Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

The Forgotten (2004)

Connor Trinneer: Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III

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• Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : We found Taylor over there, outside her quarters. She was probably trying to get to her station. If she'd made it a few more meters, I wouldn't be trying to write this damned letter. Because every time I start, I hear myself saying what a fine young woman she was, how... how smart, and full of potential. And I realize... that I'm not thinking about Taylor at all. I'm thinking about Elizabeth. So many people dead! I tried not to see her any differently than the other seven million. So I've spent the last nine months, trying to pretend she was just another victim. But she's my sister, T'Pol. My baby sister!

• [last lines] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. By the time you get this, Starfleet will have already told you about Jane. Since I worked so closely with her, I wanted to add my personal condolences. I have to confess, I've been puttin' off writin' this for a while. I convinced myself that... my duties on Enterprise took precedence. But the truth is... I didn't want to face the fact that someone so young, with so much promise... could just be gone. But I'm facing it now. And I find myself thinking how important she was to me. She was a great engineer. And she was my friend. She won't be forgotten.

  [he lays the picture of his sister on his bed, touching her image] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Goodbye, Elizabeth.

• Taylor : The letter - how's it going?

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : I got as far as... "I regret to inform you."

  Taylor : That's a little dry, sir.

• Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : [to Degra]  I assume you were watching the attack - calculating the blast yields. Boy, you must've been pretty damned excited. I mean, that beam cut one hell of a swath through Florida. That's the name of one of the places you destroyed - Florida... Did you actually see the cities burning? The houses, the people being vaporized? I had a sister there!

• [Tucker is crying over his dead sister] 

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : I-I envy you Vulcans.

  Sub-Commander T'Pol : Do you think that the loss of a colleague... or a friend doesn't affect us? It does. But if we give in to those emotions... they overwhelm us. You're the ones to be envied.

• [Dr. Phlox has ordered Tucker to get six hours of sleep] 

  Dr. Phlox : Well, Commander?

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : I can give you two hours.

  Dr. Phlox : I believe the number was six.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : If I'm gone longer than three, there may not be a ship here when I get back.

  Dr. Phlox : Four. Not a minute less.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Done. And remind me never to buy a car from you.

• Sub-Commander T'Pol : You might find this useful - portable power cells.

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Courtesy of our new Xindi friends? Damned neighborly of 'em.

• [the dead Jane Taylor appears in Tucker's dream] 

  Taylor : Why can't you look at me? Just... remember me. Is that asking so much?

  Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III : Yes.

  Taylor : Why?