- Dr. Claire Finn: [seeing a portrait in Yaphit's quarters] And what is this? Is this you and your mom?
- Yaphit: Kind of. My species reproduces by mitosis. That used to be my mom, but now it's me and my brother. He got the looks, obviously.
- Lt. Alara Kitan: What the hell did I just walk in on?
- Dr. Claire Finn: Yeah, you're lucky I'm so easygoing. There's a little thing called privacy, you know?
- Lt. Alara Kitan: Claire, we are in sickbay. And you were just doing I don't know what with Yaphit. You hate Yaphit!
- Dr. Claire Finn: Alara, I just never gave him a chance. But when I finally allowed myself to take down my walls, I realized what an idiot I've been. Yaphit and I are soul mates. We're going to get married.
- Lt. Alara Kitan: Yeah, a lot of soul mates around here lately.
- Darulio: Look, Ed... can I call you Ed? I... we've never actually met.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Well, you were screwing my wife at the time, so I guess we all kind of just forgot our manners.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Oh, for god's sakes, don't make this worse.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: [Alara is trying to mediate between the Navarians and Bruidians] What's going on?
- Lt. Alara Kitan: They went from zero to furious in two seconds.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: [after Ed caught her and Darulio in bed again] Lower your voice and calm down, okay? I can explain.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Oh, am I yelling? Am I yelling? Are you worried people are gonna hear
- [raising his voice]
- Capt. Ed Mercer: that you banged Darulio again
- [lowering his voice]
- Capt. Ed Mercer: when you were supposed to be in the shuttle bay preventing a war from starting? Are you insane?
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Look, I thought we talked about this, okay? We can both see whoever we want, isn't that what we agreed?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Oh, come on. You're not gonna pretend that that is not completely out of bounds?
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: I like him, Ed, okay? I can't help it. And guess what, I have the right to like whoever I want.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Did you hear what he said just now? He goes, he goes 'I am entitled to my feelings and the space to express them.' My God! Thank you for lighting me on fire and then giving me Permission to be in pain!
- Yaphit: [giving Dr. Finn a bouquet of flowers] Dr. Claire Finn, these are for you.
- Dr. Claire Finn: Yaphit, I'm extremely busy.
- Yaphit: Look, I'm gonna go for broke. I'm here to ask you out to dinner, and I'm not gonna take no for an answer.
- Dr. Claire Finn: Then we have a problem, because "no" is the only answer I have for you.