D'Vana Tendi quotes from Star Trek: Lower Decks

Lieutenant Kayshon

Perhaps he preferred to be alone.

D'Vana Tendi

Yeah, I guess more time to enjoy … Kahless' fornication helmet. Oh, that's fun. Safety first!

Brad Boimler

I got transporter cloned.

Ah-ha! Pay up.

D'Vana Tendi

Dammit. How did you possibly guess that?

I dunno. It just seemed like a Boimler thing to happen.

D'Vana Tendi

Red alerts from that worm hole kept me up half the night.

Beckett Mariner

Oh, I know. It's like, 'Are we crossing the event horizon or not?' Like, I don't care actually. I just want you to pick one.

Beckett Mariner

Don't feel bad that you don't know much about my life. I keep it vague on purpose.

D'Vana Tendi

Why?

Beckett Mariner

Every time I open up, people get promoted and take off. It's better to just keep it surface level and never have friends instead of always losing them.

Beckett Mariner

Don't be so hard on yourself. It was just a mistake.

D'Vana Tendi

I don't get to make mistakes like you do. It was hard getting into the Academy. There's still a lot of stigma around Orions. A lot of humans think we're all thieves and pirates! Wait, my cousin works in a thieves' den in a pirate outpost in this sector. He might be able to help us out.

Beckett Mariner

As long as you aren't bothered by the optics, it works for me.

D'Vana Tendi

Dr. T'Ana's gonna know I violated her trust! I'm gonna get fired!

Beckett Mariner

Hey, no. Stop that. No one's getting fired over Jeremy, okay?

Beckett Mariner

Tendi, you gotta warn me if we're gonna be meeting up with a sexy bad boy, that's my type. Well, one of my types.

D'Vana Tendi

You have a thing for bad boys?

Beckett Mariner

Oh, I'm always dating bad boys. Bad girls, bad gender-nonbinary babes, ruthless alien masterminds, bad Bynars...

T'Ana

When I picked you for this job, I was counting on you to give up.

D'Vana Tendi

Well, maybe the old Tendi was a pushover, but a lot's changed since slightly earlier today.

T'Ana

Congratulations. You got me.

D'Vana Tendi

I- I just don't understand. Why not just get your exam?

T'Ana

You want me to see a doctor? I AM the doctor!

T'Ana

Now that's confidence. You really showed me something today, kid.

D'Vana Tendi

Thank you, doctor.

T'Ana

But this isn't your patient, so get the *bleep* out of our way!

D'Vana Tendi

Yes, doctor.

We can escape through the maintenance hatch.

D'Vana Tendi

It was sealed off months ago. Don't you remember?

No, Tendi, I don't remember, and that's the problem. My whole deal is repairing starships. If I can't fix this little toy, then I don't even know who I am anymore.

D'Vana Tendi

You're still Samathan Rutherford.

Am I? The old me was better. I can't figure out his notes and I'm like a year behind being friends with you. It's like I'm competing with my own ghost.

D'Vana Tendi

What's anomaly consolidation?

Brad Boimler

You get to go around the ship and collect the bridge crew's research materials from their missions!

Beckett Mariner

It's trash day.

Beckett Mariner

Unbelievable. Boimler's cozying up with those brown-nosers to get out of trash day? Such a great call.

D'Vana Tendi

More trash for the rest of us! I smell adventure.

When I find you, I'm gonna kill you with a flake of my power! I am a skin of evil!

D'Vana Tendi

More like a puddle of *bleep*!

DAMN YOU!!!

D'Vana Tendi

So you'll really turn down working on a whole new engine?

Well, it would be nice to see how the other half channels their antimatter.