War Zone

"The story of my life. I finally find a city like this, intact, deserted for ten thousand years. Probably contains hundreds of patents that I could exploit and I'm going to die. I can appreciate dramatic irony as much as the next person, but this is pushing it a bit!"
Eilerson

The Long Road

"If I'm right, this is definitely something you should see."
"And if you're wrong?"
"Oh well that hardly seems likely, now does it?"
Galen and Gideon

The Well of Forever

"So... you have a magic rock that provides you with a mystical place that is a metaphor of a book that gives you answers to questions we haven't asked yet. And you want us to spend days in hyperspace based on that?"
Eilerson to Galen

"No it's not! It's mating with us?"
"Well it's not exactly the first contact situation I would have envisioned, but ..."
Gideon and Galen re: the Fen

"My people are taught to avoid crossroads. Also beaches, cliffs, pits, caverns, and wells."
"Where do you go on vacation? Another part of the room?"
Dureena and Eilerson

Patterns of the Soul

"I just do what I am told. The corporation knows all, sees all, and tells very little. If we make a bad call, we can honestly say that we have acted in good consciences based on the information available. Absolution in abscissa. The blessed state of being able to say, 'It's not my fault!'"
Eilerson

Ruling From the Tomb

"I'm starting to feel like some kind of yo-yo."
"Some kind of what?"
"Yo-yo. Slang for fool or idiot."
"I meant the toy!"
"Oh, and there is that, too."
Trace, Dureena and Eilerson

"You are the most double-talking, suspicious, second-guessing individual I've ever seen since the last time I looked in a mirror!"
Gideon to Lochley

"All these precautions are nice, but ..."
"Nice? Captain Gideon, Security happens to be my middle name."
"That's all well and good, but, just in case your last name is Breach, it won't hurt for me to double check."
"Double check?"
Gideon and Lochley

"You know what you are?"
"Ruggedly handsome?"
"A control freak."
"Can't I be both?"
Lochley and Gideon

"Guys, I am drowning in testosterone."
"Well, luckily for you, you're equipped with flotation devices."
Dureena and Eilerson

"Who was your old hero?"
"Truthfully? John Sheridan."
"John Sheridan? No kidding."
"Were you ever under him?"[Lochley nearly chokes on her drink] "You okay?"
"Fine, fine. Thank you. Under him?"
"On Babylon 5, you served under him."
"Oh yes, yes. I was... under him for a while."
Lochley and Gideon

"Do you believe that there is a supreme being?"
"Aside from John Sheridan?"
Lochley and Gideon

Rules of the Game

"Plato one said that for everything that exists, there is a perfect form of it somewhere. A perfect Human being, a perfect chair, a perfect stick; so that everything is a Shadow of that one perfect form. Now, if we follow that train of thought, that means that somewhere in the universe there exists the perfect form of an absolute and perfect idiot. And he left here an hour ago."
Gideon re: the Brakiri Ambassador

Appearances and Other Deceits

"I hate it when I go to movies and there's kids in the audience, because there's always someone there that tells me I can't kill them when they get loud. Now, who makes up these rules, anyway?"
Eilerson

"I'm not sure that I will be able to breath in that thing."
"Breath on your own time."
Matheson and Gideon re: the new uniforms

Memory of War

"Have you ever wondered why there are so many dead worlds out there? Let me tell you why. It's because despite the best advise from people who know what they are talking about, other people insist on doing the most massively stupid things."
Galen

"I am many things. I am bright, personable, charismatic, and not a bad dancer, but expendable? No."
Eilerson

Visitors from Down the Street

"Refresh me, lieutenant. How did we get in the middle of this again?"
"I believe it was an act of mercy, Sir."
"Remind me, never to do that again."
"Aye, Sir. No good deed goes unpunished."
"I'll have that embroided on a sampler when we have time..."
Gideon and Matheson

"Getting kind of crowded out here lieutenant. How am I supposed to sleep? I expect you find a quieter sector next time."
"Aye, sir. If they begin firing on us, should I tell them to come back in the morning when we are all fresher?"
Gideon and Matheson

"There are probably some who'll say that by doing this, we are interfering with their culture..."
"Probably. Screw them."
Matheson and Gideon

Racing the Night

"Don't think."
"Yes, quite right. If you wanted to think, you shouldn't have joined the military in the first place."
Gideon and Galen

"I thought you said you don't hold a grudge?"
"I don't. I have no surviving enemies. At all."
Gideon and Galen

"I say we find out where the problem is and take care of it. I believe that blowing it up is the usual solution to these things. Then we go back for the rest [of the new technologies discovered]... and avenge the untimely death of crewman...?"
"Forelli."
Eilerson and Matheson

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