Trip quotes from Star Trek: Enterprise

Trip

Do realize you've just rewritten our history books?

T'Pol

A footnote at best.

Trip

Footnote? This is like finding out Neil Armstrong wasn't the first man to walk on the moon.

T'Pol

Perhaps he wasn't.

Trip

[sampling a replicated pan-fried catfish] Cap'n, you gotta try this.

Archer

Thanks, but I'll stick with whatever Chef's serving.

T'Pol

(listening from afar) Tessic is explaining that the yield is not what they hoped. (pause)

Trip

Good ears!

T'Pol

Are you feeling alright Commander?

Trip

...I know you don't think this chair is important, but you're wrong. What's the most critical component on this ship? The main computer? The Warp Reactor? Huh...?! It's the crew. And the most important member of the crew is the captain. He makes life and death decisions every day, and the last thing he needs to be thinking in a critical situation is: 'Gee! I wish this chair wouldn't such pain in the ass!'

Is it edible?

Trip

Depends how hungry you are.

Is your entire species so ill mannered?

Trip

Nope...just me.

Trip

I don't like pushing the engines to 110%.

T'Pol

They are rated for 120.

Trip

My underwear's flame-retardant, but it doesn't mean I want to set fire to myself to prove it.

Trip

I can't wait to get in there, Captain. Find the people who did this. And tell me we won't be tip-toein' around. None of that non-interference crap T'Pol's always shovin' down our throats. Maybe it's a good thing she's leavin'.

Archer

We'll do what we have to, Trip. Whatever it takes.

Phlox

There is Aldebaran mud leeches.

Trip

What the hell am I supposed to do with those?

Phlox

Place one on your chest and one on your abdomen an hour before going to bed. Their secretions act as a natural sedative. Oh, uh, please be careful to sleep on your back. If you roll over, you might anger them.

Trip

Maybe an hour a night with T'pol isn't so bad.

Trip

No offense, Doc, but under normal circumstances I wouldn't even let you in here without four years of Starfleet training under your belt.

Phlox

These are hardly normal circumstances.

Trip

Every time I start I hear myself sayin', 'What a fine young woman she was. How... how smart and full of potential.' And I realize I'm not thinkin' about Taylor at all. I'm thinkin' about Elizabeth. So many people dead. I tried not to see her any differently than the other seven million, so I spent the last nine months tryin' to pretend she was just another victim. But she's my sister, T'Pol. My baby sister! I envy you Vulcans.

T'Pol

You think that the loss of a colleague or a friend doesn't affect us? It does, but if we give in to those emotions, they overwhelm us. You're the ones to be envied.

Trip

I never got the impression you cared that much about humans. Seems like you were always finding something new to complain about.

I lived on Earth for more than 30 years, Commander. In that time I developed an affinity for your world and its people.

Trip

You did a pretty good job of hiding it.

Thank you.

Archer

Want a mirror?

Trip

You got a mean streak in you, you know that?

Those early days were pretty terrifying. I'm lucky to be alive.

Trip

Is it true you were the first person to go through?

I wasn't about to let anyone else do it.

Trip

You must have been scared.

Terrified. That original transporter took a full minute and a half to cycle through. Felt like a year. You could actually feel yourself being taken apart and put back together. When I materialized, first thing I did was lose my lunch. [Trip laughs] Second thing I did was get stone drunk. Trick I learned from Zefram Cochrane. Now there was a man who knew the benefits of a little "liquid courage."

Trip

You're a genius. The way you can pick up an alien language you've never heard before and start spouting it back to them. I got to tell you, I've always been jealous you can do that.

Hoshi

I wish I could fix warp engines with duct tape and a pocketknife.

Trip

It's a bit more complicated than that... sometimes.