Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 quotes

Archer

We're in bad shape. I can't deny that, but we're still in one piece. Enterprise is a tough ship. She took more then anyone could ask her to and then some. And so have all of you. I wanted to say thank you. I only wish I could thank the eighteen crewmen who were lost. Like you, they understood how important our mission is and they accepted the risks. We came into the Expanse not knowing what we'd find. With no one to rely on but ourselves, but we're going to succeed. To accomplish our mission. For everyone on Earth who's relying on us, and for the eighteen.

Trip

Only in the Expanse could I have a son who's nearly three times my age.

(after stabbing Degra) The crew of that ship are the last Xindi you'll ever betray.

(After stabbing Degra) When the humans have been eliminated, when the Council has been replaced by Reptilian rule, I am going to find your wife and children and do the same to them. Your traitorous bloodline will end at the tip of my blade.

Archer

Enterprise may be coming apart at the seams, but I can't say the same for the crew. After nearly eight months in the Expanse they're ready to do what they came to do. No matter what it takes, no matter what the cost.

Shran

And tell Archer we're not even any more! He owes me!

(to Archer) You've proven a worthy opponent, Captain. I would have preferred to die fighting you. But I suppose I can settle for this.

Captain, your actions, while being morally questionable... were necessary. I opposed your appointment as captain of the Enterprise, but it's obvious now I was wrong. T'Pol told me that the Expanse would have someday encompassed hundreds of systems, including Vulcan. You've done a great service for both our worlds... Thank you.

Archer

I've been told that people are calling us heroes. When it comes to my crew, you won't get any argument from me. But I think that it's important that we remember the heroes who aren't with us -- the 27 crewmen who didn't make it back. Without their sacrifice, I wouldn't be standing here now; none of us would. But I'm sure I speak on behalf of my entire crew when I say -- it's good to be home.

You are now the property of the Orion syndicate. Break the rules and you will suffer. Obey the rules and you will suffer less.

To quote one of your philosophers, Nietzsche... "Mankind is something to be surpassed."

Archer

You think he was talking about you?

Malcolm

If that's what it takes to stun them, what have you got to do to kill them?

Trip

(to T'Pol) Come on. It's not like we would have made an ideal couple. A Vulcan and a Human? Romeo and Juliet probably stood a better chance.

Of all the species we've made contact with, yours is the only one we can't define. You have the arrogance of the Andorians, the stubborn pride of Tellerites. One moment you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons and the next you confound us by suddenly embracing logic.

Ambassador,... Are Vulcans afraid of humans? [Soval says nothing] Why?

Because there is one species you remind us of.

[realizing] Vulcans.

We had our wars, Admiral. Just as humans did. Our planet was devastated, our civilization nearly destroyed. Logic saved us. But it took almost fifteen hundred years for us to rebuild our world and travel to the stars. You humans did the same in less than a century. There are those on the High Command who wonder what humans would achieve in the century to come. And they don't like the answer.

We're not the Klingons. We only want to be your partners. To do what the nations of Earth have learned to do. To work together in common cause.