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"[on the ship's klaxon sounding] I remember that sound! That's a bad sound!"
"Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It's stupid, but I'm gonna do it, okay?"
"Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"
"[before going through the chompers] We shouldn’t have to do this! It makes no logical sense! Why is this here? [after going through the chompers] Whoever wrote this episode should die!"
"[completely deadpan] By Grabthar's Hammer... what a savings."
"[to Jason, after Jason fights Gorignak] I see you managed to get your shirt off."
"By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged."
"Never give up, never surrender!"
"The show has been cancelled... but the adventure is just beginning."
"A comedy of galactic proportions."
"All systems are functioning Commander."
"Pedal to the metal, Commander."
"Are we there yet?"
"Tim Allen - Jason Nesmith/Commander Peter Quincy Taggart"
"Sigourney Weaver - Gwen DeMarco/Lt. Tawny Madison"
"Alan Rickman - Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus"
"Tony Shalhoub - Fred Kwan/Tech Sgt. Chen"
"Daryl Mitchell - Tommy Webber/Lt. Laredo"
"Sam Rockwell - Guy Fleegman"
"Enrico Colantoni - Mathesar"
"Robin Sachs - General Sarris"
"Patrick Breen - Quellek"
"Jed Rees - Teb"
"Sam Lloyd - Neru"
"Rainn Wilson - Lahnk"
"Missi Pyle - Laliari/Jane Doe"
"Justin Long - Brandon Wheeger"
"...and the Adventure continues..."
"Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. There is the constant desire to find out where - where is the point where it all began. But much, much later than that the Discworld was formed. Drifting onwards through space...atop four elephants on the shell of a giant turtle, the great A'Tuin. It was some time after its creation when most people forgot that the very oldest stories of the beginning are sooner or later about blood. At least that's one theory. The philosopher Didactylos suggested an alternative hypothesis: 'things just happen, what the hell'. And so our story begins in Ankh-Morpork, the twin city of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork, the biggest city in Discworld. A city where magic is just another job, and where the Tower of Art of the Unseen University for Wizards looms over all the dark narrow streets...Our story begins on a midwinter festival bearing a remarkable similarity to your Christmas. And so...it was the night before Hogswatch."
"Could I give you a hand?."
"Onwards, Binky, to the Hogfather's Castle of Bones."
"Oh, yes, and um...Ho Ho Ho."
"Applesauce."
"Do YOU Believe?"
"You might think I'd already thought of that, but I couldn't possibly comment."
"I don't know if you noticed, Albert, but that was a pune, or play on words."
"I AM last minute stuff."
"There has to be something in the stocking that makes a noise. Otherwise, what is 4:30 A.M. for?"
"And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
"Go away, I don't do that stuff anymore."
"(To monster): Go away and stop bothering me."
"His name is Bilius. He's the Oh God of Hangovers."
"(To Mr. Teatime, as she slaps him): Hi, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter."
"Man: Ye gods, there's a girl out here with a poker!"
"Twyla: Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry."
"Mr. Teatime: (About Banjo) What is this? Does it do tricks? (Laughs) It looks like a volcano."
"Ridcully: In my day, when I was an undergraduate, I wouldn't have been studying on Hogswatchnight. It's just not natural. I'd have been sick twice by now..."
"Mr. Sideney: It's a very enemy-friendly spell. Sir."
"Mr. Brown: There you are, I've unlocked it. (Banjo pushes the door in) And Banjo's opened it."
"Banjo: (flinging Mr. Teatime toward a fatal fall) No pulling girls' hair. That's bad!"
"Kurt Russell - Sgt. Todd"
"Jason Scott Lee - Caine 607"
"Jason Isaacs - Col. Mekum"
"Connie Nielsen - Sandra"
"Sean Pertwee - Mace"
"Jared Thorne & Taylor Thorne - Nathan"
"Mark Bringleson - Lt. Rubrick"
"Gary Busey - Capt. Church"
"K. K. Dodds - Lt. Sloan"
"James R. Black - Riley"
"Corbin Bleu - Johnny"
"Mark De Alessandro - Goines"
"Vladimir Orlov - Romero"
"Carsten Norgaard - Green"
"Duffy Gaver - Chelsey"
"Brenda Wehle - Hawkins"
"Michael Chiklis - Jimmy Pig"
"Elizabeth Dennehy - Jimmy Pig's wife"
"[after being enclosed in a clear tube] I feel like a new toothbrush."
"[to reporters] You boys like to call this the pushbutton age. It isn't, not yet. Not until we can team up atomic energy with electronics. Then we'll have the horses as well as the cart."
"[the cat appears] It's only Neutron. We call him that because he's so positive."
"The supreme excitement of our time!"
"2 1/2 Years in the making!"
"Jeff Morrow — Exeter"
"Faith Domergue — Dr. Ruth Adams"
"Rex Reason — Dr. Cal Meacham"
"Lance Fuller — Brack"
"Russell Johnson — Dr. Steve Carlson"
"Douglas Spencer — The Monitor"
"Robert Nichols — Joe Wilson"
"Captain's Log, Stardate 2263.2. Today is our 966th day in deep space—a little under three years into our five-year mission. The more time we spend out here, the harder it is to tell where one day ends and the next one begins. It can be a challenge to feel grounded when even gravity is artificial. But well, we do what we can to make it feel like home. The crew, as always, continues to act admirably despite the rigors of our extended stay here in outer space... and the personal sacrifices they have made. We continue to search for new life-forms in order to establish firm diplomatic ties. Our extended time in uncharted territory has stretched the ship's mechanical capacities, but fortunately, our engineering department, led by Mr. Scott, is more than up to the job. The ship aside, prolonged cohabitation has definitely had effects on the interpersonal dynamics. Some experiences for the better... and some for the worse. As for me, things have started to feel a little... episodic. The farther out we go, the more I find myself wondering what it is we are trying to accomplish. If the universe is truly endless, then are we not striving for something forever out of reach? The Enterprise is scheduled for re-provisioning stop at Yorktown, the Federation's newest, most advanced Starbase. Perhaps a break from routine will offer up some respite from the mysteries of the unknown."
"The Enterprise has something no other ship in the fleet has: you. And as we've come to understand, there is no such thing as the unknown. Only the temporarily hidden."
"Let's make some noise."
"Better to die saving lives than to live with taking them. That's what I was born into."
"The Federation has pushed the frontier for centuries. But no longer. This is where it begins, Lieutenant. This is where the frontier pushes back."
"You think you know what sacrifice really means? Federation has taught you that conflict should not exist. Ha. But without struggle, you would never know who you truly are."
"Captain's Log... I don't remember the stardate. All distress calls unanswered. Of the crew, only three remain. I WON'T ALLOW IT! The indigenous race abandoned this planet long ago. They left behind sophisticated mining equipment and a drone workforce. They have some sort of technology that prolongs life. I will do whatever it takes for me and my crew. The Federation do not care about us. You'll probably never see me again. But if you do... be ready."
"Steven Pasquale - Dallas"
"Reiko Aylesworth - Kelly O'Brien"
"John Ortiz - Sheriff Morales"
"Johnny Lewis - Ricky"
"Ariel Gade - Molly O'Brien"
"Francoise Yip - Ms. Yutani"
"Tom Woodruff, Jr. - Predalien"
"Ian Whyte - "Wolf""
"Bobby "Slim Jones - "Bull""
"By late in the 21st century the nations of the Earth were finally at peace, working together to explore and colonise the distant reaches of space. Unfortunately, we weren't alone out there. A race of nonhuman aliens called the Dracs were claiming squatters' rights to some of the richest star systems in the galaxy. Well, they weren't gonna get it without a fight. Space was the new battleground. For many of us, Earth became a precious memory light years away. Our only home was a fortress in space. As in any war, there were long periods with nothing to do but wait. And then..."
"It's funny, but I'd never actually seen a Drac. I knew they were completely inhuman. Not even male or female, but both, bundled together in a scaly, reptilian body."
"Any chance is better than no chance."
"What I'd been hearing at night was the scavenger ship. The scavengers were human all right. Barely human. They were outlaw miners who raped whole planets for precious ores. They hunted Dracs for slave labour, so we tolerated them."
"Maybe we should open up a little place here. I could ruin the food. You could frighten the customers."
"God, Jerry,... what am I supposed to do now, huh? You taught me all about the Talman and the line of Jeriba. But you didn't say nothin' about taking care of baby Dracs!"
"I guess he was an ugly little cuss,... but no uglier than the pictures of those other kids that were shown around the mess hall."
"And so Davidge brought Zammis and the Dracs home. He fulfilled his vow and recited the line of Zammis' forfathers before the Holy Council on Dracon. And when, in the fullness of time, Zammis brought its own child before the Holy Council, the name of Willis Davidge was added to the line of Jeriba."
"After we'd been shooting for about a month, the studio wasn't happy with what they were seeing, so they hired Wolfgang Petersen as the new director. ... We reset and resculpted with a new design concept, although it wasn't all that different from Drac's original look, which I always thought was cool. He looked more like an iguana, and dark grey, peppered with small, iridescent patches."
"Before we wrote the screenplay, we tried to get the studios interested in the story. It was turned down everywhere. But again, after the screenplay was done, there was quite a bit of studio interest. We finally went with 20th Century Fox. Then they started having trouble finding a director. Either the ones they wanted weren't available, or wanted to go in such a different direction with the story that they were unacceptable. Finally, Richard Loncrane was hired. The first draft of my screenplay took ten months, which is a very long time. When I started working with Richard, I would fly to London or he would fly here. He had a wonderful, very exciting vision of the film, but at the same time, it might have exceeded what was possible. What you see on the screen today is maybe 75 script pages. The script Loncrane and I started shooting with in Iceland was 140 pages long."
"The problem ... was that the original novella was not structured for film. It has big gaps in time and essentially starts another story two-thirds of the way through. This is when Davidge takes the young Drac back to Dracon and has to deal with their prejudice against him. We just didn't have the money for that. I had to create a new ending where Zammis is kidnapped by gypsy miners who use Dracs for slave labor. Davidge has to rescue him, and this leads to a new understanding between the two races. There was a good line in the film that got cut out, where Davidge's friends come to help him and run into a party of armed Dracs. The Drac who knows about Davidge and Zammis is about to shoot the friends when one holds his hands up and says "Hold it! I don't understand it completely either, but we're on the same side now!" I also wanted to have a scene at the end where Davidge is shown on Dracon at Zammis' acceptance ceremony. To be officially accepted into Dracon society and become head of your family line, you have to stand before the Council of Elders with your father. He introduces you by reciting your line's entire heritage. That's from the book and I wanted to make that a big scene, but it wound up as a matte painting because that's all there was money for. That's as close to the Drac culture as we could afford to come."
"The space burial sequence now two-thirds of the way into the film was actually menat to be the first scene of the movie. Davidge is found after three years on Fyrine IV, but doesn't initially answer what he did there or how he survived. The story is initially told through flashback because I wanted to set up suspense by slowly uncovering what had happened to him. After the first public testing, Wolfgang decided that it wasn't right. I can see some of it, but I still think that's the best structure for the story. Plus I think they cut more out of the film than they should have. There's some stuff showing his relationship with his three friends aboard the battle station that I wish they would have kept in. I think it created a feeling in the first of the film that carried over to the ending. But I do think that the film has an epic grandeur and enormous emotional intensity to the two characters. That's what I wanted to do most and I think that got to the screen."
"... this is the first science fiction film I know of that's based on character rather than hardware. I read the story on a plane from New York to LA and, at a critical point, I had to throw the script down. I was in tears... it touched me that much. It's such a wonderful story. Here's two guys who are enemies. One happens to be an alien. They could easily be an American and a Russian."
"The way I look at it, I am the alien! I'm the one devoid of human values. Drac has them. Not me. Not Davidge, the spaceman. For me, the film is the discovering of the human side of myself. You know – How to be human!"
"It's the biggest, most satisfying role I've ever had. Davidge is a human being who gets to know a lot of sides to himself. Wolfgang thought he was a bit too Han Solo, at first. Now, Davidge really evolves through everything in the story: humour, anguish, tears, hate, pride, love, pain, action. There's no end to the action! I'm trying to do most of it, myself. So, it's also, physically, a very gruelling experience."
"Dennis Quaid - Willis "Will" Davidge"
"Louis Gossett Jr. - Jeriba Shigan"
"Brion James - Stubbs"
"Richard Marcus - Arnold"
"Carolyn McCormick - Morse"
"Bumper Robinson - Zammis"
"Jim Mapp - Old Drac Slave"
"Lance Kerwin - Joey Wooster"
"Scott Kraft - Jonathan"
"Lou Michaels - Wilson"
"Andy Geer - Bates"
"Henry Stolow - Cates"
"Herb Andress - Hopper"