Transporter technology is very new. I'm sure Humans were equally frightened when the automobile was introduced, or the airplane. New forms of transport take a while to get used to. I'm not at all surprised at your reaction. You wouldn't catch me using that apparatus.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Ever since I used that transporter, nothing has been the way that it's supposed to be. I couldn't translate a simple bimodal syntax but Crewman Baird could. Crewman Baird doesn't know the first thing about our linguistic database! And Captain Archer told me to stay in my quarters, but my mirror doesn't want to give me a solid reflection and my shower can't decide whether to bounce off me or go through me! And nobody wants to talk to me.
[while in the escape pod, Trip tastes the food Kaitaama discovered in a storage locker.]
KKaitaama
Is it edible?
Depends how hungry you are.
KKaitaama
Is your entire species so ill mannered?
Nope...just me.
No offense, but my ears are less likely to draw fire than yours.
[to T'Pol] What is their fixation with our ears?
I believe that they are envious.
I don't like pushing the engines to 110%.
They are rated for 120.
My underwear's flame-retardant, but it doesn't mean I want to set fire to myself to prove it.
I believe someone once defined a compromise as a solution that neither side is happy with.
In that case, these talks have been extremely successful.
[to Archer] Captain. Your presence here has not been... overly meddlesome. [leaves the briefing room with T'Pol and his aide]
I think he likes you, Pink-Skin.
I wouldn't go that far.
KKolos
My father was a teacher... my mother, a biologist at the university. They encouraged me to take up the law. Now, all young people want to do is take up weapons as soon as they can hold them. They're told there's honor in victory, any victory, but what honor is there in a victory over a weaker opponent? [...] We were a great society not so long ago when honor was earned through integrity and acts of true courage, not senseless bloodshed.
We're going to be showing three of the greatest horror movies ever made - Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and Son of Frankenstein. We might even throw in Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein.
(to the injured Antaran) I have tried to treat you with respect, but I refuse to listen to these insults. You're the reason we haven't been able to put the past behind us. You've kept this hatred alive. No Denobulan would want to be in the same room as you.
(to Trip) You knew you had no business interfering with those people, but you just couldn't let it alone. You thought you were doing the right thing. I might agree if this was Florida or Singapore, but it's not, is it? We're in deep space and a person is dead -- a person who'd still be alive if we hadn't made first contact.
There's an old Earth expression: I'll show you mine if... (cough) you show me yours.
There was something familiar about all this, but I couldn't put my finger on it until I found this speech Zefram Cochrane made eighty nine years ago. When I was a kid, I read everything I could about him. It took me a while, but I finally found it in the database. He was giving a commencement address at Princeton when he started to talk about what really happened during First Contact. He mentioned a group of cybernetic creatures from the future who tried to stop his first warp flight when he was living in Montana. He said they were defeated by a group of humans, who were also from the future.
As I recall, Cochrane was famous for his imaginative stories. He was also known to be frequently intoxicated.
No one took him seriously, and he recanted the whole thing a few years later, but you have to admit there are similarities.
[reading Cochrane's transcript] He said their ultimate goal was to enslave the human race.
If he was right, they might be heading back to their homeworld, so they can try again.
AVAlien vessel
[hailing the Enterprise] You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
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