Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 quotes

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Heroes or fools? That's a determination other people will make in hindsight but by being here now that's a determination that we make for ourselves and it's neither.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Hope falling upon the dried blood of Union brothers in the Manassas Eve still guides our path, constellations hidden by fierce pacific storms in the Bhutan sky remain obscured by green. The stars, a billion for every life laid down in Vietnam still shine on us and will guide those who follow.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Frightening how much pain an in-vitro, a human body can stand, you'd like to believe the body would break before the will. I held out three days. Once when they were doing stuff to me, I heard screaming, it sounded far off down the hall. I remember thinking, that poor bastard, what must he be going through, then when I came to I realised the screams had been coming from me, save your last bullet

Elroy-El Wang, Paul, your boy Elroy will never hurt you again, I promise, scouts honour, but listen I want you to do something for me, it wont take long, will you do that for me?

Dr. Kanellos They're dead colonel, they're not going to hold it against him at the tenth reunion

Lt. Paul Wang It had been five months of the most horrific warfare in earth's history. A war in which rivers of blood flowed in trench's for a few yards of advancement. A cold modern war born from ancient nationalistic hatred, a war which saw the introduction of awesome technological weapons : the machine gun, the armoured tank, nerve gas and yet on December 24th 1914 German and British and French soldiers climbed out of their trench's to meet in no man's land to peacefully celebrate Christmas. They sang Christmas carol's, exchanged cigarettes and autographs, posed for pictures, buried their dead. The silence remained throughout Christmas Day, in the following three years eight million would die and less then two decades later the same armies would be engaged in the greatest loss of human life in history. The world had never seen anything like it before and 149 years later to the day its impossible to imagine ever seeing it again.

Lt. Paul Wang (reading Romeo and Juliet) And when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.

Lt. Cooper Hawkes Earth is at war with an advanced alien enemy, my squadron are called "The Wild Cards" the 58th their the only people who've ever cared about me

Lt. Cooper Hawkes I don't want nobody telling me how I'm gonna go, I just rather it happen then be all spooked up to the moment I die"

Lt. Kelly Anne Winslow But that's not part of our rotation, we served our time in hell"

Colonel Matthew Burke I dream about your responsibility

Colonel Matthew Burke Everybody dies, not everybody see's, I want to see what you see.

Lt. Shane Vansen Even if you had a detailed report you'd still be wondering why, its the most asked question, why did things turn out this way?

Lt. Shane Vansen Look at the moon, Tomorrow night it will set in a different spot, a week from now only half of it will shine, and in two weeks you wont even know that it's there. All that I believe is that no one can know how things can be different, how things can change, the only certainty is now, and I sure dont believe in forever.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Sir, respectfully you are sending them into the dark without a light.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen There has to be something beyond this war.