Quotes / Star Trek: Discovery S4E03 "Choose to Live"

Vance: Do you like music, Captain?
Burnham: Sure.
Vance: Think of us as an orchestra. You're first-chair violin, with the showy, challenging solos. I'm the drum section, setting the pace, providing backbone. [Rillak]'s the conductor. When she signals us, we play. It's not our job to know if the cellist is drunk or the woodwinds and brass are at war. We each have our part, and we must all trust that she knows the symphony.
Burnham: That was a lot of analogy.
Vance: Well, they pay me by the letter.