- [Discovery is about to jump via spore drive]
- Saru: Questions or concerns before we depart, Captain?
- Captain Christopher Pike: If you're telling me that this ship can skip across the universe on a highway made of mushrooms, I kinda have to go on faith.
- Captain Christopher Pike: [to all] Be bold. Be brave. Be courageous. Black alert.
- Tannoy: All personnel, black alert.
- Captain Christopher Pike: Let's jump.
- [Discovery jumps]
- Captain Christopher Pike: [gasps, then chuckles] Whoo!
- Saru: You never forget your first, sir.
- Discovery Computer: Your personal shielding is phase-locked with the gravity simulator. Any change in this gravimetric stability will result in...
- Sylvia Tilly: Boom.
- Discovery Computer: Confirmed.
- Michael Burnham: You wanted to see me?
- Captain Christopher Pike: Yes. And don't make me laugh.
- [Pike had broken ribs]
- Michael Burnham: Fortunately for you, I was raised on Vulcan. We don't do funny.