Space: Above And Beyond
"Dear Earth"
TV-series episode 17 season 1, 03/03/1996
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: I'm only doing this because I'm under orders.
US Navy lieutenant Kolbe: Fine, fine, fine. We'll just have some fun with it then, huh?
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Crimson Tide (1995)
Quotes
Hunter: Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons, we cannot launch our missiles unless both you and I agree.
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] COB, what're you waiting for?
Hunter: This is not a formality, sir! This is *expressly* why your command must be repeated. It requires my assent, I *do not* give it and furthermore, you continue upon this course, and insist upon this launch without confirming this message first...
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] Son of a bitch. As commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I order you to place the XO under arrest under charges of mutiny!
Hunter: I will act, backed by the rules of precedence...
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting at COB, over Hunter] I say again, as commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I *order you*...
Hunter: ...authority in command, regulations number 815, to relieve... you... of... command, Captain!
Capt. Ramsey: ...to place the XO under arrest, under charges of mutiny!
[Silence all round]
Capt. Ramsey: COB!
Chief of the Boat: Captain, please, the XO is right. We can't launch unless he concurs.
Capt. Ramsey: [angrily reads from EAM] "To the U.S.S. Alabama: Rebel-controlled missiles being fueled. Launch codes compromised, dissidents threaten to launch at continental United States, set DEFCON 2. Immediately launch ten Trident missile sorties." They're *fueling their missiles*! We don't have time to fuck around!
Hunter: Sir, I think you need time to think this over.
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting] *I* don't have to think this over!
IMDb
Crimson Tide (1995)
Quotes
Capt. Ramsey: We have orders in hand. Those orders are to make a pre-emptive launch. Every second that we lose increases the chances that by the time our missiles arrive, their silos could be empty because they've flown their birds and struck us first.
Hunter: Yes sir.
Capt. Ramsey: You know as well as I do that any launch order received without authentication, is no order at all.
Hunter: Yes sir.
Capt. Ramsey: That's our number one rule.
Hunter: [tries to get a word in] National mil...
Capt. Ramsey: And that rule is the basis for the scenario we've trained on, time and time again. It's a rule we follow without exception.
Hunter: Captain, National Military Command Center knows what sector we're in. They have satellites looking down on us to see if our birds are aloft and if they're *not*, then they give our orders to somebody else. That's why we maintain more than one sub, it's what they call 'redundancy'!
Capt. Ramsey: I know about redundancy, Mr Hunter.
Hunter: All I'm saying...
[Ramsey walks off]
Hunter: [follows Ramsey, lowers his voice] All I'm saying Captain, is that we have backup. Now it's our duty, *not* to launch until we can confirm.
Capt. Ramsey: You're presuming we have other submarines out there, ready to launch. Well as Captain, I must assume our submarines could've been taken out by other Akulas. We can play these games all night Mr Hunter but uh, I don't have the luxury of your presumptions.
Hunter: Sir...
Capt. Ramsey: Mr Hunter, we have rules that are not open to interpretation, personal intuition, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck, little devils or angels sitting on your shoulder. We're all very well aware of what our orders are and what those orders mean. They come down from our Commander in Chief. They contain no ambiguity.
Hunter: Captain...
Capt. Ramsey: Mr Hunter. I've made a decision. I'm Captain of this boat. NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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"Two Bad Neighbors" [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Jan-96
(from internet transcript, me)
"Here's a little something we learned in CIA," George H.W. Bush grins.
Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors?
George: No! That's not Bar and me, it's them!
Ned: Who, Maude and me?
George: No, the man and his boy.
"Two Bad Neighbors" [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Jan-96
(from internet transcript, me)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! I'll take your head and -- Gorbachev! Heh, what are you doing here?
Mikhail Gorbachev: I just dropped by with present for warming of house. Instead, find you grappling with local oaf.
Homer Simpson: Oh, brought some of your commie friends to help you fight dirty, eh?
George H.W. Bush: But Mikhail, they put a wig on my head, my memoirs --
Barbara: George! This is the last straw. You apologize to Homer right now!
George H.W. Bush: But Bar, [quietly] we can't show any weakness in front of the Russians.
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Star Trek Generations (1994)
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: Come on in. It's all right, it's my house. ...At least it used to be, I sold it years ago.
PICARD: I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship ...Enterprise.
KIRK: The clock, ...I gave this clock to Bones.
PICARD: I'm from what you would consider the future, ...the twenty-fourth century.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:27 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 01/04/2025
