Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Desert Crossing (2002)

Jolene Blalock: Sub-Cmdr. T'Pol

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Quotes 

• [Sato is questioning the wisdom of the Vulcans' choice of location when making first contact with the Humans] 

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : An alien species makes contact with the United States. It could have made a lot of other countries nervous.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : What's your point?

  Ensign Hoshi Sato : It seems to me that we're gonna run into similar problems: we get invited to dinner, and before you know it, we're accused of taking sides in a war.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Contacting new worlds always involves unexpected risks. The High Command has very specific protocols regarding planetary conflicts. Eventually, Captain Archer will have to... create some directives of his own.

• [last lines] 

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : [referring to Zobral]  What you told him was correct. Decisions to get involved in conflicts of other worlds should be left to governments, not starship captains.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : I know. The irony is, I have the feeling his cause is worth fighting for.

• [Zobral is refusing to help find Archer and Tucker in the desert] 

  Lieutenant Malcolm Reed : You're the one who got our people stranded down there.

  Zobral : They are not *my* responsibility!

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : You're mistaken. The Torothans believe we've joined your cause. If Captain Archer and Commander Tucker are apprehended, they'll undoubtedly be treated as members of your clan. They'll become victims of the same oppression you've been fighting all these years. You should feel as responsible for those two men as you do for your own.