Favorite Sci-Fi Smackdown?

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2005-06-30 07:07pm

I haven't seen this one mentioned: Yoda's Force bitchslap of the Royal Guardsmen when he goes to confront Palpatine.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2005-06-30 07:10pm

David Weber's 'Field of Dishonor'. The duel between Honor and Summervale.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2005-06-30 07:17pm

From The Ship Who Searched (IIRC)...an unarmed scoutship gets trapped hidden on a planet when an armed pirate ship comes to recover alien artifacts. In order to make a break for it, the ship takes off and clips a mountaintop, bringing part of the mountain down on the other ship.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-06-30 07:43pm

Hrrm. . . .may as well list a few.

*Episode 3: Palpatine laying the smackdown on Windu and the other knights that were with him.

*Babylon 5: Sheridan: "Get the hell out of our galaxy!"

*SG-1: pretty much the entire episode of Threads, especially with O'neill's constant mocking of Ba'al.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-06-30 09:01pm

From a Niven story : Over a video phone, a theorist is telling an Emperor how to win an interstellar war. In galactic history, many cultures and species have tried to build a time machine, but never succeeded. Some odd disaster always destroys them first, like mass sterility. He says a time machine would cause paradox, and that cannot be allowed - the natural forces of the universe destroy any who try. All the Empire need to do is leak the idea and the plans to the enemy; they will try to build the machine and be destroyed. The Emperor is convinced and authorizes the plan. At that point, the theorist's window fills with light and he catches on fire screaming "What's happening ?! What's happening ?!". The Emperor replies, "The Sun just went nova, I expect." and turns off the screen.

I don't get it.

"I've done more than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on...hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive... Buried alive... Buried alive..."

What's this one from?

My personal favorite Schlock Mercenary smackdown (there are many) comes when a gate-clone of Doyt-Haban is being interrogated by the F'sherl Ganni, who do not know that he has been highly upgraded by illegal medical technology since his last trip through a wormgate.

INTERROGATOR: There is nothing you can do to escape. We've interrogated you a hundred times before. You've tried every trick you know. Nothing you can do will surprise us.
DOYT-HABAN: *spits in interrogator's face*
INTERROGATOR: You've even spat in my face before.
DOYT-HABAN: Has the spittle ever exploded before?
INTERROGATOR: No. Never.
DOYT-HABAN: Surprise.
*BOOM*

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-06-30 09:23pm

The Outer Limits - "They're not changing me. They're changing me back..."

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2005-06-30 11:15pm

ST III, Kirk to Kruge:
"I...have had..enough of...YOU!"

Lord of the Abyss · Post by **Lord of the Abyss** » 2005-06-30 11:20pm

I don't get it.

Simple. The universe itself acts to prevent time machines being built; no matter what something will happen to stop it. It's sort of negative destiny; instead of something being predestined to happen, it's destined to not happen.

The moment the Emperor decided to instigate the creation of a time machine, the universe stopped it in the simplest way possible; in this case a nova. No more Empire, no more plans for a time machine.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-30 11:25pm

HemlockGrey wrote:
"I've done more than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on...hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive... Buried alive... Buried alive..."
What's this one from?

Wrath of Khan

As for a Niven smack-down .... one comes to mind.

*Known Space spoiler alert*

First Contact between humanity and the Kzin when the human ramship Angel's Pencil encounters a small Kzin warship in interstellar space .... the Kzin force their telepath to scan the minds of the crew as the ships close on each other, and after the telepath overcomes its disgust at reading the minds of creatures that eat plants, it assures the Captain that the humans have no weapons of any kind ... which is true, humans are complete pacifists that have aggression drugged out of them by the ARM secret police at this point in Known Space history .... so the Captain starts heating the Angel's Pencil with an induction weapon to cook the crew but preserve the ship for study. The surviving humans, shocked at the concept of being attacked in this manner, turn the aft end of the ship toward the Kzin warship and light their fusion reaction drive (the .5 g drive only accelerates the ship up to ramscoop velocity) and teach what becomes known in history as the Kzinti Lesson: "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive ...

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-07-01 03:04am

Sin City:

Cardinal Roark: Will that bring you satisfaction, my son? Killing a helpless, old, fart.
Marv: Killing? No. No satisfaction. Everything up until the killing, will be a gas.

John Hartigan punching Junior's face to a bloody pulp. (that felt great by the way, hated that evil bastard

)

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-07-01 03:46am

The moment the Emperor decided to instigate the creation of a time machine, the universe stopped it in the simplest way possible; in this case a nova. No more Empire, no more plans for a time machine.

Ah. I realized that. I was just confused as to why it went nova on the theorist instead of the enemy who would build the machine, but thanks for clearing it up.

Kenoshi · Post by **Kenoshi** » 2005-07-01 05:07am

The opening scene in Blade Runner where Leon demonstrates why you shouldn't ask a Replicant about its mother.

The scene in Empire Strikes Back where Darth Vader uses the Force to pummel Luke with everything that isn't nailed down (and a few things that are).

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2005-07-01 06:38am

Darth Wong wrote:[*]From "Aliens": Burke getting his comeuppance at the end, when he finally realizes that his web of bullshit has come crashing down on him. And of course, in the next scene he gets killed.

Alternatively, you have the book version, where Ripley discovers a live Burke near the Queens nest, implanted.

One of my favourites

"Who am I, I am Susan Ivanova, commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophi Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart, I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!"

Skelron · Post by **Skelron** » 2005-07-01 07:19am

Well since Necronlord has already said the one I was going to From the same season...
When the Doctor tells the Gas Masked Zombies to go to their room... Such a weird solution to the cliffhanger and yet one that when you saw it made 100% sense. Fantastic.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-07-01 07:47am

The Dalek slaughtering the soldiers (Dr who- DALEK).
Superman beating Zod and his cronies (Superman 2)
Grievous pimping the annoying jedi- (Point for style alone- Clone wars)

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2005-07-01 11:07am

Stargate SG1.

Pops: "O'Neill. I am dying"
O'Neill: "My heart bleeds"
Pops: "You lie poorly"
O'Neill: "Yeah....what do you want?"
Pops: "To Live"
O'Neill: "Sorry, can't help you. Thats between you and your God. Oh wait...you ARE your God! See thats a problem!"
-Serpents Song.

Just love that line at the end

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2005-07-01 11:09am

SW:ESB

Vadar-Obi-wan never told you what happened to your father
Luke-he told me enough, he told me you killed him
Vadar-no, I am your Father.

that was powerful.

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2005-07-01 11:30am

DS9 - In the episode "Civil Defense," Gul Dukat thinks he has Kira over a barrel due to him being the only person who can shut off a defensive program they accidentally activated and which is trying to kill everyone on the station. He tries to beam off the station to his ship to let her mull over his demands. He then gets the smug look he's wearing slapped off his face when he finds he can't leave, and has activated a message from his superior. This informs him that because he tried to abandon the station in an emergency, he now can't shut off the defense program, and he can spend his last moments thinking about his failure. I wonder if that's a standard feature, or if the Central Command put that in just for him.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-07-01 11:46am

CDiehl wrote:DS9 - In the episode "Civil Defense," Gul Dukat thinks he has Kira over a barrel due to him being the only person who can shut off a defensive program they accidentally activated and which is trying to kill everyone on the station. He tries to beam off the station to his ship to let her mull over his demands. He then gets the smug look he's wearing slapped off his face when he finds he can't leave, and has activated a message from his superior. This informs him that because he tried to abandon the station in an emergency, he now can't shut off the defense program, and he can spend his last moments thinking about his failure. I wonder if that's a standard feature, or if the Central Command put that in just for him.

Gul Dukat was clearly surprised. Given he seems to be moderatlely informed, I'd imagine it was something that doesn't get put into place very often. Either that or if it does Cardassian leaders wind up dying before they have a chance to abandon their posts, so it being activated is extraoardinarily rare.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-07-01 12:57pm

Titan A.E: (I forget the names, it's been a while)
"I happen to be Humanity's last hope!"
"I weep for the Species"

The Kzinti Lesson.

Use of Weapons, Zakalwe has a chat with the Ethnarch:

He goes on about what the Culture does with dictators like the Ethnarch (Putting them somewhere nice and pleasant where they can't do anything), before ending with:

"The nice people are called the Culture. And I always did think they were too soft. I stopped working for them a some time ago. I'm freelance now"

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2005-07-01 01:01pm

Jade Falcon wrote: "Who am I, I am Susan Ivanova, commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophi Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart, I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!"

Probably the most cringeworthy line of dialogue in all of B5. I HATED it, the delivery was awful and if I were the Captain of the Experimental Omegas I would have been laughing my ass off. Sorry but that line irks me every time.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2005-07-01 01:35pm

Stravo wrote:
Jade Falcon wrote: "Who am I, I am Susan Ivanova, commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophi Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart, I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!"
Probably the most cringeworthy line of dialogue in all of B5. I HATED it, the delivery was awful and if I were the Captain of the Experimental Omegas I would have been laughing my ass off. Sorry but that line irks me every time.

Claudia Christian wasn't much of an actress really. When compared to say... G'Kar's or Londo's, she was pathetic. I even thought Delenn was more impressive, despite her minbari accent being uh... her own.

Oh, well. That line's terrible compared to the "I.. am god." part, which I found amusing if slightly botched too.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2005-07-01 01:43pm

Nephtys wrote: Claudia Christian wasn't much of an actress really. When compared to say... G'Kar's or Londo's, she was pathetic. I even thought Delenn was more impressive, despite her minbari accent being uh... her own.

Oh, well. That line's terrible compared to the "I.. am god." part, which I found amusing if slightly botched too.

I've got to admit, the Claudia Christian line that makes me cringe is the part where she has 'sex' with the Lumati Ambassador.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-07-01 02:52pm

Stravo wrote:
Jade Falcon wrote: "Who am I, I am Susan Ivanova, commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophi Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart, I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!"
Probably the most cringeworthy line of dialogue in all of B5. I HATED it, the delivery was awful and if I were the Captain of the Experimental Omegas I would have been laughing my ass off. Sorry but that line irks me every time.

Same here.

It's like she paraphrased every famous quote that was badass at one time but has since been turned into a cliche, and then put it all into this one speach.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2005-07-01 03:19pm

Tsyroc wrote: It's like she paraphrased every famous quote that was badass at one time but has since been turned into a cliche, and then put it all into this one speech.

And, just to top it off, completely ruins the delivery. Valen that was awful.