Context is for Kings Line-by-Line

[Orac]

Burnham: Basidiosac? That's an unfamiliar term.

 

[CaptVader]

Stamets: You're out of your depth here, non-Vulcan number cruncher. Seen and not heard, please.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: Basidia refers to spore-producing structures. The numbers I've been analysing have been consistent with organic structures. You mentioned the term bloom. That typically refers to biologicals.

 

[May 20]

STAMETS: Are you trying to show everyone how smart you are?

 

[CaptVader]

Burnham: I'm trying to get up to speed, so that I can help with this mission. In what is our problem based, biology or physics?

 

[Orac]

Stamets: Are you really so naive as to see them as different?

 

[CaptVader]

Burnham: I'm trying to get up to speed, so that I can help with this mission. In what is our problem based, biology or physics?

 

[Orac]

Stamets: At the quantum level, there is no difference between biology and physics. No difference at all. And you talk about spores. What are they? They are the progenitors of panspermia. They are the building blocks of energy across the universe. Physics and biology? No. Physics as biology.

 

[May 20]

BURNHAM: All right.

 

[CaptVader]

Stamets: I became an astromycologist because of awe. Awe at the miracle of life. I met Straal, and we formed a partnership. We would get to the veins and muscles that hold our galaxies together. We would find truth. And we were happy in our lab, then your war started, and Starfleet co-opted our research. They split us up, put us in charge of different teams, so we could work twice as fast. Not for truth, or to further Starfleet's mission statement of diplomacy and exploration, but for war. And now my friend and his colleagues are dead because of our research. And I have to live with that, but if you think I'm okay handing my life's work over to that warmonger Lorca, you're wrong.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: Lieutenant Stamets, I sincerely have no idea what research you're involved in.

 

[CaptVader]

MAN [OC]: Long-range sensors are clear. You are authorised…

 

[Athena28]

BURNHAM: I never even intended to be here.

 

[CaptVader]

WOMAN [OC]: Disco 1, adjust course…

 

[Orac]

Stamets: Well, if Lorca wants you to be here, I'm afraid your intentions are less than moot.

 

[CaptVader]

Pilot: Activating shuttle bay containment-field override.
(The shuttle lands in the Glenn shuttlebay.)

 

[Orac]

Landry: Pilot, stay with the ship.

 

[CaptVader]

Pilot: Affirmative.

 

[Orac]

Landry: Kowski, let's move out.

[Corridor]

Landry: All the power relays and redundancies must be shot. Is that normal?

 

[CaptVader]

Stamets: Nothing's normal after an accident like this. (They find bodies chopped up.) I never anticipated injuries like this. Cadet, scan to determine if the helical trauma to the body is related to the spiral markings on the ship's hull.