That Hope Is You, Part 1 Quotes

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Cleveland Booker: [regarding Michael's identity and origin] I don't want to know.

Ithor the Orion: [referring to Booker] What cargo was he hauling?

Michael Burnham: I don't know, but it was temperature-sensitive, and really valuable, so it's probably ice cream.

Michael Burnham: I may have broken your nose earlier. I apologize.

Cleveland Booker: You saying that in case we die?

Michael Burnham: Yup.

Cleveland Booker: You believe in ghosts.

Michael Burnham: What does that mean?

Cleveland Booker: That badge on your shirt. Sometimes you see a guy with one of those badges getting himself all worked up about the Federation. The old days. True believers. Can't handle that it's gone.

Aditya Sahil: Commander Burnham, now I'll tell you a secret. I'm not a commissioned officer. You see, my father was, his father before him. But, unlike them, I was never officially sworn in. There has been no one to do it. Yet, I watched this office every day, as I have for 40 years, believing one day, others like me would walk through that door; that my hope was not in vain. Today is that day. And that hope is you, Commander Burnham.

Michael Burnham: [to Booker, smiling] True believers.

Cleveland Booker: This is what my planet used to be like. Until I had to leave it behind. How much did you leave behind?

Michael Burnham: Nine hundred and thirty years.

Cleveland Booker: Why?

Michael Burnham: To ensure the future. *A* future.

Cleveland Booker: Thank you.