Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

Saga of a Star World (1978)

Patrick Macnee: Opening Credit Announcer, Imperious Leader

Quotes 

• Imperious Leader : Welcome, Baltar. I have grave news. I handful of Colonials prevail, but we will soon find them.

  Count Baltar : What of out bargain? My Colony was to be spared!

  Imperious Leader : I now alter the bargain.

  Count Baltar : How can you change one side of a bargain?

  Imperious Leader : When there is no other side. You have missed the entire point of the war.

• [Two centurions drag Baltar into the throne chamber of Imperious Leader] 

  Imperious Leader : You are Baltar?

  [Baltar laughs contemptuously at Imperious Leader's seeming ignorance] 

  Count Baltar : As if you don't remember.

  Imperious Leader : My predecessor has left me with a difficult choice.

  [Baltar's smirk disappears, as he is now genuinely surprised] 

  Count Baltar : Your... predecessor?

  Imperious Leader : Was destroyed by your peers. A foolish miscalculation of the will of your people.

• Imperious Leader : We thank you for your help, Baltar. Your time is at an end.

  Count Baltar : No! You can't...

  [a centurion seizes Baltar while a second begins to unsheath his sword] 

  Imperious Leader : No! Not now, centurion.

  [the centurion stops and resheaths the sword] 

  Imperious Leader : Remove him for public execution.

• Narrator : There are those who believe that life here, began out there. Far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians or the Toltecs or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids or the lost civilisations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive, somewhere beyond the heavens.

• Cylon Centurion : By your command.

  Imperious Leader : Speak, Centurion.

  Cylon Centurion : All base ships are now in range to attack the Colonies.

  Imperious Leader : The final annihilation of the life form known as Man. Let the attack begin.

• Cylon Centurion : The warriors continue to advance, at least six squadrons.

  Imperious Leader : Recall all raiders to defend base ship!

  Cylon Centurion : Our raiders are all destroyed.

  Imperious Leader : All destroyed? How? We took them by surprise.

  Cylon Centurion : Apparently, it was not as big a surprise as we had hoped for.

  Imperious Leader : Retreat closer to Carillon! Below their scanners!

  Cylon Centurion : There are reports of fires on Carillon. It is dangerous to move closer.

  Imperious Leader : I said lower! Or they will destroy us!

  Cylon Centurion : By your command.