Star Trek: Lower Decks (TV Series)

Moist Vessel (2020)

Tawny Newsome: Ensign Beckett Mariner

Quotes 

• [Mariner realizes the captain - her mom - is trying to get her to quit the Cerritos by promoting her and giving her annoying tasks] 

  Lieutenant Beckett Mariner : You know, I get what you're trying to do here, and it is sick!

  Captain Carol Freeman : I'm doing exactly what I need to. It's called being a captain.

  Lieutenant Beckett Mariner : No, it's called being a dick!

• [Mariner is reporting to the captain's ready room] 

  Captain Carol Freeman : [mockingly]  Mariner, heh, care to share a status update?

  Lieutenant Beckett Mariner : I don't know; we're towing a rusted old ship full of mummies.

  Captain Carol Freeman : If you don't feel like you fit in here, I could find you a post on another ship.

  Lieutenant Beckett Mariner : Hmm, no thanks.

  [turns to leave] 

  Captain Carol Freeman : Don't forget: all senior officers are meeting up later for Ransom's birthday. It's mandatory. He's going to sing and play acoustic guitar... for *hours*.

  [Mariner cringes] 

  Captain Carol Freeman : And the songs, oh ho, well he wrote them. They're all about the month he lived

  [whispered with accent] 

  Captain Carol Freeman : in Barcelona.