Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)

Choose Your Pain (2017)

Rainn Wilson: Harry Mudd

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• [Lorca is held prisoner by the Klingons, together with a certain Harry Mudd] 

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : Where are we?

  Harry Mudd : On a resort off Antares Minor. You should try the spa. The hot-stone massage is delightful.

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : Where are we?

  Harry Mudd : Typical Starfleet. No fun at all.

• Harry Mudd : They may look stupid, our Klingon hosts. They're anything but. They regularly give us the choice to choose our pain. We can accept the beating ourselves or pass it on to our cellmates. It's our captors' way of keeping us from bonding.

  Captain Gabriel Lorca : You seem conspicuously free from bruises.

  Harry Mudd : I've learned how to choose wisely.

• 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.

• 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.

• Harry Mudd : You can't walk away from me, Lorca. I'm coming for you. You hear? You haven't seen the last of Harcourt Fenton Mudd!