Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)
The Long Patrol (1978)
Dirk Benedict: Lieutenant Starbuck
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Quotes
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Adulteress : What kind of offence is starbuckin'? Sounds interesting...
Lieutenant Starbuck : It's a not an offence. It's a name.
Forger : They're one and the same, boy.
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Lieutenant Starbuck : Anyhow, look, it a may be a while before I get another chance to come back here for dinner. Eh... big mission coming up. You wouldn't happen to have a private dining room?
Waiter : Lieutenant, private rooms are reserved 60 and 70 centares in advance.
[Starbuck slips him a golden cubit]
Waiter : Well, one can always make arrangements for a warrior on his last night.
Lieutenant Starbuck : I don't like the way he said that.
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Lieutenant Athena : Hmm, Starbuck, these mushies are just heavenly.
[offers him one]
Lieutenant Starbuck : Oh, er, no thanks.
Lieutenant Athena : Too bad we can't have any fresh protein with them...
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Lieutenant Starbuck : We're all out of mushies, I'm sorry.
Cassiopeia : I don't mind, the protein's just fine.
Lieutenant Starbuck : [takes a sip of the protein] Ach, this stuff's only a yahren old.
Cassiopeia : Well, I think it has the right effect.
Lieutenant Starbuck : So I see.
PA announcer : Lieutenant Starbuck, report to Battlestar Galactica, flight deck blue.
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Captain Apollo : Enjoy your dinner?
Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, let's just say I'm looking forward to a few centons in space... alone. Just me, a fast ship and a fair galaxy.
Captain Apollo : Fast ship you have, the engineers have doubled the range and speed, they even installed a voice-activated computer that can outfly anything the Cylons throw at you.
Lieutenant Starbuck : A hot pilot doesn't need all that electronic felgercarb.
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Enforcer : Take your bottle, Bootlegger.
Lieutenant Starbuck : The name's Starbuck.
Enforcer : From now on your name is Bootlegger 137.
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Lieutenant Starbuck : Are all the cell doors unlocked?
Assault 9 : They haven't worked in... generations.
Lieutenant Starbuck : Then come out!
Assault 9 : No, no, I, we can't!
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Lieutenant Starbuck : Apollo, this asteroid is piled high with Ambrosa! Thousands, millions of crates of it. Some of it ageing a millennium.
Lieutenant Boomer : I give up. I just give up.
Lieutenant Starbuck : No, you don't understand. We're rich!
Captain Apollo : I'll put that on your death stone.
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[the sight of Colonial Vipers flying over the prison result in the prisoners accusing Starbuck of being a Cylon secret agent]
Lieutenant Starbuck : If I am, I'm in big trouble - those are Colonial Vipers!
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Lieutenant Starbuck : Computer, back to normal track.
C.O.R.A. : Your wish is my command, honey.
Lieutenant Starbuck : The eh, name's Starbuck.
C.O.R.A. : Don't be a bore. My name is C.O.R.A.
Lieutenant Starbuck : C.O.R.A.? Reminds me of Aurora.
C.O.R.A. : Short for Computer Oral Response Activated. I'm programmed to respond instantly to all your needs. I'm also to keep you amused over the length and duration of our prolonged voyage.
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C.O.R.A. : May I land us, or do I have to go through a bouncer?
Lieutenant Starbuck : Just give me the vector.
C.O.R.A. : Vector's displayed. Please try not to jar my chips.
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Assault 9 : What have we here? What's your name, lad?
Lieutenant Starbuck : Eh, Starbuck.
Assault 9 : Starbuck... Starbuck you say, huh? Hm. That's strange, never heard of that one before.
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Lieutenant Starbuck : Where am I?
Assault 9 : Proteus Prison. Oh, ah, I'm Assault 9. That's Forger 7 round the corner there. Embezzler 10 down the... down the block there and eh... Adulteress 58, I see you've already met. And, our children of course.
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C.O.R.A. : Here they come.
Lieutenant Starbuck : When I give you the word, execute a maximum G climb.
C.O.R.A. : You'll black out. You're only human.
Lieutenant Starbuck : But you're not.
C.O.R.A. : I'm beginning to regret that.
Lieutenant Starbuck : So am I.
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Lieutenant Starbuck : [the two-timer expecting Cassiopeia, but...] Uh. Athena.
Lieutenant Athena : I managed to get off work after all.
[he weighs up his chances]
Lieutenant Athena : I just didn't want you to be alone on your last night before...
[he gives slight guffaw]
Lieutenant Athena : You are alone, aren't you?
Lieutenant Starbuck : Uhm... uhm... uhm... Not any longer!
[she leans in for a kiss]
Waiter : [appearing in doorway, bemused] Sir?
Lieutenant Starbuck : Yes? Ah.
[grabs way out]
Lieutenant Starbuck : Listen, uh, there, ah... You don't happen to have a room with a better view? There's a sanitation ship right off our beam.
[Athena searches for it]
Lieutenant Starbuck : Not exactly appetizing scenery.
Lieutenant Athena : A sanitation ship? Where?
Lieutenant Starbuck : It must have drifted back, uh, I think there's a first orbit cadet at the controls.
[plying the waiter with a golden cubit, insistently urging:]
Lieutenant Starbuck : Get me another room!
Waiter : Yes, Sir, I quite understand.
Lieutenant Starbuck : Good.
Waiter : [waits, knowingly, gets another cubit] Follow me.
Lieutenant Starbuck : Er... Athena?
[offers her his hand, hurriedly leads her away]
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Lieutenant Starbuck : [learns he's flying a toothless ship] That makes sense. Get rid of the laser generators, and... You're unarmed!
[gets blasted off into space]
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Lieutenant Starbuck : [a millennium's worth of ambrosia goes up in an explosion] Oh, frack! There goes my fortune!