Andromeda (2000–2005)

Kevin Sorbo: Captain Dylan Hunt

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• Seamus Harper : I just came here to apologize. I'm sorry. It won't happen again. Please, please don't give me the boot.

  Dylan Hunt : Well that's strike two. One more and you're out.

  Seamus Harper : Strike two? What was strike one?

  Dylan Hunt : Careful - forgetting strike one is enough to be strike three.

  Seamus Harper : Right. Now I remember strike one. That won't happen again either.

  Dylan Hunt : Dismissed.

  Seamus Harper : [to himself as he leaves]  What was strike one?

  Rommie : [after Harper leaves]  Dylan, what was strike one?

  Dylan Hunt : Well, there wasn't one, but he works better under pressure.

• [Watching two aliens fall to their deaths after being thrown off a bridge] 

  Tyr Anasazi : Mine hit first.

  Dylan Hunt : Yours was fatter.

• [Harper gives Dylan a detailed explanation of a myth] 

  Dylan Hunt : Mythology... it's all Greek to me.

• Trance Gemini : And they even have a guild devoted entirely to the art of abdomen dancing.

  Dylan Hunt : Trance, that's Iridano sign language, and I think you just made a rather naughty suggestion to Harper.

  Trance Gemini : Oh, well, fair is fair. Harper made a rather naughty suggestion to nearly half the women there at the reception. Without success, I might add.

• Dylan Hunt : [to Trance, in combat]  Any words of wisdom?

  Trance Gemini : Um, always be nice to your parents.

  Dylan Hunt : Sound advice.

• Andromeda : The Resolution is powering up weapons.

  Dylan Hunt : Defensive measures! Activate PDL's.

  Andromeda : All defensive systems are off-line.

  Dylan Hunt : [frustrated]  Well, then, throw sticks at them!

• [Rommie hacked into a computer system, opening a door] 

  Dylan Hunt : That's my girl.

  Rommie : I prefer 'warship.'

  Dylan Hunt : I prefer 'girl.'

  [Rommie shoots the attackers shooting at them] 

  Dylan Hunt : Okay, 'warship.'

• Dylan Hunt : [Dylan speaks to Doyle]  It appears you're in a unique position.

  Seamus Harper : I'd like to get Doyle in a unique position.

  Dylan Hunt : [everyone glares at Harper]  Harper...

• Dylan Hunt : It's a little known law of thermodynamics: The Conservation of Optimism: There's only so much to go around.

• [repeated line] 

  Dylan Hunt : It's never easy.

• Dylan Hunt : Slipstream: it's not the best way to travel faster than light, it's just the only way.

• Dylan Hunt : Rev, have any of your prayers been answered?

  Rev : Many, just not today.

• Rommie : Hector must have been a fine replacement.

  Dylan Hunt : Hector? Oh, yeah, well, he was more than fine, he was - he was great. I mean he...

  [Dylan notices Rommie looking a bit offended] 

  Dylan Hunt : ...Ah, but he could never be, you know, what - what you are.

  Rommie : And that is?

  Dylan Hunt : The air that I breathe.

  Rommie : Literally.

• Dylan Hunt : Missile tubes 1 through 5.

  Rommie : Are you sure that's necessary?

  Dylan Hunt : It's chasing us and that's rude. We'll teach it some manners.

• Beka Valentine : Can I say it? Let's bring it.

  Dylan Hunt : No, a little louder, more intense.

  Beka Valentine : LET'S BRING IT!

• Dylan Hunt : Rommie, do you believe in fate?

  Andromeda : The idea that the universe is a vast preprogrammed machine does have it appeal.

• Beka Valentine : Wait, let me guess. You want me to fly the Maru into the teeth of what amounts to an interstellar hurricane just so that I can shut down yet another Seamus Harper science experiment thereby saving all of our butts from certain doom.

  Dylan Hunt : Emphasis on doom.

  Beka Valentine : Copy that. Oh, do me a favor - tell Harper that when I get back, I will be fitting him with a self-kicking butt. Should save us a lot of trouble in the future. Maru out!

  Trance Gemini : Is there something wrong with Harper's butt?

• Dylan Hunt : Well, Harper always says that opposites attract.

  Beka Valentine : That's just his excuse to meet women. Everyone's the opposite of Harper.

  Dylan Hunt : That's true.

• Seamus Harper : These slipstream drives are a lot easier to break than they are to fix.

  Dylan Hunt : My chief engineer called it "job security."

• [Season one opening monologue] 

  Dylan Hunt : The long night has come. The Systems Commonwealth, the greatest civilization in history, has fallen. But now one ship, one crew, have vowed to drive back the night and rekindle the light of civilization. On the starship Andromeda... hope lives again.

• Seamus Harper : We needed a Plan B. *You* always have a Plan B.

  Dylan Hunt : Yes, but my Plan B's work.

• Dylan Hunt : Are you scared?

  Rommie : Terrified. They say there's always someone bigger and stronger than you. I just never thought it applied to me.

• Harper : Wait a minute! How come we always have to be the ones to rescue people?

  Dylan Hunt : Because I love to see you squirm. Mr. Harper, it's not our job to avoid trouble.

  Harper : It's a good thing, because it's sure got a way of finding us.

• Dylan Hunt : Don't beat yourself up.

  Telemachus Rhade : A Nietzschean never beats himself up - we're self-absorbed, not masochistic.

• [referring to Rommie who has just shot several Ogami] 

  Capt. Fehdman Metis : What is she?

  Dylan Hunt : She's a warship. She gets cranky sometimes.

• Dylan Hunt : Are you here to give me advice, Rev?

  Rev Bem : It's what I do.

• Dylan Hunt : Magog suck!

• [season three opening monologue] 

  Dylan Hunt : The universe is a dangerous place, but in our future, my crew and I fight to make it safe. I am Dylan Hunt, captain of the Andromeda Ascendant. And these... are our adventures.

• Dylan Hunt : Beka can vouch for me. I'm very good with a forcelance.

• [Asked if negotiations fail during a stand-off] 

  Dylan Hunt : Well... then we sharpen our olive branch into the point of a spear.

• Dylan Hunt : Don't be smart!

  Harper : It's hard not to, when you're a prodigy.

• Head Monk : The Prolon Order of Monks are willing to die in their quest!

  Dylan Hunt : That's very... suicidal of you.

• Dylan Hunt : Just keep your PMA charged and on-line.

  Beka Valentine : PMA?

  Dylan Hunt : Positive Mental Attitude

• Seamus Harper : Give me a break. I can't love straight when I'm in think.

  Dylan Hunt : Whatever that means.

• Dylan Hunt : Aw, geez, if only insecure bozos did it for me, I'd be the happiest guy in space.

• Telemachus Rhade : I miss the days when bad guys would just line up and let us shoot them.

  Dylan Hunt : No glory in having to think for a living.

• [repeated line] 

  Dylan Hunt : It's showtime.

• Dylan Hunt : Didn't I tell you to stay in command deck?

  Trance Gemini : Yes.

  Dylan Hunt : Thank you for completely disobeying me.

• Dylan Hunt : I'm having a really bad day.

• Dylan Hunt : Plan B sucks.

• Dylan Hunt : I'm looking for a stranger, long black coat.

  Seamus Harper : Sort of a tall, short guy? Bald with black hair? He went that way!

• Dylan Hunt : Prius didn't say anything to me, Beka. He was too busy dying.

• Dylan Hunt : You must be confusing me with someone who gives a ship.