- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: They were gonna shock that manta. How could they?
- Russell 'Ace' Antonov: Maybe they're like whalers. They hunt the mantas for food.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: That's supposed to make me feel better?
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: Not everyone was raised a vegetarian, Max.
- Kulai: Sharkey, plants are living creatures no less than animals. We must all eat to live. And Max, is it right to judge these people by your standards?
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: This is different!
- Kulai: At any rate, we must speak with them.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Yeah. You bet we will.
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: This... manta is invisible to any form of detection.
- Russell 'Ace' Antonov: That's impossible.
- Kulai: Impossible is a word you must grow out of, Ace.
- Kulai: I've had Horten investigating a world with higher life form readings. They're directly in the path of a Triad prospector probe.
- Horten: Unfortunately, this civilization has only achieved rudimentary electrical and steam power.
- Noriko 'Max' Matsuda: Advanced enough for the Triad to want to destroy them.
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: But with no way to fight back or escape.
- Russell 'Ace' Antonov: We have to warn them.
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: Kulai?
- Kulai: Yeah?
- Ricardo 'Sharkey' Alvarez: You're the gloose expert around here. Which is it, a he or a she?
- Kulai: It is both and neither. You must stop trying to force an alien species into your your narrow definition of male and female.