Quotes
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Olag Gan : Someone must have made an attack on the base.
Vila Restal : Who'd be stupid enough to do that?
Kerr Avon : [snaps his fingers] Justify: "stupid".
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Kerr Avon : I think we should go and get him. Always assuming that he is there, and Federation Security are not.
Jenna Stannis : [smiles] "Gung ho"?
[Blake smiles]
Kerr Avon : [pointedly ignoring having his words thrown back at him] We do not know what IMIPAK is.
Roj Blake : Exactly. The least we've got to do is find out what it does.
Vila Restal : Why have we? I can live without it.
Roj Blake : It's just conceivable that you can't.
Kerr Avon : Unless of course you want your last words to be, "So *that's* IMIPAK."
Vila Restal : [confused] I think my brain must be furring up.
Olag Gan : [from across the bridge] IMIPAK might be something they can use against *us*, Vila!
Vila Restal : [and back again] Only if it can run faster than we can!
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Kerr Avon : [presenting a data card] Orac has just come up with the computation and attack strategy that he asked for.
Olag Gan : What attack strategy?
Kerr Avon : Exactly. Another of Blake's little schemes he hasn't thought fit to tell us about. You are not going to believe the target he has in mind.
[Avon tosses the card down]
Cally : [without picking it up] The Federation Weapons Development Base?
Kerr Avon : That's right.
Jenna Stannis : [inspects the card] He obviously thought fit to tell *someone* about it.
Cally : Well, not exactly. I suggested it to him.
Jenna Stannis : *You* suggested it to him. That's very keen of you.
Vila Restal : Why didn't you suggest it to us?
Cally : Because I knew how you'd react.
Kerr Avon : Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide.
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Kerr Avon : It is a triple-A security installation.
Vila Restal : We have got into those before.
Kerr Avon : Usually with your screams of protest ringing in our ears. Are you telling me that you're in favor of this idea?
Vila Restal : No, not exactly, I just don't think it's stupid. Perhaps - maybe I'm on your side, Cally.
Roj Blake : It's not a question of sides, Vila.
Kerr Avon : No, it's a question of intelligence, so your opinion has very little relevance.
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Olag Gan : [entering carrying Orac] Here we are. He wasn't very happy at being interrupted.
Roj Blake : I'll apologize later. Orac, your information on the Weapons Development Base is unsatisfactory.
Orac : Define "unsatisfactory".
Roj Blake : I was about to. Your strategic computations start from the premise that the base is on maximum security alert.
Orac : Computer communications traffic indicates that it is.
Jenna Stannis : Not permanently?
Orac : It is not a practice drill.
Cally : So what is it?
Orac : Clearly, some occurrence which is a real or apparent threat.
Jenna Stannis : Thank you, Orac. I'm sure we'd have never worked that out for ourselves.
Orac : It is therefore the case that security in the immediate future will be sensitive and alert.
Roj Blake : A fact to be included in strategic computations. Moral:
Kerr Avon : Never argue with a computer.
Roj Blake : Right.
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Jenna Stannis : We're below horizon now.
Olag Gan : Then she's lost!
Kerr Avon : Only us. She got what she really wanted.
Vila Restal : I thought that *was* us.
Roj Blake : IMIPAK. And she beat us to that all right. She seemed to know every single move we were making. It's almost as if we were on strings and she was the puppeteer.
Cally : What is IMIPAK? Is there a defense against it?
Zen : Detectors report two Federation pursuit ships leaving stationary orbit on intercept course.
Roj Blake : Take us out of here, Jenna. Speed: standard by eight. I want a lot of space between us and that planet.
Olag Gan : [to Avon] Is there a defense against IMIPAK?
Kerr Avon : Of course there is! It's called slavery!
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Roj Blake : [draws on the main screen by remote] Zen's best guess is that he's here. Offers?
Olag Gan : Let's go and get him.
Kerr Avon : [sardonically] Gung ho.
Vila Restal : *You* go and get him. We're already too close to the security zone for my taste.
Roj Blake : Jenna?
Jenna Stannis : If we know he's there, chances are Federation Security know it, too.
Cally : Zen may have been wrong.
Kerr Avon : In which case going there would be safe, but pointless.
Vila Restal : Now that I wouldn't object to.
Jenna Stannis : Be quiet, Vila.
Vila Restal : Why ask my opinion in the first place?
Cally : Actually, nobody did.
Vila Restal : [to Cally] That's the last time I stand up for you.
