Mass Effect (2007 Video Game)

Jennifer Hale: Commander Shepard (Female), May O'Connell, Destiny Ascension Navigator, Normandy VI, Refugee, X57 Scientist

Quotes 

• Female Commander Shepard : [Shepard has made the decision concerning the rachni]  Make your peace with the galaxy. The rachni are a dead race.

  Garrus Vakarian : We can't exterminate them. Not without the Council's approval. Genocide is one of the reasons we fought the krogan -

  [realizes what he has just said] 

  Garrus Vakarian : Ah...

  Urdnott Wrex : [Angered]  You want to learn about genocide, Vakarian? I'll take you to a krogan obstetrician's office.

  Rachni Queen Speaking Through an Asari Commando : Is our kind so frightening? You would seek our silence if you cannot muffle our songs? If you cannot have us as your obedient claws?

  Female Commander Shepard : No... I can't do this. I'll let you go free.

  Rachni Queen Speaking Through an Asari Commando : You will give us the chance to compose anew? We will remember. We will sing of your forgiveness to our children.

  Urdnott Wrex : [Annoyed]  Great. Bugs are writing songs about you. Mark my words. You'll regret this.

• Female Commander Shepard : What's wrong with your assistant?

  Dr. Warren : Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.

  Dr. Manuel : Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand that there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left.

  Dr. Warren : I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.

  Female Commander Shepard : Say goodnight, Manuel.

  Dr. Manuel : You cannot silence the truth! My voice must be heard - ungh!

  [Shepard punches Dr. Manuel unconscious] 

  Dr. Warren : Oh my God! What did you do?

  Kaiden Alenko : That might've been a little extreme, Commander

• Yaroslev Tartakovsky : [Shepard's Squad arrives at the Rift Station Hot Labs, finds a lone man sitting in the middle of the control room; the man appears confused]  Are you here to secure the situation?

  Female Commander Shepard : If by "secure" you mean "shoot every monster I see," sure.

• Female Commander Shepard : The council represents more races than I thought. No wonder they're careful with newcomers.

  Kaiden Alenko : They probably just want to keep everything running. It has to be hard keeping all these cultures working together.

  Ashley Williams : Or maybe they just don't like humans.

  Female Commander Shepard : Why not? We've got oceans, beautiful women, this emotion called love. According to the old vids, we have everything they want.

  Kaiden Alenko : When you put it that way, there's no reason they wouldn't like you. I mean, us! Humans! Ma'am.

  Ashley Williams : You don't take much shore leave, do you, L-T?

• Juliana Baynham : [Juliana Baynham has asked Cmdr. Shepard to come and hear her idea about how to deal with the Thorian, a creature mind-controlling the local colonists]  I'm glad you've decided to help us. I think there's a way to avoid killing the colonists.

  Female Commander Shepard : What did you have in mind?

  Juliana Baynham : I think you could safely use a nerve agent to neutralize the colonists.

  Dr. Lizbeth Baynham : Like a gas grenade!

  Female Commander Shepard : Releasing clouds of nerve gas doesn't seem like a particularly good idea.

  Juliana Baynham : It's not like it's weapons grade. The insecticide we use in the gro-labs contains trace amounts of Tetraclopine, a neuromuscular degenerator. If their nervous systems are already weakened, it may act as a paralyzing agent.

  Urdnott Wrex : If we must consider it, drop it in a concussion grenade.

• Female Commander Shepard : [Cmdr. Shepard is a War Hero, which makes for a conversation subject with Ashley]  I come from a military family too. My parents were both navy. Anybody in your family we might know?

  Ashley Williams : [Evasive]  Couldn't say, Commander.

  [pause] 

  Ashley Williams : We probably have a lot in common. You join up to carry on the tradition?

  Female Commander Shepard : I'm here to put hyper-velocity rounds through the heads of bad guys.

  Ashley Williams : Most satisfying part of the job, Commander.

• Urdnott Wrex , Kaiden Alenko : This isn't right, Shepard. If there's a cure for the genophage, we can't destroy it.

  Female Commander Shepard : This has to be done. Saren's the enemy, not me.

  Urdnott Wrex : Really? Saren created a cure for my people. You want to destroy it. Help me out here, Shepard. The lines between friend and foe are getting a little blurry from where I stand.

  Female Commander Shepard : I don't care what your personal feelings are. This base gets destroyed.

  Urdnott Wrex : Don't push me, Shepard. I followed you because I wanted to fight for something more than credits. If you can't give me a better reason than this to destroy the hopes of my people, then I'm done with you.

  Female Commander Shepard : All you need to know is that I'm giving you an order to fall in line.

  Urdnott Wrex : So that's it. All this time, and that's all I get from you? How can you not see what this means to the Krogan? This base can't be destroyed. I won't allow it!

  [Shepard hits Wrex over the head and shoots him three times] 

  Kaiden Alenko : Commander. Are you... alright?

  Female Commander Shepard : I'm feeling a hell of a lot better than he is.