Dr. Aspen: I see why Starfleet calls you their boy scout.
Pike: They do not call me that.
Una: Chris, it’s actually in your file.

Chapel: Earth to Spock!
Spock: I am sorry. I am distracted.
Chapel: Also, a master of understatement.

Chapel: Where is the real Dr. Aspen now?
Angel: Probably still wandering around the uninhabited planet I dumped them on. What? It’s not like I killed them.
Chapel: Where are the colonists?
Angel: Oh, them? Imaginary. I made them up. I told a nice little story that I knew would bring you out here and you believed me. Frankly, that’s on you.

My friend, let me tell you something that from those rock-hard eyes of yours I think you know. Love is the only thing that makes the cold and loneliness of space bearable.

Angel

He chooses it freely, and we honor his sacrifice.

Alora

Alora: Serving Majalis is his destiny. His reason for being. Without him, Majalis could not be.
Pike: You plugged a kid into a machine. What’s it going to do to him?
Alora: We don’t know.

Pike: Will he suffer?
Alora: Yes. We don’t pretend otherwise. We live in gratitude for him, and when a new First Servant ascends, we will live for her.
Pike: Your whole civilization, all your… this, it’s all founded on the suffering of a child.
Alora: Can you honestly say that no child suffers for the benefit of your Federation? That no child lives in poverty or squalor while those who enjoy abundance look away? The only difference is we don’t look away. And because of that, the suffering is borne on the back of only one. It’s what makes it a sacred honor. That’s why I choose our way.

M’Benga: So, in theory, your implants might realign peptide bonds within any degraded protein.
Gamal: At the bare minimum.
M’Benga: If this is true, disease and suffering will be things of the past.
Gamall: On Majalis, we have a saying, ‘Let the tree that grows from the roots of sacrifice lift us where suffering cannot reach.’ We have no disease of any kind.

Alora: Why were you on that ship?
Kier: To fulfill my oath. And to renounce everything this floating hell stands for.

Pike: Are you the boy’s father?
Gamal: Strictly in the biological sense.

Sam Kirk: Tell her for me you deserve a full-hour.
La’an: You can tell me yourself, Lieutenant.
Sam Kirk: I would, but I’m conflict-averse?

Gamal: I was wrong. I deserve to be in here, Commander. I know that. I didn’t just violate the law of my planet, I violated my own principles, my most deeply-held beliefs.
Una: Why?
Gamal: For him. For my son.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Quotes

Pike: Send someone else. You don't want me in command of that ship.
April: You're getting us confused. You don't want you in command.

No matter how many stars there are in the sky. No matter how many galaxies swirl beyond our own. No matter the mathematical probabilities or the number of times we say, 'We are not alone in the universe,' our first visit from the stars is always the province of children's stories and science fiction. First contact with aliens always lives squarely in the impossible. First contact is just a dream until one day, it isn't.

Una