Quotes
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Vila : [packing up explosive charges] I don't like explosives, very crude. Difficult to reason with a bomb.
Cally : Blake?
[Vila, startled by Cally's voice, almost drops the explosive]
Avon : [taking device from Vila] They won't explode until they are primed.
Vila : And if it was faulty? Bit late to complain to the manufacturer!
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Avon : I have been doing some calculations, if this is Star One...
Blake : *If* it is?
Avon : First catch your computer, but all right it probably is, and that being the case the choice of location is fascinating.
Blake : I'm glad you're enjoying it.
Avon : The nearest large galaxy to our own is Andromeda.
Blake : So?
Avon : So, this is the nearest point to Andromeda. If anyone could cross intergalactic space in less than a lifetime we are now precisely upon the route that they would take.
Blake : What are you trying to say, Avon?
Avon : I directed the detectors toward the Andromeda galaxy. There are thousands of satellite generators out there, *beyond* Star One.
Blake : [shocked] What?
Avon : Even with the Federation's resources it must have taken them years.
Blake : [checking the readout] That must be the biggest antimatter minefield ever put together!
Vila : Minefield, what minefield?
Avon : Perhaps the intergalactic drive has been developed. The question is, by whom?
Blake : A defense zone to keep mankind in, or something else out.
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Orac : My preliminary examination of the defense zone indicates that it is made up of a network of satellite generators.
Vila : We could have told you that.
Orac : Each of which performs a dual function: namely, to indicate the approach of an intruder and then to destroy that intruder by a powerful anti-matter implosion.
Jenna : So it's a combined alarm system and minefield.
Orac : Correct. If I may continue.
Vila : He always makes me feel as if I should be taking notes.
Orac : [annoyed] *If* I may continue.
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Orac : [about the minefield] A cursory examination of the relevant Star One systems indicates that this defense zone is one of a number of such zones located at strategic points on the rim of that section of the galaxy colonized by mankind.
Vila : Then they are expecting an invasion? A hoard of hairy aliens.
Orac : There is no logical reason why aliens should be hairy.
Vila : There's no logical reason why people should be hairy!
