Quotes

"Under the Night" (Series Premiere)

Dylan: Ever the cynic. You know I can't wait to hear your toast at my wedding: "To Dylan and Sarah, I'm sure you'll have a long and happy life together. Unless you die." Gaheris: Nietzscheans don't believe in optimism. It inhibits survival. Dylan: So does pessimism.

"Under the Night" (Series Premiere)

Trance: Oh, he's the guy who retired. Didn't you say he bought a farm? Harper: THE farm. Bought THE farm, Trance. Trance: What's the difference? Beka: Torn pressure suit and a bad emergency seal. Trance: Oh, that IS different.

"Under the Night" (Series Premiere)

Lucky for you I'm a freaking genius.

"An Affirming Flame"

I don't care if we wake up when the suns have all burned out and the universe is winding down to die, as long as I'm there to watch.

"An Affirming Flame"

Beka: [after accepting Dylan's offer to become his crew] We're not saluting you, and we're not calling you Captain. Dylan Hunt: Dylan. Dylan will be fine.

"An Affirming Flame"

Harper: Who does he think he is? Rev: I assume he thinks he's a Neitzschean.

"To Loose the Fateful Lightning"

...But you did go an hour without killing me. And if you can go an hour, maybe you can go a day, then a week. And then maybe, just maybe, a lifetime.

"To Loose the Fateful Lightning"

Dylan may not be a god, but on this ship, I am.

"To Loose the Fateful Lightning"

That is the Andromeda I know, love, and gave human form to!

"D Minus Zero"

And when the Magog unleash their dreaded bouncing ball attack, we'll make them rue the day.

"D Minus Zero"

Dylan: I want Andromeda bucking like a drunken Vedran with a Nightsider on its back" Beka: Sounds like my last date. Dylan: You can tell us about that later.

"D Minus Zero"

[to Dylan] Work as a team? With them? They're amateurs - children! And you? You're an anachronism. You haven't the first idea how unforgiving this universe has become, and I will not allow you to learn at my expense!

"D Minus Zero"

Tyr: If the radiation is affecting me, then what do you suppose it's doing to Trance? To Harper? To you? Beka: Tyr. Didn't know you cared. Tyr: I care about survival. [Nonchalant] Do you?

"Double Helix"

To a Nietzschean, a game is never just a game.

"Angel Dark, Demon Bright"

While I admit the universe does have a sense of humour, I doubt very much that this is a joke.

"Angel Dark, Demon Bright"

Note to sculptors - Statues of me should look, I dunno, wise, concerned. I suggest posing me with a soldering wand over my head like a sword.

"Angel Dark, Demon Bright"

You know, I can cook, too. You'd be surprised at the skills you acquire as a mercenary.

"Angel Dark, Demon Bright"

Tyr: My people have a legend about the Battle of Witchead. They say that the Nietzschean forces arrived here with overwhelming numbers. Their victory seemed assured. But then, in the critical hour, the Angel of Death appeared, summoning forth the Fires of Hell. The Nietzschean fleet was struck down. Crippled. Their glorious victory turned to ashes. Beka: You knew all along? Tyr: [to Dylan] I've never seen an angel before.

"Angel Dark, Demon Bright"

Tyr: I let my own survival outweigh the survival of an entire people. Dylan: that's a very Nietzschean thing to do

"Angel Dark, Demon Bright"

God bless the Nietzscheans, where would the Commonwealth be without them?

"The Ties that Blind"

Trance: Patching him up is easy as cake. Dylan: Easy as pie. Trance: Are you sure about that? I think that making pie is a lot harder than cake. Dylan: Just fix him, Trance. Trance: Oh, he'll be fine. Compared to baking, brain surgery is a snap.

"The Ties that Blind"

Rev: Hello Tyr. Have you come to join me in meditation? Tyr: Meditation is for weak people with troubled minds. Is your mind troubled? Rev: You have an interesting way of starting a philosophical discussion.

"The Ties that Blind"

Dylan: Talking to yourself is the first sign of mental collapse. Rommie: [simultaneously as avatar and hologram] Only for wetware.

"The Ties that Blind"

Dylan: Any of your prayers been answered, Rev? Rev: Many, just not today.

"The Banks of the Lethe"

Dylan: I like them. Beka: Yeah, but you like everyone, even people who try to kill you... especially people who try to kill you.

"The Banks of the Lethe"

Harper: It's a teleporter… It scans you, destroys you, transmits you through the projector, and then rebuilds you from the particles up. Hilarity ensues. Beka: I think Mr. Heisenberg would object.

"The Banks of the Lethe"

Beka: Careful, Harper. That is one of Trance's plants. Harper: I know. Beka: She loves them. Harper: I know. Beka: She gives them names. Harper: Trust in the Harper, the Harper is good. It goes in here... [Plant disappears] ...and it comes out there. [Plant reappears and explodes] Beka: I believe she called that one "Walter".

"The Banks of the Lethe"

[to Rommie] When I touch you, do you feel me, or do you measure the pressure of my fingers against your skin? When I speak, do you hear me, or do you interpret an acoustic wave? I can't be objective about this, I'm not a machine.

"The Banks of the Lethe"

I must say, the prospect of tearing you apart particle by particle and re-assembling you on a ship 300 years in the past is quite exhilarating. We admire your devotion to science.

"A Rose in the Ashes"

I can usually spot a planet. They're large. I have good eyes.

"A Rose in the Ashes"

Warden: The majority of prisoners benefit from the smooth and efficient operation of the system. You are disrupting it. Why can't I make you understand that? Jessa: Poor communication skills?

"A Rose in the Ashes"

Dylan Hunt: Eureka Maru, permission to land. Tyr: [realizing what must've happened] Dylan. Beka: You know, I'm really starting to like that guy.

"All Great Neptune's Ocean"

Harper: Which explains why the two fish-necks get to hang out with the hot chick with the lungs. In fact, I think I will sit next to the lung lady. Rommie: And create a major diplomatic incident? I don't think so.

"All Great Neptune's Ocean"

Beka: What if they start shooting? How am I supposed to run in a dress? Rommie: Good heavens! What kind of dinner parties have you been to?

"All Great Neptune's Ocean"

Harper: Interplanetary pitchman, Seamus Harper. Beka: I'm sorry. Was that Seamus or "Shameless" Harper?

"All Great Neptune's Ocean"

I think that's the most pathetic and ill-planned excuse for an assassination I've ever seen. And... I speak as one who has had some... slight... experience in these matters.

"All Great Neptune's Ocean"

Yau: Assassins have been known to be eccentric. Harper: Not Tyr. Err, overbearing, self-righteous, vain, vicious, brutal, way too serious and a little big, yeah, but eccentric? No.

"All Great Neptune's Ocean"

Hey, I read the first officer's job description. 'Playing Devil's Advocate' – it's on page three.

"All Great Neptune's Ocean"

What is it Rev Bem always says? The universe doesn't always give you what you want. It gives you what you need.

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

Harper: [Regarding a list of much-needed but expensive parts for the Andromeda] OK, I can get most of this stuff, but we'll have to rig for a quick getaway. Rev: Harper – Dylan: Harper, we're not gonna steal anything. Rev: Thank you. Tyr: Well, what would you suggest? Dylan: There's an old Earth custom, Tyr. It's called a garage sale. Tyr: What's a garage?

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

Thug: C'mon baby, gimme some sugar. [Beka extends a forcelance] What the hell is that? Beka: Sugarcane.

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

Beka: Trance, do not let him buy you off with a backrub. This is Sam Profit we're dealing with. Trance: I think you're just cranky from the gravity. Why don't you just think of it as a way of decreasing his corporate resources? [to the masseur] Now, let's start with the tail.

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

Sid: Tell me about Ignatius. I..I'm really sorry that I missed his funeral. Beka: You didn't miss much. "Eject cargo pod: Yes/No"

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

I wish you would stop looking for beauty in things that want to kill us.

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

Flash. It's the ultimate edge. You'll love it. 5 milligrams today, 5 milligrams tomorrow, and the next day you will be selling your first born for just 1 milligram more.

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

Tyr: I think it's quite possible she may have taken advantage of your generosity and gone back into business for herself. Dylan: Because that's what you would do? Tyr: Not after warning you.

"The Pearls that Were His Eyes"

My feeling is that when it comes to destroying evidence, nothing beats a sun.

"The Mathematics of Tears"

I really should shave those little hairs off the back of my neck.

"The Mathematics of Tears"

Rev: I've discovered something disturbing about Lt. Pearce. Harper: What, that she's a psychotic android with a grudge? Rev: I was going to say that she's not on the crew manifest.

"The Mathematics of Tears"

Beka: You missed Tyr's cavalry act. Tyr: They were playing Wagner. It's the most fun I've had in about six months.

"Music of a Distant Drum"

I'll teach you rule Number 1. You never aim a gun at someone unless you intend to use it.

"Music of a Distant Drum"

Hanno: Be careful. I might live up to your expectations. Tyr: Or, you might not live at all.

"Music of a Distant Drum"

Your entire crew has an ulterior motive. Rev Bem wants to use your Commonwealth to spread his faith. Harper is in lust with your ship. Tyr is always plotting something, and God only knows what the purple one is up to. Does it really surprise you to find out that I'm no different?

"Music of a Distant Drum"

Tyr: These aren't the old days. Dylan: Not yet, but I'm working on it.

"Harper 2.0"

Beka: So, what's the verdict? Tyr: He's dead. Beka: Yeah, I meant what killed him? Tyr: What didn't kill him? We've got stab wounds, laser and radiation burns, this appears to be some sort of residual neurotoxin. And these pinpoint wounds, I've never seen anything like them. Beka: Weird. Perseids can be annoying, but this is just ridiculous.

"Harper 2.0"

Harper, I had no idea you were such a cunning linguist.

"Harper 2.0"

Rev: You need the one thing that all of your knowledge cannot provide... Wisdom. Harper: Wisdom. Great. Show me the yellow brick road, Mr Wizard. How do I get wisdom? Rev: Let go, Harper. Let go. Give over to The Divine. All that you are. All that you have. Including your pain. Calm your breath. Repeat. My pain belongs to the divine. It is like air. It is like water. Harper: My pain belongs to the divine. It is like the air. It is like the water. Rev: Good. Again. Harper: My pain belongs to the divine. It is like air. It is like water. It's like a freakin' freight train running through my brain. You sure this works? Rev: Harper. Think of hunger. Think what is must be like to go days, even weeks without food. Now, imagine what it would be like to know that in the midst of that starvation, you could eat, feast, satiate your hunger. But only by killing the people that you love. That is my pain. It is with me each day. My pain belongs to the Divine. It is like air. It is like water.

"Forced Perspective"

Dylan: Where am I? Lawyer: Confess. Dylan: I confess, I don't know where I am.

"Forced Perspective"

Becca: Um...Where'd you get all the candles? Tyr: I rendered them from the fat of my enemies. Becca: Can't wait to see the entree.

"Forced Perspective"

Becca: Wow. Quite a renaissance man, Tyr. Gourmet chef, mercenary killer... Tyr: I took it up because a former employer of mine appreciated fine dining. When he refused to pay me for one of my jobs, I prepared him a Tirimisu laced with Strychnine. As I recall, he quite enjoyed it...for precisely twelve seconds.

"Forced Perspective"

Umm, hi, guys, this is Trance. Umm, I just... You know how sometimes things happen that you can't quite predict and sometimes they're good and sometimes they're not, well, this is one of those "not" times. Help.

"Forced Perspective"

Dylan: People are dying. We have to do something. Gaharis: Fine. Then lets find Ferrin and put one [bullet] through his head. Problem solved. Dylan: You see, this is why I am in charge.

"Forced Perspective"

Lawyer: In light of his mercy, do you have anything to say to us? Dylan: I think we're all a little tired of my name, rank, and serial number.

"Forced Perspective"

Trance: There are all kinds of futures! I can...anyone can forsee any number of possibilities, all of which are constantly diverging. Contingencies arise, imperatives vanish, and all the while we tread our way through chaotic uncertainty never knowing which of hundreds of possible realities we'll find ourselves in. Dylan: Trance. Which way? Trance: Left.

"Forced Perspective"

Trance: There are 1,342,063 others [possible futures] and some of them, some of them are really great. There's even the mathematical possibility that everything will turn out perfectly. Dylan: Can you control that? Trance: No. Life is chaos. Chaos is life. Control is an illusion.

"Forced Perspective"

Dylan: [Reading from Trance's report about the mission] "I looked for you, I found out where you were, I traveled to where you were, and I got you out." That's your entire report? Trance: You wanted something more?

"Forced Perspective"

That's the thing about guessing - 90% of the time it's 50/50.

"The Sum of Its Parts"

Beka: So, what you're saying is that you randomly chose a bunch of human female features, you mixed them all up, and this was the first face that you came up with? Rommie: I may have experimented with a few options. Beka: Define "a few". Rommie: 170,894 Beka: I knew it!

"The Sum of Its Parts"

What is it you humans say? Take me to your leader.

"The Sum of Its Parts"

VX, I have learned many things from interfacing with humans. Including one particulary useful phrase. "Go To Hell".

"Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"

Gerentex: [to Trance] Aren't you dead? Trance: I got better. Gerentex: Huh. Lucky you.

"Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"

There are two kinds of people in this universe, Mr Harper. The kind with loaded guns and the kind who open doors. You open doors.

"Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"

When you think about it, beautiful things can change the universe.

"The Devil Take the Hindmost"

Rev: As Harper would say, "that would suck." Dylan: You know, Rev, there are some words that should never trip across the tongue of a Magog, and "suck" is one of them. Rev: I'll make a note of that.

"The Devil Take the Hindmost"

Give me the strength to follow the path. To give and not to count the cost. To struggle, and not to heed the wounds. I am the darkness become the light. I am the darkness become truth. I am the darkness become The Way.

"The Devil Take the Hindmost"

Wayists and their Books The Talmud, the Bible and the Lancer Counter-insurgency Manual on the same shelf. Very eclectic

"The Devil Take the Hindmost"

We saved paradise, by introducing the serpent.

"The Honey Offering"

Dylan: I gave my word to your pride. My word is the foundation of the Commonwealth. Elssbett: I have never met anyone who thought like that... Probably because the universe kills them before they can reproduce.

"The Honey Offering"

Beka: So, why is it, whenever anyone goes on a suicide mission, they take my ship? Dylan: Because it has seatbelts.

"The Honey Offering"

Elssbett: After the way I've treated you, how can you care what happens to me? Dylan: I care because I'm human.

"The Honey Offering"

Elssbett: You're starting a war. Dylan: No, YOU are starting a war. I'm just re-arranging the sides.

"Star-Crossed"

Harper: We're facing the second baddest ship in the known universe and our AI is making moonie eyes at Mr. Tall, Spark, and Handsome! Andromeda AI: Why shouldn't I? <span style="font-variant: small-caps"><nowiki>[Corrects Herself]</nowiki></span>—she? Harper: To quote the ancient masters: “pronoun trouble”! You're distracted—don't deny it! Andromeda AI: I am perfectly capable of handling sensor scans and personal relationships simultaneously. Harper: So you admit—you're having a relationship with him! Andromeda AI: What's wrong with that? All sentients seek to establish a relationship with their own. Tyr: Love is merely a trick the DNA plays to replicate itself. Andromeda AI: I don't have DNA. Tyr: My point exactly! Are the two of you planning to procreate? Will there be a nursery full of little grav sleds and data disks?

"Star-Crossed"

Dylan: Well, here's the happy groom now. I feel like I should have prepared a toast. Beka: I think I've got one: Here's to Gabriel. Be nice to Rommie, or I'll rip your head off.

"Star-Crossed"

Rommie: I killed him, Dylan. I loved him, and I killed him. [Crying] Dylan: You had no choice. Rommie: No, I didn't. Because I'm a warship, and warships only know how to do one thing, and that's kill. We don't have hearts. We don't have empathy. We're killers. We're attack dogs. And I'm afraid. The Balance of Judgment went insane, the Pax Magellanic went insane, and I don't want that to happen to me. Dylan: You're forgetting something. The Balance of Judgment had no captain, no crew. The Pax lost her captain. Why do you think warships have captains in the first place? I'm your heart, Rommie. I always will be. Rommie: [Calming Down a bit] These physical reactions. I didn't know Harper was so good. Dylan: The Commonwealth needs you, Andromeda. The crew needs you. I need you. So, permission to chop yourself into pieces is officially denied.

"It Makes a Lovely Light"

Tyr: No one's reached Tarn-Vedra in 300 years, and better pilots than you have died trying. Beka: There are no better pilots than me.

"It Makes a Lovely Light"

Rev: If the universe is a manifestation of the Divine, could not the slipstream be the very mind of God? Dylan: Well, if that's the case, then I'm afraid God had a seizure and forgot all about Tarn-Vedra. Beka: And here comes God's little brain surgeon.

"It Makes a Lovely Light"

Harper: Did you know that 82% of people on prison planets are Flash addicts? Beka: Y'know what? They tell you that kind of stuff just to scare you. Harper: Sure, to scare you out of killing your neighbors.

"It Makes a Lovely Light"

Is that an order, Captain? My Captain? Oh, I forget. Actually, you're not a real Captain, are you? There's no High Guard. There's no commissioned officers. Who around here is an actual Captain? Don't, don't, don't tell me. Let me guess. It's coming to me, It's coming to me. Let's see, that would be me.

"It Makes a Lovely Light"

Sometimes you just have to allow people to make the mistakes they need to make.

"It Makes a Lovely Light"

Harper: We needed a Plan B. You always have a Plan B. Dylan: Yes, but my Plan B's work.

"Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)

Dylan: It's a little-known law of thermodynamics – The Conservation of Optimism – there's only so much to go around. Beka: In that case, it's simple – lower your expectations. Dylan: You're right. I officially declare this glass 12% full. Beka: That's the spirit.

"Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)

Harper: This is the engineer. You may have noticed the lack of a sudden drop in environmental pressure. Though this is a good thing, it, err, may not last, so enjoy the oxygen while you can. Tyr: Harper, what's going on? Harper: I don't know. I mean, umm, my current theory is that... somehow... an older version of Andromeda's personality profile may have been reactivated and is now taking over the ship. Dylan: How did you figure that out? Harper: I think the key thing right now is to repair the problem. We can worry about minor details like assigning blame later.

"Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)

Dylan: Do you regret it? Signing aboard with me? Beka: Risking my life? Battling Nietzscheans and Restors and Magog and half the lunatics in the galaxy? All for a cause that's been dead for over 300 years? I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

"Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)

Dylan: Beka, I may not make it. Beka: Don't be ridiculous. You're too stubborn to die. We all know that.

"Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)

To hell with the odds. All that matters in life is that we try. Promise you'll try.

"Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)

Where there is life, there is hope!

"The Widening Gyre" (Season Premiere)

Rommie: I deployed Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Dylan: How are the lads? Rommie: Efficient, as usual. They drove off the first wave of the Magog assault ships. Dylan: Yeah, but the Magog can always send more. Magog suck.

"The Widening Gyre" (Season Premiere)

Andromeda: Well, on the bright side, the Worldship was heading towards the known worlds anyway, before you just didn't know about it. At least this way, you can face it head-on. Beka: That was such a warship thing to say.

"The Widening Gyre" (Season Premiere)

Twenty worlds, joined into a single structure, manipulated by artificial gravity and powered by an miniature sun. I guess it's true what they say: No matter how powerful you are, there's always someone bigger and stronger than you – I just never thought it applied to me.

"The Widening Gyre" (Season Premiere)

Say it won't happen again. You have to promise to me, Beka, that when this is over, I will either be heading home with a crew aboard, or not at all.

"The Widening Gyre" (Season Premiere)

It's not impossible, it's just really unfair.

"Exit Strategies"

Tyr: Reverend Behemiel! [Slaps Rev] You dead? Rev: Tyr Anasazi of the Kodiak Pride. Clearly I am not in heaven.

"Exit Strategies"

Dylan: [As they're being shot at by Nietzscheans who have declared that they only want Tyr] Anything you want to tell me? Tyr: No, not particularly. Dylan: We'll save the conversation for later.

"Exit Strategies"

Dylan: Tyr, any ideas about what might change their minds about killing us? Tyr: Killing them first?

"Exit Strategies"

Dylan: It sure would be easier with another helping hand. Beka: Yeah. Unfortunately, one of them is slowly starving to death and the other one is out betryaying us. Dylan: We don't know that. Beka: Well, somehow, I don't think Tyr took all of our guns for Nietzschean "Show and Tell". Dylan: With Tyr, you never know.

"Heart for Falsehood Framed"

Rommie: Peerpoint Drift is a den of thieves. I say let the Than blow them up. Dylan: Well, that is why you are not conducting the negotiations.

"Heart for Falsehood Framed"

Hawkins: Seamus Harper – Grand Theft Spacecraft, and Interstellar Flight to Avoid Prosecution, and Public Lewdness? Harper: Only the one time.

"Heart for Falsehood Framed"

Beetle: Make me an offer. Tyr: I offer not to pull your heart out through your eye socket and nail it to your forehead. Beetle: That's very reasonable. How's noon tomorrow?

"Heart for Falsehood Framed"

Tyr: (about the Than and Chichin in negotiations) Would you like me to kill them for you? Dylan: (weary) Yes. (Tyr moves toward the door) Wait I'm just kidding. I've got a better idea, next time I offer to broker peace talks between a Chichin gangster and a Than warlord, just kill me. Tyr: Alright. Dylan: Kidding. Again.

"Heart for Falsehood Framed"

Beka: He's good, quick on the uptake, smart, completely fearless. He reminds me of… Harper: You. He reminds you of you. Beka: Then I know I can't trust him.

"Heart for Falsehood Framed"

Rommie: Triagonal, prismatic, quartz crystal. Trace elements of vanadium, chromium, manganese, and cobalt. Eighty-two-point-two-five grams. I wonder how many of these fake Hearts are out there. I lost count at three. Dylan: You never lose count of anything. I mean I assume you could tell the difference the whole time. Rommie: Of course. Harper is sweet, but he still believes pretty much anything I tell him. (as if to Harper) Oh, I'm sorry. I may have a brain the size of a planet, but I can't tell the difference between one pretty rock and another.

"Pitiless as the Sun"

Tyr: Am I mistaken, sir, or did you just grant complete strangers unlimited access to this ship? Dylan: Why, yes, I did. That way, we can monitor them closely and see what they do with it. There's something not quite trustworthy about them, don't you think? Tyr: Your occasional bouts of deviousness never fail to surprise me, Captain.

"Pitiless as the Sun"

Dylan: The fact is, even in the old days, fully loaded, crewed and armed, the Andromeda was only an even match for a Pyrian torchship. In case anyone hasn’t noticed, we’re not fully loaded, armed, or crewed, and the Pyrians have had 3 centuries to improve their technology. Beka: …Not the best pep talk you’ve ever given. Dylan: Oh, you want a pep talk. Okay, uh, do your jobs, don’t screw up, and we’ll get out of this alive… Maybe.

"Last Call at the Broken Hammer"

Trance: Alcohol doesn't affect me the same way it does you. Beka: Yeah, right, like that time on Diphda 5. Next, you'll tell me you've got a hollow leg. Trance: No, but I know where to get one.

"Last Call at the Broken Hammer"

(to Hsigo) I know this may be a stretch for you, but think. You're twice as big as me, and you look pretty scary, but I'm still standing up to you, so either I'm crazy, or I am really, really dangerous. Would you like to guess which? … I didn't think so.

"Last Call at the Broken Hammer"

Dylan: Damn. Beka: Got that right. Dylan: No, I wanted to use him. Tyr: Well, as he is he would make an interesting conversation piece.

"All Too Human"

Ah, the Basilisk. Funny how no one ever names their planet-killer the "Fluffy Bunny".

"All Too Human"

Kim: Friends? That's crazy! AI's don't have any… Rommie: Any what? Emotions? You'd be surprised.

"All Too Human"

I have a security clearance so high, I have to kill myself if I remember I have it – and I'm not allowed past the front gate.

"All Too Human"

Rommie: I gave you my best offer. You have 73 seconds to change my mind. Carter: 73 seconds, huh? That sounds about right.

"Una Salus Victus"

Tyr: You're right. This might have been easier had we been able to follow your plan. Dylan: Damn! That was almost an apology! Tyr: It was nothing of the sort.

"Una Salus Victus"

Eureka Maru: Warning – specified proximity exceeds safety margin. Beka: Override safety protocols, authorization code: "Shut up and do what I tell you!" Eureka Maru: Authorization accepted.

"Una Salus Victus"

Parvati Quechua: You're not so bad, as far as kludges go. I have to admit, I like you – I really do. Beka: Enough not to kill me? Quechua: Well, no, but I promise to feel bad about it after.

"Una Salus Victus"

Cuchulain: Until now, all I cared about was Tyr, and what he stole from us. Now I care very much about you. Dylan: Well, you see, that's what the universe needs more of – people caring for each other. Have a good trip out.

"Home Fires"

Harper: Yeah, sure, that explains everything. No chance that they've been left alone because they're a bunch of cannibals, or killer robots, or… Trance: Harper! Harper: What? You're gonna say I'm wrong? C'mon, every single High Guard remnant we've encountered has been psychotic, evil, or both… Present company excluded, of course. Dylan: Of course.

"Home Fires"

You should never trust any Nietzschean… except me.

"Home Fires"

Gaheris Rhade: About this "Best Man" job… Dylan: Uh… yes? Rhade: Does it always involve drunken bachelor parties and half-naked dancing girls? Dylan: Pretty much, yeah. Rhade: In that case, I accept.

"Into the Labyrinth"

There are at least three good reasons you shouldn't let the Sabra-Jaguar Pride join your new Commonwealth: We are renowned for our treachery; we are at war with the Drago-Kazov Pride; and we will constantly remind you of your genetic inferiority. Now, here's the upside: We are renowned for our treachery; we are at war with the Drago-Kazov Pride; and, did I mention, we command the third-largest fleet in the known worlds.

"Into the Labyrinth"

Dylan: And, in the case of an emergency, the ship can be piloted from the gunnery nose. Charlemagne: Emergency? You mean in the event that the Command Deck crew is reduced to a fine red mist and splattered across the walls in a bloody mural? Dylan: That would qualify, yes. Höhne: Fascinating! And do such emergencies happen with a degree of frequency, or are they a rare occurrence?

"Into the Labyrinth"

Tyr: What would you like, Jaguar? Charlemagne: The usual: Hundreds of grandchildren, utter domination of known space, and the pleasure of hearing that all my enemies have died in terrible, highly improbable accidents that cannot be connected to me. And you? Tyr: [laughing] The usual.

"The Prince"

Dylan: This is Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant. Tyr: Apparently, they've heard of you.

"The Prince"

My prince, if you rely on people to play by the rules, your reign will be sad, violent, and short.

"The Prince"

Erik: Our entire defense fleet… Dylan: Rommie, how long would it take for you to destroy that fleet? Rommie: 6.2 seconds. Dylan: That long?

"The Prince"

A Glorious Heritage class cruiser – like the Andromeda – could completely depopulate a world – like Ne'Holland – in under two minutes. More tea?

"The Prince"

Erik: You are just like Tyr! Rommie: No, I'm better.

"Bunker Hill"

Beka: (referring to Elssbett) She didn't salute! Shouldn't she salute? Dylan: Well, I'm thinking that maybe she went to the Beka Valentine School of Military Discipline.

"Bunker Hill"

Great, "Start the revolution without me!" Anything else I can do for you? Transmute the elements? Reverse entropy? Make you a sandwich?

"Bunker Hill"

It will take a great deal more than a whispered promise to extract from me any more information than I have provided already. However, [whispers] you are oh so very welcome to try.

"Bunker Hill"

Beka: Uh, Dylan, now would be the time for one of those crazy, desperate, this-just-might-work ideas. Dylan: Oh, I've got one, I was just hoping I wouldn't have to use it.

"Bunker Hill"

Tell them the truth. Tell them...That life is inherently unfair, and the wise only fight battles they know they can win.

"Ouroboros"

I don't believe in destiny. I don't even believe in density, except in the heads of Perseids – it's a compliment – I believe in Seamus Zelazny Harper. I cogito, therefore I sum, and I sum to cogito that damn machine right out of existence. Capice?

"Ouroboros"

Beka: Trance! You will never guess who I just met! Trance: A scary futuristic version of yourself? She went that way.

"Lava and Rockets"

Ferahr: It wasn't me, I swear! Dylan: It wasn't you who did what? Ferahr: What do you mean? Dylan: I haven't even told you why I'm angry! Ferahr: Then why…? Dylan: Ogami mercenaries. Big, mean, and ugly. Who sent them? Ferahr: Uh… lemme think… uh, I know… It wasn't me, I swear!

"Lava and Rockets"

Rommie: I can pick up galvanic skin responses and respiration changes. I can also analyze pupil dilations in real time, which makes me a walking lie detector. So, tell me the truth, or I'll turn the bones of your hand into calcified gelatin. Ferahr: Absolutely! Absolutely! Rommie: What do you know? He's not lying.

"Lava and Rockets"

Molly: I haven't lost any [passengers] yet. Dylan: I thought I was your first customer. Molly: Good point.

"Be All My Sins Remembered"

This warship – her capabilities – it makes us complacent. We may have to engage the enemy using nothing but our teeth and nails. (Beka bites him.) Ow!

"Dance of the Mayflies"

Dylan: Until Rommie and Trance figure out how these bio-weapons spread, I want you out of harm's way. Harper: All right, I know that used to be my favourite place, but… Dylan: No "buts", go! Harper: Yes, sir. Bravely running away, sir.

"Dance of the Mayflies"

Sensors – trashed. AP circuits – trashed. EM lens – trashed. Rommie, it's a good thing I love trashy ladies, or I'd be tempted to trade you in for a new model. Maybe a supermodel!

"Dance of the Mayflies"

Andromeda: [hologram] Dylan, I'm not reading any pulses or brainwaves from the corpses of the plague victims, and their bodies register at room temperature. Tyr: Well, that would make sense – they're corpses. Andromeda: [on-screen] Yes. The trouble is, they're walking around the ship trying to kill you! Tyr: [to Dylan] You're surprised? That's what you get for incessantly trying to help! Dylan: The ungrateful dead!

"Dance of the Mayflies"

It's not so easy to kill dead people!

"Dance of the Mayflies"

Dylan: Trance, are you dead or alive? Trance: Yes. Dylan: Crystal clear, as usual.

"In Heaven Now Are Three"

Trance: She can't tell you. Beka: Why? Why can't I tell him? Trance: Because if you tell him, Tyr will die. Tyr: Then, by all means, leave me in suspense.

"In Heaven Now Are Three"

Dylan: The Engine of Creation is a myth. It's like the Holy Grail of ancient Earth, or the Wyvern's Hoards of Gehenna Mortis. Beka: Or a restored Commonwealth. Dylan: [laughs, insincerely] That's not funny.

"In Heaven Now Are Three"

Beka: He never came back. Dylan: But you have a different plan? Beka: My plan is to come back. Dylan: That's a good plan.

"In Heaven Now Are Three"

Dylan: They're not butchers, just very strange lovers. Beka: Yeah, he's totally controlling, and she's this sexy, shoot-from-the-hip kinda gal. What could they possibly have in common? Dylan: Well, Harper always says that opposites attract. Beka: That's just his excuse to meet women. Everyone's the opposite of Harper.

"Fair Unknown"

Dylan: How long has the Vedran been here? Maia: Since the fall. Trance: The Fall of the Commonwealth? Maia: Since the autumn, nine months ago.

"Fair Unknown"

Look, betting my life savings on a game of Yesheedono is a chance I'm willing to take – except against Trance. However, accidentally setting off a nova bomb … isn't.

"Belly of the Beast"

Dylan: How do we get people to stop believing in a myth they've believed in for centuries? Trance: By getting them to believe in that other myth. Dylan: What's that? Trance: The one about the High Guard captain flying around the universe, making allies, restoring the Commonwealth. Dylan: Oh, I don't think they'll ever believe in that one.

"Belly of the Beast"

Dylan: Anyone can have their cake, and then eat it. The real trick is eating your cake, and still having it. It's a common mistake. Trance: We did. You could even say we had our cake outside of the box and ate it too.

"Belly of the Beast"

I have faith in nothing but this: when the Universe collapses and dies, there will be three survivors. Tyr Anasazi, the cockroaches, and Dylan Hunt - trying to save the cockroaches.

"Belly of the Beast"

I once told Dylan that his mission to restore the Commonwealth is nothing more than an excuse to shape the Universe according to his will. It is. But, in the past two years, for reasons I cannot begin to understand, perhaps I have come to... prefer that shape?

"Belly of the Beast"

We know – Your willingness to defy the universal odds is a disease that, apparently, we have all contracted.

"Belly of the Beast"

Trance: Are we still outside the box? Dylan: Trance, we're so far outside the box, we can't even see the box.

"Knight, Death, and the Devil"

Tyr: The AIs are machines – they should do as they're told, or be discarded as defective. Rommie: They're not machines, Tyr, they're sentient beings, soldiers. Tyr: Then perhaps Milla has a point. Perhaps the Commonwealth did treat their AIs as slaves. But you would know better than I.

"Knight, Death, and the Devil"

Dylan: I can't take the risk that you'll fall apart under pressure. Tyr: That would be a mistake. This fellow has already taken it upon himself to perform a dangerous task – not because he was commanded, but because it needed to be done. And, in the end, that's the only test that matters – the test of will… You're a machine. I can't believe I just said that.

"Immaculate Perception"

Dylan: So, if the Genite attacks are fake, then Tyr is working with the Drago-Kazovs? Nah, I don't buy it. Beka: But you buy the "warm and fuzzy" Tyr, concerned for his fellow Nietzscheans? Dylan: No, I didn't say that.

"Immaculate Perception"

Harper: In a fair fight with them, we'd be fried. Dylan: Well, then, we'll have to make sure we don't fight fair.

"Tunnel at the End of the Light" (Season Finale)

Dylan: There's only one way to fight a superior opponent. Zhukov: Well, that I wouldn't know – I've never fought a superior opponent.

"Tunnel at the End of the Light" (Season Finale)

Remember my admonition about becoming complacent? About forgetting what it means to test our will against the universe? Well, now we have to!

"If the Wheel is Fixed" (Season Premiere)

Trance: It's an invitation. Whatever it is it wants to play, to fight, or make love with us. Dylan: .

"If the Wheel is Fixed" (Season Premiere)

Harper: Nice move, boss, the old slingshot maneuver. Plus a little luck. Dylan: Well, sometimes I think luck is just another word for "fate." Harper: Yeah, well, I'm feeling particularly fatalistic right now.

"If the Wheel is Fixed" (Season Premiere)

Dylan: Why is it we look for luck every time we're in danger? Harper: Because that's when we need it most. Dylan: Well, the thing about luck is... the balance changes. Trance: What about fate? Dylan: Fate is a hunter.

"The Shards of Rimni"

Harper: Wait a minute, how come I get to go for a change? Dylan: Because I want you with me. Harper: This is something shady, isn't it?

"The Shards of Rimni"

Rommie: The Commonwealth is still hailing us, and they're mad. They say this is the last warning. Tyr: That's what they said five "last warnings" ago. Beka: They're waiting for authorization. God bless bureaucracy!

"The Shards of Rimni"

Harper: [speaking of a mythical vase] I mean, when I was little, my mom told me that it was so powerful that nobody could be trusted with it, not even Vedrans. Weren't you at least a little tempted to put it together and see what it did? Dylan: [wording from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice] Well, there's something else that my mom taught me. "All that glitters is not gold."

"The Shards of Rimni"

Harper: So, uh, the vase. It doesn't do a thing, does it? It's worthless. Dylan: It's a symbol. Zeus and Abelard believed that it would bring them power. But to me, it represents the highest confidence in faith that we all put in the Commonwealth. Harper: Well that's good. Cuz, three people murdered, one in jail collecting dust, and another one on the run with his gun in the sun for all eternity. A lot of time and energy wasted and all for a worthless hunk 'a glass... It is worthless... right? Dylan: Did I say it was worthless? No. It's priceless. And isn't that the value of all dreams?

"Mad To Be Saved"

Angelika: Once you've lived an extended period of doing without, you never take having for granted. Once you've crawled on your stomach for what seemed like days silting for water, once you've lived with so much pain... You get to close to death, you get focused on what you want. Come on, Dylan. When's the last time you lived without? Dylan: Well, I uh... I had 303 years once, frozen in a black hole, doing without life or food.

"Mad To Be Saved"

Oderic: You know, if you weren't so intensely self-absorbed, you'd realize that all of life is a balance between the emptiness of eternity and the need to make art to remind ourselves we were here. Tyr: I had an epiphany like that once. Then I mercilessly beat someone until it went away.

"Mad To Be Saved"

[sarcastically] Oh well you know me with percentages, Rommie. I like to take a big gamble every day because I might be walking around lucky and not even know it.

"Cui Bono"

Sometimes the situation requires that we hold the hand of our enemy. The difficult part is not letting them see you while you use the other hand to draw the knife.

"Cui Bono"

If this is rekindling the light of civilization, I miss the dark ages.

"Cui Bono"

Dylan: We're going to be walking into an ambush. Tyr: That's why I always assume I'm walking into an ambush – prevents unpleasant surprises.

"Cui Bono"

Dylan: If the Commonwealth we built is worth anything, we have to trust it to do what's right. We have to have faith in somebody other than us. Beka: And if that faith is misplaced? Dylan: Well, then we have bigger problems than your Uncle Sid.

"The Lone and Level Sands"

Captain Metis: Captain Hunt, the next time I order you to stay behind, you tell me to go to hell. Dylan: Noted.

"The Lone and Level Sands"

Harper: Hell, you might even see Earth someday. Kemp: Man, we've been out here so long, I've almost forgotten what it looks like. Harper: Yeah, you can't miss it. It's ah, you know it, big... blue... kinda hits ya. Jersey smells funny.

"The Lone and Level Sands"

It's amazing that you're still sane.

"The Lone and Level Sands"

[to Dylan] You and I are cut from the same silk cloth. Men like you and me have a mission, a purpose, to lead, a chance to be great. Without them we'd be little more than madmen.

"The Lone and Level Sands"

Kemp: I was in Boston the night before we set off on this mission... a baseball game at Fenway Park. Harper: A baseball game, huh? Fenway Park… The last time I was at Fenway Park, I watched the Drago-Kazov crucify a guy in the cheap seats.

"The Lone and Level Sands"

Dylan: Tell you what, Rommie - after we finally finish building our castle, and all the dragons have been slain, why don't we point out the farthest star, and see what's out there? Just you and me. Rommie: You've got a deal. Dylan: Good.

"Slipfighter the Dogs of War"

Even a small light dispels the darkness. Shine on, Mezmer. Time has come to say, "hello and goodbye."

"Slipfighter the Dogs of War"

Beka: You know, ever since we reestablished the Commonwealth, I've been wondering; is it really necessary that we risk life and limb every time somebody gets in trouble? Rommie: We're the good guys, Beka. We fight the bad guys.

"Slipfighter the Dogs of War"

Harper: Trance, no offense, but I think we all remember what happened the last time you tried to pilot the slipstream. You took us back 300 years in time, into the middle of a humungous space battle where we, uh, fixed the course of history… Trance: Lucky for us!

"Slipfighter the Dogs of War"

Dylan: [to Trance, in combat] Any words of wisdom? Trance: Um, always be nice to your parents. Dylan: Sound advice.

"The Leper's Kiss"

[after trapping Dylan] To think you founded a Commonwealth with such a bad sense of direction.

"The Leper's Kiss"

Sascha: I know what you're thinking – Blood is thicker than water. Dylan: It's also a lot tougher to clean up.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Beka: Good news for you, Harper – it doesn't eat humans. Harper: Yeah, too bad it doesn't eat Nietzscheans!

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Rommie: … We need to catch one if we want to classify it. Dylan: I don't want to classify it, unless we classify it as dead, and off my ship.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Rommie: Dylan, are you worried that the anti-oxidation containment field around the Maru might be disintegrating? Dylan: Well, I am now. Rommie: Good thing, 'cause it is.

"And Your Heart Will Fly Away"

Harper: I only need 20 more minutes. Dylan: You said that 20 minutes ago. Harper: Yeah, but that was before I knew I really only needed 20 more minutes.

"And Your Heart Will Fly Away"

She was brilliant, she was witty, she was sensuous, she was the love of my life – until she wasn't.

"And Your Heart Will Fly Away"

Bartolome Naz: You owe me a death! Tyr: Suppose I let you live, and we call it even?

"The Unconquerable Man"

Dylan: Strange... Harper: What? Us standing here over a dead Nietzschean on ice? Yeah, it's kinda strange, but it's also kinda nice, isn't it?

"The Unconquerable Man"

[to Rhade] You give me a corpse from down in deep freeze, and I give you a worthy Go partner, with all the knowledge and memories I could dig up or extrapolate... You're kinda creepy, you know that?

"The Unconquerable Man"

Our people were meant to be living gods, warrior-poets who roamed the stars bringing civilization, not cowards and bullies who prey on the weak and kill each other for sport. I never imagined they'd prove themselves so inferior. I didn't betray our people – they betrayed themselves.

"The Unconquerable Man"

Rhade: History will judge me a traitor for what I am about to do, but if he fails, if Dylan fails, imagine how they'll judge him. Trance: With silence.

"Delenda Est"

Dylan: Beka, reverse full! Beka: Running away – I can live with that. Harper: In fact, I can't live without that!

"The Dark Backward"

Beka: We're not dead! Rommie: Don't be so surprised.

"The Risk-All Point"

Genghis: Who are you? Tyr: Very possibly the last face you'll ever see in life. Now tell me who sabotaged that ship.

"The Risk-All Point"

Nietzschean first officers have been known to betray Captains.

"The Risk-All Point"

Errin: Beka Valentine, you are an excellent pilot. If I didn't know any better, I'd mistake you for a Nietzschean. Beka: Thanks... I think!

"The Risk-All Point"

As an officer, I stare into the abyss with pride. I don't jump into it.

"The Right Horse"

Harper: Love is just a bunch of exaggerating and lies, all dolled up in pseudo-poetic language (uttered preferably while intoxicated) and all for the singular universal purpose of… uh, you know. Trance: [laughing] Harper, you're a born romantic! Harper: [hesitantly] Sometimes there are flowers?

"The Right Horse"

Abel Ladron: You should know that the universe is not, by nature, an equitable distributor of good health and good fortune. Harper: And I suppose it is your duty to give the gift of redistribution?

"The Right Horse"

Abel: You must be the engineer. Harper: Why? Because I'm the short guy with the sense of humour, the wry wit? Huh? Because I'm so freakin' amiable with the careless demeanor? Is that it? Abel: Well, that – and the tools.

"The Right Horse"

Harper: It always boils down to genetics for you, huh, Anasazi? Tyr: My silly child, that's what we all boil down to.

"The Right Horse"

Harper: I guess that's why they call space a vacuum Rommie: No. They call space a vacuum because- Rommie and Tyr: -space is a vacuum.

"The Right Horse"

Lyra? Wow, what a beautiful name. Did you know in Greek, "lyra" means "harp", and nobody plays the harp better... than the Harper.

"The Right Horse"

Wait a minute, that can't be right… but then that would mean that I, boy genius, am wrong.

"The Right Horse"

Rommie: Harper? Harper: Yes, O glorious creation of mine with the world's crappiest timing?

"The Right Horse"

Abel: Please tell me that you always looked at me as a friend and not as a father figure, because that would make this wrong on so many levels. Beka: Father figure? No, more like a sexy older brother… Sexy older brother of a friend, which makes this not wrong at all.

"The Right Horse"

Whoever said 'it's hard to chart a course for your future when your past and present keep colliding' sure knew what they were talking about.

"The Right Horse"

Let the boy do his job...

"The Right Horse"

If the plan is anything like 'run like hell', I can name that tune in three notes or less.

"The Right Horse"

Dylan: Sometimes intentions are beside the point, especially when the potential for disaster is on a scale of this magnitude. Beka: Are we talking about the Commonwealth, or my personal life?

"The Right Horse"

It may seem like a miracle. And it is! The miracle of Seamus Harper, with some 'Abel' assistance.

"The Right Horse"

Abel: More importantly, I'm free to love Beka Valentine. Harper: Don't take it personally, pal, that's how she loves everybody. Now, usually, at this point, I beg for mercy. But if I were you, I'd run like hell. Dylan: Mr. Harper, I think maybe you and I should run like hell.

"What Happens to a Rev Deferred?"

Trance: Harper, when has arguing ever helped the situation? Harper: Arguing? Not very often, but whining… [to Dylan] Please?

"What Happens to a Rev Deferred?"

Dylan: Count of three? Tyr: No, let's just shoot them.

"What Happens to a Rev Deferred?"

Rev: Tyr, have you ever wished that all your yearning for power and empire would just be silent for a moment? Have you ever wished this? A moment of peace? Tyr: I am at peace. That's what bothers me.

"What Happens to a Rev Deferred?"

Rommie: Trance, miracles are just extraordinary phenomena with a scientific explanation. Harper: See? Trance: Well, for those who don't believe, no explanation is possible. For those who do, no explanation is necessary.

"Point of the Spear"

Dylan: It's all about the fight. The light against the dark, good against evil. Some people hide from it. Some run away. Trance: Some live with it in fear. Some find solace in knowing they've done everything they can. Dylan: Some stay and fight. I fight to win.

"Point of the Spear"

Nausea? Trance, you don't have a stomach.

"Point of the Spear"

The universe is a beautiful place, full of wonders. And it wants to kill you.

"Vault of the Heavens"

Dylan: [After being woken up by an explosion] Andromeda, what's going on? Andromeda: Fusion from the core is beginning to spill over into the accelerator tanks. Harper is in Command with Trance. Dylan: [groaning] Alright, cancel the monthly ship diagnostic and report. [mutters] Harper, it's a simple night shift.

"Vault of the Heavens"

Containing spillover in the accelerator tanks... Harper, what were you thinking, racing me?!

"Vault of the Heavens"

Aggio: What are you trying to pull, child? Harper: That's stallion to you.

"Vault of the Heavens"

Dylan: It's a voice, a woman's voice. Harper: She sound hot?

"Vault of the Heavens"

Dylan: Who else is curious about this voice? Trance: I'm always curious when I hear voices. Harper: Finally I'm not the only one with voices in my head, heheh. [Dylan gives him a look] Sorry.

"Vault of the Heavens"

Alright, we'll vote. All of those against? All of those for? [ignoring the vote] I love democracy!

"Vault of the Heavens"

Dylan: You heard it. Beka: Heard what? Dylan: The woman's voice, you know, the whisper. Beka: No... Dylan: Tyr, you have command. We are going to go and find out what's inside that moon and *who* is inside my head. I know you heard it.

"Vault of the Heavens"

I don't know if I'm getting the chills 'cause I'm shivering or if I'm shivering because I'm getting the chills.

"Vault of the Heavens"

Mythology? It's all Greek to me. [a reference to Kevin Sorbo's role as the title character in Hercules]

"Vault of the Heavens"

Harper: I spy with my little eye something that is- Trance: White ice?

"Vault of the Heavens"

Beka: Freeze! Rommie: Don't move! Trance: Stay right there! Harper: Oh my God, you're hot! [holsters gun] Harper, Seamus Harper, nice to- Beka: Seamus! Harper: [reluctantly pulls gun again] What they said.

"Vault of the Heavens"

Aggio: What are you, crazy? We're all gonna die! Dylan: Eventually. But not today.

"Vault of the Heavens"

Harper, this isn't science. It's a miracle.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

He who maps it, owns it.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Rommie: It is good to be smart. Harper: Not to mention hot.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Harper: I wonder if they still think they're alone in the universe. Dylan: If they do... then they are very, very lucky.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Rommie: If they're such an immature society, why don't we simply reprogram them? Beka: Reprogram them? Rommie: Yes, within minutes I could update their technology by at least a thousand years. Dylan: [alluding to Adam Smith] Yeah, uh huh, I'm afraid that would be a bit overwhelming. It's a little hard to upgrade their hearts or their minds. Unfortunately that takes time and the guidance of an invisible hand. Beka: Guidance? Dylan, you make them sound like children. Dylan: Well they are children. [Beka looks at him] For the most part they have no idea how dangerous the universe is. Beka: Then it's the universe that needs to be reprogrammed.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Dylan: Why chase a myth when there's still so much to learn about our own world? Tori: Well, look up there. [at the sky] Isn't the best way to learn about our world understanding its place in the universe? We have no idea whether we're alone or part of something too... remarkable and vast to even imagine. Dylan: Maybe we are alone. We still haven't proven that there's life out there. Tori: I don't need a mathematician to tell me the universe is designed for life.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Semel: And that's where Tori and I part company. She's a hopeless romantic believing this myth that we "sprang from aliens." I rely on what's known. Beka: [with affection] That we're alone? Semel: That we have each other. That's my sense of hopeless romance.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Tyr: [to Gaiton] I am so very sick of you and every Nietzschean like you. I'm sick of your rancid stink of failure and inferiority. I'm sick of your souls that have grown so stale. Gaiton: It is only a mask to hide a sweeter purpose.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Gaiton: Oh to be all powerful, traveling slipstream in total confidence, no fear of disaster or detection. Remarkable, our people created this. The detail and beauty.. it's science, art, and poetry unified. Our people created this. And yet I can't even recognize myself. Tyr: There you are. There you are, reflected in the mind of Drago Musevni. Gaiton: How could I have convinced myself... how could I have let them convince me that he was just some rich old man? Tyr: He was a poet... a scholar, a magnificent warrior. He was a living god. Gaiton: What happened to us? Tyr: Time happened to us. Time changed the universe! But, Gaiton, if the ancestors could do that, you and I... we can change the universe again, if we will it.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

There's an old saying. "The universe is perfect. Interfere with it at your peril." I think it's better, if we wait until it reveals itself to us. And after that, adjust accordingly.

"Deep Midnight's Voice"

Gaiton: Are you Neitzschean? Tyr: Are you an idiot?

"The Illusion of Majesty"

They are a confederacy of idiots awash in a garbage system. They even shoot lethal garbage at each other, that's what hit us, that's all they have.

"The Illusion of Majesty"

Tyr: You're searching for water, while you're drowning in the depth of the sea. Your only love is enlightenment. Love, desire, enlightenment, revenge... these are not emotions, simply traps to ensnare your will. Monk: We have long ago learned to overcome our emotions. Tyr: But the will to overcome an emotion, is merely the will for some other emotion to triumph.

"The Illusion of Majesty"

Monk: What does this mean?! Tyr: Uh.. enlightenment... is not found in spiritual leaders or in [shrugs] meditation. Take care of your followers. Enlightenment will find you. Monk: [bows awestruck, and leaves with his brethren] Tyr: Anything to be rid of these clowns.

"The Illusion of Majesty"

Harper: I gotta hand it to ya, boss. Nice performance. You out-conned a con-artist. You played the love-struck captain, the zealous defender of her honor, even the betrayed friend, and still... you completely fooled her. Dylan: I only tricked her. I didn't fool either one of us.

"Twilight of the Idols"

Dylan: You're telling me your name is Constantine Stark. Stark: [nods slightly] My troops refer to me as the Patriarch. Dylan: Your troops, the Templars, a guerilla army founded after the fall of the Commonwealth. Stark: Founded by an ancestor of mine, an Admiral Constanza Stark. You knew her, didn't you?

"Twilight of the Idols"

Stark: In short, Captain, [we've been] fighting the battles others can't. Dylan: It's funny. That's usually my line. Stark: Yes, great minds, Captain Hunt. Great minds.

"Twilight of the Idols"

Dylan: "The choice is yours." Rommie: So, is it the man's presumption that bothers you or the fact that he sounds like you? Dylan: I'll let you in on a little secret. Those aphorisms I like to use? "The choice is yours," for example. I learned them all from Admiral Stark.

"Twilight of the Idols"

Admiral Stark always said, "if your mother says she loves you, verify it."

"Twilight of the Idols"

Dylan: You know a lot about Tyr. Stark: Sun Tzu - "Know thine enemy as completely as you know yourself and you will always be victorious."

"Twilight of the Idols"

Dylan: "That's my girl." Rommie: "I prefer warship." Dylan: "I prefer girl." Dylan: "Okay. Warship."

"Twilight of the Idols"

Stark: [to Rommie] You're an android, right? [holds out his hand] Tell me if I'm lying. Stark: I am Admiral Constanza Stark. Rommie: Well, you're either telling the truth or you're a sociopath.

"Twilight of the Idols"

Genite Commander: Intruding vessel, stand down and prepare to be boarded. You have 15 seconds to comply [breaks connection] Tyr: Ship, how many missiles can we fire in 15 seconds? Andromeda (Monitor): Approximately three-thousand six-hundred. Tyr: Communicate our desire to comply.

"Twilight of the Idols"

I wish I knew how to advise you, Captain. But, like I said, the Templars have friends. Invite them to the dance and we could wind up in a major Charlie Foxtrot.

"Twilight of the Idols"

Andromeda (Monitor): We have arrived in Heimdall. I’m detecting several Genite scouts within our combat radius. Tyr: Still licking their wounds, no doubt. Beka: No doubt. And I’m more than happy to dump a little salt on them. Andromeda, offensive missiles, all tubes, full load out. Andromeda (Monitor): Offensive missiles are approaching the Genite formation. Beka: Have they seen us yet? Andromeda (Monitor): That is uncertain. Tyr: The suspense is killing me. Beka: Oh, it’s not the suspense that’s gunna kill us. Harper: Yeah, well, the suspense already owes me a fresh pair of shorts. Andromeda (Monitor): The Genites have detected us. They’re firing. Beka: Defensive missiles; PDLs on standby! Andromeda (Monitor): Incoming hail from the Genites. Genite Commander: You clearly didn’t get the message the last time. I’m afraid you’ve left us no choice but to explain it to you—in excruciating detail. Andromeda (Monitor): The Genites are still with us, and more of them are inbound. Beka: You kn

"Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath"

You know what a High Guard avatar is? Well you're about to find out because you're on the same ship as one. You may as well save some time and kick your own asses.

"Shadow Cast by a Final Salute" (Season Finale)

It takes a minute to find something special in a person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them. But it takes an entire life to forget them.

"Shadow Cast by a Final Salute" (Season Finale)

Harper: You know, I thought I knew you, Tyr. And it turns out all the long you've been waitin' to betray us. What did I ever do to you? Tyr: You made me laugh. Harper: No I didn't. Tyr: Yes, you did. Just not out loud. And I hope you get the chance to do it again. Harper: Yeah, well, we'll double-cross that bridge when we get to it.

"Shadow Cast by a Final Salute" (Season Finale)

[to Dylan] If you attempt to take the Andromeda to slipstream yes, you will destroy that planet. But you, you will be free. Alive to fight another day. It would be a very Neitzschean choice.

"Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)

The Commonwealth is history.

"Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)

"Luck was tortured." There's irony for you.

"Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)

Trance: [echoing [Luke 12]] Those to whom much is given, much is asked. Dylan: If only I knew the question.

"Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)

[to the Andromeda hologram] Alright, I know you can see right through me, but don't think I can't see right through you too.

"Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)

Andromeda: Hesitation is often the flaw of great intellect. Harper: What? I'm not hesit... thank you.

"Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)

If I didn't miss all this, I swear I would.

"Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)

Trance: The fate of the universe is in your hands, Captain. Dylan: Thank you for... sugar-coating that, Trance.

"Pieces of Eight"

Citizens can lose faith more quickly than anything else, especially when their belief is manipulated; when their opinions are shaped through fear; fear for their future. Then they listen to men with quick fixes.

"Pieces of Eight"

Not much reason goes into some people's reasons, eh? Except that they just want what they want.

"Pieces of Eight"

Andromeda: Harper, why don't you find yourself a nice girlfriend. Harper: I tried building one but she doesn't want me. And because, yes, the universe is big, but finding one Mrs. Harper, let alone two... Andromeda: Accessing Harper quote archive..."If you're a bad hunter, the woods are always empty." Harper: That archive is private! Andromeda: Not so much.

"Waking the Tyrant's Device"

Bad intelligence kills good soldiers.

"Waking the Tyrant's Device"

If there is treasure, it logically follows that I deserve it.

"Waking the Tyrant's Device"

Like a hot knife through protein paste.

"Waking the Tyrant's Device"

Just my luck - a woman with her higher brain functions on hold.

"Waking the Tyrant's Device"

Rommie: Thank you, Harper. It feels like you care. Harper: Only in the worst way.

"Double or Nothingness"

If they're so good at business, why would the Nietzscheans attack? That's not good slave management.

"Double or Nothingness"

That's not a solar wind, it's a solar hurricane.

"Double or Nothingness"

Game Sprite: Are you okay? Are you awake? Dylan: I certainly hope so, or else this would be one sucky dream.

"Double or Nothingness"

Dylan: Let's bring it. Trance: It's good to have you back, Captain.

"Double or Nothingness"

Anything is possible when you keep it real.

"Double or Nothingness"

High Guard my heart.

"Harper/Delete"

Guard: Sit up, boy. Time to eat! Rommie: [to Guard, in previous prisoner's voice] I said, I do not wish to be disturbed, you damn mechanized bolt module! Guard: Fine, starve then! Trance: [to Rommie] I love when you do your impressions. Rommie: [in Trance's voice] We should spend more time together.

"Harper/Delete"

It's so unimpressively simple and inconspicuous, it's a work of art.

"Harper/Delete"

Harper: Sheesh! He's graduated from bluffing with our lives. He's moved on to roulette! Dylan: Well I had to switch games! You're the one who said I was lousy at playing cards.

"Soon the Nearing Vortex"

[about Tyr] Those bones must be going to his head.

"Soon the Nearing Vortex"

Wow. Except for waking up next to a certain satisfied android, now I've seen everything.

"Soon the Nearing Vortex"

Unmapped... unwelcomed... it is good to fear it.

"Soon the Nearing Vortex"

Rhade: You're an embarrassment to all Nietzschean prides. Tyr: I am the reincarnation of Drago Museveni. Rhade: The progenitor would not shoot a blind prophet. You are what's wrong with the Nietzschean race... selfish, self-absorbed, unaware of your own limitations... your career will end here. I will end it.

"Soon the Nearing Vortex"

Beka: Hmm. King of the Nietzscheans, and you still want more. Tyr: Not more, Beka. Everything.

"Soon the Nearing Vortex"

Trion: This is a Commonwealth vessel. You are treading dangerous ground. Dylan: That's how I get my excerise.

"Soon the Nearing Vortex"

Rommie: You are having entirely too much fun, Captain. Dylan: Breaking on to a Commonwealth ship without detection? Disabling without killing? I feel like I'm back at the Academy. Rommie: Well you're not. Dylan: [pauses] We need to get out more.

"The World Turns All Around Her"

Dylan: So... you enjoy the show? Harper: I've seen it before.

"The World Turns All Around Her"

Tyr Ana-sleazy. Livin' large in the lap dance of luxury, huh?

"The World Turns All Around Her"

Harper: I love the look. It's so, uh... Earth. [Although the scene is set on an alien planet, it was ostensibly filmed on Earth]. Tyr: I didn't allow you here to insult me. Harper: That's what you think. Last time I saw you, you shot a defenseless blind woman- awfully brave of ya. Tyr: I could have you shot as well. And I just might if you don't mind your manners. Harper: If this conversation goes on any longer, then I'll demand it. Tyr: [pause] You'd be a waste of ammunition. Harper: Now you care. Tyr: [laughs]

"The World Turns All Around Her"

Rhade: A change of habitats isn't conducive to growth. Trance: [holding a plant] Look, it's almost ready to bloom. Change is the only constant; fear, its companion. Overcoming fear is to key to unlocking its gifts.

"The World Turns All Around Her"

Wherever there is danger, opportunity lurks as well.

"The World Turns All Around Her"

No matter how you twist and turn, always keep your destination fixed in your mind.

"The World Turns All Around Her"

Trust not knowing. You are safe.

"The World Turns All Around Her"

Tyr: You can't kill me here! I've made a deal with the abyss. Dylan: Then you're already dead.

"Conduit to Destiny"

Rhade: You were a purse snatcher. Beka: Well, actually, the term we preferred was "active second-hand salvage removers."

"The Torment, the Release"

Pish: Don't get scared, and run away. Dylan: Oh I'm not running, until I take care of you.

"The Torment, the Release"

Pish: So, you took it upon yourself to disregard Commonwealth decision? Dylan: No, I took it upon myself to do the right thing. How 'bout you Pish, you doin' the right thing? You were working for the Nietzscheans, you were even making deals with Tyr Anasazi. Pish: I'm not on trial here sir. Dylan: You should be.

"The Torment, the Release"

Well then, stop the universe, 'cause I want to get off.

"The Torment, the Release"

Pish: Small-time scuffle on a big-time perpetrator. Beka: [laughs] I bet you say that to all the girls.

"The Torment, the Release"

Rhade: So, what's our first move? Trance: We travel into the future. Dylan: Exactly. Because it belongs to us.

"The Spider's Stratagem"

The past is gone, the future yet to be, the present just that—a gift, wrapped for us to enjoy.

"The Spider's Stratagem"

Rox: Oh, well this truth thing isn't so bad after all, is it. Dylan: Yeah, but don't get too comfortable with it just yet because now I'm going to need you to lie. Rox: To whom? Dylan: Moldar. Rox: Forget it. Dylan: Oh no, no, don't worry, you won't have to lie to him by yourself. Rox: Really? And who would be psychotic enough to accompany me on such a doomed mission? Dylan: Your new smuggling partner.

"The Spider's Stratagem"

Rox: Any thoughts? Dylan: Well, several, none of which should be said aloud in the presence of a lady. Rox: So what's stopping you? Dylan: Just my inner female, of course.

"The Spider's Stratagem"

Rox: Contrary to what most men think, there are certain situations in which even the most majestic of force lances, is useless. Dylan: There is nothing useless about my force lance. (Changes lance into grappling hook) Rox: My turn to be impressed. Dylan: I'll show you its other uses later.

"The Warmth of an Invisible Light"

Great, first monuments, and now bombs that walk, talk and act like me.

"The Others"

Dylan: Beka, bring us in. Harper: Wait a minute. How come we always have to be the ones who rescue people? Dylan: Because I love to see you squirm.

"The Others"

Beka: Just once, I'd like to rescue an ugly woman. Harper: And ruin my chances of being smitten by or... smoting... a beautiful woman, leave me alone, I can't love straight when I'm in think. Dylan: Whatever that means.

"The Others"

Dylan: Set a course for the Trillan system. Harper: Boss, we already have. Beka: Dylan, I thought they knocked you out of commission. Dylan: Well, not today, just set a course. Rhade: Captain, should you be on command? Dylan: Rhade-- Rommie: Dylan. Dylan: Unhh. Rommie: You're too weak to be here. Dylan: Rommie, you are no longer my friend. Dylan: Alright, p-prepare for... the library, my-my father's... no, the Magog Worldship is coming. Rommie: Captain, I'm afraid I'm going to have to relieve you of command. Dylan: Well that's no relief at all. See, my power is now absolute... no one can move me. Harper: [looks at Beka and Rhade, between whom Dylan just fell] What are you two? Idiots? Beka: Why didn't you catch him? Rhade: I thought you had him.

"Fear Burns Down to Ashes"

Rev: Dylan, the doors! Dylan: Open says me. [fires guns] Dylan: Now there Rev, that's the way. Rev: Uh-huh, uh-huh. Dylan: You like it? Rev: Uh-huh, uh-huh. (This refers to the song That's the Way (I Like It))

"Fear Burns Down to Ashes"

Whew! All in a day's work, piece of cake. Chocolate cake, with a Harper on top.

"Fear Burns Down to Ashes"

Victory comes from accepting the unacceptable, the darkness in all of us.

"Fear Burns Down to Ashes"

Rev: Trance, I have a confession to make. I've always known who you are, but I did not understand, I could not grasp it. I was blind. Trance: No, I hid my light until it was time. I, too, had much to learn. Rev: A confession? From you? Trance: An affirmation. My journey has been as long as yours. I had to learn to hold a light, lest its brilliance destroy me.

"Fear Burns Down to Ashes"

Trance: Dylan, this time, were you afraid that you would lose? Dylan: I fear losing you. And the rest of the crew. Trance: A moment of vulnerability from our captain. Dylan: Let's keep that our little secret.

"Lost in a Space that Isn't There"

Beka: Have I ever lied to any one of you? Harper: We-- Beka: Don't answer that.

"The Dissonant Interval, Part 1"

Great vehicle they call the world ship? I think you'd better stop smoking your peace pipe.

"The Dissonant Interval, Part 2" (Season Finale)

Rhade: [Right after Louisa died in his arms] On this soul cast a cold eye on night and day. All thou living passed by. Louisa. Unknown Female: [After Dylan has entered the Route of Ages, and the final lines of the season] Have you come home from your journeys? Have you come home from your past? Dream, dear one, dream.

"The Weight, Part 1" (Season Premiere)

A day, a lifetime. What does it matter in a world we are all lost in.

"The Weight, Part 1" (Season Premiere)

Rhade: So, it has come to this. [Hits Dylan] Dylan: Rhade, you seem a bit confused lately. [Rhade hits him again] Check that: Angry and confused. Rhade: I want payment for the pain you caused. I want to kill your eternal hope. The hope that has led me to this damnation. [Hits him again] Dylan: Careful, Rhade. It just might be that I am out of hope as well. Rhade: Tell me why. [Hits him again] Why. [Hits him again] Why was hope so important? Dylan: Hope is everything, Rhade. Without it there's no reason to live. Rhade: Then today is your lucky day. [Gets him in a headlock] I hate the hope that you brought me. Dylan: You give me too much credit. Rhade: It's always been about you. [Throws him into a table] Dylan: Okay, let's play. [Hits Rhade] You can't hate hope. [Hits him again] You can hate me. [Hits him again] But you hate yourself [hits him again] more. You know why? Because you failed. [Hits him again] We all did. Failed. [Hits him again] Four years. Four [hit] years [hit] of my [hi

"Past Is Prolix"

This show has gone to the dogs

"Saving Light from a Black Sun"

Okay, Let's go where do sun doesn't shine.

"Chaos and the Stillness of It"

Rommie: We are not the droids you are looking for... Doyle: What the hell was that? Rommie: I don't know, but it didn't work.

"The Heart of the Journey, Part 1"

Planet Earth, here we come.

"The Heart of the Journey, Part 2"

Trance: The Abyss. Doyle: In league with the Neitzscheans. Beka: And they're waiting for us.

"The Heart of the Journey, Part 2"

We're about to be neck deep in a big pile of ships.

"The Heart of the Journey, Part 2"

This is my home. My fate. It ends here.

"The Heart of the Journey, Part 2"

'Dylan Hunt: Remember what Flavin said. Find a place where the place where opposites cancel time. That place is the Route of Ages. Trance: Time to cancel time. 'Dylan Hunt: Everything I've done has brought me to this point. Every Friend, every foe, every fight. This is where it ends

"The Heart of the Journey, Part 2"

It is my Sun. The Abyss is dead!

"The Heart of the Journey, Part 2"

[last line of the series] Yes! Andromeda, I know winning isn't everything, but I sure could get used to this feeling.

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It's never easy.

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Have you seen my force lance?

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It's Showtime.

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Let's bring it.

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Dylan: Thanks Rommie. Rommie: M-Hmm.

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Trust in the Harper. The Harper is good.

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Yee haw!