Quotes
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Zen : Navigation computers report high-energy interference with directional probes. Automatic control untenable.
Del Tarrant : Battle stations!
[the crew rush to their positions]
Del Tarrant : Zen, this interference... is there any hostile design to it?
Zen : There is a uniform design to it.
Avon : Is it hostile?
Zen : The word hostile is not objective.
Avon : Zen, this is no time to quibble over terminology!
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Orac : If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you inconvenience me with questions?
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Zen : Information. The present course has no material end. Suggest transfer from linear progression to modular time shift.
Del Tarrant : Suggestion rejected, Zen.
Cally : Just a moment. How long would it take for us to get somewhere using maximum time shift?
Zen : One hundred and fifty-nine Earth years.
Vila : That's all I need.
Dayna : And where will that bring us?
Zen : Repeat: there is no material destination on present course. After one hundred and fifty-nine Earth years, time shift mechanism will cease to function.
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[last lines]
Zen : Information. Three alien spacecraft in hostile formation bearing zero-zero-nine, two million spacials.
Del Tarrant : Flight deck.
[They run to take their places on the bridge]
Del Tarrant : Zen, enemy position.
Zen : One million spacials. We have visual contact with hostile commander.
Del Tarrant : Put her on.
Servalan : [on the viewscreen] Liberator, this is Servalan, President and Supreme Commander of the Terran Federation. You are outnumbered, and at a tactical disadvantage. If you surrender your ship...
[Avon cuts off the transmission]
Dayna : Do we fight?
Avon : Certainly not. We run. Zen, course zero-one-one, speed, standard by six. Get us out of here.
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Del Tarrant : I'm going down.
Avon : How?
Del Tarrant : Teleport.
Avon : It will be interesting to see what that energy field does to a teleport beam.
Del Tarrant : All right, we'll take the Liberator through again and I'll teleport from there.
Avon : [laughing sardonically] Why don't you land it right on top of their monitoring station just in case they haven't got the message?
Del Tarrant : Zen, was our entry monitored from the planet's surface?
Zen : Affirmative.
Del Tarrant : So they know we're here.
Avon : Correction: they know we came, and they know that we went away again. One thing's for sure: next time they'll be ready for us.
