About a Girl

The Orville 1×3

Ed: A female baby born to a member of an all-male species...
Gordon: Yeah. Bortus, this kid is one in a million.
Isaac: In fact, a Moclan female is born roughly once every 75 years.
Ed: Well, here’s to the only girl in town.

Dr. Finn: What procedure?
Bortus: To conform our child. To make her a male.

Dr. Finn: Bortus, this is not an illness. Your child was born female. I got news for you. It happens all the time.
Bortus: My world is different than yours. I would hope that you would respect that.

Ed: You want to perform a transgender operation on a baby? ... Why not just let the kid decide for herself when she’s old enough?

Kelly: Well, couldn’t save a marriage, but we just saved a planet.

Ed: Let’s say you and I had a baby...
Kelly: On purpose?

Bortus: Of course! Without Rudolph’s nose, Santa would not have been able to complete his voyage... Christmas would have been ruined if Rudolph had been euthanized at birth, as his father wished.... What was clearly a deformity became a supreme advantage. One can never know...

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Klyden: I would have been an outcast! Do not pretend otherwise.
Bortus: Or perhaps you would have achieved glory for guiding Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
Klyden: What?!

Captain Vorak: You are very fragile, Captain Mercer. Are you aware of this?
Ed: There’s an antibullying law named after me. Yes, I’m aware of it.

Bortus: «Between soul and sacrifice beats the heart of civilization.»
Ed: What’s that from?
Bortus: It is from a novel by Gondus Elden, a Moclan writer of great esteem... It is customary to respond with a fitting passage from the literature of one’s own planet.
Ed: ...
Kelly: «I’m a survivor... I’m not gon’ give up. I’m not gon’ stop. I’m-a work harder.»
Bortus: Those are words of great power. Who wrote them?
Ed: I think it was actually about 15 different people.
Bortus: They must be very wise, these 15 people...

Kelly: Advocate Kagus, why is it so bad to be born female?
Kagus: It is a serious birth defect, which severely limits the ability to function: biologically, intellectually and socially.

Heveena: «The blackest abyss is a pock in the flesh when one has gazed in solitude upon the infinity of self...»
Kagus: You dare to bastardize the words of Gondus Elden to serve your own purposes?! If he were here, he would spit on you for that!
Heveena: Would he? Why don’t you ask him?..

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