The Best Ethan Peck Quotes

[last lines]
Cmdr. Michael Burnham: [of her mother] She was right. What fight are we supposed to be continuing, Spock? Everything we try fails. Now, with no suit... no time crystal... it'll always be one step ahead of us.
Spock: Respectfully, Dr. Burnham was incorrect. Now does matter. What happened before no longer exists. What will happen next has not yet been written. We have only now. That is our greatest advantage. What we do now, here, in this moment, has the power to determine the future. Instinct and logic, together. That is how we will defeat Control, in the battle to come. We will find a way. All of history can change with our next move.
[he sits down at the chess game, which he has been setting up]
Spock: The board is yours, Michael.

Michael: You saw the Red Angel.
Spock: First as a child, than again a few months ago.
Michael: What is it? Who is it?
Spock: If I knew, we would not be here.
Michael: I was asking rhetorically.
Spock: Then at least ask something I have never asked of myself.
Michael: Can we have a better version of this conversation?
Spock: Is there a valuable question in your arsenal?
Michael: Yes. Do you actually think the beard is working?
Spock: [looks away, troubled, then touches his beard]

[Burnham has taken out a game of 3D chess]
Spock: I am attempting to understand why the Red Angel chose me to expose a threat to the entire galaxy. And your solution is to play chess?
Michael: When the Red Angel showed you visions you couldn't reconcile, it caused you to question your ability to examine the world logically. What better way to return to logic than via the game that represents it?
Spock: It is arrogant of you to assert that my present manner of thinking requires fixing at all.
Michael: It is arrogant of you to assert it doesn't. Or you're just afraid you'll lose.
Spock: All right, Michael. Let's play chess.

Spock: I like science.

Spock: What are the three most salient facts about Captain Pike?
Number: One, his capacity for hearing out another point of view is exceeded only by his willingness to change his own once he's heard you out. Two, even though he is the most heavily decorated fighting captain in Starfleet, he views resorting to force as an admission of failure. And three... he is utterly unsentimental except when it comes to horses.

Spock: Am I becoming an annoyance?

Spock: Have you ever considered that the prime directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical and perhaps morally indefensible?

Leland: Welcome back, Commander. What were you doing on Talos?
[Spock remains silent]
Leland: This will go easier if you answer me. Or it can go harder.
Michael: I beg to differ. Say goodbye, Spock.
Spock: [Gives the Vulcan Salute] Goodbye Spock.
[Michael Burnham and Spock vanish as nothing more than a projection from the Talosians]

Number: This is the advice I'd give to anyone whose ultimate goal is command.
Spock: That is not my goal, sir.
Number: Bullshit. No one endures two solid years on quantum-stochastic combat modeling because they want to sling a tricorder for the rest of their lives.

Constantin: Sir... do something.
Philippe: It's already done.

Captain: Do Vulcans ever feel awe, Spock?
Spock: They do, Captain. But they tend to keep it to themselves.

Spock: Greetings, Captain.
Captain: Spock! Are you alright?
Spock: Much better for seeing you in person, sir. Even if we are only riding into danger.
[gives a small smile]
Captain: Is that a smile I see on your face?
Spock: I believe it is. Yes.

Michael: What if it doesn't work?
Spock: Were you to perish, I would be charged with killing a Starfleet officer again. It would therefore be ideal if you survived.
Michael: Such a way with words, Spock.

Spock: Perhaps he needs distance from you not because he no longer has feelings for you, but because he no longer knows how to feel about himself.