Lost in Space (1998)

Matt LeBlanc: Don West

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Quotes 

• [Launching the Jupiter-1] 

  Major West : And the monkey flips the switch.

• Dr. Zachary Smith : Like the drip, drip, drip of blood...

  Major West : You really need to shut up.

• [the Robinson family shares a tender moment of love as they are reunited] 

  Major West : You know, the planet IS breaking up around us.

• Major West : 8 years of flight training. Navigational holographics online. 50 combat missions. Course confirmed for slingshot exit of the solar system. Just so I could take the family camper on an interstellar picnic.

• Major West : What about you, Doc? Is there some lucky little nerd you left behind?

  Judy Robinson : I've spent the last three years training for this mission. I'm trying to save the planet. I haven't had time for fun.

  Major West : If there's no time for fun, Doc, then what are we saving the planet for?

• [the Jupiter II is hurtling towards the Sun] 

  John Robinson : We're caught in the sun's gravitational pull. We're headed straight for it.

  Major West : Oh, really? Is that what the big round ball is?

• Major West : It's working.

  John Robinson : What?

  Major West : If we can't go around the Sun, then we go straight through it, using your hyperdrive.

  John Robinson : If we engage the hyperdrive without a gate, we could be thrown anywhere in the galaxy.

  Major West : Anywhere but here.

• Major West : I'm going to try to break us out of the atmosphere.

  John Robinson : No, we don't have enough core material for that.

  Major West : Well, maybe if we catch one of the thermal...

  John Robinson : No, it won't work. I *know*. We have to go... down. Through the planet as she's breaking up. We can use the planet's gravity...

  Major West : What?

  John Robinson : To throw us ut the other side and back into space!

  Major West : That's insane!

  John Robinson : I don't have time to argue.

• Major West : If this is all a dream, why can't there be more girls?

• Major West : [West assembles his gun as the spiders are attacking]  A million bucks worth of weaponry, and I'd trade it all back for a lousy can of Raid.

• Major West : [just before the spaceship explodes]  I'm sorry.

• [First night on an unknown unfriendly looking planet they crashed on] 

  Maureen Robinson : Good night, John.

  John Robinson : Good night, Maureen.

  Will Robinson : Good night, Judy.

  Penny Robinson : Good night, Will.

  Judy Robinson : Good night, Penny.

  [pause] 

  Major West : You guys have got to be kidding.

• Judy Robinson : Who was it that said, "Those who can't think, fight"? I think it was me.

  [walks away] 

  Major West : [to Prof. Robinson]  That's one cold fish I'd like to thaw.

  [Judy returns] 

  Major West : [to Prof. Robinson] 

  Judy Robinson : Oh, I won't be home for dinner tonight, *Dad*.

  [Judy walks away. West stares at John, who also walks away] 

  Major West : It's gonna be a *long* flight.

• Major West : You know, I'm thinking this is your "kiss for luck" situation.

  Judy Robinson : Thinking. Not your strong point, is it?

• Major West : OK, last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer.

• [Major West arms the Proteus' reactor to explode, to kill the Space Spiders] 

  John Robinson : What are you doing?

  Major West : You never leave an enemy stronghold intact.

  John Robinson : Major, stop.

  Major West : One of your father's first rules of engagement.

  John Robinson : That's a direct order.

  Major West : I hate spiders.

• Major West : That's Sedition Technology!