Andromeda (TV Series)

The Sum of Its Parts (2001)

Lisa Ryder: Beka Valentine

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• [first lines] 

  Rommie : [trying on clothes]  I don't know, Trance. I just don't really think it's me.

  Trance Gemini : Don't you want to look good?

  Rommie : Well, only in so far as it aids my official functions.

  Beka Valentine : So your other outfits are, uh, supposed to be functional?

  Rommie : Well, they're all approved variations of High Guard officer's uniforms.

  Beka Valentine : Female officer's uniforms. Very female.

• Beka Valentine : Rommie, I can't believe that you're actually saying that the reason you look like a walking heart attack is for our benefit.

  Rommie : I'm not sure what you mean.

  Trance Gemini : All Beka's trying to say is that she thinks you're pretty.

  Beka Valentine : No, no, no. I think you went a little overboard on the, uh, pouty lips.

• Beka Valentine : You were instructed to make contact by who?

  Trance Gemini : Ahem. By whom.

  HG : I am an emissary from the Consensus of Parts. I come in peace. Take me to your leader.

  Captain Dylan Hunt : Yeah, yeah, we got it the first time.

• HG : I've never traveled in this manner before. I've never done anything before.

  Beka Valentine : Yeah, well, uh, we've got three jumps and some sub-light haulings, so I'd say, a, um, couple of hours, at least.

  HG : A couple of hours. You organics live with such imprecision. It must be very exhilarating.

  Beka Valentine : Yeah, it's non-stop excitement.

• Beka Valentine : Eat my dust, you bucket of bolts.

• Beka Valentine : So, what you're saying is that you randomly chose a bunch of, uh, human female features. You mixed them all up and, uh... this was the first face that you came up with?

  Rommie : I may have experimented with a few options.

  Beka Valentine : Define "a few".

  Rommie : One hundred and seventy thousand, eight hundred and ninety four.

  Beka Valentine : I knew it!