Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Star Light, Star Bright - May 21, 1966 (1992)

Dean Stockwell: Al

Quotes 

• Admiral Al Calavicci : Your name is Maxwell Stoddard, you're 79 years old and you're convinced that you've been seeing U.F.O.s.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I did see one.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Uh, yeah. But see, that's what happens to you, Sam. Ziggy says your memory is Swiss-cheesed with the real Mr. Stoddard, who, by the way right now, is in the waiting room, and he thinks he's on his way to Venus.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Guy must be terrified.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Au contraire. He's in heaven. He keeps fingering our clothes. He wants to know what we eat. You know what he says to me? He says, he says, "Take me to your leader." So I turned him over to Gushie. Told him he was the king of the planet Halitosis.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam, you're not being objective.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I'm a scientist.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Scientists are objective. You're not being objective.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Are you kidding? If all scientists were objective, we wouldn't have the lightbulb. I mean, we never would have even landed on the moon.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : This is '66. You got three years before you go to the moon.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : And I would not be traveling around in time. You gotta have the dream first, Al. Great scientists are never objective, and that's why people always think that they're loony. Which is exactly what they think about Max.