Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)

Battle at the Binary Stars (2017)

Michelle Yeoh: Georgiou

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• Captain Philippa Georgiou : Ambassador Sarek, it's good to see you again.

  Sarek : Thank you for receiving us, Captain Georgiou.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : The pleasure is ours.

  Sarek : As discussed, this is my ward, Michael Burnham.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : Hello, Michael. Welcome to the USS Shenzhou. And congratulations on your recent commencement.

  Michael Burnham : [Philippa extends a handshake]  Respect is earned, as is friendliness.

  Sarek : Yet diplomatic niceties must be observed.

  Michael Burnham : This is hardly a negotiation.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : First contact, then. The only human to attend the Vulcan Learning Center and Science Academy rejoins her own kind. You can see my analogy, more or less.

  Michael Burnham : Less.

  Sarek : I will leave you now. Live long and prosper.

  [to Michael] 

  Sarek : Behave.

• Captain Philippa Georgiou : We'll use a worker bee to carry the torpedo. It's small enough to be mistaken for debris. Be ready in ten minutes.

  Saru : I will also run an analysis to determine blast sites for optimum damage.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : Make it hurt, Saru.

  Saru : Oh, there is one problem, Captain. Our worker bees have no autopilot. And our transporter can't penetrate their shields.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : We won't need it. I'll be driving.

  Saru : Captain, that's a suicide mission.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : Your priority is getting impulse engines back online so you can get the Shenzhou out of here before I detonate the warheads. T'Kuvma lured Starfleet to a massacre. It's time I repaid him.

• Michael Burnham : T'Kuvma has anointed himself the next Klingon messiah. If you kill him, you make him a martyr. Someone they can fight for endlessly. That might even be what he wants. But if you capture him, you make him a symbol of defeat. Of shame. And if you take him as a prisoner of war, you give the Federation leverage to sue for peace.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : How could you have done this?

  Michael Burnham : I believed it was the only way to avoid a full-scale war.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : When you first came aboard seven years ago, I worried your Vulcan training might some day trump your humanity. Do you know why Sarek asked me to take you on? I was a human who had seen a life of loss but still chose hope. What an ego I had... thinking I could pick away the shell the Vulcans put around you. I was so sure I could do it. Even convinced that you were ready for the captain's chair. To think I knew you so little.

• Captain Philippa Georgiou : "All warfare is based on deception. When you are able to attack, you must seem unable."

  Saru : Sun Tzu. I recognize the quote. But I fear we are deceiving no one. We are most definitely unable to attack.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : We have no weapons, no warp, no countermove at all. The Klingons have us.

• Michael Burnham : On Vulcan, lateral vector transporter technology has been discarded due to the massive amount of power it requires.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : Starfleet has phased out that design, as well. Shenzhou is old, but she gets us where we need to go. Is this vessel not up to your standards?

  Michael Burnham : I have no standards when it comes to this ship. It was always my intention to join the Vulcan Expeditionary Group.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : Sometimes the universe allows for the making of unexpected memories.

  Michael Burnham : Emotional platitudes are not what I was hoping for.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : Well, you've really been away from humans for a long time. I'd say you're too confident for your own good, but I've seen your record.

  Michael Burnham : As I have seen yours.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : And your confidence is justified.

  Michael Burnham : As is yours.

• Captain Philippa Georgiou : [flashback, showing Burnham's arrival on the Shenzhou]  Not too shabby, huh?

  Michael Burnham : It appears to be functional.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : I understand your hesitation, Michael. It's hard leaving Vulcan and everything you've known behind. But I assure you, this can be your new home, if you want it to be.

• Captain Philippa Georgiou : How many Klingon vessels have entered the system?

  Saru : Tracking. Twenty-four, Captain.

  Michael Burnham : The Klingon High Council consists of twenty-four houses. That can't be a coincidence. The number of ships, it suggests that someone is attempting to unify the Empire again. Against us.

  Captain Philippa Georgiou : Commander Burnham, you have endangered your vessel and your shipmates. You have attacked a superior officer. You violated the chain of command. You are relieved of duty. Security, remand her to the brig.

• Georgiou : I could deconstruct the both of you with a snappy insult and a withering glance.