Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)

The Vulcan Hello (2017)

Doug Jones: Saru

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• Saru : Their hull is covered in hollow, ornamental metallic pods, thousands of them, tightly interlocked, forming a kind of... armor.

  Michael Burnham : Not the most efficent defense.

  Saru : I suspect its purpose is more symbolic than practical. They contain Klingon biological material in various states of decay. Remote dating is wildly divergent. Some bones date back thousands of years, others only hours old.

  Michael Burnham : Their entire ship is covered with coffins.

  Saru : Commander, the captain listens to you. Tell her. We must withdraw.

  Michael Burnham : I'm afraid that's no longer possible.

  Saru : Your world has food chains. Mine does not. Our species map is binary. We are either predator or prey. My people were hunted. Bred. Farmed. We are your livestock of old. We were biologically determined for one purpose and one purpose alone: to sense the coming of death. I sense it coming now.

• Captain Phillipa Georgiou : We can't lock onto it, and we don't have a shuttle maneuverable enough to navigate the ring.

  Michael Burnham : I'll go. All I need is a thruster pack.

  Saru : With the high levels of radiation kicking off those binaries, she'll have twenty minutes until her DNA starts to unravel like noodles.

  Michael Burnham : Like noodles? I'll be back in nineteen. A flyby.

  Saru : It seems a waste of the ship's resources. What will be gained?

  Michael Burnham : You do understand that being afraid of everything means you learn nothing. There's no opportunity to discover, to explore.

  Saru : And here I thought we were doing a deep-space communication relay audit.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : You're both right. Saru, go with her.

  Michael Burnham , Saru : Captain!

  Michael Burnham : Best to keep variables to a minimum. I wouldn't want to put my colleague at risk.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : And you, Mr. Saru, are you equally happy not to be put at risk?

  Saru : Oh, on any occasion, Captain.

• Saru : I have taken the initiative of keeping us at maximum scanning distance in case of anything threatening out there, Captain.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Yes. Number One tells me you suspect foul play.

  Saru : Despite the first officer's constant need to dismiss my ideas...

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : She apparently agrees with you.

  Saru : Really?

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : I'm shocked, as well. Ensign Connor, agreement between my senior officers. Note the date and time.

  Danby Connor : Noted, Captain.

  Michael Burnham : Is this amount of sarcasm always necessary?

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Necessary? No. But I do like it.

• Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Number One, you should be in sickbay.

  Michael Burnham : What... have they made contact?

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Who's "they"?

  Michael Burnham : There are Klingons out there. We need to go to red alert.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Michael. Almost no one has seen a Klingon in a hundred years.

  Michael Burnham : I have. One attacked me on that object. Check my helmet cam.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : The footage was corrupted.

  Saru : Internal sensors show that the commander has entered the bridge in an irradiated state. Without immediate treatment, her condition will most certainly be terminal.

  Michael Burnham : He was warrior caste. His... his EV suit bore a Klingon house insignia.

  Saru : She also has a grade-three concussion.

  Michael Burnham : I am not delusional. This has nothing to do with a concussion. Phillipa... there are Klingons.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Red alert.

• Saru : Based on initial readings, I would say the relay doesn't appear to have been damaged naturally. I don't like the look of that.

  Michael Burnham : Well, keep looking.

  Saru : Well, the comment was figurative; I'm expressing concern.

  Michael Burnham : Finish your scans so you can express facts instead.

• Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Tell me what happened.

  Michael Burnham : He ambushed me. I hit my thruster pack to get away. I somehow knocked him into his blade. I killed him. But that object could be hiding a Klingon raiding party, obsucred behind that scattering field.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : If there are Klingons in this sector, they may be responsible for the damage to our relay.

  Saru : If there are Klingons in this sector, we should withdraw immediately.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : This is Federation space. Retreat is not an option. Whatever is over there needs to show itself. If it's hiding Klingons, we've got to flush them out.

• Saru : Something is scanning us. They've detected our weapons signature.

  Michael Burnham : Wait.

  [on the viewscreen, a Klingon warbird decloaks] 

  Danby Connor : No warp signatures detected, Captain.

  Captain Phillipa Georgiou : Then where did they come from? Mr. Gant, disengage phase cannon targeting. Number One, get to sickbay. I need you fixed up and back on the bridge, stat. Mr. Januzzi, contact Starfleet Command. Send an encoded message. Tell them we have engaged the Klingons.