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The truly useless but fun Space:1999 list of quotes!


Compilation made just for the fun of it by Daphne Vezina (alphan1999@hotmail.com)


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SECTION 1: MEMORABLE ONES (NOT THAT THE OTHERS ARE NOT!)


A giant leap for Mankind... It's more like a stumble in the dark. (John Koenig, Breakaway)

We’ll determine our own destiny (Koenig, The Metamorph)

Yes... Maybe there (Koenig, at the end of Breakaway, talking about Planet Meta)

There are things more important than safety! Loyalty is better than logic; Hope is better than despair; Creation is better than destruction. I hope you understand that, you seekers of perfection! (Koenig in AB Chrysalis)

If you’re gonna die, you might as well die on Alpha (Koenig in War Games)

Just because we didn’t experience something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist (Koenig in Dragon’s Domain)

I have an incredible faith in the human spirit (Koenig, War Games)

What’s happened to us out there in space is beyond explanations. (Koenig, Another Time, Another Place)

There’s nothing here for you but destruction. (« Alternative » Paul in Another Time, Another Place)

How does it feel playing God everyday? (« Victor » in Koenig’s mind, Missing Link)

Koenig: What are you without feeling hate, not to mention the joy of love? Vana: We feel such joy because we understand hate. It is a form of fear and only fear. (Missing Link)

Vana: But you taught me that love is the bridge between worlds... Raan: Only when you know when to cross it! (Missing Link)

Koenig: I still believe it is more important to feel than to think. Raan: It is the balance between the two that is still important to learn. (Missing Link)

If we understand others, in time I believe we come to understand ourselves. (Koenig, Immunity Syndrome)

When it came to the crunch, did Ceasar believe the soothsayer? (Jack Tanner in Death’s Other Dominion)

The road to paridise has sealed up (Jack Tanner in Death’s Other Dominion)

We sit in a pinnacle of rock... and no bird to sing. (Jack Tanner in Death’s Other Dominion)

Death has dominion. (Jack Tanner in Death’s Other Dominion)

- Is it death that gives a meaning to life in the end? - If there is an end...(Koenig and the voice of Cabot Rowlands in Death’s Other Dominion)

Ignorance is not a reason to start shooting (Koenig, Alpha Child)

What worries me is what I don’t understand, what I can’t see... (Koenig, Guardian of Piri)

No! Leave me with my pain. It reminds me I’m human! (Koenig, Guardian of Piri)

The impossible takes just a little bit longer, that’s all, Commander! (Commissioner Simmonds, Earthbound).

Commissioner, right now I need a doctor and a scientist out there, not a politician! (Koenig to Simmonds, Earthbound)

So much for illlusions! (John Koenig, Bringers of Wonder, part 2)

It is better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else’s dream (John Koenig, Bringers of Wonder, part 2)

Simmonds, if I could rig that computer, it would shout out your name, but you take your chances with the rest! (An exasperated Koenig to that pest Comissionner Simmonds in Earthbound)

John Koenig, toasting: To everything that might have been.. Victor: To everything that was.... (Black Sun)

Tanya to Paul: Mind if I share the music with you? (Black Sun)

Everything is everything else. The whole universe is living thought. (Koenig, Black Sun)

Commander, let them have Maya. Why should we all die for her? (The Dorcons)

My being considered the caveman of the future is your idea of the situation? (Koenig to Vana in Missing Link)

It may simply be John’s time to die... (Helena, Missing Link)

We’re always ready to cooperate for the common good. (Koenig, The Dorcons)

My idea of neutrality is not being a sitting duck and being shot at by both sides! (Koenig, The Last Enemy)

Helena: We survived, John. John: Yes, but think of the cost! (The Last Enemy)

- And you are not political on Alpha? - No, we’re not! (Koenig to Zamara, One Moment of Humanity)

You know everything about hyperspace, but you know nothing about inner space! (Maya to Taybor, The Taybor)

If this is the end of a life, we have to start a new one to live like human beings again! (Paul to Sandra, The Last Sunset)

Tomorrow, we’ll start a new Alpha! (Paul, The Last Sunset)

There's nothing like a thumping good failure for draining the money supply. (Commisioner Dixon, Dragon's Domain)

No moon, no Alphans (Koenig, Alpha Child)


SECTION 2: VICTOR BERGMAN, RENAISSANCE MAN


Professor Bergman's made his first calculation! (Paul in Collision Course)

We believe that revenge sanctionned by authorities is also a sign of a debased culture (Victor in Voyager’s Return)

We learned a lot of things but most of all we learned... that we still have a lot to learn. (Victor, leaving a message on Moonbase Alpha in War Games).

I know less and less about this universe, Victor, but that’s got to be more than chance! (Koenig to Victor in Another Time, Another Place)

Koenig, about establishing a colony on Earth: I think it was a wise decision Victor: You should know, you made it! (Another Time, Another Place)

Helena: Under the skin, do you think we changed that much in 40 thousand years? Victor: Do you think we ever will? (Full Circle)

Victor: All that knowledge... isn’t the answer. Koenig: Then what is it? (Ring Around the Moon)

I don’t know... Maybe I’ve had enough of Earth and its so-called civilization. (Victor Bergman to John Koenig asking if he wants to go back to Earth, Earthbound)

Helena: It’s ingenious! Victor: It’s insane! (Talking about the forcefield in Black Sun)

We all believe what we want to believe... (Victor, Black Sun)

60 year old brandy. I’ve been saving it for ten years. (Victor, Black Sun)

It was a human decision. No one would have done it any other way. (Victor Bergman, Collision Course)

Victor: Well, I’ve been thinking... Koenig: It’s the best thing that’s happened today! (Collision Course)

And they’re going back towards future time. (Victor, Another Time, Another Place)

This is not exactly your style, « shoot first, ask questions later »! (Victor, The Last Enemy)

Terror, destruction, torture! (Victor, End of Eternity)

Just instinctively I’d say it was spring! (Victor, The Last Sunset)

If we go into orbit, I shall care about symetry! (Victor to Koenig, The Last Sunset)

Perhaps a future life... (Victor, Another Time, Another Place)


SECTION 3: OUR MAN ALAN!


I'm a astronaut, professor... Not a Philosopher. (Alan Carter, The Black Sun)

Alan: I wonder if the others survived... Koenig: Did they ever exist? (Another Time, Another Place)

When the ship’s sinking, the rat’s the first to leave. (Alan, Testament of Arcadia)

Where is the nearest john? (Alan Carter in the second part of Bringers of Wonder)

Alan: I can’t speak for the rest but I care about dying, how I die...If somebody can take them somewhere, it’s me. (Black Sun)

Alan to Paul: I’ll send you a postcard! (Black Sun)

There’s a place down the corridor that you wouldn’t believe... Hamburgers! (Alan to Etrec, Mark of Archanon)

I’m going to tackle you! (Alan to Etrec, Mark of Archanon)

I hear you, old earthman! (Alan, The Bringers of Wonder, part 2)

Well, would you believe we have lost our way? (Alan, Journey to Where)

On Earth I come from a country called Australia! (Alan to Sahala, Dorzak)

Holly Cow! (After seeing Dione’s battleship in The Last Enemy)

Well now you see why I got drummed out of the Boy Scouts! (Alan, failing to start a fire in Journey to Where)

Tomorrow, we’ll build a swimming pool! (Alan, The Last Sunset)

By God, if they hurt her... (Alan, about Sandra, Full Circle)

Looks like pea soup from up here! (Alan to Helena, The Last Sunset)

Alan: John! Are you allright? Koenig: Isn’t everybody after being hit by 300-400 volts? (AB Chrysalis)

Hey! Good old clean air! (Alan in AB Chrysalis)

They used to call this city the Big Apple... (Alan in Bringers of Wonder, part 2)


SECTION 4: TONY, TONY, TONY...


We don’t die on request! (Tony to the cloud entity, The Beta Cloud)

Logan: Moonbase Alpha, we have a problem! Verdeschi: Oh, how about that? Join the tribe, Space Station One! (Journey to Where)

An Alphan: "Why should they go first? Tony Verdeschi: "Why? Do you want to take the risk?" (About why it is once again Koenig, Russell and Carter who are going away, Journey to Where)

Tony Verdeschi: Hey, the natives are getting restless, here! John Koenig: Let’s hope Logan can find the answers to calm them! (About testing Logan’s knowledge of Earth, Journey to Where)

You’re right, Tony, I doesn’t have any effect at all! (Maya, after taking a sip of Tony’s concoction, Journey to Where)

Shallow! That’s what you are, Tony! Why does it matter what I look like on the outside? (Maya, after Tony refuses to kiss her in Command Center when transformed into an ugly witch, The Exiles)

Tony: For most of the races that we’ve come across, it doesn’t look as you had much success! Pasc: It takes time! (About bringing peace to the universe, Mark of Archanon)

Short-lived recovery if she’s gonna have any of that! (Maya, about Helena drinking Tony’s beer, Journey to Where)

You know your problem? No sense of adventure! (Tony about the success of his brew, Journey to Where)

You foul-mouthed, lying cretin! (Zarl to Tony, One Moment of Humanity)

Party’s over, kids! Come on out! (Tony to the Vegans, One Moment of Humanity)

They want us to give you up for this? That’s obscene! (Tony to Maya, The Dorcons)

Discipline, discipline, discipline! A throw-back to Capt. Blight! (About mirror Koenig in Seeds of Destruction)

Maya, put me down! (Tony, The Bringers of Wonder, part 2)

I know how to cheer you up. How about a beer? (Tony to Maya, Dorzak)

Get ready for the taste of a lifetime, Verdeschi’s beer no. 29! (A Matter of Balance)

Thanks, but I happen to be on a liquid-free diet! (Bill Fraser to Tony, A Matter of Balance)

Helena: What happened? Tony: Would you believe a friendly alien? (Space Warp)

You're a man, act the part! (Zarl to Tony, One Moment of Humanity)

Cloud: Accept your fate! Tony: So that we can die peacefully? (The Beta Cloud)

You’ve got a lot to learn about humanity, Santa Claus! (Tony to Magus, New Adam, New Eve)

How can you be such a dumb, blind kangooroo? (Tony to Alan, Seeds of Destruction)

You asked what kind of people they are. What kind of people are we? (Tony to Koenig, The Exiles)

That never got off the drawing board! (Tony, about the Super Swift, Bringers of Wonder, part 1)


SECTION 5: LOVE POTION NO. 1999


Helena... We almost made it, you... and I . (Koenig, « dying » in Matter of Life or Death)

Helena: We nearly lost you... John: Likewise! (Full Circle)

Helena: We’re looking for answers. Not heroes. Koenig: I didn’t know you cared! (Breakaway)

Helena: It’s my life. If it ends on Alpha or somewhere out in space, what difference does it make? Koenig: It makes a difference. To me. (Black Sun)

Helena: You’re not going out again! Koenig: Don’t worry, I’ll wear my galoshes! (Collision Course)

I know it’s not the time to bring that up but Psychon is my favorite planet! (Tony to Maya, The Beta Cloud)

Maya, I love you! (Tony to Maya, The Beta Cloud)

Helena: John? Koenig: I know. Me too... (When Alpha is apparently on the verge of destruction, AB Chrysalis)

Helena: You better let us take care of your hands... Koenig: My place or yours? (The Dorcons)

No difference, uh? (Helena to Koenig, The Exiles)

Helena, you can tell us apart. What we shared, he couldn’t know! (Koenig, Seeds of Destruction)

Koenig: Tony doesn’t love Helena... Zamara: Then who loves her? Koenig: I do! Zamara: And the man? Koenig: Tony Verdeschi? He’s in love with Maya. (One Moment of Humanity)

Alan: All that concern! You will make Paul jealous! (talking to Sandra, Full Circle)

I’ve been flattered from what I heard! (Koenig to Helena, about her jalousy as a cavewoman in Full Circle)

John: I wanted to discuss this love test... Maya: What kind of test, Commander? Helena: It’s a test that we.... failed! John: I thought we’ve passed it! (Brian the Brain)

You know something? I take back everything I said about you, including the fact that you’re a man of perception! (Helena to Koenig, The Exiles)


SECTION 6: IS THIS A TRS-80 CLONE OR WHAT? (COMPUTER SECTION)


Human decision required. (Computer in Breakaway)

A lot of people are using computers but don't know how they work... (Maya in The Taybor)

Kano: But Computer will have to be deactivated for the forcefield! Victor: Well, it could do with a rest! (Black Sun)

Victor: Computer gave us an idea, 8% chance. Helena: But what about the 2%? John: Then we would have died one day ahead of everyone else! (Talking about testing the forcefield in Black Sun)

Computer’s not a crystal ball, Commander! (Kano)

Computer (slow): ...must ad-vi-ce Com-man-der K... Victor: Well, I’ll run ahead of you, if you don’t mind! (Collision Course)

Koenig: Kano, what’s the computer situation? Kano: Malfunctionning! (The Last Enemy)

Computer’s telling us nice stories, today... (Helena to Kano, The Last Sunset)

Computer never tells stories! (Kano to Helena, The Last Sunset)


SECTION 7: I SAY DR. RUSSELL, MS. MD, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT’S AILING ME?


I'm not behaving like a Doctor ! (Helena, lost in the snowstorm in Death’s Other Dominion)

You’re just trying to resolve a conflict nobody gives a damn for! (Helena to Ernst Queller in Voyager’s Return)

I’m a doctor, not a miracle worker! (Helena, All That Glisters)

I’m a doctor, John. I save lives for the sake of it. (Helena Russell in The Exiles)

Eva, we’re living in deep space. There’s so many things we don’t understand! (...) But we’ve got to help each other... to understand. (Helena Russell in Force of Life)

Koenig: Are you sure you should smoke? Victor: Oh, I don’t think Dr. Russell would mind t... (interrupting because of Koenig’s look ) (Black Sun)

I don’t know, I don’t know anything! (Helena, One Moment of Humanity)

Don’t panic, Helena! (Helena, One Moment of Humanity)

John Koenig, philosopher. If the chips are on the table, we’re still in the game! (Helena, Seance Spectre)

Our instruments said it was never alive. So how could we be sure it was really dead? (Helena, Dragon’s Domain)

It’s like they said in old earth hospitals: the operation was a success but we lost the patient! (Dr. Ben Vincent to Helena, Catacombs of the Moon)

What matters is that Maya cannot retain this form for more than an hour! (Helena, Space Warp)

I’m in control of this unit! I will determine whether or not I’m obsolete! (Helena to Balor, End of Eternity)

It sticks in your throat, you decrepid hag! (Zamara to Helena, One Moment of Humanity)

We're not used to hot foods, cool it!!! (Helena to the android no.8, One Moment of Humanity)

You’re getting old, Cantor! (Helena to a rapidly aging Cantor in The Exiles)


SECTION 8: SILLY QUOTES


That was Sacred Bread, Alan! (Paul Morrow, The Last Sunset)

With all this technology at our disposition... Who needs nature? (Carla, talking about devastated ecology on Earth in 2120, Journey to Where)

With history like that, who wants to go back to Earth anyway? (Helena at the end of Journey to Where)

I’ve been named commissionner because I did what was necessary, not what was right. (Simmonds, Earthbound)

Now we're sitting on the biggest bomb man ever made.! (Koenig, Breakaway)

I’ll tell you what, make me a pretty nose! (Helena to John in The Exiles)

I’m going to take some fresh air! (...) I guess it means a walk in the corridor! (Anton Zoreff in Force of Life)

Helena: I remember when I was a little girl, I was afraid of the dark! Ain’t that funny! Sandra: And I was afraid of doctors! (Black Sun)

We can't leave 50 missiles hanging over our heads! (Koenig to Verdeschi in The Exiles)

I’d rather remain here on Alpha than end up somewhere in space! (Yasko, Journey to Where) -best line she ever had on the show. Think of all the others! EEEW...-

Your small world entered our sphere of influence. (Zamara, One Moment of Humanity)

Soon you will make love to the woman Helena... (Zamara to Zarl, One Moment of Humanity) - I don’t think so!-

People killed, injured... It’s all my fault! (Maya, The Dorcons)

Erlich: I swear it’s snowing over California! Ben Vincent: Hey, smile when you say that, man! (The Bringers of Wonder, part 2)

How am I supposed to run a base of sleeping beauties? (Koenig, The Bringers of Wonder, part 2)

Oh, I do love your make-up! (« Diana Morris » to Maya, The Bringers of Wonder, part 1)

Maya: And what do you do, Guido? Tony: He’s a cab driver! (The Bringers of Wonders, part 1)

Tell me, what’s the latest fashion on Earth, what everyone is wearing? (Sandra, The Bringers of Wonder, part 1) - very useful question after 5 years in space, San!Way to go! :-) -

Dr. Russell? When this is all over, I will take that examination! (Mirror Koenig in Seeds of Destruction)

How does your species say goodbye? (Sahala to Alan, Dorzak)

I’ve never seen you in my life... Dr. Russell! (Koenig to Helena, Seance Spectre)

Very clever, these earthlings! (Maya, Dorzak) -no, kidding!-

We’re a bit low on sacrificial goats! (Koenig, New Adam, New Eve)

Somehow I don’t think I would like the people! (Koenig, about Planet Ariel, The Last Sunset)

It smells very good... Like country air! (Paul Morrow, The Last Sunset) - Or « moon air », Paul?-

I hate backseat drivers! (Kano to Alan, Full Circle)

You’ve got a big skull! (Victor to Koenig, Full Circle) -we noticed that, too...-

I’ll tell you what... Can I come down and have lunch with you? (Brian the Brain in the ill-fated episode of the same name) -NIMBY, you big soap box!-

Hello Hello Hello, well, that's her! (Reilly on finding the milganite, All that Glisters)

Hello. Now that is strange! ( Reilly (who else?), All that Glisters)

Hello. Now something's off balance! (Reilly (original line...), All that Glisters)

Uh uh. Nope. No. (sigh). Negative. (Reilly (having a Reilly fest, obviously), All that Glisters)

The rocks understand me, Commander! (Reilly (he has rocks in his head...), All that Glisters)

We’re just good friends... I mean, yellow wheels? EEEEEEW! (Brian the Brain, on a portable computer in Command Center, in....yes, that episode you know!)

You know what’s your problem? Your brain works like a computer so you’re jealous of that other computer! (Tony to Maya, about Brian the Brain)

What is this brain, some crazy highjacking slot machine? (Bill Fraser, about Brian the Brain)

Hey, Maya! Now that our computer has the brain’s memory, you better not transform yourself into a yellow-wheeled trolley or this console’s gonna get up and chase you! (Tony to Maya in Brian the Stooopid, oups, the Brain!)

I’ll keep the lady safe for you (Brian the dubious brain...)

So no monkey tricks or you know what you’ll fiiind when you come baaaack! (Brian the Brain to Koenig)

You are from Earth. I will arrange for suitable atmosphere. (Alien guardian in AB Chrysalis) - how the heck did it know that?!? Go figure...-

I only collect originals! (Taybor the trader/traitor/whatever...)

Bannockburn plus 25 (Morse code message from Koenig, Journey to Where)

96 minutes of air... (John « floating » Koenig, War Games)


SECTION 9: ALIENS GALORE!


We’re all aliens... Until we get to know one another. (Koenig to Maya in The Metamorph)

Matter never dies. It changes its forms. There are many forms of lifes. Many forms of deaths, too. (Lee Russell, in Matter of Life or Death)

Vana: You will remain here until the end of your life. Koenig, throwing his food platter to the floor: Then that end will come much sooner! (Missing Link)

Raan: It is violence I think most fascinating. I find it most frightening. (Missing Link)

He must neutrilize his own mind, conquer his violence. (Raan, Missing Link)

Vana: We are incapable of deception. Koenig: Every scientist makes that claim... Ends justify the means. (Missing Link)

You are one among many (Koenig to the lifeform in Immunity Syndrome)

I that am I is no more; I that will be has much to regret (the lifeform in Immunity Syndrome)

There’s always someone left to kill! (Pasc, Mark of Archanon)

I do not save lives, I take it! (Pasc, Mark of Archanon)

You’re beginning to sound human, Zarl. Be careful. You know the dangers... (Zamara to Zarl, One Moment of Humanity)

I admire your readiness to die for your principles, Commander. Are the rest of the Alphans ready to die, too? (Counsel Varda to Koenig, The Dorcons)

Those about to live salute you! (Malik to the Archon, The Dorcons)

She’s a metamorph! (The pseudo Dr.Shaw, about Maya, in Bringers of Wonder, part 1)

The failing of your race is the inability to see the positive out of the negative (Elizia, Devil’s Planet)

Tell me of yourself, Maya, since I saw you last! (Dorzak)

Is there some flaw in the Psychon nature that turns us into monsters? First my father, and now you? (Maya, Dorzak)

It’s the struggle for survival that turns us into monsters. (Dorzak)

We are fighting a war. Please be brief! (Commissioner Theia, The Last Enemy)

How can you value life when you don’t fear death? (Balor, End of Eternity)

Oh, please, don’t let me kill you! I have to be careful with mortals! (Balor, End of Eternity)

Resistance is futile! (Maya, The Dorcons)

Your idea of free will is the right to say no! (Magus, New Adam, New Eve)

They are the androids, we are the humans! (#8 to Helena, One Moment of Humanity)

Rigorous genetic conformity... (Jarek, Alpha Child)

I lost my equilibrium... (Pasc, Mark of Archanon)

A second chance... (Magus, New Adam, New Eve)

I am your creator! (Magus, New Adam, New Eve)

See what you want to see! (Lee « anti-matter » Russell in Matter of Life and Death)

I am I! (Entity in Immunity Syndrome)

You must remain neutral (Dione, The Last Enemy)



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