- Lt. Talla Keyali: [after Gordon issues his invitation to the holo-deck] Do you think he's working too hard?
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Gordon? Never.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Watch this.
- [she crosses her eyes asymmetrically]
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: You see it? I can cross one eye at a time.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: So what?
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Ed taught me how to do that. It is a characteristic of Kelly Grayson that exists only because of my relationship with him. No Ed, no eye trick.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: That's a hell of a romantic legacy.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Now imagine the reverse. If someone went and deleted Ed from my life.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: No Captain's chair, no... Orville.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: For any of us. Humans are social animals. When we're born, we're a blank slate. And over the course of our lives, we expand and grow as a result of external stimuli
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Pretty dry philosophy.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Sounds it, but it's not. Every single one of us is shaped by the totality of our relationships. People we love and people we hate, all make their mark. Whether we like it or not, it's who we are; it's reality. You can't just pick and choose which parts of your past you want to change and be able to know how it's all gonna turn out.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: [of Laura] People have been living and dying for as long as humans have existed. Most are forgotten. But not this one. She reached across four centuries and got a guy to fall in love. We should all be so rare.
- [the crew and Dr. Sherman are examining the content of Laura's cell phone]
- Dr. Sherman: Look at this. She's clearly asking her friend where to find the nearest repair service for her device. But instead of writing "wireless telecommunications facility", she just wrote "WTF". Now, we can decode things like this by applying historical context.
- Laura Huggins: [in her message to the future] Hey, what's up, future people? Hi. I'm Laura Huggins. And, uh, if you're seeing this, you found my phone. So, I'm from Saratoga Springs, New York, and some people in my town had this idea to make a time capsule. And I thought this was a really cool thing to do, and I was trying to think of what I could put in there that would show the future something about who I am. And since I just got the new iPhone, I thought, instead of sticking my old one in a drawer somewhere, I'd put it in the capsule. So, here I am. Here you are. And, since I'm probably long dead by now, you can read all my texts and e-mails and look at all my pictures and decide whether you think I was, I don't know... cool or... a bitch or whatever. Anyway, I hope you guys have, like, flying cars or something by now, and if you do, I'm super jealous. And I'm really sorry I'm not there to hang with you guys. Um, but, hey - have fun getting to know who I was.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Nice to meet you, Laura.
- [Bortus is noisily chewing on something]
- Capt. Ed Mercer: Bortus, what're you eating?
- Lt. Cmdr. Bortus: I apologize, Captain. Am I disturbing you?
- Capt. Ed Mercer: No, I'm just curious.
- Lt. Cmdr. Bortus: It is called gum. According to the ship's database, it was once used as an addiction recovery aid.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: Is it helping?
- Lt. Cmdr. Bortus: It is not.
- [Ed and Kelly are reading a 21st Century edition of USA Today]
- Capt. Ed Mercer: God. They were on the verge of a major climate disaster, and there's a whole page about teeth whitening.
- Cmdr. Kelly Grayson: It's a miracle the human race survived.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: [commenting on Laura's singing] I still can't believe how good you are.
- Laura Huggins: Tell it to my landlord.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: No, seriously, I think if the right person heard you, you'd be a huge success.
- Laura Huggins: But I don't even have to be a huge success. I just want to be rich enough to be unhappy but not enough to be miserable.
- Lt. Gordon Malloy: Fair enough.
- Laura Huggins: No, more important than that, I just think it would be nice to be remembered for something. You know? I mean, we all live and die on this planet, and... most of us are just forgotten. To me, there's nothing sadder about the world than that.