Battlestar Galactica (1978)

John Colicos: Count Baltar

Quotes 

• Count Baltar : [smiling maliciously]  Their destruction is complete.

  Cylon Centurion : Our forces have taken prisoners near the spacedrome. They tell of survivors who escaped in ships.

  Count Baltar : What ships? How far can they go? If a handful of survivors did indeed escape, they would have neither fuel nor food for a prolonged voyage.

  Cylon Centurion : The information is not complete. It is offered in exchange for life.

  Count Baltar : And what is the standing order, for humans, from your Imperious Leader?

  Cylon Centurion : Extermination.

  Count Baltar : Then carry out your orders. If they exist, they're doomed.

• Commander Adama : Mr. President, a wall of unidentified craft is closing in on the fleet.

  Count Baltar : Possibly a Cylon welcoming committee.

  Commander Adama : Sir, might I suggest we launch a welcoming committee of our own?

  Count Baltar : Mr. President, there remain many hostile feelings amongst our warriors. The likelihood of an unfortunate incident with all those pilots in the sky at once?

  President Adar : Did you hear that, Commander?

  Commander Adama : Sir, did Count Baltar suggest that our forces sit here, totally defenseless?

  President Adar : My friend, we are on a peace mission. The first peace man has known in a thousand years.

• Imperious Leader : Welcome, Baltar. I have grave news. A handful of Colonials prevail, but we will soon find them.

  Count Baltar : What of our bargain? My colony was to be spared!

  Imperious Leader : I now alter the bargain.

  Count Baltar : How can you change one side of a bargain?

  Imperious Leader : When there is no other side. You have missed the entire point of the war.

  Count Baltar : But I have no ambitions against you.

  Imperious Leader : Could you think me so foolish as to trust a man who would see his own race destroyed?

  Count Baltar : Not destroyed, subjugated, under me!

  Imperious Leader : There can be *no* survivors. So long as one human remains alive, the Alliance is threatened.

  Count Baltar : Surely... you don't mean me?

  Imperious Leader : We thank you for your help, Baltar. Your time is at an end.

  Count Baltar : No! You can't! You still need me! ARGH!

  [a Cylon centurion slits Count Baltar's throat with his sword] 

• President Adar : Baltar, my friend, this armistice conference would not have been possible with your tireless work. You have secured for yourself a place in the history books.

  Count Baltar : [smiling humbly]  That the Cylons chose me as their liason to the Quorum of the Twelve was an act of... providence, not skill.