- Adam Quark: When I was young and healthy Princess Carna almost killed me. What will she do to me in this condition?
- Ficus: Nothing. By the time we reach Princess Carna you'll be dead.
- Andy the Android: [over intercom] Attention! Attention! A fleet of Gorgon ships is preparing to attack. If you need me, forget it.
- Adam Quark: Ficus, did you understand anything Palindrome said?
- Ficus: I did have my back to the screen and was deeply engrossed in my calculations.
- Adam Quark: ah ha.
- Ficus: Anything I might say would be purely conjecture.
- Adam Quark: Maybe I ought to be sitting down for this.
- Ficus: You are sitting down, sir.
- Adam Quark: I know that, I'm the commander.
- Betty, Betty: Oh Adam, you're fantastic!
- Adam Quark: That's the second time today someone told me that.
- Otto Palindrome: Teach you personality? Dink, that's so... you think I can teach you personality? It's just something I happen to have.
- Adam Quark: Emotionally I won't feel a thing. It's strictly a mission. And Betty, I mean that from the bottom of my heart, whatever happens between me and that princess happens for the good of the United Galaxies. Do you believe me?
- Betty, Betty: No!
- Andy the Android: Frankly, I've heard better.
- Adam Quark: Andy!
- Gene: Was a little lame, commander.
- Adam Quark: How could this happen? What's my condition, Ficus? I've got to know!
- Ficus: Sir, it would appear you are upset.
- Adam Quark: That I know! I want to know why I came out of that hatch ten years older than when I went down.
- Ficus: One explanation might be you were down there ten years.
- Adam Quark: Ficus, I was down there five hours.
- Ficus: That would rule out that theory.
- Adam Quark: Gene, it's okay. You can't catch the virus, your blood is floating into me.
- Gene: My blood is what?
- Adam Quark: Hold on, Gene, it's almost done.
- Gene: [turns into Jean] Relax, commander. Helping others is the part of space I love.