- Amanda Grayson: Spock speaks highly of you, Captain Pike. Now my daughter does, too, so I know I've come to the right people.
- Captain Christopher Pike: Well, ma'am, that makes it all the harder for me to tell you. I can't open this file. If I did, I'd be in violation of the rules, and my mother wouldn't like that.
- Michael Burnham: There is precedent in Starfleet case law for a captain to invoke...
- Captain Christopher Pike: [to Amanda] Was she this bossy as a kid?
- Amanda Grayson: On Vulcan, we call it "persistent", and yes, she was. She learned that from me.
- Captain Christopher Pike: I reported Spock's advance knowledge of the signals to Command. The information likely made its way back to the Ambassador, along with the news that his son admitted himself into a psychiatric hospital.
- Michael Burnham: You didn't betray your friend, Captain. You followed protocol.
- Captain Christopher Pike: It's easy to say, harder to believe.
- Philippa Georgiou: [on L'Rell's baby] Children are parasites. Ungrateful. Inconvenient. I had to find someone else to feed mine, or I would have gotten nothing done.
- L'Rell: I will consider that advice.
- Philippa Georgiou: You should consider staying around. Our command believes misfits have merit, so we keep busy.
- Ash Tyler: I'm surprised you call yourself a misfit, Emperor.
- Philippa Georgiou: The freaks are more fun.
- Saru: You are hosting a eukaryotic organism.
- Sylvia Tilly: A fungus?
- Paul Stamets: Obviously multicellular, since it has... opinions