- Ambassador Soval: An Andorian acquaintance once said: "Don't push the pink-skins to the thin ice." It wasn't very eloquent, but... the Klingons found it to prove quite prophetic.
- Admiral Samuel Travis: Uh, at that point, about the only thing we were doing that impressed the Klingons was... dying well.
- Admiral Samuel Travis: And, there was plenty of that.
- Captain Sonya Alexander: Garth likes to play down his contribution. Don't you believe it. What he did that day no captain had ever done.
- Captain Kelvar Garth: We didn't sign up to be warriors. That's not what Starfleet is about. We proved that we could do what we needed to do to defend the Federation.
- Captain Sonya Alexander: [Referring to the Klingons] Yeah, sure, I'll tell ya. They called me 'Queen Bitch Whore of the Federation'.