Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)

Choose Your Pain (2017)

Shazad Latif: Ash Tyler

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• Harry Mudd : Have you no decency, Lorca? Actually, that was a trick question. I know you don't. We both know you lost that with your last command.

  Ash Tyler : What's he talking about?

  Harry Mudd : The tragic tale of the U.S.S. Buran. It was ambushed about a month into the war, the Klingons boarded it and blasted it into smithereens. Only one crewman managed to escape: Gabriel Lorca. Apparently, the honorable Captain was too good to go down with his ship.

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : Mudd's only half right. We were ambushed, and I did... escape. But I didn't let my crew die. I blew them up. I knew what awaited them on Qo'noS. Degradation. Torture. Slow, public death. It's the Klingon way to spread terror. Not my crew. Not on my watch.

  Harry Mudd : Well, they say confession is good for the soul. Too bad none of us have one anymore.

• Ash Tyler : Thank you, Captain.

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : For what? Dragging you back into the war on a ship with a target on its back?

  Ash Tyler : There's no place I'd rather be.

• Harry Mudd : I used to have a life, Captain, a good one. A respectable business. That all got blown up, because of your goddamn war.

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : Starfleet didn't start this war.

  Harry Mudd : Of course you did. The moment you decided to boldly go where no one had gone before. What did you think would happen when you bumped into someone who didn't want you in their front yard?

  Ash Tyler : You're siding with the enemy?

  Harry Mudd : I'm not siding with anyone. But I sure as hell understand why the Klingons pushed back. Starfleet arrogance. Have you ever bothered to... look out of your spaceships down at the little guys below? If you had, you'd realize that there's a lot more of us down there than there are you up here. And we're sick and tired of getting caught in your crossfire.

• Ash Tyler : Your eyes. That happened when you destroyed the Buran, didn't it?

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : We choose our own pain. Mine helps me remember.