| Quote |
Episode |
| Ortegas : | "Course, captain? What's the mission?" |
| Pike : | "Our mission? We explore. We seek out new life and new civilizations. We boldly go where no one has gone before." |
| Uhura : | "Cool... sir." |
| Pike : | "Let's take her out, Lieutenant Ortegas. Warp factor two. Hit it." |
| SNW : Strange New Worlds |
| Ortegas : | Never get in the middle of a Vulcan relationship. They will hit you with a lirpa. | | to Chapel; on the subject of Spock and T'Pring |
| SNW : Spock Amok |
| M'Benga : | "You don't see the tension there?" |
| Ortegas : | "What tension? They're all like, buddy-buddy. Vulcan bros." |
| M'Benga : | "Vulcans may not give much but you can read their body language. And those two... hate each other." |
| Ortegas : | "Are you messing with me right now?" |
| | discussing Spock and Admiral Pasalk sitting passively at the same table. |
| SNW : Ad Astra per Aspera |
| Ortegas : | "I'm Erica Ortegas. I fly the ship!" | | trying to remember who she is and what she does |
| SNW : Among the Lotus Eaters |
| Ortegas : | "You want me to pilot the shuttle?" |
| Pike : | "Come on, Erica. Haven't you been bugging me for months about joining a landing party?" |
| Ortegas : | "Yes, I have. Why have I been doing that?" |
| SNW : Hegemony, Part 1 |
| Ortegas : | "So, are you just gonna leave us in here?" |
| Scotty : | "Oh, sorry. Where are my manners, eh? Montgomery Scott, at your service. Lieutenant junior grade." |
| Pike : | "Captain Pike of the USS Enterprise. This is Lieutenant Noonien-Singh, Dr. M'Benga, Lieutenant Ortegas, and Lieutenant Kirk." |
| Scotty : | "That's a lot of lieutenants." |
| Pike : | "There'll be a quiz." |
| SNW : Hegemony, Part 1 |
| La'An : | "Sir, have you heard of Asaasllich, Destroyer of Worlds? It – it also translates as Astrovore." |
| Pike : | "Astrovore? No." |
| La'An : | "Well, every child growing up on a remote colony world has." |
| Una : | "Different names, same story. Scavenger ship, hundreds of years old, prowling just beyond the edges of known space." |
| La'An : | "Consuming resources from planets and any ship unlucky enough to cross its path." |
| Ortegas : | "I heard a version when I was posted near the border. The Klingons called it Chach-Ka. "The Annihilator."" |
| Mitchell : | "Admiral Sawyer told a story like that in his Stellar Cartography class. The monster past the edge of the map." |
| La'An : | "Whether or not this is that ship, we know it's a scavenger. We have to assume that their intention is to tear the Enterprise apart as well." |
| | discussing the runours surrounding the scavenger ship |
| SNW : The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail |
| Ortegas : | "Is this, uh, a personal massager?" |
| Pelia : | "Oh, this was once a state-of-the-art communicator. You had to plug it into the wall, but if people annoyed you, you'd put them on hold." |
| | learning about a telephone |
| SNW : The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail |
| Uhura : | "What you had to face down there... what happened to the Gorn..." |
| Ortegas : | "She kept me alive. She saved me. She was my friend. La'An is my friend, too. I don't know what to do with that." |
| Uhura : | "They both wanted to protect you." |
| Ortegas : | "So what do I do now?" |
| Uhura : | "You remember her." |
| | discussing her experience with the Gorn |
| SNW : Terrarium |
