Samanthan Rutherford quotes from Star Trek: Lower Decks

I hate pears again! They're so mealy and bland. *bleep* pears!

It's working! Her emotional armor is weakening!

Where's Billups?! Did his kingdom come?

Beckett Mariner

So your brains aren't going to melt?

Nope. I mean, not from the implant. But we're in Starfleet so who knows what's going to happen next week.

Stop! You can't just keep attacking me and trying to surprise me into getting better. If I do have this LSD thing.

D'Vana Tendi

SMD

Whatever. You can't cure it like getting rid of hiccups.

D'Vana Tendi

You're right.

Thank you.

D'Vana Tendi

I'll have to get your brain out of your skull and freeze it so I can nanosuture your dendrites by hand!

So you were utilizing highly-invasive neuromedical procedures in order to make sure I liked you?

D'Vana Tendi

Yes, you can hate me

How can I hate you? Tackling an emotional problem with scientific experimentation is exactly what I would've done.

Captain Carol Freeman

What the hell is going on?

The ship tried to collect us, Captain.

Captain Carol Freeman

Where's Kayshon?

Captain Carol Freeman

This is what being hands-off gets me? Well, NEVER AGAIN!

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.

Shaxs

There's a reason we don't anyone how we come back.

I know. You can't tell me because I'm just an ensign.

Shaxs

It's nothing to do with rank, son. We're sparing you dark truths about scientific depravity that would haunt you for the rest of your days. Once you know, you can never go back to being the man you were before.

Works for me! Tell me, tell me!

He saved my life! You know what, I'm going to ask him.

Brad Boimler

They don't like it when people ask how they came back, man. It's probably just a transporter buffer thing.

Beckett Mariner

Yeah, or a restored katra, or a Mirror Universe switcheroo, or the Borg rebuilt him...

Brad Boimler

Or he could be a future son from an alternate timeline, or maybe he got Genesis deviced, or a time ribbon.

Beckett Mariner

Or he was trapped in the Nexus.

Brad Boimler

Nexus, time ribbon, it's the same thing.

Shaxs is alive?

Beckett Mariner

Yeah, guess so. Bridge officers are always coming back from the dead. You gonna finish that muffin?

Brad Boimler

So I was reading up on the Mugato. Did you know they have alternative pronunciations? Mugatu, Mugutu, and Gumato? Isn't that neat and inconsistent?

Hm.

Brad Boimler

Dude, I'm talking alien pronunciations here. That's, like, your favorite thing. What's up?

Beckett Mariner

Let's hit the phaser range. I need moving targets.

Brad Boimler

This isn't work. We're playing Diplomats!

And we're at a crucial point in the negotiations. We're both about to lose!

Beckett Mariner

Why is that good?

Brad Boimler

If both sides are equally unsatisfied with the negotiation, you can close the deal.

Beckett Mariner

What's got you so jumpy?

Brad Boimler

Just excited to see a mugato.

Beckett Mariner

Oh, you would be. Just stay out of my way down there. Or else.

Ahh! Or else what?

Beckett Mariner

I don't know, we'll get poisoned by a mugato – you guys are so weird, sometimes.

Brad Boimler

Even if we did believe you, how do you explain the Atlantis? Half the crew disappeared with no explanation.

Did you eat them?!