Annie Wersching in Star Trek Enterprise. Liana offers Subcommander T’Pol and Commander Tucker a lorella (Kantare fruit) that was grown in the airponics bay aboard their ship. Liana asks her father Ezral to visit the Enterprise ship and meet the crew. Although Ezral is hesitant at first, Liana convinces him to let her go with Tucker.
T’Pol: These relays are cross-circuited.
Tucker: Liana and her father rerouted power where they needed it. See here? They shunted helm control to airponics.
T’Pol: Efficient, but I’ll need to reconnect the Bridge systems.
Tucker: I’ll ask Liana to give you a hand.
T’Pol: That’s not necessary.
Tucker: It’ll go faster.
T’Pol: I can take care of it.
Tucker: She knows the ship’s system inside and out. She kept me from getting fried on a live plasma feed.
T’Pol: Perhaps she can help you then.
Tucker: What’s that supposed to mean?
T’Pol: By the way you keep talking about her you obviously appreciate her technical expertise.
Tucker: She’s very competent.
T’Pol: So was the female engineer on the Xyrillian ship.
Tucker: You’re never going to let that go, are you.
T’Pol: I’m simply noting that the last time you found someone this competent you wound up carrying her child.
Liana: (bearing a tray with fruit on it) Am I interrupting?
T’Pol: Not at all. Commander Tucker and I were just discussing his previous repair experience.
Liana: I thought you might like something to eat.
T’Pol: No, thank you. I’m going to remove those power shunts on the Bridge. (leaves)
Liana: Are you hungry?
Tucker: Thanks. (takes a spoonful from the middle of the melon-like fruit) Mmm. It’s delicious. What is it?
Liana: It’s called lorella. We grow it in the airponics bay. Nothing’ll take root outside.
Tucker: I’m not surprised. It’s amazing you were able to survive out here. Why do I feel like it’s feeding time at the zoo?
Liana: I didn’t mean to be rude.
Tucker: Please. I wish more women paid that much attention to me.
Liana: Do you know a lot of women?
Tucker: Well, nearly a third of the crew is female.
Liana: What about on, what did you call your planet?
Tucker: Earth. I’ve got lady friends back there, but nobody special, if that’s what you mean. Not anymore. What about your world? Kantare?
Liana: What about it?
Tucker: Well, as soon as we get your engines fixed you’ll be going back, seeing your friends. I bet you’re looking forward to that. (her facial expression says otherwise)
Kuulan: Commander? I hear you’ve been making progress.
Tucker: We’re getting there.
Kuulan: There is something else you might be able to help us with.
(Alien computer core – a room with lots of large bolt-heads stuck on the walls and a central console with five conduits coming out of the top of it)
T’Pol: Your computer core?
Kuulan: It controls all the ship’s vital functions. Environmental systems, main power. You might say it keeps us alive.
T’Pol: These are optronic relays.
Kuulan: Yes, and the system’s beginning to degrade. It could fail at any time.
Tucker: I’ve worked on something like this. On a Xyrillian ship.
Kuulan: Then you can fix it?
Tucker: I can try. I’ll need some diagnostic gear from Enterprise. Why don’t you come along? (to Liana) I could buy you lunch.
Kuulan: Thank you, Commander, but we still have a lot to do here.
Tucker: You’ve been marooned for three years. A change of scenery for an hour or two couldn’t hurt.
Kuulan: Another time.
Tucker: Okay. I’ll be back before you know it. (Trip and T’Pol leave)
Liana: Why can’t I go?
Ezral: You know why.
Liana: What’s wrong with seeing their ship, meeting some of their crew?
Ezral: I think you’ve met enough of their crew already.
Liana: These are good people. They want to help us. I promise not to say anything.