Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series)

Awakening (1979)

Pamela Hensley: Princess Ardala

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• Princess Ardala : [after Tigerman has been removed for questioning]  You have some explaining to do.

  Kane : I have some explaining to do?

• Princess Ardala : [smiling proudly]  Tomorrow, I conquer Earth.

  Kane : Tomorrow, *we* conquer Earth, your Highness.

• Kane : We would be rulers of Earth now if you hadn't let Buck Rogers on board!

  Princess Ardala : He wouldn't have been necessary if you were more of a man.

• Princess Ardala : [referring to Tigerman]  Get him out! Execute him!

  Kane : No!

  [to a Draconian security guard] 

  Kane : Remove him for questioning.

  Princess Ardala : You dare countermand my order?

  Kane : Under the circumstances, yes!

  [to the Draconian security guard] 

  Kane : Do as I say!

• Kane : Your Highness, some of the ministers would like a few minutes.

  Princess Ardala : Later, Kane.

  Kane : Business of the realm comes first! Your father expects you to serve the best interests of the realm. If you don't, he has 29 other daughters that will!

• Princess Ardala : And what of our intruder is so important it could not wait, Kane?

  Kane : The man lives. I am not sure why.

  Princess Ardala : You're not sure why? Is this a puzzle for me to decipher?

  Kane : The puzzle is for me to decipher. The ship is antiquated - unlike anything I've seen in the star system, or outside of history books, for that matter.

  Princess Ardala : Kane, please.

  Kane : He was frozen by a combination of gases - oxygen, cryogen, ozone, methalon. Almost a perfect balance.

  Princess Ardala : Well, these are techniques used throughout the galaxy for terminal illness and disease.

  Kane : Yes, today. However, there is another matter - the man's ship.

  Princess Ardala : Kane, you have one more minute.

  Kane : His instrumentation was stopped, frozen solid in the year 1987.

  Princess Ardala : Are you telling me...

  Kane : That the man may be 500 years old.

  Princess Ardala : You're serious.

  Kane : Yes. Frozen by elements so instantaneous and perfect that he is fully preserved and living.

  Princess Ardala : Hmm. What a fascination thought. Preserved young or preserved old?

  Kane : Very young.

  Princess Ardala : Any defects from the ordeal?

  Kane : Fortunately for him, we're quite advanced in cryogenics.

  Princess Ardala : Hmm. Well, I've never met a 500-year-old man. Prepare him for an audience.

  Kane : I'm afraid that he's liable to be not too coherent.

  Princess Ardala : I'll make allowances.

• Capt. William "Buck" Rogers : Are you a real, live princess?

  [laughs] 

  Princess Ardala : I think we've given our captain a little too much medication.

  Capt. William "Buck" Rogers : No, no, I feel great.