- Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Every species we run into seems to be gunning for us. We might as well paint a giant bull's-eye on the hull.
- [Tucker is complaining about sleeplessness, but doesn't want to spend too much time on neuropressure sessions with T'Pol]
- Dr. Phlox: There is another treatment that might be helpful.
- Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: All right, what've you got?
- [Phlox presents a jar with eel-like creatures]
- Dr. Phlox: Aldebaran mud leeches!
- Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: [apprehensive] What am I supposed to do with them?
- Dr. Phlox: Place one on your chest and one on your abdomen an hour before going to bed. Their secretions act as a natural sedative. Oh, er, please, be careful to sleep on your back. If you roll over, you might anger them.
- Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Maybe an hour a night with T'Pol isn't so bad.
- Orgoth: When a ship runs aground due to spatial distortions... it becomes an easy target. Our captain told us we wouldn't harm anyone. And we didn't - not at first. It takes time to learn to kill without remorse. You're not prepared to kill, or torture. Not yet.
- Capt. Jonathan Archer: I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to find your ship. And if that ends up causing me remorse... then it's something I'm willing to live with.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: You finished rewriting the physics books?
- Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: I don't think I'll be taking home the Nobel Prize any time soon.
- Capt. Jonathan Archer: How's it coming?
- Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Could be better. Creating a stable warp field isn't easy when the laws of physics won't cooperate. The Cochrane Equation, it's not constant here. The problem's in the quantum variables. Every time I try to compensate, the spatial gradients get thrown out of whack. Either we get away from these anomalies, or we're gonna have to rewrite the book on warp theory. And I don't have to tell you how long it took Zefram Cochrane the first time around. -... - Now, where's Isaac Newton when you need him?
- Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: This mission, whether it succeeds or not, is looking like a one-way ticket all the time.
- Capt. Jonathan Archer: We're taking you back to the sphere.
- Orgoth: So you have let your morality get in the way after all.
- [he chuckles]
- Orgoth: Mercy is not a quality that will serve you well in the Expanse, Captain.
- Capt. Jonathan Archer: You'd better start talking now, because in about forty seconds, you won't be able to!
- [after locking Orgoth in an airlock and decompressing it]
- Ensign Travis Mayweather: [of the Osaarian ship] Their ion trail's already started to decay. They're gonna be hard to find.
- Capt. Jonathan Archer: We're gonna wait for them to find us, Travis.