Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)

The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry (2017)

Rekha Sharma: Commander Landry

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• Michael Burnham : You judge the creature by its appearance. And by one single incident from its past. Nothing in its biology suggests it would attack, except in self-defense. Commander, this creature is an unknown alien. It can only be what it is, and not what you want it to be.

  Commander Landry : It's amazing how much I hate Vulcan proverbs. You're new here; so let me share a piece of wisdom. Lorca isn't interested in what you are. He's interested in what you can do, for him. And if he needs us to make that thing useful in his war effort... that's what we're gonna do.

• Commander Landry : Lorca thought you and I would make a good team. Your science, my tactics. Together we can deal with Lorca's little monster.

  Michael Burnham : How do you know it's a monster, Commander?

  Commander Landry : Because I've seen what it's capable of. So have you. Let's call it Ripper.

• Michael Burnham : Your Ripper... appears to share some natural traits with the tardigrade species. A docile creature that lives in the waters of the Earth. A micro-animal capable of surviving extreme heat and sub-freezing temperatures.

  Commander Landry : Did you say "microscopic"?

  Michael Burnham : In our case, somehow, macroscopic.

  Commander Landry : How did it get on the Glenn?

  Michael Burnham : All the recent logs were corrupted. But the Glenn's captain made an earlier entry that security detected a stowaway. There was no hull breach, and no unregistered microbiota in the transporter's pattern buffer. But this was found, rummaging around in the lower cargo bays.

• Captain Gabriel Lorca : [ending a training simulation]  We're all dead.

  [sarcastic clapping] 

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : Very nice. Very polite. Now, Discovery is now the only Starfleet ship with a displacement-activated spore drive, which means, when it's up and running, we will be able to materialize anywhere in the known universe. Behind enemy lines. Above the Klingon homeworld. Anywhere. But we will be alone. We will not have backup. There is just us, and we get one chance to get it right.

  Commander Landry : We'll do better next time, sir.

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : It will be hard to do worse.