- Kessick: There're five distinct species of Xindi - and five distinct opinions on which one is dominant.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: The Doctor injected you with a placebo. He sent you here because he wanted me to persuade you to try Vulcan neuropressure. As I predicted, it was a pointless exercise.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Why didn't he just ask me?
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: He did. You refused.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Oh, so this... whole thing was just a setup?
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: The Doctor knows how intransigent you can be.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Intransigent?
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Unwilling to compromise.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: I know what it means. But it just so happens, it's not true. I'm as willing to compromise as anyone else.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Then take off your shirt.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Sewage takes on a whole new meaning when it comes from a dozen different species.
- Kessick: Thirty-one, to be exact.
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: What do you think of our doctor, Sergeant? I imagine you don't run into many Denobulans in Duluth, Minnesota?
- Sergeant Kemper: [...] You must've gotten pretty deep into our records. I haven't lived in Duluth since junior high school.
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: You may have left Duluth, but you've still got plenty of Duluth left in your inflections.
- Sergeant Kemper: Excuse me?
- Major Hayes: Ensign Sato's a linguist, Kemper. You give her enough time, she could probably tell you what street you grew up on.
- [Enterprise has received a lead on a Xindi from a freighter captain]
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: With all due respect, sir, we should approach with caution. The freighter captain was of... questionable character.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Where are we, Malcolm?
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Sir?
- Captain Jonathan Archer: This room, what did it use to be?
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: A s-storage bay, sir. Conduit housings, I believe.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: But it got retrofitted. Starfleet went to a lot of trouble to turn it into our new command center. Why is that, Malcolm?
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Because of our mission, sir.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: To find the Xindi, right?
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Right.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: So this state-of-the-art equipment was put in here to help us gather all the pieces of the puzzle. Figure out who's trying to destroy Earth.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Right.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Six weeks. We've been in this Expanse for six weeks. What data have we gathered? What pieces of the puzzle have we started to put together? Not a single one. We don't have the luxury of being safe or cautious anymore. And if the only lead we can find comes from a freighter captain of questionable character, then that's good enough for me. Understood?
- [the containers in one of the cargo bays keep flying from one wall to another]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Any volatile material in those containers?
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: I would've known by now.
- [Tucker is administering neuropressure to T'Pol]
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Little closer together... Harder... Harder...
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: If I push any harder I'll knock you over.
- [last lines]
- Xindi-Insectoid Councilor: [in Insectoid language] Finish the weapon quickly, or *I'll* destroy the Earth ship, whether this council approves or not!