30 Best Rev Bem Quotes

Rev: From what I gather, his Kodiak pride was destroyed in a clan war. My guess is he's trying to prove his genetic worth, so he can join a new family.
Seamus: Great. Not just a Nietzschean, but a Nietzschean with a chip on his shoulder.
Rev: Another of the universe's little jokes... at our expense.

[last lines]
Rev: Are you familiar with Aeschylus?
Captain: Ancient Earth, right? Greek tragedy?
Rev: Very good. I was thinking specifically of the Orestean Trilogy. The house of Atreus was cursed by the gods, condemned to murder one another throughout history.
Captain: Orestes' mother killed his father. He was forced to kill her in revenge.
Rev: Forced to kill, much as Andromeda was forced to kill. Do you remember how the curse was finally ended?
Captain: Apollo invented the jury trial. The jury found Orestes innocent.
Rev: Indeed. The cycle was broken when public justice replaced private vengeance, just as you are trying to do. Hmm?
Captain: There's only one problem with your analogy, Rev. Apollo was a god. I'm just a man.
Rev: Mmm...

Tyr: Reverend Behemial! You dead?
Rev: [regaining consciousness] Tyr Anasazi of the Kodiak Pride. Clearly, I am not in heaven.

Dylan: I'd like to be alone for a while, if you don't mind.
Rev: I understand. I, myself, prefer solitude when doing mathematics.
Dylan: How'd you know?
Rev: Oh, it wasn't difficult. In fact, I suspect I could guess the equation. Let me see... one thousand ships, average crew size, one hundred. Simple multiplication.
Dylan: One hundred thousand people. How can I even consider it?

[last lines]
Beka: So far, Andromeda's 0-for-2 against that thing.
Dylan: Well, we can't do it alone. There's only one way to defeat something like that. A unified front. The entire known worlds working together.
Rev: A renewed Commonwealth.
Dylan: A renewed Commonwealth. Before, it was a dream. Now, it's a necessity.

[last lines]
Rev: I believe anything that can love... has a soul. Have you ever felt love?
Rommie: I've learned... that it's dangerous to love. It can drive you crazy.
Rev: Then, perhaps... that's what tears are for.

Dylan: That's a nice excuse. Humans have been using it since the dawn of time. "I had to kill my enemies. It's what God wanted."
Rev: Just because humans use it as an excuse does not negate the possibility.
Dylan: What kind of divine plan requires the deaths of tens of thousands of people?
Rev: 'Tiger, tiger burning bright/In the forests of the night/What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?' Humans have been asking *this* question since the dawn of time. My people don't bother. We Magog know the Divine exists. We know it created the stars and the planets, the soft winds and the gentle rain. We also know He created nightmares... because He created us.

Rev: To call a thing a miracle is just another way of saying it's highly imporbable.

Rev: While I admit the universe does have a sense of humor, I doubt very much this is a joke.

Trance: Surrender, surrender. All his messages are the same. He sounds like an evil parrot.
Seamus: I can't believe I'm going to die at the hands of converging red blips.
Beka: Wait a second. I think you two might be on to something. Rommie, scan all of Cuchulain's messages for the background noise.
Rev: You don't think he...

Rommie: That's ceremonial china from the Than ambassador.
Seamus: Really? Sounds like a spool of superconductor wire to me.
Rev: Perhaps you should not watch this.
Rommie: If I don't keep my eyes open, he'll probably sell them.

Rev: Providence chooses its instruments. Not the other way around. Fate brought you to that battle. Destiny demanded your actions. Perhaps you were merely a tool of Divine Will.

Trance: I think our friend is ready to join her fleet.
Rev: The Than Hegemony also expresses its gratitude to the Commonwealth for ridding its sector of Nietzschean criminals. They respect us as a force for peace in the galaxy.
Trance: You got what you wanted.
Captain: Not really, but it's a start.

Trance: What if they're not decoys?
Beka: When we get to the Pearly Gates, make sure everyone lines up behind Rev. You've got spin control.
Rev: I'll see what I can do.

Harper: Oh! Oh! Miss Valentine?
Beka: Yes, Harper.
Harper: This isn't our first field trip. Purple company excluded, of course.
Beka: That is my point. I want you to treat every boarding just like your first one. I want you to double-check everything. Hell, triple check it. I'd hate for any of you to end up like VexPag.
Trance: Vexpag?
Rev: Your predecessor.
Trance: Oh! He's the guy who retired. Didn't you say he bought a farm?
Harper: *The* farm. He bought *the* farm.
Trance: Well, what's the difference?
Beka: Torn pressure suit and a bad emergency seal.
Trance: Oh, that is different.

Rev: The Andromeda Galaxy. If the universe is a manifestation of the Divine, could not the slipstream be the very mind of God?
Captain: Well, if that's the case, I'm afraid God had a seizure and forgot all about Tarn-Vedra.
Beka: And here comes God's little brain surgeon.
Rev: Beka! Some humility, please.
Beka: Yeah, I tried that once. I didn't like it.
Captain: Like they say: in the slipstream, confidence is everything.

Captain: Initiating Nova deployment sequence. Let's bring it.
Beka: Acting First Officer Beka Valentine. Nova deployment authorized. Zero Zero Strike Red Zero.
Trance: Acting Armsmaster Trance Gemini. Nova deployment authorized, uh, Retro Nine Blue Strike Five Nine Five.
Tyr: Fire Control Officer Tyr Anasazi. Arming Nova weapons one through forty. Execution code Nine Five Over Seven Blue Five. Arm.
Rev: Ready for your final order.
Captain: Captain Dylan Hunt, Commanding Officer. Nova deployment authorization Ten Break Alpha. Strike, strike, strike.

[last lines]
Tyr: I'm given to understand that your genetic material has become the foundation for an entire race of warrior priests?
Rev: Umm.
Tyr: I'm intrigued. And... perhaps, a bit... jealous.
Rev: I can understand why a Nietzschean would say that.
Tyr: What would a Wayist say?
Rev: We saved paradise... by introducing the serpent.

Dylan: Then let's get out of here. I don't wanna pick up any more Wayist saboteurs.
Rev: Dylan, those were not real Wayists. That was not the real Singh Khalsa. We don't...
Dylan: Rev, I know we all have agendas. But while we're on the same ship, we have to be on the same team. Next time you wanna send off a homing pigeon, warn me first.
Rev: You knew all along, didn't you?

Rev: Hmm... The first officer of your ship.
Captain: More than that. My friend... He was supposed to be the best man at my wedding and then he betrayed me. Because I trusted him, the Nietzschean invasion got past my ship and the Commonwealth was destroyed. I lost my crew, my family, my friends... my fiancé. I lost the time and age I belonged to, Rev. Hell, I lost civilization itself.
Rev: And now you're wondering is it worth reaching out to Nietzscheans?
Captain: They're genetically engineered to be paranoid and selfish and treacherous. Am I right to be prejudiced?
Rev: As a Magog, my own genes predispose me to slaughter indiscriminately, eat my victims, lay eggs in the paralyzed bodies of sentient beings. I think if you were truly prejudiced, you would have shot me on sight.
Captain: It's not the same. You're a Wayist. You're the most peaceful person I know.
Rev: Ah, then in each species, no matter how horrible, there's room for improvement. You don't have to forget. You don't even have to forgive. But you must look for the good in the beings you encounter. Otherwise, your restored Commonwealth will be founded on distrust, and it will be over before it even begins.

Rev: Beka and Rafe are a lot alike, don't you think?
Dylan: [chuckles] I think all humans look alike to you.
Tyr: They look like lunch.

Rev: We can only retrieve one ship at a time. Which one? Right or left?
Captain: Right.
Trance: Left! Um, it's just a choice. You know. Fifty-fifty?

Rev: Many of the Divine's gifts are like that. They're always there, but we don't appreciate them... until we need them.

[watching a solar storm approaching the ship]
Rev: Magnificent.
Tyr: I wish you would stop looking for beauty in things that want to kill us.

Trance: Fourteen broken ribs and a ruptured something that only Magog seem to have.
Rev: It's akin to a pancreas.
Trance: Oh, I see. Okay. So, um, what's a pancreas?
Rev: It's a--
[Trance applies a prob to is wound]
Rev: Argh!

Rev: As Harper would say, that would suck.
Captain: You know, Rev, there are some words that should never trip across the tongue of a Magog, and suck is one of them.
Rev: Well, I'll make a note of that.

Captain: If I'd deployed one Nova bomb, just one, I could have stopped the Long Night before it began... I didn't. I was standing at the edge of the abyss... and I blinked. And now people like Tiama and Arun... pay the price for my hesitation. I won't make that mistake twice.
Rev: You committed an act of mercy. You erred on the side of hope. And that is why you will win. There are no stronger weapons than mercy and hope.
Captain: Yeah, maybe so. But I would still prefer a platoon of Lancers.

Rev: Fire control sensors on-line. Captain, I... I hope you do not expect me to fire the ship's weapons.
Captain: This isn't the time, Rev.
Rev: Nevertheless, I will man the sensors, but I will not fire the weapons.
Beka: I could've told you that.

Seamus: You seeing what I'm seeing?
Trance: A really excited human with a rash?
Seamus: [chuckles] No, the ship. The Andromeda Ascendant. Right where that furry little twitch said it would be.
Rev: You're speaking of our respected employer.
Seamus: Ha! Whooo! You know, I may actually be starting to like that guy.
Rev: Hmm. No prior claims.

Eureka: Alert. Alert. Magog swarm ship approaching. PDL's are offline.
Rommie: Somebody here call for a ride?
Tyr: Rescued by a swarm ship.
Rev: You see? Not only is there a Divine, He has a twisted sense of humor.