Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)

Terra Prime (2005)

Scott Bakula: Capt. Jonathan Archer

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• Captain Jonathan Archer : [speaking to the alien delegates]  Up until about a hundred years ago... there was one question that burned in every Human - that made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them: "Are we alone?" Our generation is privileged to know the answer to that question. We are all explorers, driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet... the more I've experienced, the more I've learned... that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there... the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us - woven into the threads that bind us - all of us - to each other. The final frontier begins in this hall. Let's explore it together.

• John Frederick Paxton : My father never asked anything from anyone. His mining operations transformed the moon - from a mere colony into a completely self-sufficient world. And *that* is how we should go to the stars - taking the worlds we need and taming them, with Human hands and Human minds and Human souls.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : That might have worked for the moon. But the galaxy is a lot more crowded than we thought.

  John Frederick Paxton : That's not our problem.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : It's an opportunity.

• Nathan Samuels : Paxton can destroy any ship that approaches Mars.

  Captain Jonathan Archer : If he can't see us... he can't destroy us.