Harper quotes from Andromeda

Dylan

Why is it we look for luck every time we're in danger?

Because that's when we need it most.

Dylan

Well, the thing about luck is... the balance changes.

Trance

What about fate?

Dylan

Fate is a hunter.

Wait a minute, how come I get to go for a change?

Dylan

Because I want you with me.

This is something shady, isn't it?

[speaking of a mythical vase] I mean, when I was little, my mom told me that it was so powerful that nobody could be trusted with it, not even Vedrans. Weren't you at least a little tempted to put it together and see what it did?

Dylan

[wording from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice] Well, there's something else that my mom taught me. "All that glitters is not gold."

So, uh, the vase. It doesn't do a thing, does it? It's worthless.

Dylan

It's a symbol. Zeus and Abelard believed that it would bring them power. But to me, it represents the highest confidence in faith that we all put in the Commonwealth.

Well that's good. Cuz, three people murdered, one in jail collecting dust, and another one on the run with his gun in the sun for all eternity. A lot of time and energy wasted and all for a worthless hunk 'a glass... It is worthless... right?

Dylan

Did I say it was worthless? No. It's priceless. And isn't that the value of all dreams?

Hell, you might even see Earth someday.

Man, we've been out here so long, I've almost forgotten what it looks like.

Yeah, you can't miss it. It's ah, you know it, big... blue... kinda hits ya. Jersey smells funny.

I was in Boston the night before we set off on this mission... a baseball game at Fenway Park.

A baseball game, huh? Fenway Park… The last time I was at Fenway Park, I watched the Drago-Kazov crucify a guy in the cheap seats.

Trance, no offense, but I think we all remember what happened the last time you tried to pilot the slipstream. You took us back 300 years in time, into the middle of a humungous space battle where we, uh, fixed the course of history…

Trance

Lucky for us!

Beka

Good news for you, Harper – it doesn't eat humans.

Yeah, too bad it doesn't eat Nietzscheans!

I only need 20 more minutes.

Dylan

You said that 20 minutes ago.

Yeah, but that was before I knew I really only needed 20 more minutes.

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!

Love is just a bunch of exaggerating and lies, all dolled up in pseudo-poetic language (uttered preferably while intoxicated) and all for the singular universal purpose of… uh, you know.

Trance

[laughing] Harper, you're a born romantic!

[hesitantly] Sometimes there are flowers?

You should know that the universe is not, by nature, an equitable distributor of good health and good fortune.

And I suppose it is your duty to give the gift of redistribution?

You must be the engineer.

Why? Because I'm the short guy with the sense of humour, the wry wit? Huh? Because I'm so freakin' amiable with the careless demeanor? Is that it?

Well, that – and the tools.

It always boils down to genetics for you, huh, Anasazi?

Tyr

My silly child, that's what we all boil down to.