Josh Lucas credited as playing...
Maj. Jace 'Flash' Dillon
- Blair: [kicks Flash's bed] What the hell do you think you're doing?
- Flash: I'm waking up now, sir.
- Blair: Didn't you hear that scramble alarm?
- Flash: Yeah, it woke me up for a minute.
- Blair: We were under attack for Godssakes!
- Flash: My talents will not be wasted on your little skirmishes.
- Blair: Yeah, well people were dying out there, you son of a bitch!
- Flash: It's a war, people die all the time.
- Blair: You've never seen it, have you?
- Flash: Seen what?
- Blair: Never seen pilots, people you know, getting fried in their own cockpit?
- Flash: I do my part for Confed.
- Blair: I don't think I've ever seen anyone as... frightened as you.
- Flash: You think what you want. I've got my orders.
- Blair: Yeah, and you'll find refuge in that just as long as you can.
- [Flash, a hotshot young test pilot, lands on the Victory in a prototype of the Excalibur, Confed's most advanced fighter]
- Flash: [salutes] Ah, Colonel. Which way to the bridge? Confed's expecting my tech debriefing.
- Blair: I caught some of the incoming radio, Major, how long have you carried that "Flash" handle?
- Flash: Since my first day at academy. I don't think you should ever apoligise for sporting a little style.
- [to the crew members crowding around the Excalibur]
- Flash: That baby's still classified, folks.
- [to Blair]
- Flash: You think you could keep your people at bay a while, Colonel...
- Blair: Christopher Blair.
- Flash: Ah, I read about you, back when I was flying with training wheels. Is it true pilots don't get older, they just get better?
- Blair: Only the good ones. We'll see if anyone reads about you someday.
- [Blair agrees to Flash's challenge to a duel on the flight simulator]
- Flash: I'd ask you to shine my shoes if I win, but I like my shoes too much.