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Greg, I’m sorry, but you’re not on the roster this time.I’m NEVER on the roster. That’s what I’m trying to tell you! Three years I’ve been on this ship, and now once have I ever been on a landing part...

Innocent people shouldn't be made to beg for their lives. The weak shouldn't have to kowtow to receive help, from us or anyone else.

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Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

Don’t tell me, Burnham cut in. It’s . Spock said nothing in response, but he could not help but appear mildly put out.

Starship command is like comedy, Number One. Timing is everything.

Perhaps I will not kill him in my sleep. At least, not tonight.

We can fight for hope, or we can give in to despair. The choice is yours, Jean-Luc. Let me know what you decide.

Time is short, Doctor, said Dax. And the perfect is the enemy of the good. Make do with what we’ve got—and do it fast.

How do you want to play it, Captain? Slow and steady, or shock and awe?

You would elevate tradition and societal approval over the expansion of knowledge. If anything deserves to be called ‘illogical,’ it is that.

Engineering, this is ops! Status report!

Pick up your feet, Mister Saru, Burnham said as she and Gant headed to the turbolift. Time, tide, and transporters wait for no one.

I’m surrounded by modernity, yet the ways of business remain unchanged since the age of barter and battery.

An ‘appeal to authority’ is a form of logical fallacy,

How can I be lonely when I hate people?

I read a report from Starfleet Command last year that said you’d met the Greek deity Apollo. I was just wondering . . . did that really happen? Kirk glanced at someone off-screen, then his mouth curle...

But until today, I’d thought I was Sarek’s greatest disappointment. Unlikely, Spock said. I am quite certain he has reserved that distinction for me.

Naturally, the majority of the population observed this historic milestone for their species by inebriating themselves halfway to the point of blindness and filling the streets with vomit. Far from al...

Never a dull day in Starfleet.