Context is for Kings Line-by-Line
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LORCA: Energize
(Continuing Lorca's dialogue)
[Engineering]
(Lorca opens the test cell.)
Lorca: If you'll be so kind.
(He shuts her in then gets a container from the rack on the other wall.)
Lorca: Mycelium spores. Harmless. Harvested from the fungal species prototaxites stellaviatori, which we grow in our cultivation bay. But you know that, because you broke in.
(He puts the container into a console and particles form in the cell.)
Lorca: We're not creating a new way to kill. We are creating a new way to fly. An organic propulsion system. The Glenn was travelling on these when disaster struck. You yourself have jumped across a mycelial network. Nothing bad happened, just ship's walls got a little damp, that's all.
Burnham: Black alert.
[Engineering]
(Lorca opens the test cell.)
Lorca: If you'll be so kind.
(He shuts her in then gets a container from the rack on the other wall.)
Lorca: Mycelium spores. Harmless. Harvested from the fungal species prototaxites stellaviatori, which we grow in our cultivation bay. But you know that, because you broke in.
(He puts the container into a console and particles form in the cell.)
Lorca: We're not creating a new way to kill. We are creating a new way to fly. An organic propulsion system. The Glenn was travelling on these when disaster struck. You yourself have jumped across a mycelial network. Nothing bad happened, just ship's walls got a little damp, that's all.
Burnham: Black alert.
Lorca: Discovery's leaps have measured only in the hundreds of kilometres. A sad statistic which is the source of some tension between myself and Lieutenant Stamets. But our more advanced sister ship, before she crashed, was travelling back and forth from the Beta Quadrant, 90 light years away, in 1.3 seconds.
LORCA: Now, if the Discovery can be anywhere, and gone in an instant, that's how you beat the Klingons. That's how you win the war. And we must win the war. But that's just the beginning. Imagine the possibilities. Wanna see where they're going? Where they've been? Or where they could take us? Hold tight.
(He touches a control and Burnham's surroundings change.)
LORCA: Blink, you're in Ilari. Blink, the moons of Andoria. Blink, you missed Romulus. All those planets, all those places, all those species, seen and yet to be seen. And you're home like it never happened.
(He lets her out of the cell.)
LORCA: I did choose you. But not for the reasons you think. Your assumption that the Klingons were waiting in ambush at the Binary Stars was predictive. You chose to do the right thing, over and above what was sanctioned, even at great cost to yourself. And that is the kind of thinking that wins wars. The kind of thinking I need next to me. Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings. Now, what's it to be, Michael? What's in your future? What do you wish for? Atonement? Redemption? Maybe the assurance that the Captain you lost didn't die in vain? You helped start a war. Don't you wanna help me end it?
(He offers a fortune cookie and she takes it.)
(He touches a control and Burnham's surroundings change.)
LORCA: Blink, you're in Ilari. Blink, the moons of Andoria. Blink, you missed Romulus. All those planets, all those places, all those species, seen and yet to be seen. And you're home like it never happened.
(He lets her out of the cell.)
LORCA: I did choose you. But not for the reasons you think. Your assumption that the Klingons were waiting in ambush at the Binary Stars was predictive. You chose to do the right thing, over and above what was sanctioned, even at great cost to yourself. And that is the kind of thinking that wins wars. The kind of thinking I need next to me. Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings. Now, what's it to be, Michael? What's in your future? What do you wish for? Atonement? Redemption? Maybe the assurance that the Captain you lost didn't die in vain? You helped start a war. Don't you wanna help me end it?
(He offers a fortune cookie and she takes it.)
Tilly: I'm glad. Here's a thing most people don't know about me. I'm gonna be a captain someday. The thing is that there are still some things I need to learn. And I know that you were one of the most highly regarded first officers in Starfleet. And I have read everything there is on Georgiou.
TILLY: Of course, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to...
Burnham: When I was a kid, after my parents were killed, my foster mother on Vulcan used to read it to me and her son. She and I were the only humans in the house. That's how I learned that the real world doesn't always adhere to logic. Sometimes down is up. Sometimes up is down. Sometimes, when you're lost, you're found.
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