Crusade Quotes

Durkani: Sooner of later, the truth is going to come out. The truth is --
Kendarr: Out of fashion.

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[launching the probes with the interstellar encyclopedia.]
Matheson: There are probably some who'll say that by doing this, we are interfering with their culture.
Gideon: Probably. Screw them.

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[Galen visits Dureena's quarters for the first time.]
Galen: What have you done to your quarters?
Dureena: I made it the right size. I don't know why everybody else always makes things huge. This is the way I like it, nice and small. Have a seat.

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Galen: Do you think I'm hiding things from you?
Dureena: Gideon says we all have things to hide.
Galen: Does he? How unfortunate. I was hoping he'd come farther than that.

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[Upon first contact with the Fenn in hyperspace.]
Gideon: No it's not! It's mating with us?
Galen: Well it's not exactly the first contact situation that I'd envisioned, but ...

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Gideon(to Galen): I didn't ask how you screwed me, I asked why.

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Galen: Every technomage knows the fourteen words that will make someone fall in love with you forever, but she [Isabelle] only needed one.
Gideon: What word?
Galen: Hello.

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[Lochely is walking around, having left Med Bay without permission.]
Lochley: No, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Gideon: Of course. You're just holding up the wall in case of emergency.
Lochley: Yeah, well, I thought it looked kind of weak. I try and do my part.

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[Lochley has invited Gideon to stop by at B5.]
Matheson: You're smiling.
Gideon: No, I'm not.
Matheson: With respect, sir ...
Gideon: It's gas. Look, who are you going to believe, me or my face?

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[After receiving orders to go to Theta 49, Eilerson complains about the destination.]
Eilerson: IPX doesn't give paid holidays.
Gideon: For a cause like this, I think we'd all happily chip in.

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Max Eilerson: [to Gideon] Must be difficult for you, being a career military officer, having to play the roles of jailer, ferryman, executioner. That's where we're different. I just do what I'm told. The corporation knows all, sees all, and tells very little. If we make a bad call, we can honestly say that we've acted in good conscience based on the information available. Absolution in absentia, the blessed state of being able to say, "It's not my fault."

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Gideon: Granted, I'm a bit eccentric, as captains go.
Dureena: Yeah. You gamble.
Gideon: Yeah.
Dureena: Yeah. You cheat.
Gideon: That's subjective.
Dureena: You never tell anyone the whole truth.
Gideon: And who does?

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[Dureena finds a lost tribe of her people.]
Dureena: Your colony is the last of our people.
Female Elder: No!
Dureena: Yes. Xander Prime is destroyed. That's why I travel with the Humans. Our world as you remember it is dead. Until today, I thought I was the last of our race. If you don't seek help for the plague, it will mean the true end of our civilization.

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Galen: Now that I have your attention, be a good fellow and humor me.

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[Matheson walks in the bullet car, where Galen has just been for a few hours, sitting.]
Matheson: You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour?
Galen: Of course. That is man's natural condition.

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Max Eilerson: I try to never upset someone who's at the helm of a rapidly falling object when I'm in it.

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Lochley: Look, Captain, I didn't ask for this assignment. This whole Drakh virus conference was Dr. Stephen Franklin's idea. ... Now when Earthforce asked for an officer to oversee it, the good doctor put me at the top of his shortlist. Now, right now, my main goal is to find a cure for this so I can go Earthside and thank Stephen in person with a large brick.
Gideon: Well, there's incentive.

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Lochley: Captain Gideon, 'security' happens to be my middle name.
Gideon: That's all well and good, but just in case your last name is 'breach' it won't hurt for me to double-check.

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[Lochley confronts Gideon regarding an autopsy report.]
Lochley: You know what you are?
Gideon: Ruggedly handsome?
Lochley: A control freak.
Gideon: Can't I be both?

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[Trace and Eilerson argue over who gets to dance with Dureena.]
Dureena: Gods, I am drowning in testosterone.
Eilerson: Well, luckily for you, you're equipped with flotation devices.

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Lochley: Who was your old hero?
Gideon: Truthfully? John Sheridan.
Lochley: John Sheridan? No kidding.
Gideon: Were you ever under him?
[Lochley chokes on drink.]

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Lochley: Can I be blunt?
Gideon: That's a trick question, right?

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Gideon: You're telling me some guy actually managed to land you? Got you to lower your defenses enough to commit, and then let you get away? God, he must be the biggest loser in the galaxy.
Lochley: Oh, major loser. They don't come any bigger.
Gideon: Loser have a name?
Lochley: John Sheridan.
[Gideon spits out drink.]

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Gideon to Lochley: Captain, you are the most double-talking, suspicious, second-guessing individual I have ever seen since the last time I looked in a mirror.

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Lochley: Do you believe that there is a supreme being?
Gideon: Aside from John Sheridan?

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Gideon: Captain, I have five years to cure the Drakh plague. Do I believe in God? I'll get back to you on that in five years and one day.

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Max Eilerson: One man's lunatic is another man's saint or holy martyr. In the words of T.S. Eliot, "Saint and martyr rule from the tomb."

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Dureena: You know, on my world, it was considered great evil to even try to presume to speak on behalf of the universe.

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Gideon: Plato once said that for everything that exists, there is a perfect form of it somewhere. A perfect Human being, a perfect chair, a perfect stick; so that everything is a Shadow of that one perfect form. Now, if we follow that train of thought, that means that somewhere in the universe there exists the perfect form of an absolute and complete idiot. And he left here an hour ago.

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Eilerson(to Rolf Mueller): The term is prodigy. Seven letters, three syllables. I can see why it might give you problems.

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