Quotes
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Olag Gan : [entering carrying Orac] Here we are. He wasn't very happy at being interrupted.
Roj Blake : I'll apologize later. Orac, your information on the Weapons Development Base is unsatisfactory.
Orac : Define "unsatisfactory".
Roj Blake : I was about to. Your strategic computations start from the premise that the base is on maximum security alert.
Orac : Computer communications traffic indicates that it is.
Jenna Stannis : Not permanently?
Orac : It is not a practice drill.
Cally : So what is it?
Orac : Clearly, some occurrence which is a real or apparent threat.
Jenna Stannis : Thank you, Orac. I'm sure we'd have never worked that out for ourselves.
Orac : It is therefore the case that security in the immediate future will be sensitive and alert.
Roj Blake : A fact to be included in strategic computations. Moral:
Kerr Avon : Never argue with a computer.
Roj Blake : Right.
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Jenna Stannis : We're below horizon now.
Olag Gan : Then she's lost!
Kerr Avon : Only us. She got what she really wanted.
Vila Restal : I thought that *was* us.
Roj Blake : IMIPAK. And she beat us to that all right. She seemed to know every single move we were making. It's almost as if we were on strings and she was the puppeteer.
Cally : What is IMIPAK? Is there a defense against it?
Zen : Detectors report two Federation pursuit ships leaving stationary orbit on intercept course.
Roj Blake : Take us out of here, Jenna. Speed: standard by eight. I want a lot of space between us and that planet.
Olag Gan : [to Avon] Is there a defense against IMIPAK?
Kerr Avon : Of course there is! It's called slavery!
