Dylan Hunt quotes from Andromeda

Dylan

Strange...

What? Us standing here over a dead Nietzschean on ice? Yeah, it's kinda strange, but it's also kinda nice, isn't it?

Dylan

Beka, reverse full!

Beka

Running away – I can live with that.

In fact, I can't live without that!

Dylan

Sometimes intentions are beside the point, especially when the potential for disaster is on a scale of this magnitude.

Beka

Are we talking about the Commonwealth, or my personal life?

More importantly, I'm free to love Beka Valentine.

Don't take it personally, pal, that's how she loves everybody. Now, usually, at this point, I beg for mercy. But if I were you, I'd run like hell.

Dylan

Mr. Harper, I think maybe you and I should run like hell.

Dylan

Count of three?

Tyr

No, let's just shoot them.

Dylan

It's all about the fight. The light against the dark, good against evil. Some people hide from it. Some run away.

Trance

Some live with it in fear. Some find solace in knowing they've done everything they can.

Dylan

Some stay and fight. I fight to win.

Dylan

[After being woken up by an explosion] Andromeda, what's going on?

Andromeda

Fusion from the core is beginning to spill over into the accelerator tanks. Harper is in Command with Trance.

Dylan

[groaning] Alright, cancel the monthly ship diagnostic and report. [mutters] Harper, it's a simple night shift.

Dylan

It's a voice, a woman's voice.

She sound hot?

Dylan

Who else is curious about this voice?

Trance

I'm always curious when I hear voices.

Finally I'm not the only one with voices in my head, heheh. [Dylan gives him a look] Sorry.

Dylan

You heard it.

Beka

Heard what?

Dylan

The woman's voice, you know, the whisper.

Beka

No...

Dylan

Tyr, you have command. We are going to go and find out what's inside that moon and *who* is inside my head. I know you heard it.

What are you, crazy? We're all gonna die!

Dylan

Eventually. But not today.

I wonder if they still think they're alone in the universe.

Dylan

If they do... then they are very, very lucky.

If they're such an immature society, why don't we simply reprogram them?

Beka

Reprogram them?

Yes, within minutes I could update their technology by at least a thousand years.

Dylan

[alluding to Adam Smith] Yeah, uh huh, I'm afraid that would be a bit overwhelming. It's a little hard to upgrade their hearts or their minds. Unfortunately that takes time and the guidance of an invisible hand.

Beka

Guidance? Dylan, you make them sound like children.

Dylan

Well they are children. [Beka looks at him] For the most part they have no idea how dangerous the universe is.

Beka

Then it's the universe that needs to be reprogrammed.

Dylan

Why chase a myth when there's still so much to learn about our own world?

Well, look up there. [at the sky] Isn't the best way to learn about our world understanding its place in the universe? We have no idea whether we're alone or part of something too... remarkable and vast to even imagine.

Dylan

Maybe we are alone. We still haven't proven that there's life out there.

I don't need a mathematician to tell me the universe is designed for life.

I gotta hand it to ya, boss. Nice performance. You out-conned a con-artist. You played the love-struck captain, the zealous defender of her honor, even the betrayed friend, and still... you completely fooled her.

Dylan

I only tricked her. I didn't fool either one of us.