- Cadet Happy: Smokin' rockets, Commander, what's that?
- Cmdr. Buzz Corry: That's Manza.
- Cadet Happy: Manza? But that's just a bunch of crystals.
- Cmdr. Buzz Corry: A colony of crystals, Happy.
- Cadet Happy: But Commander, I don't see how a bunch of rocks could have intelligence, let alone life.
- Cmdr. Buzz Corry: Why not, Happy? In our solar system, carbon and its compounds are the basis for protoplasm, the essential substance of our bodies. Why not a silicon-based life form in this system?
- Cadet Happy: Well, I can't argue with that, sir. I'm looking at it!
- [last lines]
- Cadet Happy: Say, you know Commander, that Manza never did really worry me.
- Cmdr. Buzz Corry: Oh he didn't, Hap? Why not?
- Cadet Happy: Well, he didn't bother me because I could see right through Manza from the very beginning!
- [Happy holds up the large crystal and laughs]
- Cadet Happy: Look, see. You see, I can see - I can...
- [Corry rolls his eyes as Happy lifts the crystal in front of his face]