Stargate Universe Season 1 quotes

Sergeant?

They're fine. I went easy on em.

What is that?

Uh, yeah, we're under attack.

What?

Shields are holding. We're good.

Welcome to Destiny.

(holding a new fruit found on the planet) Yo, check this out. There's a whole grove of trees back there loaded with these things.

Hmm, looks like a kiwi. Take it back and do a...

I'll do one right now. (takes a bite out of the fruit)

Greer!

What the hell are you doing?

Oh, that's nice.

We don't even know if it's poisonous.

We will!

Hey! What's going on over here?

I'm not digging a latrine.

Is that what you told him to do?

Somebody's gotta do it.

True enough. Start digging.

What? No, you can't make me.

You too.

But, Sergeant, I've gotta...

You're gonna dig, OK? You're both gonna dig, and you're gonna love every moment of it or you will keep digging until you do.

What if we were meant to stay there? All of us? What if that planet was our lifeline and we just let it go?

I can't pretend to answer that, Matthew, no one can.

Eli

I'd like to go.

Chloe

Me too.

Eli

Chloe has been studying all of Doctor Jackson's work.

Really?

You Have?

Chloe

I have.

Eli

(whispering) Say something archeological.

Chloe

Stratification.

Eli

That was good.

Chloe

Thank you.

Eli

Plus didn't you say you took ancient history?

Chloe

I did.

Eli

At Harvard.

Well I don't see how that helps us billions of light years from Earth but I get it.

Eli

I'm pretty sure we've established this ship, isn't any safer then a planet.

Chloe

Kidnapped by aliens, right here.

Solving the issues of dialling the ninth chevron. I'll devote two and a half years of my life to that. Meanwhile, my wife is gonna spend her dying days alone while I'm off, out, trying to solve that little problem. And then some kid, some big child, with no meaningful education is gonna jump in at the last moment, and solve it just like that. No sense of ambition; spends most of his time playing ridiculous games, yet he's the genius I'll never be. He's the one that should be here now, seeing what I'm seeing.

You're not here for me.

I've already been through this.

No, you haven't. Not really.

I was here.

You can't lie to yourself. You chose this memory because it's one you'd rather forget. What you need is here now. That's why you're here. It's not for me. You just want your answer.

I need an answer.

You're dying.

I know.

You'd rather die than fail? What have you become, Nicholas? The things you've done, that's not who you are. It's not you.

I always had it in me, to make the hard decisions. I have reasons. Good reasons.

To hurt people? Are you sure? You tell yourself me death gave you courage. In truth, it made you callous. You're not the man I loved.

He died with you.

I was never your conscience, Nicholas. You still have one of your own. You just need to listen to it. Some people live their whole lives and never find what we had. Don't let what happened to me change you this way. It's nobody's fault.

I know... I know that.

It's one stupid gene. Passed on to me by my mother, incapable of performing its one simple function, to repair damaged DNA. That's it, isn't it? That's why you're here.

Of course.

Go. I know how much you loved me. Stop taking it out on everyone else.

I haven't forgotten you, Gloria, and I never will.

Just a little skin reaction, they said, just a little itchy on the arm. The FDA approved it, even though it had never been through any serious large-scale trials. There were no side effects! They said it was the war, not the vaccine. Between 1998 and 2000, 20,000 soldiers had to be hospitalised after receiving the vaccine even though they had never been deployed overseas. The Pentagon failed to report that to Congress! Wasn't as bad as the sand fleas, though. They got under your skin, and how. Carried all kinds of diseases, diseases you can't even say! Tank busters, uranium depleted. I loaded those munitions. Nothing dangerous coming off those. What do you think? 18,000 times in two years, those alarms went off! It's not the mustard gas, never the mustard gas. It was cigarettes, deodorant. Can you believe that? Chronic fatigue, loss of muscle control, headaches, dizziness, memory loss, shortness of breath, brain cancer.

(to Greer) I'm gonna kill him, put him out of his misery.

It was the war. It was the war. It wasn't the fires. They were everywhere. Big black billowing smoke. The war is why he can't breathe.

What are those?

They're a kind of fruit we collected from a planet we visited recently.

May I try one?

I warn you, most people find these rather bitter. (Perry bites into one and smiles)

(shocked) Most people spit them right back out.

This is the first food I've been able to feed myself since I was nine.

You're not taking over this ship again.

I checked everyone. It looks like we got ‘em all, so hopefully things'll get back to normal around here.

Whatever that is!

I am not a spy, Everett! How many times do I have to tell you?

So we know that you are a traitor and a murderer. Now we know you're a coward too.

O'Neill

Corporal?!

Sorry about that, sir.