Galactica 1980 (TV Series)

Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 1 (1980)

Robert Reed: Dr. Donald Mortinson

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• Dr. Donald Mortinson : Consider this: Seventy-seven years ago, man couldn't even fly. It only took us Sixty-six years between the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, to putting a man on the moon in 1969. Sixty-six years. How long have we been in the nuclear age? Thirty-five years? Since 1945. Well, of course we don't have all the answers yet, right now we don't know how to break down nuclear waste. We don't know how to make it harmless, to neutralize it. We'll figure it out. This takes time.

• Dr. Donald Mortinson : My dear, these hoodlums, as you call them, may be as important to mankind as the coming of the Messiah.