Glen A. Larson
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain Buck Rogers, are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems and returns Buck Rogers to Earth five hundred years later...
Glen A. Larson
- Battlestar Galactica Opening
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the Universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of Man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the Heavens.
Academician Prokor Zakharov
- For I Have Tasted the Fruit
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore He must exist.
Academician Prokor Zakharov
- From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extends the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn nonetheless for the latter.
Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
- From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life consists is a stream of codes not so different from the successive frames of a watchvid. Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and start another there? Is life so fragile that it can withstand no tampering? Does the sacred brook no improvement?
