Stahma Tarr quotes from Defiance

Stahma Tarr

[to Datak] Think of your life back on Casti. You were at the bottom layer of the lowest caste. Your life was degradation and poverty. Is the Castithan way really something you're eager to preserve?

Stahma Tarr

[to Kenya] What about this "G-spot"? It's one of your major erogenous zones, yet it took your own scientists centuries to confirm it even existed.

Stahma Tarr

[to Christie] You know, the uman phrase "daughter-in-law" is so cold, so distant. Our word, hanya tavo, means "heart daughter". You are my hanya tavo, Christie.

Stahma Tarr

[to a badly beaten Datak] You should have made me a partner.

Stahma Tarr

The most we can hope for is that what we want is worth the evil we do.

Datak Tarr

That smug shtako, he packed that audience with his own miners so he'd get a louder applause than me. What kind of a man does that? I ask you. It's juvenile, petty. It's beneath my contempt, really.

Stahma Tarr

You're annoyed you didn't think of it first.

Stahma Tarr

[discussing Alak] He's young. He's pushing boundaries.

Datak Tarr

Don't handle me, Stahma. Alak running wild reflects badly on this family. I've worked too hard, done too many unpleasant things to achieve legitimacy and respect.

Stahma Tarr

Your father's putting that much pressure on you, is he?

He's sort of a jackass.

Stahma Tarr

Most men are. It's a characteristic that transcends species.

Joshua Nolan

You know, I've had my eye on the wrong snake. You're the dangerous one.

Stahma Tarr

You're very sweet.

Stahma Tarr

Alak is of the new world, he doesn’t see the humans the way we do. He sees beauty in them, kindness.

Datak Tarr

Then he’s lost his sense of smell.

Stahma Tarr

You’re pathetic.

Kenya Rosewater

And you are alone.

Datak Tarr

The Earth Republic will come for us. Masters of our fate no longer. I miss home.

Stahma Tarr

I know. So do I.

Stahma Tarr

Straight talk?

Alak Tarr

Yes.

Stahma Tarr

Your father surrendered his claim on his financial interests when he murdered Colonel Marsh in a fit of foolish temper. I thought perhaps his son could take over with the proper guidance, but you lack the strength and brutality to do what is necessary.

Alak Tarr

This is just-

Stahma Tarr

Once again, the strong Castithan males falter and I am left to open the airlock door myself! The family business belongs to me.

Stahma Tarr

Nolan. Such a unique man. There's a certain air about him. Leather, bourbon, gun grease.

Tommy LaSalle

I'm sorry, but I really don't know what this has to do with our investigation.

Stahma Tarr

Not a thing. Simply that Miss Captain Rainier wears it well.

Stahma Tarr

How long can a human being survive underground without air?

Datak Tarr

Do I look like a biologist?

Stahma Tarr

You look like a pauper, but that's incidental.