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I’ve learned a lot of things the hard way in Starfleet—one of them being: extinct civilizations sometimes aren’t.”
Rich, warm, and so eerily present—that was the enduring appeal of analog media, the bizarre magic that gave them such cachet among aficionados of jazz and classical music. She had never heard a single digitized recording that had affected her quite so profoundly.
“Oh, just a few lines in the Starfleet Charter that compel starship commanders and their crews to exterminate all life on a planet by orbital bombardment.”
All my life, I’ve thought of myself as a scientist first, an explorer second, and a diplomat when I needed to be. But we don’t always get to choose the role we play. The price of serving in Starfleet is that there are times when we need to be soldiers. That’s why each of you wears a uniform. It’s more than just a piece of clothing. It has to be earned. To wear it is to tell the universe that you are part of something greater than yourself. The reason we all wear the same uniform is to remind us that we’ve all sworn to put aside our egos—our wants, our needs, our personal beliefs—and faithfully
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“Our job is to hold the line. Come blood, come fire, come hell itself—we draw the line here.”
“How can it be, after all that the human race went through on Earth in the last few centuries, that some people still haven’t learned there are more important things in life than financial gain?”
