Blake's 7 (TV Series)

Headhunter (1981)

Peter Tuddenham: Orac, Slave

Quotes 

• Avon : It's superstitious halfwits like you that hold back every advance we make!

  Orac : And arrogance, Avon, likes yours and Muller's, which threatened to destroy...

• [Orac is possessed by an evil android] 

  Orac : Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill your every desire.

  Soolin : [turning Orac off]  You wouldn't know where to start.

• [Scorpio's life support has failed, leaving Tarrant and Vila stranded] 

  Kerr Avon : [to Orac]  Situation.

  Orac : Total systems failure.

  Dayna Mellanby : They'll be dying up there!

  Kerr Avon : Not yet!

  Soolin : They won't have long.

  Kerr Avon : They have oxygen units and suits.

  Dayna Mellanby : In the dark? Under those conditions?

  Kerr Avon : Orac?

  Orac : They must be left there!

  Kerr Avon : To die?

  Orac : There is no option. To reopen teleport contact could expose the base to undefined systems influence.

  [pause] 

  Kerr Avon : Oh, you'll have to do better than that, Orac, if you expect me to *kill* them.

• [Avon has ordered Orac to restore teleport contact with Scorpio so they can rescue Vila and Tarrant] 

  Kerr Avon : Is it restored?

  Orac : I am obliged to do as you tell me, even though I know it to be wrong.

  Kerr Avon : Only following orders? That's not very original, Orac.

  Orac : There is nothing very original about domination, as you will discover.

• Soolin : Well, Orac?

  Orac : Prospects terminal.

  Soolin : Terminal?

  Orac : The survival of organic humanoid life is improbable.

  Soolin : Are you talking about Vila and Tarrant?

  Orac : All organic humanoid life throughout the galaxy is at hazard.

  Soolin : Let's stick to medicine, Orac. Leave the philosophy for later.