Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV Series)

A Quality of Mercy (2022)

Paul Wesley: Captain James T. Kirk

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Quotes 

• 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.