Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series)
Progeny (2006)
Joe Flanigan: Lt. Colonel John Sheppard
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Dr. Rodney McKay : Exactly, but , while I was working on it, I figured out a way to create a glitch that, on my command, should momentarily freeze them.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : "Should."
Dr. Rodney McKay : Okay, if you will, I mean, dead in their tracks. Like hitting the pause button. Only temporarily, until they figure out how to override it.
Ronon Dex : How long?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, I don't know. That's why I said "momentarily."
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Days? Hours? Minutes?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, look, it's minutes, but I don't know. That's what I was just saying to him.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : 10? 20?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Okay, fine, you want a number? Fine, seven. 7 minutes and 31 seconds. Are you happy?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : No.
Dr. Rodney McKay : No?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : That's not enough time.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Okay, well, you wanted a number.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : A bigger number!
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, it may very well be longer.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Or shorter.
Dr. Rodney McKay : I don't know. Look, you're missing the point.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Gentlemen, focus, please.
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : [to Niam] You're the one we like, so don't take this personally.
[Ronon knocks Niam out]
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Dr. Rodney McKay : Either the Ancients purposely conceiled every record, extremely well, I might add, or they simply deleted them from the database. I'm leaning towards the latter.
Dr. Radek Zelenka : Perhaps the think they've truly destroyed them all.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Or they didn't want anyone to know they failed.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Again. God, there is nothing more annoying than people who won't admit their own mistakes.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : [He and Radek share a look] True.
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Dr. Elizabeth Weir : You mean, you have a plan?
Oberoth : We do.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Great, let's hear it.
[Oberoth stares at him blankly]
Dr. Rodney McKay : You plan, I mean.
Oberoth : I doubt that you would be able to grasp its complexity and scope.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Fortunately, I'm very good with complexity.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : And scope.
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Teyla Emmagan : Might it not be possible that these people merely discoved this city, as you discovered Atlantis?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Wouldn't be surprised. They didn't seem very Ancienty to me.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Ancienty?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Yes, that's the word I was looking for.
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Niam : Oberoth can be... intractable.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Not exactly the word I was looking for.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Un-Ancienty?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Not that word either.
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Still nothing?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Still nothing.
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Who the hell are you people?
Dr. Rodney McKay : They're not people, they're machines. They're replicators!
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Niam : It is real, Dr. McKay. Your minds are no longer being probed.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Good to know it was just our minds.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, please don't make me sick.
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Dr. Elizabeth Weir : And Oberoth will agree to this?
Niam : I believe Oberoth is attacking Atlantis as a result of that programming. If we can prove to him that it can be altered...
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : You think he'll see the light?
Dr. Rodney McKay : [sarcastically] Hallelujah.
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Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Ancients?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : He's got one of their scanners.
Dr. Rodney McKay : So do we.
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : [about Ronon's gun] Put that thing away. I told 'em we were friendly.
Ronon Dex : I'm friendly.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Is that thing set to stun?
[Ronon sets it to stun]
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Friendlier.
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Niam : [regarding ZPMs] Oh yes. We have many of those.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Exactly how many is many?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Exactly doesn't matter. Many is plenty.
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Dr. Rodney McKay : [regarding ZPMs] I assume that you... built them yourselves?
Niam : Yes.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Yes.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Easy, Rodney, you're slobbering.
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Dr. Rodney McKay : He says the other Ancients are arrogant?
Niam : I'm sorry if you thought Oberoth was condescending in any way.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : How 'bout in every way.
Niam : It is difficult for him to see you as capable of understanding.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Yeah, well, how many Ph.Ds does he have?
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Oberoth : Lower your weapons.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : How much lower would you like them?
Oberoth : Do you really wish to challenge us?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Maybe the floor?
[lowers weapon]
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Dr. Rodney McKay : [John is going to manually set off the self-destruct] No, no, no! I can't let you do this, not without tossing a coin or something! It doesn't seem right!
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : I appreciate the offer, Rodney. Now, get out of here!
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : What'd they do to you?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Torture, in ways to hideous and... intimate to recount?
Ronon Dex : Like what?
Dr. Rodney McKay : I said "too hideous to recount."
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Dr. Rodney McKay : This is bad. They're very similar to an artificle intelligence that SG-1 encountered several years ago that evolved from a tiny block replicator into human form. They may even be related somehow.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : I read those reports. Stargate Command could barely defeat the human form replicators.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Which is why I said, "this is bad."
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : How's it coming Rodney?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Slowly.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : What's the hold-up?
Dr. Rodney McKay : What's the hold-up? Do you have any idea what I'm trying to do here?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Niam gave you access to the program code, and you're screwing around with it.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, that is so... relatively accurate.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Thank you.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Still, we're not dealing with Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots here. We are dealing with a complex codeof over three billion chemical base sequences. It's like trying to reconfigure the DNA double helix.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Okay, so, what? Five minutes?
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : So much for seven and a half minutes.
Dr. Rodney McKay : It was an *arbitrary* number.
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Dr. Rodney McKay : Look, as soon as I trigger the overload there'll be practically zero lag time before it blows.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Practically?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Okay, so, like, a few seconds for it to build up power -
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : How many seconds?
Dr. Rodney McKay : I don't know.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : 5? 10?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Again with the arbitrary numbers!