The Best Maaga Quotes

Maaga: Empty the air lock! Yes, Earthman. The air is already leaving the airlock. You have three choices.
Steven: Three?
Maaga: Stay there and die, go outside and be killed by the machine, or surrender!

Dr. Who: You know, I think you rather underestimate the Rills. Why should they tell you that this planet is going to die, hmm?
Maaga: They were trying to tempt us on board their spaceship so that they may kill us!
Steven: You know, it seems to me as if they offered you help.
Maaga: That is what they maintain.
Vicki: They might have been speaking the truth. They might have meant it.
Dr. Who: On the other hand, it might have been a pack of lies.
Maaga: What do you mean?
Dr. Who: Well this planet could last another million years.
Maaga: Yes, but we have no way of proving.
Dr. Who: I have! I'm a scientist!
Maaga: Very well! I should be grateful if you would find out.
Dr. Who: Oh, thank you! Thank you!

Maaga: I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. Won't you sit down?
Dr. Who: Ahh, yes, heh, heh. Thank you, I will. Hmm.
Maaga: I have to hear the report first.
Dr. Who: Oh, naturally!
Maaga: It is necessary when you are at war.
Steven: [surprised] At war?
Maaga: With the Rills and their machines.
Vicki: The Chumblies!
Maaga: This is a fight to the death. For existence itself...
Dr. Who: I see.
Maaga: ...in which one of us will be obliterated.
Dr. Who: Oh, as bad as that?
Maaga: Yes. So bad that it is conceivable that you, too, will be obliterated.
Dr. Who: Oh, come now! There is no need to exaggerate.
Maaga: It's no exaggeration!
Vicki: [with suspicion] You want to kill us, don't you? You want to.
Maaga: When a planet disintegrates, nothing survives.
Dr. Who: Disintegrates? This planet? Hmm?
Maaga: Yes, it's in its last moments of life. Soon it will explode.
Dr. Who: When?
Maaga: In fourteen dawn's time.
Steven: Look, how do you know? How can you be so certain?
Maaga: The Rills told us. That is why they're repairing their spaceship - so that they can escape.
Dr. Who: Hmm, hmm. Well, that sounds reasonable enough to me. Hmm, hmm...

[last lines]
Maaga: Why do you not give up, Earthman?
Steven: [gasping, and heavy breathing] I'd rather face the Chumblies than you any day.
Maaga: [evil laughter] That will not work now. The pressure has locked the door. You must surrender, or die!

Maaga: Report!
Drahvin: Mission accomplished! We have brought the prisoners.
Vicki: [in disbelief] Prisoners?
Maaga: And the metal mesh?
Drahvin: [with fear] It stopped the machine.
Maaga: Good.
Drahvin: [with fear] We... could not get the mesh back.
Maaga: What?
Drahvin: [with fear] It became affixed to the machine.
Steven: She's got them pretty frightened, hasn't she, Doctor?
Dr. Who: [to Maaga] Yes, ah, madam, the young lady speaks the truth. The Chumblies are magnetized.
Maaga: [to the two Drahvin's] I will deal with you both later. Sit.

Maaga: We must capture that spaceship from them.
Steven: What for? This is a spaceship as well, isn't it?
Maaga: Yes, but it cannot fly! The Rills shot us down! We cannot move!
Steven: You... you don't belong here?
Maaga: No. Nor do the Rills. There is no life on this planet. We come from Drahva. Some four hundred dawns ago. We were investigating this particular section of the galaxy. We were looking for a planet such as this, capable of supporting life, so that we might colonize it. There are too many of us on Drahva.
Steven: All women?
Maaga: Women?
[Steven stammers]
Dr. Who: Yes, ah,
[stutters]
Dr. Who: feminine. Ah, female. Hmm, hmm.
Maaga: Oh, hah... Oh, we have a small number of men - as many as we need. The rest we kill. They consume valuable food and fulfill no particular function. And these are not what you would call human! They are cultivated in test tubes. We have very good scientists. I am a living being. They are products - and inferior products! Grown for a purpose and capable of nothing more.
Steven: Grown for what purpose?
Maaga: To fight. To kill.
Dr. Who: Yours must be a very interesting civilization. Hmm, hmm, hmm. You attacked the Rills?
Maaga: No. We were in space above this planet. When we saw a ship such as we had never seen before. We did not know it, but it was a Rill ship. It fired on us, and we crashed. But before we did, we managed to fire back, so that they'd crashed, too. On landing they killed one of my soldiers.
Steven: What are they like, these Rills?
Maaga: [whispers] Disgusting!
Dr. Who: Well, heh, heh, that's no description, no description at all. Hmm, hmm.
Maaga: That's all I'll say.
Dr. Who: Yes, I... I think I'm beginning to understand.
Steven: Well, so am I, Doctor. This planet's about to explode. The Rills have managed to repair their ship in time so they can escape. You haven't, so you want their ship.
Maaga: We have no desire to be here when this planet ceases to exist.
Drahvin: Machine approaching!

Steven: All right. I'll stay here. I may be trapped but you can't harm me.
Maaga: You are in the airlock. On the wall are some dials. They are pressure gauges.
Steven: So?
Maaga: We can empty the oxygen out of that section, and you will suffocate. If you touch that, the door will open completely, leaving you at the mercy of the machine.

[first lines]
Maaga: Why do you not give up, Earthman?
Steven: [gasping, and heavy breathing] I'd rather face the Chumblies than you any day.
Maaga: [evil laughter] That will not work now. The pressure has locked the door. You must surrender, or die!

Maaga: To your stations! Switch off the outside radio!
Vicki: What are they doing now?
Steven: They're going to have another go at the Chumblies, by the look of things.
Dr. Who: Switch off the outside radio? Why, I wonder?
Maaga: They send the machines to tell us lies. We do not wish to hear them.
Dr. Who: Yes, yes, Madam! You may not, but I'd like to, ah, hear it. Heh, heh.
Maaga: It's not good for my soldiers!
Dr. Who: Ah, I see. It's stopped.
Maaga: Yes. Now it is sending its message. Fire!
Dr. Who: [chuckled] Hmm, hmm. You didn't do it very much damage, did you? Hmm, hmm?
Maaga: My only intention was to scare it off. We've succeeded.
[to her people]
Maaga: To your places.
Dr. Who: And you haven't destroyed one Chumbley yet.
Maaga: We will.