- Jannar: The last time I saw you like this was when you delivered the first weapon.
- Degra: And that one only killed seven million. This one will destroy an entire world.
- Jannar: Better their world than ours.
- Degra: That's what I keep telling myself. But the reality is, a good number of the dead will be innocents. And children.
- Jannar: It's best not to think about it.
- Degra: That's difficult when you have children of your own.
- Jannar: What we do is for them - for our children's future. Remember that.
- Degra: I wonder how they'll... remember us.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I'll bet you didn't know this; but at one time, most of my world was ruled by reptiles.
- Commander Dolim: I wasn't aware of that.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: A comet hit, around 65 million years ago. Caused a mass extinction. Most of the reptiles died out. Mammals became the dominant species.
- Commander Dolim: How unfortunate.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Still, the reptiles might have come out on top, if it hadn't been for a slight disadvantage.
- Commander Dolim: And what was that?
- Captain Jonathan Archer: They had brains the size of a walnut. That's very small. Apparently, it's a constant in the universe.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Let me speak to this Council of yours - present my case.
- Degra: Some members of the Council would sooner execute you than listen.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Then help me change their minds.
- Xindi-Primate Councilor: You haven't changed ours.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I've made an impression - or you wouldn't still be here.
- [Mayweather accidentally rams the Enterprise with the Xindi shuttle]
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Sorry!
- Captain Jonathan Archer: No problem. I'll send you the bill.
- Jannar: Someone once said that dealing with Reptilians is like bargaining with the sun - you make no progress, and you come away burning.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Their flight path is somewhat erratic.
- [on Tucker's and Mayweather's first piloting attempt with the Xindi shuttle]
- [Mayweather is instructing Archer in flying the Xindi shuttle]
- Ensign Travis Mayweather: Good. You're starting to think like an Insectoid.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I'll take that as a compliment.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: [referring to Daniels] He said you're the only one who can end the conflict with the Xindi. You can't do that if you're dead.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: That's if you accept Daniels' version of the future.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: He's in a position to know.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I thought you were the skeptical one when it came to time travel.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Our recent visit to Detroit has tempered my skepticism.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Dismissed.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Dismissed?
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: Get out.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: I don't want you to die! - It's not necessary.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I wish that were true.
- [Tucker and Mayweather are trying to figure out the controls of the Xindi shuttle]
- Ensign Travis Mayweather: I think I found reverse.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Great. But unless we plan to fly in ass-first, we better figure out how to make it go forward.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: They're about to deploy their weapon.
- Temporal Agent Daniels: I know.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I can't let that happen!
- Temporal Agent Daniels: If you destroy their weapon, they will only build another. You are the only one who can convince them of what I have told you. It is crucial to history that you do not sacrifice yourself.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: My concern is with preventing the deaths of billions of people. If that's a problem for history, then history will have to suffer!
- [Archer has refused to take a more diplomatic route in the conflict with the Xindi, whereupon Daniels hands him a family medal of a Xindi from the future]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Why're you giving this to me?
- Temporal Agent Daniels: In case you change your mind.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I won't.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: [to Degra] Listen to me, you son of a bitch! It wasn't any easier for me to swallow this than it is for you, but you better understand something: if you destroy Earth, you won't just be eliminating my species; you'll be eliminating your own!
- Xindi-Primate Councilor: We can't forget who the real enemy is!
- Degra: We may not know who the real enemy is.
- Degra: It may seem odd to celebrate the completion of a weapon, particularly one designed to destroy an entire planet. But recall the words of Enarchis, written some fifty years into the Great Diaspora: "Without a world of our own, we are but children, lost in the wilderness." One day we'll emerge from this wilderness, and our work here will ensure... that we'll never be lost again. To a new era for all Xindi.
- Commander Dolim: Is this a preemptive strike?
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I thought that was your specialty.
- Commander Dolim: You don't want to know my specialty.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Let me guess - stinking up the room!
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I've always been much better at avoiding farewells than at giving them, so... I'm not even gonna try. But I'm going to ask all of you to think back to the day when this ship was first launched. We were explorers then. When all this is over, when Earth is safe, I want you to get back to that job. There're 400 billion stars in our galaxy. We've only explored a tiny fraction. You've a lot of work to do. Of all the captains who will sit in this chair, I can't imagine any of them being more proud than I am right now.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Just get in there, find this thing, scan it, and get out. Remember, whatever information you gather won't do us any good unless you bring it back.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: We'll keep that in mind.