Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series)
Inferno (2006)
Paul McGillion: Dr. Carson Beckett
Quotes
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Dr. Rodney McKay : It's plenty of time to open a hyperspace window.
[pause]
Dr. Rodney McKay : What? That's my plan. Didn't I tell you about that?
Dr. Carson Beckett : No.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : No, you didn't.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, you were too busy running around looking for people.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Well, tell us the damn plan.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Fixing the sublight engines was impossible in the amount of time we had left, they were just too badly damaged, but I devised a sort of a patch that in effect diverts auxiliary power to the hyperdrive. Only enough for a fraction of a second mind you.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : That won't get us very far.
Dr. Rodney McKay : We don't need to go far. Any old orbit will do.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : And then what?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, then Norina and I were planning a small dinner for us all, nothing fancy...
Norina : Rodney.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, what does he mean then what? Then we won't die horribly.
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Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : So your plan is to not blow a hole in the hangar but to sit here and wait for this cataclysmic eruption to take place.
Dr. Rodney McKay : With the shields and inertial dampeners at full strength, yes.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : I think I may be missing something. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when the volcano erupts, don't we as well?
Dr. Rodney McKay : That's the plan.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : That's the plan?
Dr. Rodney McKay : That's the plan!
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : That plan sucks!
Dr. Carson Beckett : Aye!
Dr. Rodney McKay : This ship will be ejected along with the magma and steam several thousand feet into the air.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : The ship can survive that?
Dr. Rodney McKay : For exactly 4.1 seconds, yes. Look, the hangar should disintegrate. The moment we're clear, we open a brief hyperspace window, jump to space before the explosion depletes our shields and incinerates us, hmm?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : [Nervously] OK.
Dr. Rodney McKay : What?
Dr. Carson Beckett : Very clever, Rodney.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well don't thank me until it works... which it probably won't.