"Breaking the Ice" Line-by-Line

[Comet surface]

REED: The beauty of ice is that it records everything like a blank page. The farther down you drill, the farther back in time you go.

 

TRAVIS: Lieutenant.

 

Reed: Yes?

 

TRAVIS: What do you think? (he's built a snowman)

 

REED: Hand me the plasma torch.

 

(Reed gives the snowman two eyes and a smiling mouth, and sticks the torch in as a nose)

Archer [OC]: Archer to Lieutenant Reed.

 

REED: Go ahead, sir.

 

Archer [OC]: How are you doing, Malcolm?

 

REED: We're just about to set the charges.

 

[Bridge]

Archer: I'm sure I don't need to remind you we're being observed.

(the two men and the snowman are on the viewscreen)

 

REED [OC]: No, sir.

 

Archer: We want this to go as smoothly as possible.

[Comet surface]

Archer [OC]: Make a good impression.

 

REED: Right.

 

Archer: So tell me, who's the sculptor?

 

[Comet surface]

Reed: It won't be there for long, sir.

 

Bridge.

Archer: Archer out.

 

[Engineering]

TUCKER: Any luck?

 

Hoshi: Sorry it took so long. The code was pretty complex.

 

TUCKER: What's it say?

 

Hoshi: It's in Vulcan. You'll have to run it through the translation matrix.