Top 30 Quotes From Maureen Robinson

Dr. Smith: Did you bake me a cake with a file in it?
Maureen: I don't bake. And you don't need a file. When I was reviewing the passenger list for Solidarity's maiden voyage from Earth, I came across the name... Jessica Harris, authorized by Dr. Zoe Smith. Who is she?
Dr. Smith: My sister... technically. She's disowned me.
Maureen: Then she doesn't know who you really are.
Dr. Smith: I'm not sure I know who I am at this point.
Maureen: I do. When you get out of here, look me up.

Maureen: In the early days of spaceflight, NASA capsules were basically tin cans. Uh, all the instrumentation was handled from the ground at mission control. So... we are going to launch off this planet the old-fashioned way.
Maureen: [all murmuring] Welcome to 1962...

John: So what galaxy is this?
Maureen: Do you want to give it a name?

Dr. Smith: I know I'm not in a position to ask for anything, but when you decide what to say about me, I hope you remember all the good I've done.
Maureen: It doesn't even come close to making up for the bad.
Dr. Smith: Come on, Maureen. There's a little good and bad in all of us. Nobody's hands are completely clean. Not even yours.
Maureen: There something you want to say?
Dr. Smith: I know you're the kind of woman who would do whatever's necessary to protect the ones she loves. The only difference between you and me is the only one I love is myself.
Maureen: If you really loved yourself, you'd stop pretending to be someone you're not. Good luck, Dr. Smith. Jessica Harris. Whoever you are.

Penny: [acts all nonchalant] Hey mom... What's up?
Maureen: [Gives them a stern look]
Will: She made me do it.
[points at Penny, who gives him a dark look that says, TRAITOR]
Penny: Okay, in my defense, as far as teen rebellion goes, this is pretty mild.

Maureen: You seem to care more about the safety of this ship than the lives of its passengers.
Captain: I don't want to leave those people behind, but this ship, our ship, is irreplaceable. It's the last hope of the human race. All eight billion people. And one day when this wave of colonists has made the journey, there are still parents and children in Mumbai, in Paris, in Pasadena, in every city, and every country in the world, who'll know that if they pass the test, if they prove their worth, they can gain passage. And what if this ship is destroyed? What do the children of Earth dream about then?
Maureen: We're not going to lose the Resolute. We're going to spin her, on an X axis, which will redistribute the gases and create enough drag so that we can maintain control of the ship.
Captain: That's never been tested.
Maureen: A lot of things in my line of work only get one test. We are good at passing it.

Maureen: You know how I feel about weapons in our house.
John: We already have one, Maureen. It belongs to an 11 year old boy. And we have no idea how to use it.
Maureen: It's *protecting* Will.

[last lines]
John: Wait, where are we now?
Maureen: I have no idea.
Will: I do. I think we're here.
[holds up his picture of the interlocking circles]
Maureen: Where's "here"?
Will: Danger...

Maureen: Hey. You're Judy Robinson. You can do anything.

Maureen: The Chariot's winch cable is conductive metal. If we use it to lower the Chariot down, then maybe we could kill two birds with one stone.
Penny: Just to clarify, we are not the two birds being killed, right?

Maureen: What are you doing?
John: You said we needed a robot.
Don: To be fair, she says a lot of crazy things.

Ben: [about the robot] I think part of me didn't believe the stories were true.
Maureen: That's the difference between Will and the rest of us. He never stops believing.

Maureen: [describing Alpha Centauri] Girls, it's... beautiful.
Dr. Smith: Would it have killed your mother to put a window in here?

Maureen: We have plenty of problems to solve now without rehashing the past.

June: That does sound like Will, doesn't it? All that power under his control and he uses it to play catch.
Maureen: And what would you use it for? "The truth."
June: To stop running. Stop pretending. With the robot by my side no one could hurt me. I could just be myself.
Maureen: Do you remember who that is anymore?
June: Just a girl before her mother died. Before her sister shone brighter in her father's eyes. Before she ran away and filled the emptiness with mistakes. I wanna be that girl.

Dr. Smith: Which seat's mine?
Maureen: I thought you were supposed to be dead.
Dr. Smith: I was to be a lot of things. None of those worked out either.
Maureen: I saw your shattered helmet. I - How did you get...
Penny: She stowed away on our Jupiter. She's been with us the whole time.
Dr. Smith: I helped take care of the kids, Maureen.
Penny: It's true. She's like a less drunk Miss Hannigan.

Maureen: You know you want to go as much as I do.
John: Not with an 11 year old kid and a gimpy wife.
Maureen: I'm not!
John: What? Gimpy? Or my wife?

Grant: What if I told you my mission 20 years ago wasn't an exploratory journey to Alpha Centauri, but to explore something else? Wwasn't anything shady like that.
Maureen: Right. Because secret government missions are never shady.

Victor: If we can't outrun them, we can find a way to take them out, like we did on the Resolute.
John: Problem is we're not on the Resolute. There are no places to hide here. No EMFs to slow then down. No weapons to defend ourselves with. The last time we faces the robots, we threw everything we had at them, including the Resolute, and they still found us.
Victor: Then we have to get creative and think outside the box.
John: We can't save ourselves. The faster we accept that, the faster we can focus on the people we can save. Our kids. When SAR gets here, he's gonna tear the Jupiters apart to try and find the location of Alpha Centauri, where our kids are headed with his engine. Anything that might be a clue, hardware, software, maps, even photos, all of it has to be destroyed.
Maureen: We'll make teams, disconnect the shredders from the 3D printers, and disable fire safety systems so that we can do burns in the garage.
Naoko: On it.
Maureen: And wipe the flight data from the ship's hard drives.
Don: I can help with that. I've got a few degaussers.
Victor: Why would you have those?
Don: Let's just say that in my previous life, I had to cover my tracks once. And by once, I mean 24 times.

Penny: I'm in the Chariot! I'm coming to get you!
Maureen: What? How did you...
Penny: We will discuss this when you are also in the Chariot!

Maureen: [to Judy] Of all the people to crash with, I'm glad I crashed with you. Don't tell Penny. Or Will. Or your father.

Maureen: Listen, I think it's important that they all hear us speaking with one voice.
John: Couldn't agree more.
Maureen: That voice is mine.
John: [stopped in this tracks]
Maureen: Great...

Maureen: Go to hell!
Dr. Smith: We're already there, Maureen. It's up to you whether or not your family makes it out of there before they get burned.

[first lines]
Maureen: You sure you can get us back without a map?
John: [sarcastically] Hey, come on. Obviously, I memorized and studied the topography before we left.
Maureen: [sighs] If I didn't know better, I would think you were trying to impress me.
John: Maybe I am.
[they kiss]

June: Guilt is like a stomachache from overeating. You make all sorts of promises while you're feeling it, but once it passes, you just get hungry again.
Maureen: Most people are not like you.
June: Everybody's like me. I'm just not in denial.

Maureen: We need to restore the airflow to the ventilation system if you want to breathe when we get back into space.
Dr. Smith: Happy to help. I love breathing.

[last lines]
John: That's mutiny.
Maureen: Is it?
John: Yeah. Taking a ship somewhere the captain doesn't want it to go? That's mutiny... There will be consequences.
Judy: Any worse than for the people being left behind?
John: First thing we need is a plan.
June: I agree. Totally.

Maureen: Do you ever feel guilty about anything you do?
Dr. Smith: Guilt is like a stomachache from overeating. You make all sorts of promises while you're feeling it, but once it passes you just get hungry again.

Maureen: Everyone died in these accidents and you know what they all have in common? A mechanic cleared them for launch.
Don: You know what else they have in common? Don West wasn't born yet.

Maureen: I think it takes getting lost... to find out what you have.