Ellen Tigh quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Ellen Tigh

You don't wanna frak with me, Bill. Try to remember that.

Adama

Don't frak with me either, Ellen.

In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova?

Ellen Tigh

No.

No? Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.

Ellen Tigh

The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I - I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws; and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I'm a machine, and I can know much more. I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body. And why?! Because my five creators thought that "God" wanted it that way.

Ellen Tigh

Whether you remember that life or not, at least you must understand what we were trying to do. We wanted to end the cycle of war between man and machine.

Saul Tigh

That was a bust.

Ellen

Yes, we failed, but we have a second chance now: Hera. Without her our children are going to die off one by one, just like they're dying right now in Cottle's sickbay.

I had a child. He died.

Ellen

You're wrong Saul. You have millions.