I don't know if I'm getting the chills 'cause I'm shivering or if I'm shivering because I'm getting the chills.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Mythology? It's all Greek to me. [a reference to Kevin Sorbo's role as the title character in Hercules]
I spy with my little eye something that is-
White ice?
Freeze!
Don't move!
Stay right there!
Oh my God, you're hot! [holsters gun] Harper, Seamus Harper, nice to-
Seamus!
[reluctantly pulls gun again] What they said.
AAggio
What are you, crazy? We're all gonna die!
Eventually. But not today.
Harper, this isn't science. It's a miracle.
He who maps it, owns it.
It is good to be smart.
Not to mention hot.
I wonder if they still think they're alone in the universe.
If they do... then they are very, very lucky.
If they're such an immature society, why don't we simply reprogram them?
Reprogram them?
Yes, within minutes I could update their technology by at least a thousand years.
[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.
Guidance? Dylan, you make them sound like children.
Well they are children. [Beka looks at him] For the most part they have no idea how dangerous the universe is.
Then it's the universe that needs to be reprogrammed.
Why chase a myth when there's still so much to learn about our own world?
TTori
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.
Maybe we are alone. We still haven't proven that there's life out there.
TTori
I don't need a mathematician to tell me the universe is designed for life.
SSemel
And that's where Tori and I part company. She's a hopeless romantic believing this myth that we "sprang from aliens." I rely on what's known.
[with affection] That we're alone?
SSemel
That we have each other. That's my sense of hopeless romance.
[to Gaiton] I am so very sick of you and every Nietzschean like you. I'm sick of your rancid stink of failure and inferiority. I'm sick of your souls that have grown so stale.
It is only a mask to hide a sweeter purpose.
Oh to be all powerful, traveling slipstream in total confidence, no fear of disaster or detection. Remarkable, our people created this. The detail and beauty.. it's science, art, and poetry unified. Our people created this. And yet I can't even recognize myself.
There you are. There you are, reflected in the mind of Drago Musevni.
How could I have convinced myself... how could I have let them convince me that he was just some rich old man?
He was a poet... a scholar, a magnificent warrior. He was a living god.
What happened to us?
Time happened to us. Time changed the universe! But, Gaiton, if the ancestors could do that, you and I... we can change the universe again, if we will it.
[the two characters celebrate and affirm the will to power]
There's an old saying. "The universe is perfect. Interfere with it at your peril." I think it's better, if we wait until it reveals itself to us. And after that, adjust accordingly.
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