Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 10: "A Quality of Mercy" Quotes
Pike: We're holding to our side of the Neutral Zone, as you are, yet you demand our surrender?
Praetor: Captain, I have you surrounded. Surrender or we will destroy you. You have one minute to comply.
Pike: [cuts communication] You know, I don't like her.
Pike: What purpose will it serve to die?
Romulan Commander: We are creatures of duty, you and I. Just one more duty to perform. Do not be upset. I have accepted my fate. Perhaps someday my sacrifice will lead to an end to this conflict between us.
We all want to think our future is important, and ours -- yours and mine -- it is. Just not the way you think. Time is, um, it's complicated.
Admiral Pike
He's got things to do. Fate-of-the-galaxy-type things.
Admiral Pike
Let's just say I think the universe is telling me that some fates are inescapable. And even if I could get out of mine, it might just fall to someone else.
Pike
I believe I might owe you a debt of gratitude, Captain. Although, for precisely what, I do not know.
Spock