Charles "Trip" Tucker: "They were holograms."
Ezral: "They were our friends, our family for over twenty years."
Liana: "They're the only people I've ever known, besides my father, until you came."
Captain Archer: "But the ones you based them on, the crew of this ship, where are they?"
Ezral: "I buried them out in the hills, the ones I could find after the crash. I killed them, so I buried them."
Liana: "That isn't true."
Ezral: "You don't remember. You were a child. We were on our way home, just like Kuulan told you, but we weren't attacked. There was an ion storm. It overloaded our plasma conduits. I was the chief engineer. It was my responsibility to start repairs. But it was worse than I thought. Leaking plasma burned through the hull. We were losing atmosphere so Captain Kuulan set a course for this planet. [...] I left my station. The plasma leak grew, there was an explosion. Half the crew died instantly including my wife. A few made it to the escape pods, but..."
Archer: "I can't imagine what making that decision must have been like, but it was a long time ago. You need to consider your daughter now."
Ezral: "Why do you think I did this? To retreat into some kind of fantasy? Pretend it never happened? For two years I tried to repair our ship, and I watched my daughter grow up alone. So I decided to bring them back. Her mother first, then Captain Kuulan and the others. I did everything I could to make it like it was, for her."
Ezral: "They were our friends, our family for over twenty years."
Liana: "They're the only people I've ever known, besides my father, until you came."
Captain Archer: "But the ones you based them on, the crew of this ship, where are they?"
Ezral: "I buried them out in the hills, the ones I could find after the crash. I killed them, so I buried them."
Liana: "That isn't true."
Ezral: "You don't remember. You were a child. We were on our way home, just like Kuulan told you, but we weren't attacked. There was an ion storm. It overloaded our plasma conduits. I was the chief engineer. It was my responsibility to start repairs. But it was worse than I thought. Leaking plasma burned through the hull. We were losing atmosphere so Captain Kuulan set a course for this planet. [...] I left my station. The plasma leak grew, there was an explosion. Half the crew died instantly including my wife. A few made it to the escape pods, but..."
Archer: "I can't imagine what making that decision must have been like, but it was a long time ago. You need to consider your daughter now."
Ezral: "Why do you think I did this? To retreat into some kind of fantasy? Pretend it never happened? For two years I tried to repair our ship, and I watched my daughter grow up alone. So I decided to bring them back. Her mother first, then Captain Kuulan and the others. I did everything I could to make it like it was, for her."
— Star Trek: Enterprise, "Oasis"
"He didn't die; he's alive I tell you! Alive! Alive! Alive!"
— Chuckie Finster Rugrats, "I Remember Melville"
"Bert's gone to visit his brother Bart, so he's not here, but I won't be lonely tonight, no sir, because I'm going to put this pillow under Bert's blanket here and that'll look just like Bert's body, and then I'll get this picture I did of Bert's face, put his head on the pillow, now it looks just like Bert's asleep in bed here."
— Ernie, Sesame Street
