Stargate Atlantis Season 1 Episode 7

Perna: I would... have liked to have seen Atlantis.
Beckett: Perna... I'm so sorry.
Perna: Don't look at me that way. I am at peace with what I have done. As you should be.
Beckett: I wish I had no part in this.
Perna: You gave us hope. For years, our people have been working towards this... very moment. We didn't betray the forefathers. We fulfilled their destiny, their promise.
Perna: Stay. Stay with me.
Beckett: All right.
Perna: Stay... with me...
Beckett: I'm here. It's okay.

Sheppard: Weapons come in all shapes and sizes, Lieutenant.

Sheppard: Half the people you gave that drug to are dying.
Druhin: Half of them, Major, half. The statistics are clear and the numbers are holding at that level, it's just been confirmed, which means the other fifty percent of those we inoculated will live, and destroy any Wraith who try to feed on them.

Beckett: That it goes against everything I believe in. There's an oath among medical people where I come from. It begins, "First, do no harm."
Perna: Important words to you.
Beckett: More than words, Perna.
Perna: "The battle rages at the very threshold of our laboratory now. Those of us working to the last know that these few final hours have been dearly purchased, yet our concentration has not waned. We cannot hope to save ourselves but we can hope that one last insight, one last revelation before we take our dying breaths, may prevent this terrible day from happening again."
Beckett: Ferrel's last journal entry.
Perna: More than words, Carson.

Beckett: ... but it's the principle of the thing, isn't it? You can't go volunteering someone for something without consulting them first. That's not even volunteering, is it? It's being pressed into service. Not to mention the fact that I'm not ...

Sheppard: You're deliberately sacrificing millions of lives.
Druhin: An end to the Wraith! You can't comprehend the bargain in that?
Sheppard: You can't make a bargain like that for your entire people!
Druhin: You think I'm alone in this conviction?
Sheppard: I think you're delusional.

Sheppard: How many Hive ships have become operational since we awakened the first one?
Wraith: All of them, Major Sheppard. First, they will travel to their own feeding grounds and gather strength. We are a patient race, Major. When we have taken our fill and gathered our strength, we will join force and come for you.
Sheppard: D'you have any idea when that'll be? Morning? Afternoon?

Sheppard: Which road did you think we were headed down?
Weir: Not this one. At least, not this fast.

Weir: Beckett's report indicates that we have no idea what the long-term effect of this drug on humans might be.
Sheppard: Well, we know damn well what the long-term effects of Wraith culling are, don't we?

Beckett: Converting a human body into energy and sending it millions of light years through a wormhole. Bloody insanity.
McKay: Come on, how often do you get to travel to an alien planet?
Beckett: I was already on an alien planet.

Druhin: I am told you are leaving.
Sheppard: Yes, we are.
McKay: (sarcastically) Not that it hasn't been... lovely.

Sheppard: Listen, I know how passionate you are about this; this drug is sort of your Holy Grail, but you're gonna have to shelve it till we get a better idea...

Teyla: Once they learn you possess a weapon such as this, the Wraith will wipe your people from existence in retaliation for the Wraith deaths.
Druhin: Or they may simply leave us alone once they learn we are unpalatable.
Sheppard: 'Cause they're such an easy-going live-and-let-live kind of race.

Beckett: Major. I was just about to cut him open.
Sheppard: Then... I was just leaving.

Weir: Be safe, Major.
Sheppard: That's the plan.

Weir: Jumper Two, this is Weir. What's your status?
Sheppard: Nice and cozy in here.

Sheppard: Hi, Steve.
Wraith: More samples?
Sheppard: I was thinking more along the lines of a field trip.

Perna: Such a thing is possible?
Beckett: Anything's possible if you're willing to give it a go. C'mon then, a baldhead is soon shaved.
Perna: You speak differently than the others.
Beckett: Noticed that, did you? Sorry if I confuse you. Trust me, where I come from, it all makes perfect sense.

Perna: What is it like?
Beckett: Scotland? Oh, I think it's beautiful. But I'm told it's something of an acquired taste.
Perna: I meant your world. It must be so peaceful there, knowing that the Wraith will not come.
Beckett: Oh, you'd be surprised how not peaceful it is. We're spoiled rotten, now that I think of it.

Sheppard: Doctor.
Beckett: (about the Wraith) Is he... I mean, you're certain he's...
Ford: He's down, Doc. Do your thing.
Ford: Almost looks peaceful, doesn't he?
Beckett: Peaceful?! You're out of your bloody mind!

Weir: I agree. Major, have you made any progress with your prisoner?
Sheppard: Well, not yet, but he just blinked.
McKay: He blinked? What does that mean?
Sheppard: It means he's still holding on, but he's indicated to me that he may break soon.
McKay: And he indicated this to you by... blinking?
Sheppard: Yes.

Wraith: What do you hope to gain from this?
Sheppard: Just trying to bridge the gap between our two cultures; get to know you better. That and try to figure out how to keep your kind from sucking the life out of millions of innocent people.

Wraith: Hello again, Major Sheppard.
Sheppard: (voice full of sarcasm) Sorry if I woke you. Just came by to see if there's anything you needed; magazine, fresh towels.

Beckett: I saw it with my own eyes, Doctor Weir.
Weir: Yes, in a Petri dish.

Beckett: (to Perna, nervously) Carson. Beckett. Doctor. I mean, call me Carson.

Weir: Okay, Major, you have a go. But if the drug really is just a pipe dream...
Sheppard: Our Doctor Beckett's already volunteered to help us find that out.
Weir: Oh, he has, huh?
Sheppard: (shrugging) He will.

Weir: Do we even know for certain that the Wraith are an immediate threat?
Sheppard: We can probably bet they don't have fifty years.
McKay: Hence Major Sheppard has generously offered our help to the Hoffans.
Weir: Has he?

Druhin: (showing Sheppard a test tube) Major Sheppard, I think you'll find this intriguing.
Sheppard: Okay, I'm intrigued. What is it?

McKay: You haven't told them that we practically woke the Wraith from hibernation, have you?
Sheppard: Well... I really haven't had the chance.
McKay: We've been here two days!
Sheppard: One and a half, really.

Teyla: Are you not concerned that your efforts will attract the attention of the Wraith?
Druhin: Yes... but we refuse to let that stop us from striving to reach our potential. To do otherwise would simply mean victory for them. However, we currently are working on a viable defense.
Sheppard: Defense? Really? We've been here for two days before you mention that?

Druhin: Reliable power generation is one of our greatest concerns. With this project, we hope, soon, to be able to convert and utilize the intense heat trap beneath the surface of our planet.
McKay: Geo-thermo energy. What? Using this? Huh! Do you have any idea how complex geo-thermo energy is?
Sheppard: McKay ...
McKay: I mean... It's gonna work like a charm.

Weir: You do understand the Geneva Convention prohibits using prisoners for scientific experiments?
Sheppard: No offense Doc, but had the Wraith attended the Geneva Convention, they would have tried to feed on everyone.

McKay: Reminds you of Area 51, doesn't it?
Sheppard: Circa 1918.
Ford: I don't think Area 51 was around in 1918, sir.
Sheppard: Well, the area was.
McKay: True.

McKay(about Beckett): No, no. No, he just doesn't like going through the Stargate.
Sheppard: He's worse than Doctor McCoy.
Teyla: Who?
Sheppard: The TV character that Dr. Beckett plays in real life.

Sheppard: Hi Steve.
Ford: Bye Steve.
(shoots the Wraith with the Wraith stun gun)

Beckett: 'Victory at all costs', does that sound familiar, Major?
Sheppard: Churchill.
Beckett: Yeah, I never thought I would disagree.