- Princess Ardala: [Buck starts dancing at Ardala's reception] What are you doing?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: It's called gettin' down. It's a little before your time, if it frightens you.
- Princess Ardala: Nothing frightens me.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: I would suggest thoroughly searching her ship before you allow it inside your defense shield.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Rather an insulting manner to begin an alliance based on good faith.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Good faith is for bureaucrats and what gets you a city with a lid on it. I'd go up there armed to the teeth, full squadrons. Otherwise, you'll be sitting ducks.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: [bristling] For a man whose expertise is allegedly five centuries old, you seem quite opinionated.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: You're right. It's none of my business how to blow up your world. My generation didn't know what they were doing either.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well, I'm scheduled for termination. And if I miss it, I could be in a great deal of trouble.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Buck, you are impossible. I'm offering you your life, and you're giving me practical jokes?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well, that's the point. Are you offering me termination of my termination, or are you just postponing it?
- Colonel Wilma Deering: If you can prove that your story is true...
- [a furious King Draco contacts Kane via hologram]
- King Draco: What in the name of the realm is going on? You are attacking while my ships are still hours away?
- Kane: I'm... just following orders, sir.
- King Draco: And just whose orders were you following?
- Kane: Your daughter's, sir.
- King Draco: And did she order our ships to disintegrate as they enter battle? If either of you survive this greatest debacle our realm has known, you will answer to me!
- Kane: [to Princess Ardala] This was your doing, Your Highness! I oughta leave you here to burn up with the ship, but I want you alive to answer to your father. I have an emergency escape shuttle ready to leave now. It'll take us far enough away to reach your father's ships.
- Kane: We would be rulers of Earth now, if you hadn't let Buck Rogers onboard!
- Princess Ardala: He wouldn't have been necessary, if you were more of a man!
- Colonel Wilma Deering: We owe you a great deal more than an apology, Buck. Especially me. I confess I thought the Princess had you beguiled.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well, I will say she did have the nicest set of... horns at the ball.
- Dr. Theopolis: [agrees] Yes, it was an attractive hat.
- Princess Ardala: [while escaping] You'll never be the man Buck Rogers is!
- Kane: We'll see when we meet Mister Rogers again - and we will!
- Princess Ardala: I hope so.
- [last lines]
- [Buck sees Ardala's shuttle escaping, Twiki looks out the window]
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [readjusts him] Twiki, eyes forward, you'll get starsick!
- Twiki: Bedeep bedeep bedeep! Buck, you're my kind of guy!
- Princess Ardala: [smiling proudly] Tomorrow, I conquer Earth!
- Kane: Tomorrow, *we* conquer Earth, Your Highness!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: [voiceover during narration] In the year 1987, at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA launched the last of America's deep space probes. The payload, perched on the nose cone of the massive rocket, was a one-man exploration vessel - Ranger 3. Aboard this compact starship, a lone astronaut - Captain William "Buck" Rogers - was to experience cosmic forces beyond all comprehension. An awesome brush with death: in the blink of an eye, his life support systems were frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. Ranger 3 was blown out of its planned trajectory into an orbit a thousand times more vast, an orbit which was to return the ship full circle to his point of origin - its mother Earth - not in five months, but in 500 years.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: [out in space, to the antiquated spacecraft] Do you have manual override capabilities?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Sure.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Then follow me closely.
- [her sleek spacecraft zooms away]
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Be right on your tail.
- Kane: Am I to assume I am to dispose of Captain Rogers as I see fit?
- Princess Ardala: How you deal with security is your prerogative. Come on, Tigerman.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Look, I don't know what went wrong with our combat computers. Thank you. Now, Captain, let's go home.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: My place or yours?
- Colonel Wilma Deering: What? What did you say?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Just joking.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: I thought you were a spy, Captain Rogers. I was wrong.
- [in the mood for love]
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Do you want to go someplace?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [has another engagement] I, uh... I'm not up to that yet. I've... been out of it for quite a while. Five hundred years.
- [her face drops]
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: I've got to go easy on re-entry.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [to Princess Ardala, on her growling bodyguard Tigerman] They make better pets if you have them fixed.
- Twiki: Bedeep bedeep bedeep!
- [commenting on Buck's rock 'n' roll dance with Princess Ardala]
- Twiki: It's expressive!
- Colonel Wilma Deering: It's disgusting!
- Princess Ardala: [to her dance partner] What happens if we bump together?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: We automatically become husband and wife.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well Colonel, what brings you out on a night like this?
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Captain, I came to find you at some personal risk.
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By what name was Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) officially released in India in English?
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