This is why we’re here. Because this little gray rock sells for $20 million a kilo. That’s the only reason. This is what pays for the whole party, and it’s what pays for your science. Those savages are threatening our whole operation. We’re on the brink of war and you’re supposed to be finding me a diplomatic solution. So use what you’ve got, and get me some results.
Laddie, are you working?
“Can we put the bickering on hold till AFTER we survive the massive space battle?”
Minbari warriors are heedless of their own lives in battle, but the body of a warrior must be treated with extreme reverence.
Bang! I murdered you! Bang! I murdered you!
“Teddy, I’m going to break a window.”
“No Davy … breaking windows is naughty … don’t break any windows…”
“Teddy, I’m going to kill a man.”
Silence, just silence.
“I can’t help but wonder whether you’re able to function in society.”
“I don’t function in society, sir. I’m a mercenary. I blow society up.”
Verily, I say unto you, the days spoken of in the Apocalypse are nigh!
And Jack had a plan. He would go back, back to a time when none of these skeptics had ruined things with their miserable, stupid little laws of physics.
“I canna change the laws of physics, Captain, but I’ll find y’ a loophole!”
Having been a first officer yourself, you know that assuming that responsibility must, by definition, include the safety of the captain. I have no problem with following any rules you lay down, short of compromising your safety.
My ability to handle a gun–as well as just about any other weapon–was another reason Keane kept me around.
Eat hot photons, laser breath!
MAXIM 37: There is no “overkill.” There is only “open fire” and “reload.”
No bullets? Ah, but if all of you in the audience who believe in fairies will clap your hands, then my gun will be magically filled with bullets.
All the evidence says otherwise.
Now I find that fascinatingly illogical.
Whoever said the human race was logical?
Why couldn’t we have cooperated on this discovery, rather than be at swords’ points?
Look! Jelly Babies! You have seen him! Where is he?