Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Stigma (2003)

Scott Bakula: Capt. Jonathan Archer

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• Sub-Commander T'Pol : I have Pa'nar Syndrome. It doesn't make a difference how I contracted it.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : It makes a lot of difference. You're not a member of this minority. He forced himself on you, you said it yourself.

  Dr. Phlox : He's right, T'Pol, you should tell them.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : He is not right. If I used that as a defense as a way to keep from being taken off Enterprise, I'd be condoning their prejudice, and in the process indicting every member of the minority. I won't do that.

• Captain Jonathan Archer : "You Humans are too... volatile, too irrational, too narrow-minded." That's what I heard for years - from every Vulcan I met. But we don't hold a candle to you when it comes to narrow-minded. We got rid of bigotry nearly a century ago. We're not afraid of diversity. We don't persecute it, we embrace it. If you call yourselves enlightened, you have to accept people who are different than you are.

• Dr. Oratt : The accusation against T'Pol stands. It's not open for debate.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Where I come from, everything's open for debate. And if I read these protocols correctly, so is the accusation you made against my Science Officer.

  Dr. Oratt : You're wasting your time.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : It's mine to waste!

• Captain Jonathan Archer : If you're not going to defend yourself, the least you can do is speak for this minority you're so eager to protect. You said you didn't want to condone the attitude of these doctors. Your silence would do just that.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : You need to understand... I won't tell them how I got the disease.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : I'll go along with that. I promise. But *you've* got to understand, I'm not gonna give you up without a fight.

• [last lines] 

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Maybe this incident will encourage others to speak out.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Let's hope so.