Lt. Erica Ortegas quotes from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Lt. Erica Ortegas

Space really wants us dead.

Lt. Erica Ortegas

[to Beckett Mariner, having sampled her Orion hurricane] I like you. You're a good bad influence.

Dr. M'Benga

[to Una and La'an] What do you two have planned for shore leave?

Lt. Erica Ortegas

Are you kidding? They don't shore leave. They shore stay.

Dr. M'Benga

[laughing] Oh, right. The nickname.

Dr. M'Benga

[now backpedaling] I don't know what I'm saying. I should probably go. Chief Kyle?

Una

What nickname?

Dr. M'Benga

I can't remember. It's, uh...

Lt. Erica Ortegas

"Where fun goes to die." It's stupid. The yeomen don't know what they're talking about. If they did, they wouldn't be yeomen.

Spock

[assuming command of the commandeered Enterprise] The Cajitar system. Warp factor five.

Lt. Erica Ortegas

You gonna say it? Your thing?

Spock

My what?

Lt. Erica Ortegas

Your thing. You know. Everyone in the chair has their thing.

Captain Pike always says "Hit it."

My last captain like to say "Zoom".

Spock

Must I have a thing? [to Ortegas] Do you have a thing?

Lt. Erica Ortegas

Well, I've been workshopping vámonos. But, it's supposed to be about you. What kind of commander are you? All that. So, no presh.

Spock

I would like to go. Now.

Lt. Erica Ortegas

I guess you're pretty used to seeing aliens in the future?

Brad Boimler

Well, yeah, but... this? Right now? This... this is the golden age of exploration. And you guys get to actually live it. I mean,... I'm jealous.

Lt. Erica Ortegas

I can't believe all this time, we have been walking over a piece of history. I'm a huge fan of Travis Mayweather. First pilot of the NX-01. My middle school gym was named after him.

Hoshi Sato was on that ship, too. You know she spoke 86 languages? I wrote three papers on her at the Academy.

Lt. Erica Ortegas

[realizing] Are we sounding like...?

[referring to Boimler and Mariner] Them?

Spock

Indeed. It is exhausting.

Oh, sorry. Where are my manners, eh? Montgomery Scott, at your service. Lieutenant junior grade.

Christopher Pike

Captain Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise. This is Lieutenant Noonien-Singh, Dr. M'Benga, Lieutenant Ortegas and Lieutenant Kirk.

That's a lot of lieutenants.

Lt. Erica Ortegas

There'll be a quiz.