Lasting Impressions

The Orville 2×11

Capt. Mercer: How far back does it date?
Dr. Sherman: Over 400 years. 2015, to be exact.

Bortus: What are these?
Dr. Sherman: Cigarettes. People used to light the tips on fire and inhale the smoke.
Lt. Keyali: Why?
Dr. Finn: They contained a substance called nicotine, which caused an addictive rush. That is, until they got cancer, which, at the time, was often fatal.
Bortus: The odor is very interesting...

Lamarr: That's weird... I've accessed the data, but the keypad's not responding.
Yaphit: Just a crazy idea: try turning it off and turning it back on again.

Dr. Sherman: We are looking at an actual human life, nearly 400 years gone.
Gordon: Looks like they weren't all that different from us...
Dr. Sherman: Well, ancient media records tell us what the world wanted us to see, but finds like this can help tell us who the people were.

Dr. Sherman: Look at this. She's clearly asking her friend where to find the nearest repair service for her device, "wireless telecommunications facility," she just wrote "WTF." Now, we can decode things like this by applying historical context.

Bortus: It is not food. Dr. Finn said the tip is to be ignited and the smoke inhaled...
Klyden: The sensation is... wonderful.
Bortus: I have never experienced such a flavor.
Klyden: I feel as if I have been standing my entire life, and I just sat down.

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Klyden: We must have more.
Bortus: 500 cigarettes.

Gordon: We look at these images of people who lived hundreds of years ago, and they're so distant-looking that it's easy to think that they don't matter. But then you stand in a room like that, and you realize... this used to be their world. And it was just as alive to them as ours is to us.

Capt. Mercer: God. They were on the verge of a major climate disaster, and there's a whole page about teeth whitening.
Kelly: It's a miracle the human race survived.

Laura Huggins: I don't even have to be a huge success. I just want to be rich enough to be unhappy but not enough to be miserable.

Laura Huggins: More important ... I just think it would be nice to be remembered for something. I mean, we all live and die on this planet, and... most of us are just forgotten. To me, there's nothing sadder about the world than that.

Lt. Keyali: You think he's working too hard?
Kelly: Gordon? Never.

Gordon: So, next time you're on a bumpy flight, just picture jiggling Jell-O... And knock back five or six cocktails. You'll be fine.

Kelly: Humans are social animals. When we're born, we're a blank slate, and over the course of our lives, we... expand and grow as a result of external stimuli.
Gordon: Pretty dry philosophy.
Kelly: It sounds it, but it's not. Every single one of us is shaped by the totality of our relationships... People we love and people we hate all make their mark. Whether we like it or not, it's who we are; it's reality.

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