- Teleya: If you believe releasing me will somehow improve relations between our people, you are indulging another fantasy.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Defect of my species. We never give up hope. Just do me a favor, okay? Take a message back to your people: We can keep fighting each other, or we can talk.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Um... I just wanted to be the one to tell you... I'm seeing Janel Tyler.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: I know.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: [surprised] What?
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Come on, really? I see the way you smile when she walks onto the bridge. I know your smiles. You have 15. Three are for happiness, 11 are passive-aggressive, and one is for being in love. I've seen it before, you know.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: What are you, Jane Goodall?
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Yeah, and you're the primate.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Have you guys done it yet?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Have we done it? Are you allowed to use that phrase after the age of twelve?