- [Stamets has offered to do one more jump to get Discovery to safety]
- Captain Gabriel Lorca: We're gonna win this war on account of you, Mr. Stamets. After this, it's a whole new chapter for Discovery. You've opened a door to a... whole new era of exploration. The data provided by the micro-jumps will push us closer than we've ever been to understanding the mysteries of the universe.
- Paul Stamets: No, Captain, I mean *only* one more jump. After we get back, I'm done. Traveling the mycelial network is like commingling with the most abstruse blips of our celestial existence. I've seen these stars through a lens no one else has access to, and... that has to be enough for me. Because I need Starfleet's best doctors to examine my condition and figure out what's been happening to me.
- Captain Gabriel Lorca: One last jump, then. You've served the Federation honorably, Lieutenant.
- Paul Stamets: Well, I'll always have you to thank for the view.
- Michael Burnham: I need to know something. You put on a facade. Like everything that's happened to you just washes off. I actually envied that about you. But when you saw that Klingon... Who is she to you?
- Ash Tyler: I think you already know.
- Michael Burnham: You were her prisoner.
- Ash Tyler: Yeah. Her name was L'Rell. She's the reason I've had nightmares, every night since the day Captain Lorca and I fled her ship. She's also the only reason I'm still alive. 227 days. But it only took one of them to realize I wasn't gonna make it out alive - not unless I made a choice.
- Michael Burnham: What did you do?
- Ash Tyler: I survived. That... that Klingon... was more than just my captor. She was my torturer. One who took a... particular... interest in me. And I saw a way out. A way to live past day one, day ten, day 20, day 97... I encouraged it. Her sick affections, her obsession with me, because if I hadn't, I'd be dead, like all the others. And I got out. I get to keep living my life. But the thing is... if none of that had happened, I wouldn't be here, on this ship, with you. And that almost makes it... worth it. Is that weird?
- Michael Burnham: No.