Observer Effect Line-by-Line

PHLOX: We thought we'd see how you two were progressing.

 

TUCKER: You're the ones with the medical scanners.

 

PHLOX: We were more interested in discussing your state of mind.

 

TUCKER: Look, if you really want to know how we feel, we'd be a lot better knowing you two were back in Sickbay working on the cure for this.

 

T'POL: Of course. We're going there now.

 

HOSHI: They both came to see us. Maybe that means they're almost finished.

 

TUCKER: Yeah, unless there's nothing more they can do.

 

[Corridor]

PHLOX: They're very brave, the way they're facing death.

 

T'POL: Their courage isn't at question. Their intelligence is.

 

T'POL: This isn't a competition. Either a species' intelligence is developed enough for First Contact, or it isn't.

 

PHLOX: Perhaps we should consider other qualities in making our decision.

 

T'POL: This is the measure we have used for ten thousand years. It's not our responsibility to change it.

 

PHLOX: Then whose responsibility is it?

 

[Situation room]

ARCHER: There. If Phlox is right about the virus coming here on a meteorite, that crater might be the source of it. Which means the Klingons at this campsite must have been infected, too. Set up a priority channel to Starfleet Command. We need to find out which Klingon ship explored this world, and whether or not they developed a cure.

 

REED: Right away, sir.

 

T'POL: We should leave these creatures to their work undisturbed.

 

PHLOX: The Helmsman and the Armory Officer are back on the Bridge. The altered immune receptors weren't effective.