Crusade Quotes

Lt. John Matheson: You’re smiling.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: No, I’m not.
Lt. John Matheson: With respect, sir-
Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’s gas. Look, who are you going to believe, me or my face? Anyway, we should think about coming back here on our next leave. The crew could use a break. – Doctor’s orders. Life goes on!
Lt. John Matheson: Indeed it does. Indeed it does.

David Williams: The only way I can… get through the blockade is if I am contaminated.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Mr. Williams, if you do this, you could be dead in less than five years.
David Williams: Captain, I could be dead tomorrow. We all die. I can’t live without her. And I’d rather live five years with her than a hundred years without her. Can’t you understand that?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Maybe someday, if I’m as lucky as you are.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: I thought you were supposed to be resting comfortably.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Yea, well, I got tired of being comfortable. No, I’m fine, I’m fine.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Of course. You’re just holding up the wall in case of emergency.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Yeah, well, I thought it looked kind of weak. I try and do my part. – You’re looking a little pale there yourself, Captain.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I just had one of those conversations that makes you want to lie down – for about a year.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’s a strange thing, Lieutenant. If I close my eyes I can see every detail of the Earth’s surface as clearly as we’re seeing it right now. But after my father died, I tried to remember his face. But it always slipped away from me. Why is that, I wonder?
Lt. John Matheson: Maybe it’s because we can’t decide which face to remember. The face of our father when we were children, the face of our father the first time we left home, the face of our father the last time we saw him. They all blur together. We lose the details. But Earth is constant. Earth is forever.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: You’re too young to be having thoughts this old, Lieutenant.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Anything yet?
Lt. John Matheson: Negative, sir.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: They’re now two hours late. Any more word from Earth?
Lt. John Matheson: Just that we’re to wait here until contacted. Nothing more on the nature of our mission or who we are waiting for.

Durkani: Sooner or later, the truth is going to come out. The truth is–
Kendarr: Out of fashion.

Lt. John Matheson: I don’t-
Capt. Matthew Gideon: We’re not there yet. It’s right between Decks 18 and 14. – There. – Did you smell that?
Lt. John Matheson: I didn’t smell anything.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: What, you mean you didn’t smell that?
Lt. John Matheson: I don’t smell anything.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: You’re a telepath. I thought all your senses were supposed to be enhanced.
Lt. John Matheson: I don’t use my abilities unless required to by the new regulations.

Lt. John Matheson: Showing that we can obey the new regs is all that stands between us and the creation of a new Psi-Corps. I’m not gonna be the one to mess that up.

Lt. John Matheson: There are probably some who’ll say that by doing this, we are interfering with their culture.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Probably. Screw them. We let the truth back into the room, lieutenant, and the truth can take care of itself. – Com is yours. Jump back to hyperspace. Continue on course to the next target.
Lt. John Matheson: Aye, sir. And where will you be?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I’m going where I can feel the wind on my face for a while.

[cut to: Capt. Gideon relaxing, enjoying a drink, and the wind]
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Paradise.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: How did we get in the middle of this again?
Lt. John Matheson: I believe it was an act of mercy, sir.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Remind me never to do that again.
Lt. John Matheson: Aye, sir. No good deed goes unpunished.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I’ll have that embroidered on a sampler…

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Open.
Dr. Sarah Chambers: You sent for me, Captain?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Yes, we’re almost at the rendezvous point. I figured you’d want to be in at the meeting.

Dr. Sarah Chambers: [on the porn that came from Eilerson’s data crystal] There’s something you don’t see every day.

Dr. Sarah Chambers: As a Doctor, I have to say that’s totally unrealistic. An alien life form like the Pak’Ma’Ra is not biologically equipped to interface with humans in that kind of…
Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’s an amazing thing, technology.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: I may have an idea.
Dr. Sarah Chambers: I don’t think you’ve recovered from your last good idea.

Natchok Var: [listening to music he found on a data crystal] This is yours?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Natchok Var: One of you – One of you did all this?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: By the time he was 35. When I find myself getting too smug I remind myself that when Mozart was my age he’d been dead for six years.

Lt. John Matheson: How odd. To know everyone’s heart but my own.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: I was thinking about what happened down on Praxis 9 and I thought I’d stop by and see if you wanted to talk about it.
Dureena Nafeel: No. Not really. – So what was on the datacrystals, more of Eilerson’s special videos?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: No. It’s – hope. At least according to Dr. Chambers. Here. – I should-
Dureena Nafeel: It was my family. They sold me into slavery to pay off their debts. Did what they had to do. It doesn’t bother me. When – When do you want that back?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: When you’re done with it.

Galen: [After finding a glyph on some nanobots] A glyph, yes. A sign. A signal. A warning to others like us. That thing, that obscenity was made by another *Technomage!* That’s why we were all taught never to come here. They wanted to keep secret that one of us was responsible for this.

Jane: And as the planetary quarantine enters its fourth month, mass rioting continues in India, South Africa, and parts of central America as they struggle to deal with the total collapse of their economies, the result of lost income usually generated by trade with other worlds. … In the Vatican, Pope Bernadette II led a global day of prayer and fasting. She called for churches everywhere to unite in the scientific community’s attempt to find a medical cure.

Galen: [holding one of these probes] I want you to know that this thing just made a very large dent in my ship. Did you ever think about looking outside before you start throwing things overboard?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Maybe next time you’ll let us know when you’re coming. So what brings you here this time?
Galen: An attempt, in all probability foolish and useless, to prevent you from going down to that planet.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Galen, my people have been looking for this place since we left Earth. Now that you’re here, what could you possibly say that would change that?
Galen: Well, how about if you go down there, the odds are that none of you will return alive? – Clear me for docking. Put away the breakables. Turn on the landing lights. I’m coming in.

Max Eilerson: [to Dureena] I’ve decided to re-define our relationship. You pretend that you can’t speak. I’ll pretend that I can’t hear. We’ll get along famously.

Max Eilerson: Where are you going?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: To follow a friend into hell.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: What do you recommend now?
Apocalypse Box: Do not trust.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Do not trust who?
Apocalypse Box: Galen.

Galen: Music.

Max Eilerson: You talk like that planet is alive.
Galen: Everything is alive in its way.

Max Eilerson: Nations rise and fall. Planets live and die. But corporations go on and on, through good times and bad, because it’s all about profit.

Galen: When you have reached the end of the road, then you can decide whether to go to the left or to the right, to fire or to water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road, it will take you nowhere. – Except to a bad end.

General Miller: And it is our firm belief that Capt. Gideon is the right man for this job. His reputation–
Drazi Ambassador: We are aware of your captain’s reputation. He has taken part in more battles during peacetime than most officers face in a major war. His latest involved one of our captains, who was justifiably upset after losing everything he owned in a card game. Losing *to you*.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: He bet everything he had on a bluff. Not my fault.

Galen: Never contradict a Technomage when he’s saving your life. Again.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: [to Lt. Matheson] Don’t think.
Galen: Yes, quite right. If you wanted to think, you should never have joined the military in the first place.

Galen: If I’m going to die, I’d rather do so in a room with a view.

Galen: The answer is still no. For now.
Dureena Nafeel: Then there’s hope?
Galen: There is always hope. Only because that is the one thing no one has figured out how to kill. Yet.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: The last choice was not a good one.
Apocalypse Box: Things change. Long time gone.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Maybe. Maybe you’re still holding back. So where to next?

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Personal journal, Capt. Matthew Gideon, continuing. It’s now three days since our visitors arrived on behalf of Earthgov’s political affairs office. There’s apparently some concern with how our work here is being perceived back home. They’ve been assigned to help us. Before their tour is finished, I may have to kill them. Assuming Lt. Matheson doesn’t beat me to it.

Max Eilerson: Bring me more of these… Salted. I work better with salt. – Did you know that in the 20th century they actually thought that salt was bad for you? Listen to the animals I say. The lion will sit down with the lamb to share the salt lick. – Good enough for them, good enough for me.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: [viewing his new grey red-trimmed uniform in the mirror] I look like a bellhop!

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Eilerson was right about all of this. I hate it when he’s right. He’ll be insufferable for days.

Lt. John Matheson: Take a look at that collar.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Yeah, I see it.
Lt. John Matheson: I’m not sure I’ll be able to breathe in that thing.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Breathe when you’re off duty.
Lt. John Matheson: Yes, Sir.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Begin recording letter.
Computer: Confirmed.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Dear Mrs. Greenberg. I was your son Stuart’s commanding officer. I wanted you to know he gave his life in the pursuit of his duty. His actions saved the lives of over 300 of his fellow crewmen. I have submitted his name for a commendation. He was – He was a good man, Mrs. Greenberg. And all the commendations won’t make up for his absence at the dinner table. But you should know that he was a brave man who did what needed to be done and we all owe him our lives. My sincere condolences on your loss. And should you feel the need to talk please do not hesitate to contact me.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Dear Mr. Arkham, your son David gave his life in the performance of his duty. I was his commanding officer.

Rolf Müller: You’re some kind of big shot, brainy guy back in school.
Max Eilerson: The term is “prodigy.” Seven letters, three syllables. I can see why it might give you problems.

Dr. Sarah Chambers: So, this is Babylon 5. It’s everything I expected. Noisy, crowded, and constantly in trouble. Still, you have to give it credit. It has lasted 10 years. Nobody back home thought it would even last a year.
Max Eilerson: Lots of things hang on longer than they should: poison ivy, measles, Babylon 5, some people.

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: [has just won her bet] That’ll be 100 credits
Capt. Matthew Gideon: You cheated.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Absolutely.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I like that.

Max Eilerson: Manners maketh man, after all.

Lorkan #3: If the leaders of our religion cannot maintain their vows in the face of temptation… then perhaps it is time to question whether or not the whole system is flawed.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’ll take hours to vibe this stuff off.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Oh no. I have got a real-water shower.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: You do? Real honest-to-God hot running water?
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Yea. But you’ll have to wait while it recycles.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: We don’t have to wait to recycle the water. We could, uh – we could share.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Environmentally safe.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Waste not, want not.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Absolutely.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: [a bit annoyed by Lorkan #3 ] Can I smack him? Just once?
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: [chuckling] No.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I never get to have any fun. – Oh. Sorry! *Almost* never get to have any fun.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Speaking of which, and I think we should before you leave – I’m still not entirely certain how things went so fast between us. It’s really not like me to, well – uh. Anyway, I mean, I don’t regret that it happened –
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Neither do I.
Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: I just don’t want you to get the wrong impression. I’m responsible for this whole place and I’m not looking to get into a relationship right now. I’m not looking to commit to anything. I just hope you understand.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Absolutely. I’m in the same situation. It’s not a problem.

Max Eilerson: [accepting a letter] Thank you.
Cynthia Allen: I didn’t know if you had a picture of Mr. Kitty. Figured you’d like one. Cynthia.
Title Card: [closing title] In memory of Mr. Kitty, 198? to May 17, 1999, now chasing star-mice.

Gideon: All these precautions are nice, but …
Elizabeth Lochley: “Nice?” Captain Gideon, “security” happens to be my middle name.
Gideon: Yeah, that’s all well and good, but just in case your last name is “Breach” it won’t hurt for me to double check.
Elizabeth Lochley: Double check?

Gideon: You are the most double-talking, suspicious, second-guessing individual I have ever seen… since the last time I looked into a mirror.

Elizabeth Lochley: Do you believe in God?
Gideon: Captain, I have five years to cure the Drakh plague. Do I believe in God? I’ll get back to you on that in five years and one day.

Elizabeth Lochley: You know what you are?
Gideon: Ruggedly handsome?
Elizabeth Lochley: A control freak.
Gideon: Can’t I be both?

Elizabeth Lochley: Who was your old hero?
Gideon: Truthfully? John Sheridan.
Elizabeth Lochley: John Sheridan? No kidding.
Gideon: Were you ever under him?

Gideon: *Married*? You’re telling me some guy actually managed to land you. Got you to lower your defenses enough to commit, and then let you get away? God, he must be the biggest loser in the galaxy.
Elizabeth Lochley: Oh, major loser. They don’t come any bigger.
Gideon: Loser have a name?
Elizabeth Lochley: John Sheridan.

Elizabeth Lochley: I need specifics, Lt. Carr. Your saying you’ve got it covered isn’t enough.
Lieutenant Carr: It’s enough, Captain, if I really do have it covered.
Elizabeth Lochley: Drawing conclusions isn’t your job, Lieutenant, it’s mine. You present me with the facts, I draw the conclusions…

Max Eilerson: Anyway, Christ came to tell us to love one another, and the last 2,200 years, we’ve spent killing each other on how he said it? When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.
Dureena Nafeel: [to Trace Miller] I’m starting to agree with him, and that’s more than I can bear. Would you care to dance?
Trace Miller: Love to.

Max Eilerson: One man’s lunatic is another man’s saint or holy martyr. In the words of T.S. Eliot, “Saint and martyr rule from the tomb.”

Dureena Nafeel: You know, on my world, it was considered great evil to even try to presume to speak on behalf of the universe.

Dureena Nafeel: Gods, I am drowning in testosterone.
Max Eilerson: Well, luckily for you, you’re equipped with floatation devices.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: General Thompson, you don’t understand. We are minutes away from a new destination with some good leads.
General Thompson: I don’t care what you’re minutes away from. I have express permission from President Sheridan to use the Excalibur for this mission…

Max Eilerson: Orion system? Theta 49? Looks incredibly dull.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: This order came directly from Earthforce.
Max Eilerson: Well, that would explain the dull part.

Max Eilerson: [to Gideon] Must be difficult for you, being a career military officer, having to play the roles of jailer, ferryman, executioner. That’s where we’re different. I just do what I’m told. The corporation knows all, sees all, and tells very little. If we make a bad call, we can honestly say that we’ve acted in good conscience based on the information available. Absolution in absentia, the blessed state of being able to say, “It’s not my fault.”

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Granted, I’m a bit eccentric, as captains go.
Dureena Nafeel: Yeah. You gamble.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Yeah.
Dureena Nafeel: Yeah. You cheat.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: That’s subjective.
Dureena Nafeel: You never tell anyone the whole truth.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: And who does?

Max Eilerson: [dictating] To close my report, I’d like to make one note for the record. That not all of the colonists on Theta 49 were killed in the explosion today. A detailed surface scan of the planet indicates that there is another race living there as well, suggest that the Corporation check it out one of these days.
Computer: Report complete. Ready to send.

Computer: Last entry deleted.
Max Eilerson: To close my report, we found nothing of interest on Theta 49.

Galen: All roads intersect with the path of sorrows, sooner or later.

Lt. John Matheson: You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour?
Galen: Of course. That is man’s natural condition.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: We’re all in pain, one way or another. At least, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: It’s easier not to want forgiveness or to expect it. You just keep trying to fix the mistake so you don’t have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, you overcompensate and make new ones and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round. No way out. Nowhere to go.

Isabelle: [dying] Listen to me, Galen, my dearest love… You must learn one day to forgive God for his decisions. I’m sure it would greatly relieve him. If there is a purpose, if there is a design, if there is a way – after I’m gone I will call to you and say your name and send you a message. And you will know I was right, as usual. Kiss me good night.

Lt. John Matheson: We received a message for you a little while ago.
Galen: That’s not possible. How could anyone even know how to find me?
Lt. John Matheson: I don’t know, but the message is incomplete. It just has your name … and the word “love.” The rest of it just got lost in static.
Galen: Could you tell where it came from?
Lt. John Matheson: No. The computer said it didn’t come from any specific location.
Galen: Just out there, in general, somewhere?
Lt. John Matheson: Yes.
Galen: Not possible.
Lt. John Matheson: I know.
Isabelle: [in Galen’s memory] If there is a purpose, if there is a design, if there is a way – after I’m gone I will call to you and say your name and send you a message. And you will know I was right.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Anything yet?

Capt. Matthew Gideon: How about you?
Max Eilerson: Oh, Right. I found a way in half an hour ago. I guess I just forgot to tell you. Silly me.

Galen: [about Isabelle] Every technomage knows the fourteen words that will make someone fall in love with you forever, but she only needed one.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: What word?
Galen: “Hello.”

Galen: What have you done to your quarters?
Dureena Nafeel: I made it the right size. I don’t know why everybody else always makes things huge. This is the way I like it, nice and small. Have a seat.

Galen: Do you think I’m hiding things from you?
Dureena Nafeel: Gideon says we all have things to hide.
Galen: Does he? How unfortunate. I was hoping he’d come farther than that. Not that it isn’t true, of course. It’s just that one simply doesn’t have to say it.

Max Eilerson: I think it’s safe to say that we’re not being consumed, but it’s certainly an odd, chewing rhythm.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: If it’s not eating us, what’s it doing? – No it’s not! It’s mating with us?
Galen: Well it’s not exactly the first contact situation that I’d have envisioned, but-

Capt. Matthew Gideon: [to Galen] I didn’t ask how you screwed me, I asked why.

Lt. John Matheson: Sir, before you go into your meeting, I wanted to let you know that Mr. Jones is here from the Bureau of Telepath Integration.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: The same Mr. Jones from six months ago? He gets around, doesn’t he?
Lt. John Matheson: They’re all called Mr Jones. It’s their way of making the examination less personal.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: How could it not be personal? He crawls inside your head and roots around for dirt.
Lt. John Matheson: But only one telepath can watchdog another. It’s like Internal Affairs of a police force…

Dureena Nafeel: But what about your question, Galen? Did you find your answer to “why”?
Galen: That one – may take a little longer.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: You know something about this, don’t you?
Galen: Perhaps. And if I’m right, it’s definitely something you should see.
Capt. Matthew Gideon: And if you’re wrong?
Galen: Oh, that hardly seems likely, does it?

Galen: If we’re planning to appeal to the better angels of their nature we better have a backup plan in case reason is not sufficient to the cause.

Worker #2: It’s here again.
Worker #1: It can’t be.
Worker #2: I am telling you, man, it is out there. I just saw it with my own eyes. – Get on the link. Tell them it’s back. Tell them to send troops, ships, anybody with a gun. We need help!

Capt. Matthew Gideon: Once the mission’s over, you could come back here, have yourself a home.
Galen: I have a home.

Jane: The alien forces that attacked Earth struck without reason or provocation. Although they were driven back by our forces, on their way out, they left behind a biogenetically engineered virus that has completely penetrated the atmosphere. As a result, Earth has been quarantined. Repeat: Earth has been quarantined.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: I’ll do whatever’s necessary. If that means turning the entire galaxy upside down and shaking its pockets to see what falls out, then that’s what I’ll do. I’m not subtle. I’m not pretty, and I’ll piss off a lot of people along the way. But I’ll get the job done.

Trace Miller: I’ve got plans for the weekend and being dead ain’t part of ’em.

Dureena Nafeel: Yes, I’m a thief, and a damned good one. Need to get inside something? Get out? Tunnel under? Go around? Go through? I’m it. You’re going to hit some pretty strange places and you’re going to need a lock pick. There isn’t a lock made that I can’t get through.

Max Eilerson: I can appreciate dramatic irony as much as the next person, but this is pushing it a bit.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: [about Max Eilerson] He may be a pain in the ass, but he will be our pain in the ass.

Capt. Matthew Gideon: I’d like you to come with me.
Galen: What do you want?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: To find a cure for the Drakh plague before it wipes out all life on Earth.
Galen: Where are you going?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: Anywhere I have to.
Galen: Who do you serve and who do you trust?

Galen: Who do you serve and who do you trust?
Capt. Matthew Gideon: I don’t know.
Galen: Then I will go with you.

Galen: Who are you?
Gideon: Captain Matthew Gideon.
Galen: What do you want?
Gideon: To find a cure for the Drakh plague before it wipes out all life on Earth.
Galen: Where are you going?
Gideon: Anywhere I have to.
Galen: Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

Galen: Who do you serve, and who do you trust?
Gideon: I don’t know.
Galen: Then I will go with you.

Gideon: Why me? There are others just as qualified.
Senator McQuate: During your time captaining an Explorer-class vessel you’ve come across more new alien lifeforms than anyone else in the Fleet. There are half a dozen captains riding Explorer ships; the rest are either too old or too cautious. You’re a dangerous man when you want to be, Captain, and right now we need a dangerous man.

Senator McQuate: You know, Captain, folks think there might have been life on Mars once. If they did exist, they left no sign. We’ll never know who they were or what they did, what songs they sang, what stories they told. Mars is a dead world. I can’t imagine that happening to the Earth in a few years. I can’t imagine that happening at all.

Gideon: Just so we’re clear: once we go, this is my command. I’ll do whatever’s necessary. If that means turning the entire galaxy upside down and shaking its pockets to see what falls out, that’s what I’ll do. I’m not subtle, I’m not pretty, and I’ll piss off a helluva lot of people along the way, but I’ll get the job done.

Captain Matthew Gideon: [Galen has led Excaliber on a wild goose chase] Now will you tell me what’s going on?
Galen: Her name was Isabelle and she was the best of us. Every technomage knows the fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. But she only needed one.
Captain Matthew Gideon: What word?
Galen: “Hello.”

Gideon: I thought you said you never hold a grudge.
Galen: Well, I don’t. I have no surviving enemies… at all.

Elizabeth Lochley: Is there anything you can tell me?
Gideon: Never eat anything bigger than your head. Never shoot pool at a place called Pap’s. Never eat food at a place called Mom’s. The mission is classified, Captain.

Galen: When you have reached the end of the road, then you can decide, whether to go to the left or to the right, to fire or to water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road, it will take you no where… except to a bad end.

Gideon: Refresh me, Lieutenant. How did we get into the middle of this again?
John Matheson: I believe it was an act of mercy, sir.
Gideon: Remind me never to do that again.
John Matheson: Aye, sir. No good deed goes unpunished.
Gideon: I’ll have that embroidered on a sampler when we have time.

Elizabeth Lochley: Do you know what you are?
Gideon: Ruggedly handsome?
Elizabeth Lochley: A control freak!
Gideon: Can’t I be both?

Technomage’s Avatar: Our order says many things; does few, believes in fewer still.

Dureena Nafeel: Look, I don’t like having to trust anyone because I’m always disappointed. But just once I’d like to know that I could actually trust someone, that for at least one person everything wasn’t about money or power.
Captain Matthew Gideon: That’s a benefit?
Dureena Nafeel: For me it could be.

Dureena Nafeel: When will you be back?
Galen: In the fullness of time – expect me when you see me.

Durkani: It doesn’t matter if they believe us. Sooner or later the truth’s going to come out. The truth is…
Kendarr: Out of fashion.

John Matheson: The more you make a big deal out of denying something, the more people think it must be true.

Galen: Never contradict a technomage when he’s saving your life… again.

Kendarr: The truth has never been in anyone’s best interests.

Galen: There is always hope. Only because it’s the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet.

Trace Miller: Is that a challenge, Max?
Max Eilerson: Are you up to it?
Trace Miller: Up to whatever you can dish out.
Dureena Nafeel: Gods, I am drowning in testosterone.
Max Eilerson: Well, luckily for you, you’re equipped with flotation devices.

Captain Matthew Gideon: You cheated!
Elizabeth Lochley: Absolutely.
Captain Matthew Gideon: I like that!

Captain Matthew Gideon: I can see every detail of the Earth’s surface as clearly as we’re seeing it now. But after my father died, I tried to remember his face, but it always slipped away from me. Why is that I wonder.
John Matheson: Maybe it’s because we can’t decide which face to remember: the face of our father when we were children, the face of our father the first left home, the face of our father the last time we saw him. They all blur together we lose the details. But Earth is constant. Earth is forever.
Captain Matthew Gideon: You’re too young to be having thoughts this old Lieutenant.

Gideon: [Excalibur encounters life forms in Hyper space. The life forms attach themselves to the ship. Gideon looks at Galen.] No, it’s not. It’s mating with us!
Galen: Well, it’s not exactly the first contact situation that I’d envisioned…

Captain Matthew Gideon: Married? You’re telling me that some guy actually managed to land you? Got you to lower your defenses enough to commit and then he let you get away? Huh? God, he must be the biggest loser on the galaxy.
Elizabeth Lochley: Ah. Major loser. They don’t come any bigger.
Captain Matthew Gideon: Loser have a name?
Elizabeth Lochley: John Sheridan.

John Matheson: [seeing Galen in the transporter] You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour?
Galen: Of course, that is man’s natural condition.

Galen: If I want to sit and talk with the dead I will draw a pentagram on the ground and conjure up someone more, interesting.

Captain Matthew Gideon: What if you’re wrong, Galen?
Galen: Well, that hardly seems likely, now does it?

Galen: Do you think I’m hiding things from you, Dureena?
Dureena Nafeel: Gideon says we all have things to hide.
Galen: Did he? How unfortunate. I was hoping he’d come further than that. Not that isn’t true of course. It’s just that one simply doesn’t have to say it… Matthew was right. We all have something to hide. We all have something to tell, we all have a secret name, we all have a question. [pause] One question that unlocks our hearts.
Dureena Nafeel: And what is your question, Galen?
Galen: [pause] Why.

Gideon: Galen, I didn’t ask you how you screwed me, I asked you “why.”
Galen: There’s that question again.

Galen: Then when the time comes I will help you keep your promise Matthew, as you have helped me keep mine. Perhaps then we can both forgive ourselves our common crime.
Gideon: What crime is that Galen?
Galen: Being alive.

Dureena Nafeel: Did you find your answer to “why”, Galen?
Galen: [pause] That one, may take little longer.

Captain Matthew Gideon: Personal Journal: Captain Matthew Gideon continuing. It’s now three days since our visitors arrived on behalf of Earth Gov’s Political affairs office. There’s apparently some concern with how our work here is being perceived back home. They’ve been assigned to “help” us. Before their tour is finished, I may have to *kill* them. Assuming Lieutenant Mattheson doesn’t beat me to it.

Elizabeth Lochley: Do you believe that there is a supreme being?
Captain Matthew Gideon: Aside from John Sheridan?
Elizabeth Lochley: Yes! Aside from the wisest, bravest, sexiest man in the galaxy. Apart from him.

Gideon: [to Matheson] It’s easier not to want forgiveness, or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don’t have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, …you overcompensate and make new ones, and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round, no way out, nowhere to go. [cut to scene of Galen travelling aimlessly in the shuttlecar]

Senator Jacob Redway: Didn’t your daddy ever teach you not to contradict your elders?
Gideon: No, sir.
Senator Jacob Redway: Hmm, well, I see part of the problem here.