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What's your favourite quote from Star Control? (you can find them at http://www.sa-matra.net/quotes/ (http://www.sa-matra.net/quotes/))
(I advise you NOT to take voices into account, nor fonts or background or music)

Mine... hmm...
from Arilou I like Our motives are multiple, our desires complex.
Part of what we do on Earth is for your own protection.
There are parasites. Creatures who dwell Beyond.
They have names, but you do not know them. They would like to find you
but they are blind to your presence... unless you show yourselves.
The Androsynth showed themselves, and something noticed them.
There are no more Androsynth now. Only Orz.
and
No. In a way, ignorance is your armor, your best protection.
They cannot see you now. They cannot smell you.
Much of our work with your people involved making you invisible... changing your smell.
If I tell you more, you will look where you could never look before
and while you are looking you can and will be seen.
You do not want to be seen.
but they can't make it to the top.

This Druuge quote:
You may be surprised to learn that we are deeply spiritual beings, Captain.
We worship our god with great enthusiasm.
You want details? Why certainly.
We Druuge are especially fortunate souls.
Most aliens we have encountered have, at best, a tenuous relationship with their gods
but we Druuge have an iron-clad contract!
Our document reads as follows:
Whereas the Druuge (hereinafter known as `the Worshipers')
wish to establish a long-term relationship with an omnipotent and all-knowing deific entity
(hereinafter known as `God' or `god')
which shall mutually benefit both parties, the parties agree to abide by the following terms and commitments
for the rest of eternity.
The Worshipers hereby promise to perform faithfully and to the best of their ability
the following
1. Worshipers shall make regular and sincere obeisance to God, including but not limited to
prayer, sacrifice, and the building of large structures.
2. Worshipers shall make every attempt to convert non-believers (hereinafter known as `Them')
making sure to obtain signed documents from same attesting to said conversion.
3. Worshipers shall not enter into an agreement with another deity, without written permission from God.
In consideration of the above correctly performed obeisance, God shall provide:
1. Continued existance with little or no modification to the perceived reality of the Worshipers.
2. No fewer than 3 miracles (Force Majeure), whose exact nature and timing
shall be left to God's sole discretion.
3. Worshipers shall enjoy some form of life after death
which shall remain a complete and total mystery to the Worshipers until such time as they die.
We, the undersigned, hereby swear to fulfill our obligations as defined above.
Signed, The Druuge.
(God, being omni-present and all-knowing is considered to have signed this document, by default.)
but it's not exactly my favourite.

No, I love this Kzer-Za quote:
In our twenty thousand years along the Path of Now and Forever
we have dominated thousands of species, yes
but we have saved hundreds from extinction.
You imagine the threat of unknown invaders, or alien pestilence borne on the solar wind.
We have seen these. But you do not acknowledge your own worst enemy, yourselves.
We have found dead worlds without number, planets ravaged by atomic fire or gaian collapse.
These planets were not rendered sterile by outside forces.
They bear sad testament to the effects of unrestrained instinct and emotion
or simple ignorance.
We will prevent such mistakes.
It makes them much less evil and more understandable.
It makes them much wiser.

I saw a video on Youtube that if you take only High Capacity Fuel Systems and go to the Druuge and ask him to fill your fuel tanks for an artifact, he will go like crazy. Is this true? Here's the video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKVXcw6hakU

Yeah, it's one of these quotes, based on how many fuel you can hold:

Aieee! I am ruined! You have sucked my full tanks until they are dry!
Cruel Monster! Bloated Villain! Slicer of innocent throats!
What shall I tell the Manager?! My spouse?!
I shall certainly be assigned to tend the furnaces.
I shall burn in the atomic fires!
Aieee!

This will look very bad on my record, Captain. You have hurt me deeply.
I had expected an understanding between trading partners, between equals
but NO! The moment my back is turned, you fill your bloated tanks far beyond a reasonable limit.
I have learned an important lesson from you today
One I shall never forget.

You have received a fair exchange for your device, Captain.
Perhaps more than fair for you.
I will not be able to brag about this exchange, but then again
I need not worry about feeding the furnace.

Well done, Captain. Quite a fair exchange. Good job.
(hee-hee-hee).

Ha-ha, yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
A fine deal, Captain. An excellent bargain... for me!
Ho-ho-ho! When I offered you all the fuel you could hold, you could have drained every drop I had.
Cold sweat dripped from my palms as I watched my workers begin the transfer.
And then it was over... so soon! So gloriously soon!
I shall be promoted at least three full steps! A new office! A benefits package! Fortune has smiled on me today!
I feel so lucky, Captain, that you did not have the forethought to arrive here with a dozen empty tanks.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

How much fuel must be sucked from their tanks for the Druuge gentleman to scream he is ruined?

250; the minimum limits (in the normal fuel units, rounded to the nearest fuel unit) are 0, 10, 50, 100 and 250 units (see src/sc2code/comm/druuge/druugec.c)). The last one is easy to achieve by turning your ship into a big floating high-efficiency fuel tank. ;D

Its all such good dialogue. I suppose my favourite would be Zelnick himself :P Some of those convo options are just great! Heres some other races

Dynarri
You are imagining things. The Umgah are fine, just busy, extremely busy.
That's why I am answering the `Caster today.

Kohr-Ah
Our Path of Now and Forever is self-justifying, it needs no confirmation.
We cleanse. That is all. There is no more.
(haha on that quote site, the first quote paragraph is like a blooper real :P
I usually avoid contact with the Kohr-Ah, so does that line actually occur?)

Pkunk
Greetings and various apropos felicitations! We are Pkunk.
Hatchlings of light, spiritual soul beings of the vast cosmic oneness
wayfarers on the river of destiny, students of the mystical dimensions
purveyors of blissful love, birdlike manifestations of glorious light energies from the astral plane.
How about yourselves?

Slylandro (Gasbags)
Great. Now you've done it! Just look at Sullen Plummet.
You've embarrassed her so badly that she can't even regulate her ballast.

(and Zelnicks line after hahah, Look I'm sorry I asked about your....glowy bits)

Thraddash
So when Culture Three came around, they had a problem.
How were they going to impress everyone as being EVEN TOUGHER?
Their answer? They would arrive at a battle, stand on a tall hill where everyone could see them
and chop off one of their own limbs! Then they'd wave it around, screaming and shaking it at their enemies.
It worked! It scared the hell out of their opponents! They ran like crazy!

Umgah
Well bloat my belly! It a human Earthling!

Hi there, human! How old fluid sacks today?
What?! You don't HAVE fluid sacks?
Har! Har! Har! What do you call your mate then?!! Har! Har! Har!...
you don't HAVE mate?
THAT'S EVEN FUNNIER! Har! Har! Har!

We found that pretty hard understand, so when nobody looking, we clonk one on head
bring it back here to homeworld and slice it up for detailed study.

HAVE IT! GENETIC MODIFICATION!! YES! IT PERFECT GIFT!!
Listen human Earthling! We add some extra eyes! A few tentacles!
Other organs of whatever size and shape you desire!!

Umgah(under Dynarri control)

WE. FUNNY. UMGAH. SO. FUNNY.
HAR.

WHAT. YOU. GET. WHEN. COMBINE. DEUTERIUM. PELLET. TERRAWATT. LASER.
AND. PRIMITIVE. EARTH. LEADER. FROM. ASIAN. STEPPES.
ANSWER.
KHAN. FUSION.

Yes, in the PC version out-takes (which unfortunately lack speech). I think UQM plays these after the ending nowadays. Several other races show up (search for OUT_TAKES in the UQM dialogue text files).

My Utwig voice pack has AT LEAST one good point - it includes the missing speech. Credits included.

Dnyarri:
the Kohr-Ah passed through and casually slaughtered the entire Umgah species.
I believe you would say, `Bummer'.

Melnorme:
We regret to say that you have exhausted our supply of genuinely valuable information.
However, we DO have many thousands of useless facts that we will gladly sell you
at a substantial discount. Are you interested?
We thought not.

Ur-Quan:
Human. We Ur-Quan never lie. NEVER!
It is a weakness to lie and, as you have noticed, the Ur-Quan are not weak!

Yehat:
(everything the Yehat say)

You did. We did. Yes we can. No.

I agree with Simon, that's an excellent one -- brief and to the point. But for humour, I think the Glowy Bits is probably at the top of my list.

That is a classic. Pure Kohr-Ah. And one of my favorites.
Other than that, most of Ur-Quan Kzer-Za and Kohr-Ah dialogue and Spathi dialogue.

Ilwrath explaining why Dogar and Kazon communicate on channel 44:

"...Besides, They Knew We Were 'Captain Satellite' Viewers."

 ;D

Kohr-Ah:
Over five thousand races have made such a claim.
We survived. They did not.
Nor shall you.

I don't know why, but this quote has always stuck in my mind since the first time I played SC. It pretty much sums up the Kohr-Ah's whole attitude, which is why I like it.

Maybe not the best quote, but definitely high on my list. Also one of the rare cases of humour in line breaking.

What about the Androsynth ruins reports? They are so well designed, so gradual in intensity etc. etc. that they REALLY gave me the creeps when I first read them.

Read some of Lovecraft's original Cthulhu mythos stories. :P

Utwig captain talking about the Kohr-Ah:

"To seek out new life and new civilizations... and then annihilate them."

Watch Star Trek. :P

Just as the Star Trek-inspired quote invoked by Aya, the usage of elements (or even more!) from another work is not redundant,   since they are used in another context.

I mean, the intensity of the Synth report is amplified here by the fact that you wouldn't expect to find such content in a humour-filled game like Star Control, less even at those ruins.
Also, we are talking about the favourite Star Control quote here, not the favourite quote in the entire universe.

I like the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah, those cleansing crazies. They sure know much about cleansing. One of my favourite quotes is this:

Captain: You sure are creepy.

Kohr-Ah:  Seeing that I represent your imminent termination
as well as the termination of your entire species
I think your fear is well justified.
Nonetheless, you require cleansing.

 :D

See under my avatar

If we are on the Kohr-Ah subject, what about
If you eliminate all non-Ur-Quan sentient races, including yourselves
then we will stop.
We have made this offer before. No one accepts.
So we cleanse.
?

Ur-Quan

'We have just GOT to stop meeting like this!'
You boldly enter our space! Approach this Dreadnought as though it were a recreation base
and then play the dumb hominid?
Who do you take us for, Captain... Spathi!?

*Arrive at Vela*
SO! THE OFFSPRING HAS RETURNED TO ITS NEST!

Kohr-Ah

'Resistance is useless. Our victory is inevitable!'
It is not.

'You have attacked us before, and we survived! You cannot defeat us. Submit!'
We did. You did. Yes we can. No.

'Surrender or die!'
Our counter to your statement is simpler
just `die'.

Spathi

'Once I've given you the Cypher, what do I get?'
You get to live a bit longer.

'Look, what do I have to do to prove this to you - destroy your entire star fleet?'
Well, that would probably work
but I have a better idea -- a test
one of those questy kind of things.

TFB definitely did a load of ace work with the script humour :P

First and foremost in my list:

"Hey, space is a tough place where wimps eat flaming plasma death."

The Druuge when you give him the worst deal with the Caster

"I sincerely hope, for your sake, that your day has been better than ours, which isn't really saying that much."

"We're the Ethics Police!  Justify that outfit, NOW!"

Can't think of any others now.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Orz, everything they say is classic:

Yes! We do! Goodbye is the *Game*. Hello!! I am only joke.
It is funny enough. Do not forget to *enjoy the sauce*!!!

The Pkunk as well, especially this one about the Ilwrath:

We have delved most deeply into the dark and greasy heart of the Ilwrath.
And what do you suppose we found there?
Well, we found a torpid, vile, malign, odious, spiteful spirit.
Right, no surprises there.
What did surprise us though, was what we saw when we regressed into their past lives!
It turns out that in their last lives, the Ilwrath were all shining beings of pure light and blissfull love.
They had reached the pinnacle of spiritual evolution and could go no further.
They were perfection.
And then, somehow they got just a tiny bit better
and WHAM, they were all of a sudden totally evil.
Wouldn't you know it, get too perfect and you wrap right around to evil.
That is why we Pkunk strive to be perfect
but always do little bad and annoying things to keep from ending up like the Ilwrath.

And this one:
When I first looked at you, Captain, I knew that you were an advanced soul.
I turned to my first officer, Chrupp, and said
`Chrupp, would you just look at that creature's aura! It's magnificent!'
`the soft blues... the gentle greens... the unusual shades of chartreuse and ocher!'
`This human must be on the side of Truth and Light, Chrupp, he must!'
And then Chrupp said, `Just in case, I am raising shields and warming up the guns.'
I don't think Chrupp likes you, Captain.

Hmm... mayby its not a quote, but Thallium in Androsynth ruins is CREEPY! It surely was used for Interdiminsional Fatigu!

I've had some great laughs reading this thread! :) I hope it's okay to bump an old thread, but my favourite quotes from the game are:

Melnorme: "I had itchy pods this morning, Captain, and here you are"

Orz: "Do not forget to enjoy the sauce"

Haha, those two always make me laugh, but the game has awesome dialogue throughout, as I'm sure you all agree...

My favorite quotes are from VUX encounters in space -
"I must destroy you. For the children" is my favored from those.
And "All our intruders are currently busy. Please hold and one will kill you shortly"

Here's two of my favorite ones... they are actually from Star Control 3

Doog: "the Ploxis said that blahblahblah..."
Captain: "Hey, who do you believe, me or this 'Ploxis'?"
Doog: "Ploxis."

and another one from the Doog:

Doog: "can we ever thank you enough?"
Captain: "Well, you could try."
Doog: "thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks"
Captain: "go on"
Doog: "thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks"
Captain: "go on"
Doog: "thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks"
(this can be continued forever)