- Lt. Dennis Brown: Oh, Louie, is it true? I heard this new system was your brainstorm.
- [Louie can't respond; he's suffering a shuddering mental breakdown in his hovertank]
- Dana Sterling: Brainstorm? You mean the game?
- Lt. Dennis Brown: It's no game. It's a system that's been integrated into the weaponry to help fight the Bioroids.
- Dana Sterling: [shocked] What?
- Nichols: Ah, but you see, Lieutenant, I just like machines. Machines can be made to do anything humans can't do. Someday I'll make a machine that enhances life by supplementing all human inadequacies, thereby creating an ideal society.
- Dana Sterling: Well, what do you know? You're such a romantic.
- Nichols: Just positive thinking.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Up to now, the Robotech Masters' main problem in recovering the last known supply of Protoculture has been restricted to a constant battle with the Army of the Southern Cross. Recent losses by Earth Forces have done little to dissuade the valiant troops of the United Earth Government. And on the eve of yet another attack, the Robotech Masters have detected a new and more deadly threat: an Invid Sensor Nebula! With the appearance of this sentient gaseous cloud that scans the universe in search of Protoculture, the Robotech Masters' worst fears might be realized: that the Invid will be coming to consume their Flower of Life.
- Master Elders: [beholding the massive Invid Fighter] This is a magnificent example of advanced mecha.
- [second master speaks]
- Master Elders: Utterly invincible. The humans' Battleoids will be totally worthless against the awesome power of the Invid Fighter.
- [third master speaks]
- Master Elders: And finally the Protoculture will be within our grasp.
- Dana Sterling: [after Bowie leaves for a gig] Playing the piano. That's about all that boy can think about anymore.
- Phillips: It's the single life. That's what he's running from.
- Dana Sterling: No, the problem is he's still a kid.
- Emerson: We'll try to blast them into the afterworld forever with a Molecular Vacuum!
- Colonel: Oh, wait! Even if we do blast the enemy into the black hole, we might be sucked in right along with them! We can't jeopardize the lives of our crewmembers like that!
- Emerson: I know that. But we either have to take that chance or be blown to bits right here. We must do it. Now. Stand by for the warp blast! Start countdown immediately!
- Colonel: [Earth Forces are overwhelmed] Now what?
- Emerson: There may be a possibility, Colonel, that we can create a phenomenon known as the Molecular Vacuum.
- Colonel: I've heard of that, General. That's where space within a radius of two kilometers can be warped.
- Emerson: Yes, and what happens to non-orbital objects in that space?
- Colonel: They'd almost certainly break up into atoms and be sucked into a small black hole in a one-way trip into another dimension.
- [realizing the ramifications]
- Colonel: But no!
- Emerson: Yes.