Crusade (1999)

Tim Thomerson: Senator McQuate

Quotes 

• Gideon : Why me? There are others just as qualified.

  Senator McQuate : During your time captaining an Explorer-class vessel you've come across more new alien lifeforms than anyone else in the Fleet. There are half a dozen captains riding Explorer ships; the rest are either too old or too cautious. You're a dangerous man when you want to be, Captain, and right now we need a dangerous man.

• Senator McQuate : You know, Captain, folks think there might have been life on Mars once. If they did exist, they left no sign. We'll never know who they were or what they did, what songs they sang, what stories they told. Mars is a dead world. I can't imagine that happening to the Earth in a few years. I can't imagine that happening at all.