Captain Yugi Nagata: We're going to die!
Alex Hopper: We are going to die. You're going to die, I'm going to die, we're all going to die... just not today.
[after Hopper's tactic destroys the alien ship]
Captain Yugi Nagata: I can't believe that worked!
Alex Hopper: Yeah, Art of War, "fight the enemy where they aren't." After all these years, that finally just clicked.
Captain Yugi Nagata: But that's not what it means.
Alex Hopper: ...Really?
Captain Yugi Nagata: Not even close.
Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes: We've ended up in a department run by some kind of Donald Trump-Mike Tyson mutant combo.
Alex Hopper: What was that, Petty Officer Raikes?
Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes: Nothing, sir.
Alex Hopper: I swear you said Donald Trump. Wanna clarify? I think I heard a "Mike Tyson"
as well.
Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes: If you did, it was only in reference to the fact that you both project great physical intensity, sir.
Alex Hopper: That's flattering.
Secretary of Defense: [from the Pentagon] Just scramble the jets, Admiral! We need to get in there-!
Admiral Shane: I'm far more aware than you of the need to get inside! But wasting lives will not help! You want me to send up another plane? I'll do it the second you get up here and put your ass in the co-pilot's seat, *sir*!
[slams phone down]
Old Salt: [as Raikes enters the Missouri's fire control center] Been working on a destroyer, haven't you?
Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes: Yes, sir.
Old Salt: Are you ready to play with the big boys?
Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes: Oh yes, sir.
Old Salt: Come on, we need the help.
Petty Officer Cora 'Weps'
Raikes: Awesome!
[overlooking the alien camp]
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: You ready?
Cal Zapata: I'm sorry, but there is no way that I am going down there. I do not possess that kind of courage.
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: Right now, you're going to acquire that courage, or else I'm going to break my steel leg off in your ass. You
feel me?
Cal Zapata: I feel you.
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: Go. Now.
Cal Zapata: [gets up] Acquiring courage... acquiring courage...
Admiral Shane: [Reprimends Alex Hopper] What is wrong with you? You've got skills, but I have never, EVER seen a man waste them like you. Keep the ship out of the surf and spray...
Alex Hopper: [interrupts Admiral Shane] ... or you'll plunge to destruction. Homer, Sir.
Admiral Shane: The fact that you know that infuriates me beyond
words. What my daughter sees in you is a great mystery to me. You're a very smart individual, with very weak character, leadership and decision-making skills. Do you have anything to say to me, ANYTHING?
Alex Hopper: Negative, Sir.
Admiral Shane: Enjoy these naval exercises, Hopper. They're likely to be your last. Dismissed!
[first lines]
Title Card: In 2005, scientists discovered a distant planet believed to have a climate nearly identical to Earth.
Title Card: In 2006, NASA built a transmission device five times more powerful than any before it, and a program to contact the planet began.
Title Card: It was known as The Beacon Project.
Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy 'Ordy' Ord: Is this a super secret surprise Navy exercise? Cuz if so, they've gone way to far.
[Hopper and Nagata prepare their rifles]
Alex Hopper: Where'd you learn to shoot?
Captain Yugi Nagata: I'm not sure how you say it in English... natsu campu... summa camp.
Alex Hopper: Summer camp?
Captain Yugi Nagata: Champion, when I was twelve.
Alex Hopper: Are you kidding me?
[watching the aliens at the satellite array]
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: The most critical part of any military operation: establish communications, reinforcements, follow-on forces.
Cal Zapata: You're saying E.T. wants to phone home? That would be incredibly, incredibly bad.
Chief Petty Officer Walter 'The Beast' Lynch: [as the Myoko is sinking] Sir, there are sailors in the water.
Alex Hopper: Get the guns online or we're gonna ram this thing!
Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy 'Ordy' Ord: Sir, the Myoko is sinking! Sir, please!
Alex Hopper: Set the course to 3-1-0!
Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy 'Ordy' Ord: Please, sir!
Alex Hopper: 3-1-0!
Chief Petty Officer Walter 'The Beast' Lynch: [grabs Hopper, shouting] There are sailors in the water, sir!
[tense silence]
Alex Hopper: ...Hard a starboard.
Boatswain Mate Seaman Jimmy 'Ordy' Ord: Hard a
starboard, aye, sir!
[the John Paul Jones turns away from the alien ship]
Alex Hopper: Get them out of the water.
Chief Petty Officer Walter 'The Beast' Lynch: Yes, sir.