Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Terra Prime (2005)

Peter Weller: John Frederick Paxton

Quotes 

• John Frederick Paxton : I'm not the first significant leader who failed to measure up to his own ideals.

  Commander T'Pol : You're not significant!

  John Frederick Paxton : History will determine that!

• John Frederick Paxton : My father never asked anything from anyone. His mining operations transformed the moon - from a mere colony into a completely self-sufficient world. And *that* is how we should go to the stars - taking the worlds we need and taming them, with Human hands and Human minds and Human souls.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : That might have worked for the moon. But the galaxy is a lot more crowded than we thought.

  John Frederick Paxton : That's not our problem.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : It's an opportunity.

• John Frederick Paxton : Terra Prime... forever.

• John Frederick Paxton : All the rocking in the world will not make that child Vulcan. Or Human.

• Commander T'Pol : Her medical readings appear normal.

  John Frederick Paxton : There's nothing normal about it.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : She's not an 'it'!

• John Frederick Paxton : We do not seek war; but if the aliens do not leave and force us to fight, I make this solemn promise to all of the sons and daughters of Earth, our future will be secure, because Humanity will prevail.

• John Frederick Paxton : I need you to refine my targeting system.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You really think I'm gonna help you turn that array into a weapon?

  John Frederick Paxton : You really think I'm gonna give you a choice?

  [he has Greaves point a gun to T'Pol's head] 

• John Frederick Paxton : Starfleet's been warned, if that's what concerns you. Now, you can either help me, and a few empty buildings will be destroyed, or you refuse me and millions may die.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : You told Starfleet when you're planning to fire the array. And you don't think they're gonna blast this facility off the face of the planet?

  John Frederick Paxton : If you are so eager for a blood bath, a blood bath is what you will get.

• John Frederick Paxton : We are each his father's child.

• John Frederick Paxton : That child is a cross-breed freak. How many generations before our genome is so diluted that the word 'Human' is nothing more than a footnote in some medical text? The same thing could happen to your people. Or don't you care about that?

  Commander T'Pol : Neither of our species is what it was a million years ago, nor what it'll become in the future. Life is change.

  John Frederick Paxton : Change in this case means extinction. And I, for one, will not let that baby bring Humanity to that point.

• John Frederick Paxton : What's wrong with your child?

  Commander T'Pol : Elevated white blood cell count, low-grade fever.

  John Frederick Paxton : Well, its two halves are warring with each other, alien and human. Conflict was inevitable.