Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series)
The Game (2006)
David Hewlett: Dr. Rodney McKay
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Quotes
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Dr. Rodney McKay : Let me ask you a question. Say there's a runaway train. It's hurtling out of control towards ten people standing in the middle of the tracks. The only way to save those people is to flip a switch - send the train down another set of tracks. The only problem is there is a baby in the middle of those tracks.
Teyla Emmagan : Why would anyone leave a baby in harm's way like that?
Dr. Rodney McKay : I don't know. That's not the point. Look, it's an ethical dilemma. Look, Katie Brown brought it up over dinner the other night. The question is: is it appropriate to divert the train and kill the one baby to save the ten people?
Ronon Dex : Wouldn't the people just see the train coming and move?
Dr. Rodney McKay : No. No, they wouldn't see it.
Ronon Dex : Why not?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well... Look, I dunno. Say they're blind.
Teyla Emmagan : *All* of them?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Yes, all of them.
Ronon Dex : Then why don't you just call out and tell them to move out of the way?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Well, because they can't hear you.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : What, they're deaf too?
[Rodney throws him a look]
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : How fast is the train going?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Look, the speed doesn't matter!
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Well, sure it does. If it's goin' slow enough, you could outrun it and shove everyone to the side.
Ronon Dex : Or better yet, go get the baby.
Dr. Rodney McKay : For God's sake! I was just trying to...
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Dr. Rodney McKay : Hey, don't start. I tried to negotiate with you.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Making a list of demands and not giving anything in return is not negotiating.
Dr. Rodney McKay : I offered you an entire crop of beans.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : I don't need beans. I need lumber.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Oh, right - to build defensive fortifications for your army, which he doubled in size, by the way. Surprise, surprise.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : I only did that after you started cheating.
Dr. Rodney McKay : I did *not* cheat.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : He's giving his people *way* too much technology for their level of development. I'm not the only one increasing my army, by the way.
Dr. Rodney McKay : I had to do something to protect the people of Geldar from you.
Ronon Dex : Geldar?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : The name of Rodney's country. He named it after a girl he stalked in college.
Dr. Rodney McKay : I did *not* stalk her. We dated twice. Teresa Geldar - a very cute blonde. I always used to think her name reminded me of some kind of a mythological land: the Kingdom of Geldar.
Teyla Emmagan : [to Sheppard] What did you call *your* country?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Well, I just kept the name it already had.
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Dr. Elizabeth Weir : How the hell did your face get on that flag?
Dr. Rodney McKay : Uh, I don't know. Here's the thing, though: that flag's very similar to the one I designed in our game.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : It's *exactly* like the one you designed in our game.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir : What game?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : The game Rodney and I have been playing.
Dr. Rodney McKay : We didn't tell you about the game?
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : We've been playing for a while now.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Yeah, off and on in our spare time, you know - at night, between missions, uh... I could have sworn we told you about it?
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Dr. Rodney McKay : Don't worry about it. They'll work it out. Look, we just happened to catch them at a particularly bad time. Sheppard's guy's been doing a lot of aggressive posturing of late.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : The only aggression is coming from the people of Gelding.
Dr. Rodney McKay : Geldar.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Whatever.
[to Elizabeth]
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : His people are digging a mine across the border into Hallona.
Dr. Rodney McKay : The coal resources straddle the border between my country and his.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Barely! They go three miles into my country - which your people are happily tunnelling into.
Dr. Rodney McKay : It has been a point of contention between us, OK, but it is just a difference in cartographic interpretation. Tomayto. Tomahto.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : No, no, it's pretty clear cut. *You* entered illegally into *my* country.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir : Gentlemen.
Dr. Rodney McKay : [to John] You gave me no choice! You refused to negotiate!
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : You mean give in.
Dr. Rodney McKay : What do you care anyway? It's not like your people were gonna use the coal!
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard : Oh, yeah, that's right. You need it to power your medieval steam engines.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir : These are not your lands. This game is over, so you'd better set aside your differences, because if the two of you can't figure out how to forge a truce, how the hell are these people going to?