Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Observer Effect (2005)

Anthony Montgomery: Ensign Travis Mayweather

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : These Humans have not been a good influence on you. I would not encourage further encounters.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : I don't think we can avoid them. I'm going to recommend that we start preparations for an official first contact mission.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : Indeed. At the rate they're progressing, that will barely give us 5,000 years to prepare.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : Then we'd better get started.

• [Archer, "Reed" and "Mayweather" are reviewing scans in the command center] 

  Captain Jonathan Archer : I've heard from Starfleet. They're working through diplomatic channels to contact the Klingons; but it might not be necessary. This spectrograph identifies a Klingon alloy.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : That's the signature of standard hull plating.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : [indicates one of the planet's rings]  I found it... here.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : You've detected a debris cloud in orbit.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : It's what's left of a Klingon shuttlecraft. Their response to an infected landing party: the commander killed his own shuttle crew.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : They didn't even plead for mercy.

  [Archer gives him a quizzical look] 

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : I mean, they wouldn't, would they? Being Klingon.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : Captain, does knowing what the Klingons did help us at all?

  Captain Jonathan Archer : At least we know we don't have to bother asking them if they have a cure.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : But if they had developed one, you'd ask them for it, right?

  Captain Jonathan Archer : On bended knee.

• [first lines] 

  ["Reed" and "Mayweather" are playing chess] 

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : You win in eight moves.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : You're really starting to get a feel for the game.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : 32 pieces, 64 squares - it's not as if it's difficult. Total number of possible outcomes is limited.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : Ten to the 123rd power.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : That's what I mean. Chess is so predictable. I'm surprised anyone bothers to play it.

• [Tucker and Sato have contracted a deadly virus] 

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : I studied your report on how the Klingons reacted to the infection.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : Their response was typical for a species at their level of development.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : The Klingon commander didn't let his landing party back on his ship.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : Your point?

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : Captain Archer did.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : Captain Archer's done nothing different from the Klingons. The launch bay and decon chamber are completely isolated from the rest of the ship.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : So it doesn't matter if an infected landing party comes aboard.

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : Precisely. Humans don't want to interact with dying crewmates any more than Klingons did. If it was left to me, I'd stop our observations immediately. We have nothing more to learn from Humans.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : Oh, I don't know. They're showing concern for each other. The Cardassians did that when they were here, didn't they?

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : Ah, but in the end they killed their infected crew, just as the Klingons did. The only difference is the time it took to reach that decision.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : Maybe the Humans will surprise us.

• Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : How many have to die before you'll admit Humans are different? We need to stop this!

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : I will not depart from protocol. The incident isn't over. When the first death occurs on a ship, there's a 68% chance the rest of the crew will become infected.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : What more will that teach us about them?

  Alien inhabiting Lt. Reed : All this would've happened whether we were here or not. We are not responsible.

  Alien inhabiting Ens. Mayweather : Maybe we should be.