Idris Elba credited as playing...
Krall
- Balthazar M. Edison: [referring to the Abronath] You can't stop it. You will die.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Better to die saving lives... than to live with taking them. That's what I was born into.
- Krall: Your captain... why did you sacrifice yourself for him?
- Lieutenant Uhura: He would have done the same. And if he made it off that ship, he will come for us.
- Krall: [gets into her face] I am counting on it, Lieutenant Uhura.
- Balthazar M. Edison: Captain's Log... I don't remember the stardate. All distress calls unanswered. Of the crew, only three remain. I WON'T ALLOW IT! The indigenous race abandoned this planet long ago. They left behind sophisticated mining equipment and a drone workforce. They have some sort of technology that prolongs life. I will do whatever it takes for me and my crew. The Federation do not care about us. You'll probably never see me again. But if you do... be ready.
- Captain James T. Kirk: You lost! There's no way you can make it back there. Give up!
- Balthazar M. Edison: What, like you did? I read your ship's log, Captain James T. Kirk! At least I know what I am! I am a soldier!
- Captain James T. Kirk: You won the war, Edison! You gave us peace!
- Balthazar M. Edison: Peace... is not what I was born into.
- Captain James T. Kirk: What happened to you out there... Edison?
- Balthazar M. Edison: I have to say, Kirk, I've missed being me. We lost ourselves but gained a purpose! A means to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made humanity strong.
- Captain James T. Kirk: I think you underestimate humanity.
- Balthazar M. Edison: I fought for humanity! Lost millions to the Xindi and Romulan Wars! And for what? For the Federation to sit me in a Captain's chair and break bread with the enemy!
- Captain James T. Kirk: We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles.
- Krall: [to Uhura] The Federation has pushed the frontier for centuries. But no longer. This is where it begins, Lieutenant. This is where the frontier pushes back.
- Lieutenant Uhura: I am Lieutenant Nyota Uhura of the U.S.S. Enterprise. And *you* have committed an act of war against the Federation.
- Krall: Federation! Federation *is* an act of war.
- Lieutenant Uhura: [glares at him] *You* attacked us.
- Krall: The Federation has taught you that conflict should not exist. But without struggle, you would not know who you truly are... struggle made us strong.
- Krall: This is Abronath. It was used by the Ancient Ones as a weapon. But when they could not control its deadly power, they split it into two and ejected the halves into space, hoping it would be lost forever.
- [a door closes, separating Uhura and Ensign Syl from Sulu]
- Krall: But I am grateful. I have spent lifetimes searching for it, only to have you find it for me. The poetry of fate. The world that I was born into is very different from yours, Lieutenant. We knew pain. We knew terror. Struggle made us strong. Not peace. Not unity. These are myths the Federation would have you believe.
- Lieutenant Uhura: Those are strong words. You might even believe them, but there's something else going on with you. Something underneath.
- [another door closes, separating them from Ensign Syl]
- Ensign Syl: Uhura!
- Lieutenant Uhura: Wait. What are you doing with her? You already got what you wanted! Let her go! Syl!
- Ensign Syl: [Krall inserts the bio-weapon into the room] No, please!
- Lieutenant Uhura: Let her go!
- Krall: [removing the agent after Syl is killed] Manas, it is time.