Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Strange New World (2001)

Connor Trinneer: Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III

Quotes 

• [Porthos is enjoying the nature on the planet] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Where no dog has gone before.

• Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You didn't shoot me last night, did you?

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : I'm afraid I did.

• [T'Pol has suggested to scan a class M planet with automated probes first before landing on its surface] 

  Captain Jonathan Archer : How long would all that take?

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Six or seven days.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You expect us to sit up here for a week while probes have all the fun?

• Sub-Commander T'Pol : I share your concern for Crewman Novakovich, but as I told...

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You couldn't care less about him, or any of the rest of us! That'd require some of those useless Human emotions.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : *Your* emotions are beginning to affect your judgment. You're becoming irrational.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You've never seen me irrational.

• Ensign Travis Mayweather : I couldn't call a place home unless it came with a pair of warp nacelles.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Boomers.

• Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : "Challenge your preconceptions or they'll challenge you."

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Commander?

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : That's something Mr. Velik used to say. Tenth grade biology class. He was a Vulcan scientist who came to teach us about life on other worlds. I'd... never seen a Vulcan before, not up close. He scared the hell out of me.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Perhaps it's not too late to follow his advice.

• [Tucker is surprised by an alien scorpion in his sleeping bag] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Gimme your boot!

  Ensign Travis Mayweather : What for?

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : So I can squash it!

  Ensign Travis Mayweather : Are we allowed to squash alien life forms?

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : If they're inside your sleeping bag!

• [Travis has told a ghost story by the campfire] 

  Crewman Elizabeth Cutler : Wait a minute, you noticed something? Fireflies are gone.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Nice going, Travis. You scared off the bugs.

• Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You'd have better luck making friends with a housefly.

  [on Cutler's unsuccessful attempt to make small talk with T'Pol] 

• [T'Pol is communicating with Enterprise in Vulcan] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : [threatening her with his phase pistol]  Say one more word of that gibberish and I'm gonna split you in two!

• Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Let me guess - no ghost stories on Vulcan.