Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Observer Effect (2005)

Linda Park: Ensign Hoshi Sato

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Quotes 

• Ensign Hoshi Sato : Seriously, engineering, building things - have you always been good at that?

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Mmm... When I was a kid - not so good at building. But I was a terror when it came to taking things apart. My folks used to put all our kitchen appliances on the highest shelves. One Thanksgiving - I've no idea what I was thinking, but, um - I removed every screw from this... big dining room table we had. It was so old, the wood sort of stuck together, so it stayed standing. Until my dad put the turkey down.

• [in the decon chamber] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : This reminds me of my dorm room at Starfleet Training. Got into a lot of trouble at old STC.

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : I got kicked out.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : ...Well, you can't stop there!

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : In my second month, I... I had a difference of opinion with the Company Commander.

  [pause] 

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : I broke his arm!

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Can I ask why?

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : Poker.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You broke his arm playing cards?

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : He tried to shut down a game I was running for some of the recruits and a couple of the training staff.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Hold on. You ran a floating poker game at STC?

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : The way the regulations are worded, gambling was an honor violation only if it took place during duty hours. So I ran the game on weekends. One night my CC showed up, tried to sweep all the chips off the table, and I... well, I've a black belt in aikido. I think he was just upset that I hadn't invited him to play.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : What happened?

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : I got a bad conduct discharge.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : How the hell did you end up on Enterprise?

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : Starfleet needed language specialists, more than they needed to make an example out of me. They let me back in on probation and... here I am.

• Alien inhabiting Cmdr. Tucker : The sensations in this host are different from the others. I'm experiencing... physical pain.

  Alien inhabiting Ensign Sato : So am I.

  Alien inhabiting Cmdr. Tucker : Why should any species have to endure this weakness?

  Alien inhabiting Ensign Sato : Because the desire to overcome it will spur them to move beyond the limitations of the physical world.

  Alien inhabiting Cmdr. Tucker : Maybe that isn't true for all species.

  Alien inhabiting Ensign Sato : It was true for us.

• [Hoshi is trying to break out of the decon chamber] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You can't break the lock-out code.

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : Math is just another language.

• Alien inhabiting Ensign Sato : Talking is a limited form of communication for us. We're much more advanced than Humans.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Not from where I'm standing. Maybe... you've evolved into beings with abilities I can't comprehend, but you've paid a hell of a price. You've lost compassion, and empathy - things that give life meaning. If that's what it takes to be advanced... I don't want any part of it.