Favorite SGA Quotes

[Gatefan1976]

McKAY: The Zero Point Module, General. The, uh, Ancient power source you recovered from Proclarush Taonas and that's now powering the outpost's defences. I have since determined that it generates its enormous power from vacuum energy derived from a self-contained region of subspace time.

O'NEILL: That was a waste of a perfectly good explanation.

[Martina Magnus]

Dr. Beckett: Tell them we'll be there in a jiff.
Lt. Col. Sheppard: You guys hear that?
Dr. McKay: [over radio] Yay, faint hope!

[Eye Of Ra]

Kolya: You said this would work.
McKay: I don't know if you noticed or not but I'm an extremely arrogant man who tends to think all of his plans will work!

[Martina Magnus]

Dr. Weir: Weapons fire.
Lt. Col. Sheppard: Nine mil. This way.
Dr. McKay: Oh yes, let's race towards the gunfire.

[Eye Of Ra]

Dr. McKay: What are we going to tell them, Teyla? "Listen, kiddies, everything you believe is wrong, and trust us because we've been here for-" [checks watch] "-almost an hour

[Martina Magnus]

Dr. Beckett: Aye, you're damned right it is! First you tell me I'm not the only Carson Beckett, and then you tell me the other one died in a horrible explosion! [suddenly coming to a realization] Oh my God! My mother! You didn't tell her, did you?
Dr. McKay: Well...yeah.
Dr. Beckett: Good Lord!

[Eye Of Ra]

Dr. McKay: And that's what happens when you back a brilliant scientist into a corner!

[Martina Magnus]

Dr. Beckett: [after Sheppard assists him in putting on his pack] Thank you. I must be a wee bit rusty.
Lt. Col. Sheppard: You're not rusty, Doc. You were just never very good at this.
Dr. Beckett: Fair enough!

[Eye Of Ra]

McKay: Maybe we should make a diversion.
Lorne: Are you volunteering?
McKay: I'll shut up

[mysterywriter012]

Jeannie: What did you do?
McKay: I ran into a snag
Carter: He destroyed a solar system
Jeannie: Meredith!
McKay: It was uninhabited!

[Eye Of Ra]

Sheppard: I think people who don't want to fly are crazy.

O'Neill: Well, I think people who don't want to go through the Stargate are equally as whacked. If you can't give me a yes before we reach McMurdo, I don't even want you.

[mysterywriter012]

McKay: So exactly what kind of, uh, special training do you guys have to go through to get this sort of mission?

Lorne: ‘You guys'?

McKay: Yeah, you know -- Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -- it's a great place to start!

Lorne: And by ‘this mission' you mean hunting down a skilled weapons expert hopped up on Wraith drugs in the pitch black of an alien planet?

McKay: Yes!

Lorne: Actually, I skipped that course in major school.

McKay: Yeah, I was afraid of that.

[Martina Magnus]

Dr McKay: You two need some very serious marriage counselling.
Dr Weir/Phoebus: He’s not my husband, he is the enemy. Drop your weapon.
[McKay drops the sidearm]
Dr Weir/Phoebus: Now radio security and tell them everything’s fine.
Dr Beckett: Everything’s not fine.
[Weir stuns Beckett and aims the stunner at Rodney]
Dr McKay: Security, this is Rodney McKay. Everything’s fine, never been better. Colonel Caldwell was kidding when he said, what he said...
Dr Weir/Phoebus: Ah, forget it!
[Weir stuns McKay]

[Eye Of Ra]

Sheppard: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Atlantis. Please remain seated until the Puddle-Jumper has come to a full and complete stop.

[Martina Magnus]

[A man rides through Geldar on a bicycle]
Lt. Col. Sheppard: Oh yeah! That’s something you see in a medieval village!
Dr. McKay: Yes, well, the Renaissance obviously came early to these folks.
Lt. Col. Sheppard: A couple of hundred years early?