Andromeda (TV Series)

Home Fires (2001)

Lexa Doig: Andromeda Ascendant

Quotes 

• Rommie : You know what I really want?

  Tyr Anasazi : An avatar unencumbered by cleavage?

• Rommie : I used to have 800 Lancers stationed on me.

  Dylan Hunt : I can just think of the eavesdropping potential.

  Rommie : I don't eavesdrop, I monitor... for security purposes.

• Rommie : The enemy destroyer was eliminated, but Castalian casualties are still high. Five of their ships are down. The planet was bombarded. Estimated civilian casualties: five million.

  Beka Valentine : That's a lot of sushi.

  Dylan Hunt : It's not funny, Beka.

  Beka Valentine : Looked pretty darned funny from here.

  Dylan Hunt : Look, if you're all finished insulting our allies, might I remind you that the point of these training exercises is to improve their morale, not destroy it.

  Seamus Harper : Look, Dylan, if you think Aquaman and the Silver Surfer here are going to help you stop the Magog, you may as well start basting yourself with steak sauce now and avoid the rush.

• Andromeda Ascendant : The chance of a specific human DNA combination reoccurring is approximately one in three times ten to the fifteenth power.

  Tyr Anasazi : Telemachus Rhade isn't just any human. He's the product of sixteen centuries of selective breeding.

  Dylan Hunt : Homo sapiens invictus have the same number of chromosomes as unmodified Homo sapiens.

  Tyr Anasazi : Yes, but a smaller sampling. No Nietzschean carries the gene for astigmatism, acromegaly, arterial sclerosis. You combine that with extensive safeguards against mutation and what you've got is...

  Dylan Hunt : And the odds are still in the trillions.

  Tyr Anasazi : It's a big universe.

  Dylan Hunt : Yeah, and a bigger coincidence. You know, I don't trust coincidences, especially ones named Rhade.

  Tyr Anasazi : You should know by now that you can never trust any Nietzschean... except me.