Baltar Quotes in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Cmdr. Adama: Mr. President, a wall of unidentified craft is closing in on the fleet.

Baltar: Possibly a Cylon welcoming committee.

Cmdr. Adama: Sir, might I suggest we launch a "welcoming committee" of our own?

Baltar: Mr. President, there remain many hostile feelings amongst our warriors. The likelihood of an unfortunate incident with all those pilots in the sky at once.

President Adar: Did you hear that, Commander?

Cmdr. Adama: Sir, did Count Baltar suggest that our forces sit here totally defenseless?

President Adar: My friend, we are on a peace mission. The first peace man has known in a thousand years.

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

Baltar: What of our bargain? My colony was to be spared!

Imperious Leader: I now alter the bargain.

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.

Baltar: But I have no ambitions against you!

Imperious Leader: Could you think me so foolish as to trust a man who would see his own race destroyed?

Baltar: Not destroyed, subjugated, under me!

Imperious Leader: There can be *no* survivors. So long as one human remains alive, the Alliance is threatened.

Baltar: Surely... you don't mean me?

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

Baltar: No! You can't! You still need me! ARGH!

[a Cylon Centurion slits Baltar's throat]

Baltar: If a handful of survivors did indeed escape, they would have neither fuel nor food for a prolonged voyage.

Cylon Centurion: The information is not complete. It is offered in exchange for life.

Baltar: And what is the standing order, for humans, from your Imperious Leader.

Cylon Centurion: Extermination.

Baltar: Then carry out your orders. If they exist, they're doomed.

President Adar: Baltar, my friend, this armistice conference would not have been possible with your tireless work. You have secured for yourself a place in the history books.

Baltar: [smiling humbly] That the Cylons chose me as their liason to the Quorum of the Twelve was an act of... providence, not skill.