- Sub-Commander T'Pol: "Terra Nova"?
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I'm surprised you've never heard of it.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: I'm not familiar with the early years of Human space exploration.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Really? Every school kid on Earth had to learn about the famous Vulcan expeditions.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Name one.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: [after a period of unsuccessful thinking] History was never my best subject.
- [Archer tells T'Pol that no one has heard from the Terra Nova colony in over 70 years]
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: My experience with Humans is limited. But I've come to learn that they're quite resourceful. Terra Nova may still be there, Captain.
- [last lines]
- Ensign Travis Mayweather: All these years, wondering about that colony. I never thought I'd become a part of their history.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Tell you what, Travis. Why don't you put together the report for Starfleet? If I'm not mistaken, it'll be headline news back home.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: "The Terra Nova Puzzle - solved as last! As told by Ensign Travis Mayweather."
- Ensign Travis Mayweather: Thank you, sir.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: [on Nadet] How's she doing?
- Dr. Phlox: She's as disagreeable as she was before I treated her.
- [Archer wants to persuade the Novan colonists to return to Earth]
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Are you certain it is the right thing?
- Captain Jonathan Archer: What're you talking about?
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: When you get them back to Earth, what will you do? Send them to school, teach them to read and write? Wear Human clothing, eat Human food? Teach them to live on the surface? Enjoy the sunshine?
- Captain Jonathan Archer: You're damn straight. They're Human beings. It's their birthright. It might take a little while, but they'll adapt. It's a hell of a lot better than dying down in those tunnels.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: They've lived in those tunnels for three generations. You can't just pluck them up and bring them to a strange world and hope they'll learn to conform. You'd be destroying their identity, destroying the Novan culture.
- [first lines]
- Ensign Travis Mayweather: This was their first view of it.
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: If you didn't look too close you'd think it was Earth.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I don't want to risk any more casualties. Despite how they look, they're still Human. We've got to find some way to talk to them.
- Ensign Travis Mayweather: They didn't seem too eager to talk.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: If I can't make first contact with other Hum...
- [he pauses]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I don't have any business being out here.