Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Chosen Realm (2004)

Scott Bakula: Capt. Jonathan Archer

Quotes 

• Captain Jonathan Archer : How many people do you intend to kill with my ship?

  Pri'Nam D'Jamat : [chuckles]  Your species is obsessed with numbers - a characteristic of your misguided belief that the secrets of the universe can be revealed through science. This may sound barbaric to you, but it doesn't matter how many heretics die. When the Makers return, only the faithful will survive. Non-believers will be swept away. Not only Triannons, but every race within the Chosen Realm.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Doctrines like that make it... real easy to wipe out everyone who doesn't agree with you.

• Captain Jonathan Archer : These people you're fighting - what makes them heretics?

  Yarrick : We believe the Makers created the Chosen Realm in nine days. They believe it took ten.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : [scoffs]  For that you've been at war for over a century?

• Yarrick : D'Jamat is my spiritual leader. I will follow him to my death.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : From what I've seen, I'm pretty sure you're gonna have that opportunity.

• Captain Jonathan Archer : You wanted to kill someone? Kill me.

• Captain Jonathan Archer : As long as people like D'Jamat dictate what's true and what isn't... all you'll ever have is war.

• [last lines] 

  [Archer shows D'Jamat his planet, which lies entirely in ruins] 

  Captain Jonathan Archer : From what we've been able to learn, this happened eight months ago. Both sides have been decimated. There are no major cities left. Millions... are dead. Your faith was going to bring peace? Here it is.

• [one of Archer's crew members has been killed in an explosion caused by one of the Triannons] 

  Pri'Nam D'Jamat : I also lost a crewman in that explosion, Captain. I'll say a prayer for them both.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : [under his breath]  Save your breath.

• [Archer has retaken control of the ship] 

  Captain Jonathan Archer : [to the Triannons]  We've also neutralized your organic explosives.

  Pri'Nam D'Jamat : You're lying!

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Go ahead. Try to blow yourself up. I'll wait.

• Pri'Nam D'Jamat : You've done a terrible thing, Captain. You've interfered with something that was ordained. After centuries of fighting, I was going to bring an end to the war; we would have had peace!

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Peace? One of my crewmen is dead, six others are wounded, my ship is damaged.

  Pri'Nam D'Jamat : None of that is important! All that matters is the sacred truth.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : You want truth? I'll show you some truth.

• Captain Jonathan Archer : A war - that was the "glorious mission" you were talking about?

  Pri'Nam D'Jamat : I'm trying to save my people.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Why do I have the feeling these heretics would say the same thing?

  Pri'Nam D'Jamat : They might very well. But it doesn't change what they are: enemies of the truth.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : Your truth.

  Pri'Nam D'Jamat : There's only one.