christopher Pike : All right. Would you like some tea?

  Spock : No, thank you, Captain.

• Spock : All we can surmise is that in the prime future, some other captain of the Enterprise must have commanded it differently. Thus, it is imperative you do not change what you would normally do on the ship.

  Captain Christopher Pike : I thought we were trying to avoid a terrible future.

  Spock : We are trying to discover why this future is, in the estimation of your older self, worse.

• Captain Christopher Pike : If you're saying you're more willing to take risks than I am, I don't disagree. And let me remind you that you're saying that on my ship, after yours has been destroyed.

• Admiral Christopher Pike : I know what you're thinking. I was thinking the same thing when I went through this.

  Captain Christopher Pike : That I traded my fate for Spock's?

  Admiral Christopher Pike : Yes. This isn't going to help, but... it gets worse. This war with the Romulans. Millions die. So far. It's still going on. Not only did you start something that should never have been started, the best chance at a lasting peace between the Federation and the Romulans in any timeline? Well... turns out he's lying in a biobed. We all want to think our future is important. And ours---yours and mine---it is. Just not the way you think. Time is, uh, is complicated. But the monks showed me something simple. Every time we change the path, he dies. And he's got things to do. Fate-of-the-galaxy type things. Paths diverge. But I am the result of one that should never have been taken.

  Captain Christopher Pike : Thank you.

  Admiral Christopher Pike : Hey, look at it this way. How many people get to give their life for someone twice in one day? See? Twice, 'cause there's two of us and we're both...

  Captain Christopher Pike : Yeah, I-I got it. Got it.

  [door chimes] 

  Admiral Christopher Pike : [chuckles]  Oh, yeah.

  Captain Christopher Pike : Come.

  [Door opens and Captain Kirk is there] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : Not interrupting, am I?

  [Pike looks around, but his future self is gone] 

  Captain Christopher Pike : No, I... Not really, I'm just, uh... talking to myself.