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

[CaptVader]

Burnham: How do you know it's a monster, Commander?

 

[May 20]

LANDRY: Because I've seen what it's capable of. So have you. Let's call it Ripper. That's what it looks like. That's what it does.

 

[CaptVader]

Burnham: Your Ripper appears to share some natural traits with the Tardigrade species, a docile creature that lives in the waters of the Earth. A micro-animal capable of surviving extreme heat and subfreezing temperatures.

 

[Orac]

Landry: Did you say microscopic?

 

[Athena28]

BURNHAM: In our case, somehow, macroscopic.

 

[Orac]

Landry: Huh. How did it get on the Glenn?

 

[CaptVader]

Burnham: All the recent logs were corrupted, but the Glenn's captain made an earlier entry that security detected a stowaway. There was no hull breach, and no unregistered microbiota in the transporter's pattern buffer, but this was found rummaging around in the lower cargo decks.

 

[May 20]

LANDRY: We need to find something Lorca can use on this thing. Poison sacs, pain inducers, rage glands.

 

[CaptVader]

Burnham: You judge the creature by its appearance, and by one single incident from its past. Nothing in its biology suggests it would attack, except in self-defense. Commander, this creature is an unknown alien. It can only be what it is and not what you want it to be.

 

[May 20]

LANDRY: It's amazing how much I hate Vulcan proverbs. You're new here, so let me share a piece of wisdom. Lorca isn't interested in what you are. He's interested in what you can do for him. And if he needs us to make that thing useful in his war effort, that's what we're gonna do.

 

[Orac]

[Ready room]

Lorca: Admiral Cornwell.

 

[CaptVader]

Cornwell [hologram]: I didn't realize you were eating, Captain.

 

[JLA]

Lorca: 'Scuse the breech of protocol.

 

[Orac]

Cornwell [hologram]: We just received a distress signal from the planetoid Corvan 2, a mining colony

 

[May 20]

LORCA: Near the Aneto system. I know it.

 

[Orac]

Cornwell [hologram]: Sending it through now.

 

[May 20]

RANCE [on screen] We're under Klingon attack. Our patrol ships have been destroyed. Our magnetic shields are degrading under bombardment. They will fail in six hours.

 

[Orac]

Child [OC] Daddy!

 

[CaptVader]

Rance [on screen]: Find cover!

 

[Orac]

Woman [OC]: I can't find Andy!