- Tyr Anasazi: I know but one person idiotic enough to try and rescue three dead men from a Magog hive.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: That's me, Captain Idiot. Now, I don't know about the three of you, but... we have a ship to catch.
- Tyr Anasazi: [to Harper] When your parents combined their DNA, the odds they would create a person with your precise genetic pattern were 10,000,000 to 1. Factor in the chance of your parents growing to adulthood, meeting, and actually bothering to procreate, in the first place, and your very existence has all the likelihood of drawing three straight Imperial Courts in an honest game of Vedran whist! You've already overcome those odds once. Who's to say you can't do it again?
- [Harper just discovered that his infestation with Magog larvae is not a dream]
- Seamus Harper: [to Tyr] If you're gonna give me anymore of that, "Where there's life, there's hope," crap... Thanks. 'Cause I really need to hear that about now.
- Beka Valentine: That's impossible. Tell me that's impossible!
- Andromeda: I don't know. I just... don't know.
- Trance Gemini: It's not impossible, it's just really unfair.
- Rommie: Another squad of riflers.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Don't they have any respect for tradition. Whatever happened to just *clawing* people to death?
- Dylan Hunt: The Magog.
- Rommie: On the run, for now. I deployed Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum.
- Dylan Hunt: How are the lads?
- Rommie: Efficent, as usual. They drove off the first wave of the Magog assault ships.
- Beka Valentine: Trance? Trance!
- Andromeda: She has no life signs, Beka.
- Beka Valentine: You say that like it matters.
- [last lines]
- Beka Valentine: So far, Andromeda's 0-for-2 against that thing.
- Dylan Hunt: Well, we can't do it alone. There's only one way to defeat something like that. A unified front. The entire known worlds working together.
- Rev Bem: A renewed Commonwealth.
- Dylan Hunt: A renewed Commonwealth. Before, it was a dream. Now, it's a necessity.
- [On the Maru, seeing Andromeda approach and laying down cover fire]
- Rommie: Oh, Andromeda, am I glad to see me.
- Beka Valentine: Trance, I need you. Dylan needs you. Trance? Trance?
- [grabs and squeezes her tail]
- Beka Valentine: Trance!
- Trance Gemini: Ah! Oh! The tail!
- Beka Valentine: Oh, good. You're up.
- [Harper and Tyr struggling to free themselves from Magog restraints]
- Seamus Harper: This isn't working.
- Tyr Anasazi: Keep trying.
- Seamus Harper: Hey, do me a favor, will ya? Talk to me about something. Take my mind off things.
- Seamus Harper: You want a story? All right... When I was 16, after I'd lost my family, I was captured by slavers and sold to the diamond mines on Zokotl. One day while I was working in the mines, I noticed that the main support for my section had rotted through. I pointed it out to the overseers, but instead of fixing the problem, they cut my rations and doubled my work shifts. A week later, the ceiling collapsed, burying me alive 200 meters underground.
- Seamus Harper: [sarcastically] Thanks. Cheered me right up.
- Tyr Anasazi: It should've. Because I lived. I clawed my way out over the bodies of the dead. I escaped into the desert. I lived on seep-water and sand rats for an entire season. And then, one night, after I'd healed, I visited the overseers... and *thanked* them for their conscientious attention to worker safety. So don't you tell me that I'm going to die here today. Because the sun has not yet risen on the day when Tyr Anasazi, out of Victoria by Barbarossa, will face death graciously. I will kick and claw and bite and scratch and spit my last breath in its face, and as long as you are with me, you will do the same, is that clear?
- [after a pause]
- Tyr Anasazi: *Is that clear*?
- Trance Gemini: Okay. Okay, Trance, you can do this. You know you can. There is a perfect possible future where everything will turn out just fine. And the odds of creating that future are only 1,671,000 to 1, more or less.
- Rommie: I guess it's true what they say: No matter how powerful you are, there's always someone bigger and stronger than you. I just never thought it applied to me.
- Dylan Hunt: You scared?
- Rommie: Terrified.
- Dylan Hunt: Me too.
- Beka Valentine: Oh, man. A year ago, I was running spare parts from Canopy to San-Ska-Re, and now... I'm sitting in the middle of the apocalypse.
- Andromeda: Well, on the bright side, the Worldship is heading toward the known worlds, anyway. Before, you just didn't know about it. At least this way you can face it head-on.
- Beka Valentine: That was such a warship thing to say.
- [first lines]
- Andromeda Ascendant: Code red. Code red. Code red. Code red. Code red. Officers down in Command.
- Beka Valentine: [regaining consciousness] Heard you the first time.