Stargate SG-1 (TV Series)
The Quest: Part 2 (2007)
Cliff Simon: Ba'al
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Quotes
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Ba'al : You didn't think that just by calling out its name, you'd suddenly be able to control it?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : I don't know. Name magic is common in most mythologies. To know something's secret name is to steal its power.
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : So what are we supposed to do, just start guessing?
Vala Mal Doran : Daryl the dragon.
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : How about Smokey?
Teal'c : Perhaps Puff?
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Ba'al : [after Merlin spoke] Looks like Merlin's drawbridge doesn't go all the way across the moat, if you catch my meaning.
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Ba'al : What do you want?
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : I need your help. Look, I still think I'm right about the obelisk, but I can't make heads or tails of its programming.
Ba'al : Well, that's hardly surprising. I mean, I know where you come from, you're considered relatively intelligent, but by galactic standards that's not really saying much. Wouldn't you agree?
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : [Carter punches Ba'al in the face] You know, if you're not gonna help, then you're really not much use to us. And if you're not much use to us, then there's really no point in keeping you alive any longer. Wouldn't you agree?
Ba'al : I'd... err... be delighted to help.
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : Great to hear it.
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Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : Thanks for the assist.
Ba'al : Well to be honest, I wouldn't have been much use to you. My strengths lie in strategy and command whereas yours lie in armed combat and dealing with...
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : Dragons?
Ba'al : Clearly.
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Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : [after unsuccessfully confronting the dragon] Well, we know the P90 fire just bounced off its armor.
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell : Which means it's not a hologram. If it was a hologram, the bullets would've gone straight through.
Ba'al : So it's not that your weapons aren't ineffective, it's that they're ineffective in a different way.
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Ba'al : It's one thing to send someone here and there on the surface of the planet. It's quite another to send them half way across the galaxy. It's like, uh, comparing a laptop to a super computer.
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : Well, it wouldn't have to contain the entire navigational system, now would it? Just a command code sufficient to override normal dialing protocols.
Ba'al : Yes. But to borrow a rather quaint human phrase: "why hide a needle in a small haystack, when you can use an enormous one?" It wouldn't be much of a security measure if it could be discovered by the first Tau'ri female that comes along, would it now?
Lt. Col. Samantha Carter : I'm sorry, are you dismissing my idea out of hand because I'm human or because I'm a woman?
Ba'al : Huh. A little of both, I suppose.
