Kevin Macdonald
Kevin Macdonald

When you look at almost every submarine movie, to some degree or another, there's this 'Moby Dick' element, this Ahab element to them.

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Czech Major: [With Ahab and Silent Night closing in on Prague] Our surveillance puts Ahab 22 minutes outside of Prague.
Toby Lee Shavers: We should evacuate the city, sir.
Gibbons: Twenty-two minutes to evacuate 1.5 million people? You better call in some air support. We may need to blow this thing out of the water.

Toby Lee Shavers: Sir, if we hit that thing...
Gibbons: Then this city will die, and the crisis will be contained! One city's better than 10.
Czech Major: There's another thing; There' a blue GTO traveling parallel to Ahab.

Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I don't have time for this.
Lily Sloane: Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt your little quest. Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whale!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What?
Lily Sloane: You do have books in the 24th century.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: This is not

about revenge.
Lily Sloane: LIAR!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: This is about saving the future of humanity!