Sylvia Tilly quotes from Star Trek: Discovery

Sylvia Tilly

[Impersonating her Mirror Universe counterpart]] Is that how you treat your long-lost captain? If you greeted me that way, Connor, I'd cut out your tongue and use it to lick my boots.

Sylvia Tilly

Whatever this thing is making you do, this is not who you are. You are a- a Starfleet officer. You're an amazing colleague, and you are a great friend. And also like the best Kadis-kot player I've ever seen, and I should know. I won regionals when I was, like, ten. Airiam, this is not you. Please.

Sylvia Tilly

We need to get as many people to safety as quickly as possible. People are scared. They're losing everything, they're gonna be looking to the Federation for guidance, for safety, for hope. We get to give that to them.

Sylvia Tilly

Helping you with covering fire. Those are my cadets out there. This is all for nothing if the ships can't actually leave.

Michael Burnham

When I was a kid, after my parents were killed my foster mother on Vulcan used to read it to me and her son. She and I were the only humans in the house. That's how I learned that the real world doesn't always adhere to logic. Sometimes down is up. Sometimes up is down. Sometimes, when you're lost, you're found.

Sylvia Tilly

What was her name?

Michael Burnham

Amanda.

Sylvia Tilly

[Excitedly] You guys, this is so fucking cool! [Looks horrified] ...I'm so sorry.

Paul Stamets

No, cadet. It is fucking cool.

Michael Burnham

Everyone applying to the Command Training Program will be smart. Personality doesn't count.

Sylvia Tilly

That's just something people with no personality say. Wait... which... which in no way means you... you absolutely have a personality!"

Michael Burnham

6.5 seconds is not an arbitrary number. Your new time will earn you a physical endurance commendation. Today your goal is 6.5 seconds. Then, getting a transfer on a Constitution-class like the Enterprise. After that, first officer track. See your path. Stay on it. Reach your destination. Cadet to captain; just like that.

Sylvia Tilly

She's-she's like a twisted version of everything I've ever aspired to be. I'm gonna have nightmares about myself now.

Michael Burnham

You don't actually have to be her.

Sylvia Tilly

But how do I project that strength?

Michael Burnham

I've been trying to understand them better. And Terran strength is born out of pure necessity. Because they live in constant fear, always looking for the next knife aimed at their back. Their strength is painted rust. It's a facade. But you have the strength of an entire crew that believes in you. Fortify yourself with our faith in you. That's what a real captain does.

Christopher Pike

Now at a minute five, is no signs of the temporal effects. Ready to move us another 600 kilometers closer and reacclimate.

Sylvia Tilly

Like a diver rising to the surface. Don't wanna get the 'time bends,' sir.

Christopher Pike

Time bends. I like that.

Sylvia Tilly

Oh, everything sounds cooler when you put 'time' in front of it.

Sylvia Tilly

You better be saving every single moment with me.

Actually, those memories are always the first to go.

Sylvia Tilly

Kind of lucky you get to delete everything you want to forget. If I could do that, I probably wouldn't recognize my mother.

You'd be less envious if you had to go through the process each week. It can be tedious.