Sumuru (2003)

Michael Shanks: Adam Wade

Quotes 

• Adam Wade : Your planet is not in the best of shape. The core is unstable.

  Sumuru : The quakes?

  Adam Wade : Yeah, they're caused by that snake monster you've got in the pit.

  Sumuru : Is that so? We mine oil & gas deep in the rock, and every time the world shakes, my engineers measure every movement.

  Adam Wade : But the... ah... sacrificial ceremony to the serpent goddess?

  Sumuru : Taxan? At one point our people got so scared of the quakes, that they turned to religion for an answer. Taxan has been feeding on that ever since

  Adam Wade : Taxan is...?

  Sumuru : A living serpent goddess. It was her warriors who shot you.

• Jake Carpenter : Oh, and Adam...

  Adam Wade : Yeah?

  Jake Carpenter : Tell the Queen friend of yours that I checked the base logs up until the accident. The quantum reactor blew because of a structural weakness with the inner tubing. Probably a freak reaction of the plans, weren't off beat radiation. But no judgment, no light of death and sure as hell no fault of the engineers, male or female.

  Adam Wade : Yeah, thanks for the info Bud.

  Sumuru : So we were wrong all along? But...

  Adam Wade : Oh, it's natural. I think after a disaster everyone looks for someone to blame. I guess it helps to channel pain into anger. That's human.

  Sumuru : But our society, our beliefs - It's all based on a mistake?

  Adam Wade : Yeah, I think most of Earth's cultures were based on a mistake, some form or other. It's making the best of it that counts. Maybe now you can do that.