Admiral Pike quotes from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Christopher Pike

Is this some kind of--

Joke? No.

Christopher Pike

How am I supposed to believe--

That I'm really you?

Christopher Pike

You ever gonna let me get a word in edgewise?

I knew you were gonna say that. Does that help?

Christopher Pike

I've been doing this long enough that I'm not gonna take the word of somebody who shows up in my cabin and says he's future me.

Mm. Your first pony was named Sir Neighs-a-Lot. He broke his leg in a rainstorm. Your parents had to put him down, and you cried for a week. Ever tell anybody that?

Christopher Pike

It's hard when your tragic backstory starts with--

A silly name. Sorry.

I know what you're thinking. I was thinking the same thing when I went through this.

Christopher Pike

Had I traded my fate for Spock's?

Yes. This isn't going to help, but... it gets worse. This war with the Romulans? Millions die. So far. It's still going on. Not only did you start something that should never have been started -- the best chance at a lasting peace between the Federation and the Romulans in any timeline? Well... turns out he's lying in a bio-bed. We all wanna think our future is important and ours -- yours and mine -- it is. Just not the way you think. Time is, uh... it's complicated. But the monks showed me something simple: every time we change the path, he dies. He's got things to do. Fate of the galaxy type things. Paths diverge... but I am the result of one that should never have been taken.

Pelia

I suppose I can direct you from the bridge. Five Vulcans should be more than enough down there.

Four. And one half.

Chapel

Spock is only half-Vulcan, whereas the four of us...

Spock

Are fully Vulcan.

La'An

Is that not logical, Spock?

Spock

Indeed, it is.