- Tracy Baxter: You know what? It looks like you could really use the steam bath!
- Mike Colby: Well, I had a hard night.
- Tracy Baxter: So fair's fair. Get naked.
- SAM-104: They switch you off when life is good then switch you on when they're up to their noses in life's bitter droppings!
- Mike Colby: You said it, tin man.
- Dr. Barbara Glaser: I hear you're the biggest trouble shooter in this part of the galaxy.
- Mike Colby: That's what they tell me.
- Dr. Barbara Glaser: How'd you like to see some... trouble?
- Earl Richards: [In the decompression chamber] He got the bends. They found him out there eating the sand. He thought it was sugar.
- Mike Colby: [just out of hyperspace] So... how long was I under?
- SAM-104: Back home your son is older than you are!
- Mike Colby: I hope he turned out better than me.
- Earl Richards: You know what I want to know? What you two were doing in there dressed like that!
- Dr. Barbara Glaser: [jealous] Explaining your scars, no doubt!
- [first lines]
- [Colby is awaken from his hibernation by his android pilot SAM-104]
- Mike Colby: Where are we?
- SAM-104: Beta zone. There's a pack of food raiders on our tail, sir.
- Mike Colby: My hands... are numb.
- SAM-104: Concentrate sir, they're closing in!
- Dr. Cal Timbergen: We don't get many new faces around here.
- Mike Colby: That's what I like about my job. I'm always the new face.
- Dr. Barbara Glaser: [typing] WE ARE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE. DO YOU SCAN?
- Mutant: [on monitor] AFFIRMATIVE. WHAT DO YOU WANT?
- Dr. Barbara Glaser: [to Tracy] "Affirmative!" It said "affirmative!"
- Dr. Barbara Glaser: [typing] REQUEST INFORMATION: CAN WE CO-EXIST?
- Mutant: [on monitor] PLEASE STAND BY
- [the Mutant stabs Barbara to death with its tentacle]
- SAM-104: How long have you had cancer?
- Dr. Cal Timbergen: How did you know?
- SAM-104: I've seen it before.
- Dr. Cal Timbergen: You've seen too much.
- [switches SAM off]
- Dr. Cal Timbergen: It's simplifying the cells, until there's no difference between a cell in your eye or your toe.