“So you did what Captain? You sent a call – a call to arms? A clarion signal? A wave? –

well I guess you did at that –

and you rode that wave, you rode it and it took you, where exactly?

A world? A planet, a moon? A rock – a hill?

Well, wherever it was – you made your stand and you took it.

Man can do that. Take a hill.

And I won’t deny you – you scored a hit… but Victory?

Well Captain, sometimes victory comes with the going home again.

Sometimes that’s where victory has to be won –

won Captain, not taken – because going home.. well that’s the really hard part.

Going home. Back to the real. The real that was and is – gone somehow.

And that’s where the hurt can be. In the going home.

Maybe I can help with that.”

Shepherd Solomon Face to Captain Malcolm Reynolds

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“Hi, I’m dead.

Did I get your attention there?

Yep. Dead.

R.I.P. (say it with me people)

My life is null and nada – I am deceased – a stiff – I’ve kicked the bucket. I’m pushing up the daisys. I am a dead parrot. Sorry –Pilot. Sorry. Cut off in my prime. Canceled like your favourite show – that someone always said would be too good to last.

But my gosh – when they put you in the ground they really – well, they just – they really put you in the ground don’t they. I always prefered the stars myself.

Will you look at ‘em down there? No, not the stars – well they are stars but not the glowy pointy kind you look at with your loved one, not the ones that glitter as you lie together on a far flung hill side, in the after-glow of the big juicy bone jumping joy and – ok ok so wandering now but – hey! – have you SEEN my wife? You got any idea what I’m missing right now buddy!? And there aint no love-bots or batterys up here, I can tell ya. Just the misty longing and the – what? You got a problem?? Hello!- dead! Let’s get back to the part where I’m DEAD.

I’m dead and they’re crying???

Like I said they ARE stars.

Some of ‘em even know it.

Look at ‘em – I mean, hey – they got the hologram grave marker