| Pike : | "The crops that Chapel mentioned." |
| M'Benga : | "They used an agent from the chimera blossom to modify them with genes from a perennial moss. A moss that could live and grow anywhere. It lays dormant but never dies." |
| Pike : | "A hybrid supercrop. Wow. That would feed a lot of Federation colonists." |
| M'Benga : | "Only things went to hell when the Klingons invaded. They attacked. With no regard for safety protocols. And everyone in the facility was exposed. It inserted moss genome into their bodies. This moss consumes every plant around it... to proliferate. And now that is what they're doing. Devouring anything that breathes." |
| Pike : | "That sounds like the "Z" word. Wait, we're breathing that same air." |
| M'Benga : | "The agent would've broken down long ago." |
| Pike : | "Now I see why you were so careful about that chimera blossom." |
| | the Z word being Zombies! |
