Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Shockwave, Part II (2002)

Scott Bakula: Capt. Jonathan Archer

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Quotes 

• [in the 31st century library] 

  Temporal Agent Daniels : Books! Made with paper. There aren't supposed to be books here.

  Captain Archer : Well, there are. So I suggest we use some of them to figure out what you did to the last thousand years when you brought me here this morning.

• Subcommander T'Pol : [groggy]  Science Vulcan Directorate has determined that time travel is... not fair.

  Captain Archer : Whatever you say.

• [last lines] 

  Subcommander T'Pol : I still don't believe in time travel.

  Captain Archer : The hell you don't.

• [Ambassador Soval has criticized Archer's actions during Enterprise's first ten months in space] 

  Captain Archer : When I was in my early twenties on a trip to East Africa, I saw a gazelle giving birth. It was truly amazing. Within minutes, the baby was standing up, standing up on its own. A few more minutes, and it was walking; and before I knew it, it was running alongside its mother, moving away with the herd. Humans aren't like that, Ambassador. We may come from the same planet as those gazelles, but we're pretty much helpless when we're born. It takes us months before we're able to crawl; almost a full year before we can walk. Our deep space mission isn't much different. We're going to stumble, make mistakes - I'm sure more than a few, before we find our footing. But we're going to learn from those mistakes. That's what being human is all about. I'm sorry you can't see that.

• [Silik tries to contact his master via a communication device, but only a shadow appears in the beam] 

  Silik : I don't know how to operate this device, I need your help!

  [the shadow speaks with undistinguishable voice] 

  Silik : I hear you, but I don't understand. Repeat what you said, please - repeat what you said!

  [the shadow suddenly jumps out of the beam and kicks Silik who falls over backwards] 

  Captain Archer : [giving Silik another punch in the face]  I said you're an ugly bastard!

• Captain Archer : I feel like I've been away for... a thousand years.

• Captain Archer : You try shapeshifting on me or pulling one of your chameleon routines, and I promise you, Silik, I'll blow your head off!

• Temporal Agent Daniels : The only chance I have of restoring my century is by getting you back to yours.

  Captain Archer : Sounds like you've got a chicken-or-the-egg problem. You said your time portals are gone, all your technology. There isn't even electricity here. You're going to find a bicycle, turn it into a time machine?