The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry Line-by-Line

[CaptVader]

Burnham: I'm happy to assist Lieutenant Stamets with the refinement of the spore drive.

 

[May 20]

LORCA: Said the xenoanthropologist.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: I also studied quantum mechanics at the Vulcan Science Academy, sir.

 

[May 20]

LORCA: I know. But I'm gonna put you to better use.

 

[Oddish]

[Laboratory]

BURNHAM: "These are some of the deadliest weapons in the galaxy."

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: I study war. And this is where I hone my craft. I try to learn from the best. Here. Now this I think you'll find uniquely interesting. You've met once before. (It's the creature from the Glenn.) It has a natural aversion to light, same as me.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: Why would you keep something so dangerous onboard your own ship?

 

[Oddish]

LORCA: "That thing killed a dozen Klingons on the Glenn, and there's not a scratch on it from their bat'leths. If we're gonna win this thing, if we're gonna have a chance of saving the Federation and everyone in it, we need the best weapons available. So what material is in a claw that can shred the hull of a ship? What's a hide made of that can withstand the firepower of a phaser set to kill? I need you to find out. And weaponise it."

 

[mattman8907]

[Klingon ship]

VOQ: T'Kuvma my lord, it has been six months since your ship was disabled and the war began. We are left behind in disrepair. Your followers are hungry. Help me guide them to nourishment.

 

[CaptVader]

L'RELL: You are an artist now?

 

[Athena28]

VOQ: This is the orbit of every object we have scavenged through in the debris field. There are no Birds of Prey that we require to restart our engines.

 

[CaptVader]

L'RELL: There is one ship.

 

[Oddish]

VOQ: "We will not have this discussion again."

 

[mattman8907]

L'RELL: The Shenzhou is within range. It may have been abandoned, but it still has an intact dilithium processing unit.

 

[Orac]

Voq: This is the very ship that felled T'Kuvma. To fuse its technology with our own would be blasphemy.

 

[CaptVader]

L'Rell: You had no such outrage when we ate its Captain. I saw your smile when you picked the meat from her smooth skull.

 

[Orac]

Voq: As T'Kuvma perished in my arms, I swore to keep his fire lit. To resist assimilation, to lead his followers. But now they die slowly of hunger on this ghost ship. His legacy dies with them. I cannot allow it.

 

[Athena28]

L'RELL: What good is purity if it only leads to death? My father was T'Kuvma's blood kin, but my mother was House Mokai, the watcher clan, the deceivers, the weavers of lies. When I was a child, she gave me a bat'leth and told me to cleave my own heart. To choose one House over the other. Instead, I built a bridge to serve both. Now it is your turn to build, to go into that graveyard and bring back the Shenzhou's processing unit for the good of your people. You must go to that ship.

 

[CaptVader]

[Laboratory]

COMPUTER: Scans indicate a diet likely based on foraging for vegetation or other passive means of obtaining nutrition.

 

[May 20]

LANDRY: Lorca thought you and I would make a good team. Your science, my tactics. Together we can deal with Lorca's little monster.