- Capt. Ed Mercer: Alara, open a hailing channel. Attention Krill ship, this is the U.S.S...
- Lt. Alara Kitan: Ah, I haven't done it yet.
- [cutting Ed off]
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Oh, sorry.
- Lt. Alara Kitan: Okay, you're on.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Now?
- Lt. Alara Kitan: Yeah.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: All right.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Attention, Krill ship. This is the USS Orville. Cease fire immediately, or we will respond.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: In the history of space battles, has that ever worked?
- Lt. Cmdr. Bortus: They have ceased firing upon the planet.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: I stand corrected.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: [during a battle with the Krill] Somebody put that out!
- Capt. Ed Mercer: What happened to automatic fire suppression?
- Lt. Alara Kitan: That's the panel that caught fire.
- [learning Bortus' digestive system allows him to eat essentially anything]
- Lt. John LaMarr: Oh, this is gonna be fun. This is...
- Lt. Alara Kitan: Ew!
- Lt. John LaMarr: This is gonna be a new fun thing.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Hang on. I'm gonna go find a bag of nails.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: I'm sorry. We had no choice.
- Teleya: Where are the children?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Arrangements have been made to return them to their families on Krill.
- Teleya: And what about me?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: I don't know. But I can promise you that you won't be harmed.
- Teleya: You will forgive me if I have difficulty believing that from the man who just killed my crew.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Our mission was in the interest of peace. But your crew was going to murder 100,000 people. What the hell else could I have done?
- Teleya: Why did you save the children?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: They're kids. With their whole lives ahead of them. They're not my enemies.
- Teleya: After what they saw you do today... they will be. They will be.
- [first lines]
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Okay, let's hear it. How did you dump him? Everyone wants to know.
- Lt. Alara Kitan: There's nothing juicy to tell. I just told him that if he couldn't get comfortable with our differences, then there was no point dragging this out.
- Lt. John LaMarr: And by "differences", you mean the fact that you could bench press him with one arm.
- Lt. Alara Kitan: Apparently, having a girlfriend with ten times your physical strength makes a guy feel emasculated.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Apparently, the atmosphere of the Krill homeworld is permanently shrouded by a dense cloud cover that obscures 96% of the sunlight from the planet's surface. A world existing in perpetual night.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: No wonder they're so cranky all the time.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: [reading excerpts from the Anhkana] Oh, god, their literature is gruesome. It's like a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: As soon as the surge is initiated, meet met at the rendezvous point. Mercer out.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: [taking a few steps] Malloy to Mercer.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Mercer here. What is it, Gordon?
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Sorry. What's the rendezvous point again?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: For god's sake, the bridge, Gordon. We meet on the bridge.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Oh, right, yeah. Got it. Sorry. Brain fart.
- Admiral Ozawa: You and your helmsman are gonna take that shuttle across the border and infiltrate a Krill vessel. You're going to obtain a copy of the Anhkana.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Admiral, there has to be someone with more undercover experience.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: [insulted] Oh. Thanks.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: What? You want to risk death on a Krill ship?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: No, but you also don't have to make me look bad with company over.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Ed, They are sending you out into enemy space and you acting like it's some big joke! My God, if you are discovered...
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Look Kelly, Why do you think I'm trying to lighten the mood here ? I'm scared off my ass.
- Isaac: I am fascinated by the interpersonal behavior of biological organisms. I would be happy to attempt sexual relations with you, lieutenant.
- Lt. Alara Kitan: I'm actually just sort of working on myself right now. But thanks.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Ed, there are families down there.
- Capt. Ed Mercer: I know.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: They's probably a lot single people, too.