Context is for Kings Line-by-Line

[CaptVader]

BURNHAM: I appreciate your faith in me.

 

[May 20]

SARU: You were always a good officer, until you weren't. If only you hadn't... You are a valuable asset. It is a loss for Starfleet.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: Thank you.

 

[May 20]

[Ready room]

LORCA: Well, there she is.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: Captain.

 

[May 20]

LORCA: Michael Burnham, I would like to extend an official invitation to you to join the Discovery and be a member of our crew.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: Sir, I've been court-martialed and convicted...

 

[CaptVader]

LORCA: Don't worry about Starfleet. They gave me discretion to fight this war however I saw fit.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: I'm afraid I can't take you up on your offer.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: Are you hell-bent on self-persecution?

 

[Orac]

Burnham: That's not it. Not all of it, anyway.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: Why wouldn't you stay?

 

[Orac]

Burnham: Let me answer your question with a question. Why do you want me to stay? I'm not here by accident. I think you brought me here. I think you've been testing me.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: And why would I do that?

 

[Athena28]

BURNHAM: You're developing some kind of experimental technology. Some kind of spore-based biological weapon.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: Oh.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: The kind of weapon that is explicitly forbidden by the Geneva Protocols of 1928 and 2155. And you need someone to help you. Enter, me. A mutineer who intended to wage unsanctioned war on the Klingons. A trained officer who's been banished from Starfleet. And someone who would presumably do anything to get out of their life sentence in prison, including illicit weapons tests, like whatever went wrong on the Glenn.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: Enter, you indeed.

 

[Orac]

Burnham: I'm not who you think I am. Before I was a mutineer, I was a First Officer in Starfleet. I'll never bear that rank or any other again. But it is who I am, and who I will always be. It is by the principles of the United Federation of Planets that I live. And by them I will most certainly die.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: I know who you are, Michael Burnham. I know exactly who you are. I know you love being right. But I suspect that you hate being wrong even more, so, let me stop you going down a path you'll regret. Computer, two for site-to-site transport. Captain's Ready Room to Engineering Test Bay Alpha.