Andromeda (TV Series)

Star-Crossed (2001)

Lexa Doig: Andromeda Ascendant

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• [last lines] 

  Dylan Hunt : The Commonwealth needs you, Andromeda. The crew needs you. I need you... So, permission to... chop yourself into pieces is officially denied.

  Rommie : Understood... Does it get any better? Does the pain go away?

  Dylan Hunt : I don't think it's supposed to. It's part of what it means to be alive.

• Gabriel : Well, please tell your Pygmalion he has my gratitude and my admiration. But I don't think even he could wire in an off switch for grief. It's funny. There are those that say that AI's feel no sorrow, no pain. Sometimes I wish they were right... I still see their faces.

  Rommie : There was a time when this corridor would have been full of people. My crew. My family. All gone. But life goes on.. even artificial life.

  Gabriel : Well, that's easy for you to say. You are a warship.

  Rommie : Uh, if that's how you feel...

  Gabriel : No, no, I'm sorry. That-that... That didn't come out the way I meant it.

• Rommie : In the Commonwealth, artificial intelligences had all the rights and privileges of any other citizen. I was an equal.

  Beka Valentine : Yeah, well, that was then, this is now. Some places, they worship androids, and some places, they melt them down.

  Rommie : Gabriel prefers synthetic life form.

  Beka Valentine : Gabriel prefers? Yeah, I think I get it. Rommie has a crush on the new guy.

  Rommie : It's not like that. Gabriel is a unique opportunity. The first chance I've had to interface with one of my own...

  Beka Valentine : Interface? Hmm. I've never heard it put quite that way before.

• Tyr Anasazi : Love is merely a trick that DNA plays to replicate itself.

  Andromeda Ascendant : I don't have DNA.

  Tyr Anasazi : My point exactly! Are the two of you planning to procreate? Will there be a nursery full of little grav-sleds and data disks... hmm?

  Andromeda Ascendant : Cynic.

  Seamus Harper : [to Tyr]  Well said. You should consider a career as a, uh, therapist.

  Tyr Anasazi : My first professional recommendation: focus on your work! And stop worrying about your life-sized love doll.

• Andromeda Ascendant : Dylan is right. I don't have time for this.

  Andromeda : I knew this humanoid body of Harper's would cause trouble.

  Rommie : It's not Harper's body, it's mine!

  Andromeda : You mean mine, don't you?

  Rommie : No, I don't! I'm a person... despite the circuitry. My own person!

  Andromeda : [to Andromeda Ascendant]  Now it's quoting him.

  Andromeda Ascendant : This is not in my performance specs. I'm supposed to be a warship, not a lovesick schoolgirl.

  Andromeda : The geometry is depressingly familiar.

  Andromeda Ascendant : A triangle. The unattainable captain on one side, the charismatic newcomer on the other.

  Rommie : Stop talking about me as if I'm not here! Both of... you.

  Andromeda Ascendant : This is confusing.

  Andromeda : Well, I for one don't want to have anything to do with this!

• Rommie : No, I didn't. Because I'm a warship, and warships only know how to do one thing, and that's kill. We don't have hearts. We don't have empathy. We're killers. We're attack dogs. And I'm afraid! The Balance of Judgment went insane, the Pax Magellanic went insane, and I don't want that to happen to me.

  Dylan Hunt : You're forgetting something. The Balance of Judgment had no captain, no crew. The Pax lost her captain. Why do you think warships have captains in the first place?... I'm your heart, Rommie... I always will be.

• Rommie : I killed him, Dylan. I loved him, and I killed him.

  Dylan Hunt : You had no choice.

  Rommie : No, I didn't. Because I'm a warship. And warships only know how to do one thing, and that's kill. We don't have hearts. We don't have empathy. We're killers. We're attack dogs. And I'm afraid. The Balance of Judgement went insane, the Pax Magellanic went insane, and I don't want that to happen to me.

  Dylan Hunt : You're forgetting something. The Balance of Judgement had no captain, no crew. The Pax lost her captain. Why do you think warships have captains in the first place. I'm your heart, Rommie. I always will be.