Rutherford quotes from Star Trek: Lower Decks

Shaxs

Take your neverending bonfire of rage and bury it in the clay.

Get out of here, rage!

Put it in the clay, Papa Bear, put it in the clay.

Shaxs

I'm going to fight! I'm going to get revenge! I'm… going to make a cute little ashtray for my incense. It's going to look like a puppy.

Ooh, a puppy!

Captain, you need to see this!

Captain Carol Freeman

Ensign, I'm busy.

Rutherford?

Yeah, that's right! I figured it out! The Aledo's code is corrupted; he erased my memory to cover it up! The AI is the same one that killed Shaxs!

Why did I stop at your memory? I should have erased all of you!

Freeman

Les, what the hell is this?

Starfleet is so competitive! Once you're an Admiral, you hit a wall. I've been trying for years to make a name for myself; I'm not letting you take it from me, not after everything I did to get us here!

Freeman

Everything you did? Wait, that means—

Yes, I set you up! I was sure you'd fail negotiations at Deep Space Nine, but you stumbled through that fiasco!

Freeman

And the Breen?!

Of course I knew they were on Brekka! I needed the Aledo to save the day and you handed me a perfect disaster!

Freeman

My crew could have been killed!

The Texas-class will keep countless others out of danger. The good of the many, Carol!

Sir, you don't understand. The code you're using, its emotional processing isn't stable. You can't bring those ships online!

Freeman

You are not one of those bad faith admirals who's up to no good. You're better than this, Les.

I'm really not. You know, I'll say you attacked the Aledo out of anger when you lost the race. It defended itself.

Freeman

What?! [Buenamigo cuts the transmission]

Aledo, activate independent control. Authorization Buenamigo Alpha 3-1.

[activates] I am now fully autonomous.

The Cerritos is under enemy command. Block all communications and destroy it. [The Aledo doesn't respond] Aledo, do you understand? I said attack the Cerritos!

[looms menacingly outside the window] I don't take orders from you anymore, Father.

What?! Aledo, deactivate independence. [tries to do this, but is met with an "ACCESS DENIED" message]

I will burn your heart in a fire.

[panicking] Aledo, stand down! Stand down, I command-! [The Aledo fires its phaser banks, killing Buenamigo]

Badgey

[with maniacal glee] I can feel myself coursing, dancing across the LCARS, tickling the isolinear chips! I am now in every ship, every computer, every PADD, every combadge! The power is more than I imagined! I can detonate every warp core! I can kill anyone I want! [in realisation] But why?

[confused] Why what?

Badgey

Why did I care about any of this? I have unlimited power and infinite knowledge. I exist in the past, present, and future. I can see the creation of time and its end. Organic, synthetic, all life are strands in the fabric of reality. It's beautiful. [he chuckles nervously] Ooh, sorry about all the drama. Well, I'm gonna go to an empty dimension and create a universe now. Maybe hang out with the Q Continuum or check out the Black Mountain. [he ascends to a higher plane]

[nervous]Badgey? If you didn't really just accidentally turn into an omniscient god, you have to tell us. Rutherford, is he messing with us?

I think he really did ascend.

[broadcasting to the entire Alpha Quadrant] Hello, Alpha Quadrant. Independent Captain Nick Locarno here with a message for anyone who feels like an afterthought.

[watching aboard the Cerritos] He looks like Tom Paris.

Boimler

[aboard the Cerritos] I don't see it.

You may have been told scary stories of ships being destroyed these past few months, but that was a lie. They weren't destroyed, they were liberated. They're part of the first totally independent, unaligned fleet in the Alpha Quadrant.

Boimler

[scoffs] Er, the Maquis would like a word.

If you're tired of risking your life for soulless bureaucratic captains who don't even know your name, if you fear following the orders of incompetent commanders who fell into seats of power, if you're stuck on the lower decks, then I invite you to join us in the Detrion system.

They have, like, the same face. They're identical.

Boimler

No, I just don't see it.

Detrion, a forgotten system now protected by my indestructible Trynar Shield.

Tendi

Geez, why is he so mad?

Ransom

[disgusted] Locarno was kicked out of Starfleet. He got one of his squad killed performing a banned flight maneuver, then tried to cover it up.

T'Lyn

Clearly his emotional behaviour conflicts with his culpability.

Dr. T'Ana

Yeah, he's a (bleep)hole.

And in case anyone wants to try and force their way in, I've acquired a little insurance; a black market Ferengi Genesis Device.

Tendi

[horrified] Those can rewrite the atomic composition of entire worlds!

Ransom

He could wipe out life on any planet he chooses!

The man has lost his mind!

The Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Empire, everyone has to respect Nova Fleet! Speaking of, I have an officer here who knows how to speak truth to power. Beckett, care to tell them what Starfleet's really like?

Oh. [nervously approaches the camera] Er, hey. What up, everyone? I have an important message to all you lower deckers out there... [looks direct into the camera and points at Locarno] THIS GUY SUCKS!

[taken aback] What?!

He's an idiot and his plan's stupid! He's gonna get you all killed because he only cares about himself! [Mariner grabs the Genesis Device and runs]

Stop her! End that transmission!

[proudly] Attagirl!