Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)
Broken Bow, Part 1 (2001)
Scott Bakula: Capt. Jonathan Archer
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Capt. Jonathan Archer : I'm sorry to take you away from your program, but... our doctors haven't even heard of a Klingon.
Dr. Phlox : Please, no apologies! What better time to study Human beings than when they're under pressure?
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[Enterprise has taken Klaang safely home]
Klingon Chancellor : ChugDah hegh. Volcha va.
Captain Jonathan Archer : [aside, to Sato] I'll take that as a thank you.
Ensign Hoshi Sato : I don't think they have a word for 'thank you'.
Captain Jonathan Archer : What did he say?
Ensign Hoshi Sato : You don't wanna know.
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[Archer is trying to coax Sato into joining his crew as Communications Officer, with a recording of Klingon language]
Ensign Hoshi Sato : What do you know about these... Klingons?
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Not much. An empire of warriors - with eighty poly-guttural dialects constructed on an adaptive syntax.
Ensign Hoshi Sato : [referring to the recording] Turn it up.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Think of it. You'd be the first Human to talk to these people. Do you really want someone else to do it?
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Vulcan Ambassador Soval : Listen to me, you're making a mistake!
Capt. Jonathan Archer : When your logic doesn't work, you raise your voice? You've been on Earth too long.
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[Klaang is shouting in Klingon]
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Do you know how to tell him to shut up?
Ensign Hoshi Sato : [to Klaang] SHUT UP!
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Admiral Maxwell Forrest : Jon. I think you know everyone.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : [noticing Klaang in the intensive care unit] Not everyone.
Admiral Daniel Leonard : It's a Klingot.
Vulcan Attaché Tos : A Kling-on.
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[Admiral Forrest is speculating about Klaang's purpose on Earth]
Admiral Maxwell Forrest : Ambassador Soval thinks it would be best if we push off your launch until we've cleared this up.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Well, isn't that a surprise. You'd think they would've come up with something a little more imaginative this time.
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Capt. Jonathan Archer : While you may not share our enthusiasm about this mission, I expect you to follow our rules. What's said in this room and out on that bridge is privileged information. I don't want every word I say being picked apart the next day by the Vulcan High Command.
Sub-Commander T'Pol : My reason for being here is not espionage. My superiors simply asked me to assist you.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Your superiors don't think we can flush a toilet without one of you to assist us.
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Dr. Phlox : [about his Altarian marsupial] Their droppings contain the greatest concentration of regenerative enzymes found anywhere.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Their "droppings"?
Dr. Phlox : If you're going to try to embrace new worlds, you must try to embrace new ideas.
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[Archer and Phlox are discussing Klaang, who is lying unconscious in sickbay]
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Ensign Mayweather tells me that we'll be to Qo'noS in about eighty hours. Any chance he'll be conscious by then?
Dr. Phlox : There's a chance he'll be conscious within the next ten minutes. Just not a very good one.
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[T'Pol is attempting clumsily to cut a bread stick with a fork]
Capt. Jonathan Archer : It might be a little easier using your fingers.
Sub-Commander T'Pol : Vulcans don't touch food with their hands.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Can't wait to see you tackle the spare ribs.
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Capt. Jonathan Archer : That's... never happened before.
[when Sarin changes her appearance after kissing Archer]
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Admiral Maxwell Forrest : We may need to defer to their judgment.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : We've been deferring to their judgment for a hundred years!
Admiral Maxwell Forrest : Jon.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : How much longer?
Sub-Commander T'Pol : Until you've proven you're ready.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Ready to what?
Sub-Commander T'Pol : To look beyond your provincial attitudes and your volatile nature.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Volatile? You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass.
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Ensign Travis Mayweather : [Last lines] I'm readin an ion storm on that trajectory, sir. Should I go around it?
Captain Jonathan Archer : Can't be afraid of the wind, Ensign. Take us to warp 4.
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[In a futile attempt to shoot Archer while in the temporal chamber, Silik is knocked down by the subsequent temporal shock wave]
Captain Jonathan Archer : What's the matter? No genetic tricks to keep you from gettin' knocked on your butt?
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Captain Jonathan Archer : Ever since I can remember, I've seen... Vulcans as an obstacle. Always keeping us from standing on our own two feet.
Sub-Commander T'Pol : I understand.
Captain Jonathan Archer : No, I don't think you do. If I'm gonna pull this off, there're a few things I need to leave behind. Things like... preconceptions, holding grudges. This mission would've failed without your help.
Sub-Commander T'Pol : I won't dispute that.
Captain Jonathan Archer : I was thinking. A Vulcan science officer could come in handy. But if I asked you to stay, it might look like I wasn't ready to do this on my own.
Sub-Commander T'Pol : Perhaps you should add pride to your list.
Captain Jonathan Archer : Perhaps I should.
Sub-Commander T'Pol : It might be best if I were to contact my superiors and make the request myself. With your permission.
Captain Jonathan Archer : Permission granted.
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[Last Lines]
Captain Jonathan Archer : I hope nobody is in a big hurry to get home. Starfleet seems to think that we're ready to begin our mission. I understand there's an inhabited planet a few light years from here.
Ensign Hoshi Sato : We've detected it, sir. Sensors show a nitrogen sulfide atmosphere.
Lieutenant Malcolm Reed : Probably not humanoids?
Captain Jonathan Archer : That's what we're here to find out. Prepare to break orbit, and lay in a course.
Ensign Travis Mayweather : I'm reading an ion storm on that trajectory, sir. Should I go around it?
Captain Jonathan Archer : We can't be afraid of the wind, Ensign. Take us to warp four.
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Capt. Jonathan Archer : Take her out, Mr. Mayweather. Straight and steady.
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Sub-Commander T'Pol : It remains to be seen whether Humanity will revert to its baser instincts.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Well, we used to have cannibals on Earth. Who knows how far we'll revert? Lucky this isn't a long mission.
Capt. Jonathan Archer : Human instinct is pretty strong. You can't expect us to change overnight.
Sub-Commander T'Pol : With proper discipline...
[she finally manages to cut a clean piece off her breadstick and holds it up with her fork]
Sub-Commander T'Pol : ...anything's possible.
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[Klaang has been abducted out of sickbay by Suliban, a stealth-capable race]
Capt. Jonathan Archer : We've got state-of-the-art sensors. Why the hell didn't we detect them?
Ensign Travis Mayweather : Mr. Reed thought he detected something right before we lost power.
Lieutenant Malcolm Reed : The starboard sensor logs recorded a spatial disturbance.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Looks more like a glitch.
Ensign Hoshi Sato : Those weren't glitches in sickbay.
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Capt. Jonathan Archer : Neptune and back in six minutes.