Major West Quotes in Lost in Space (1998)

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Major West Quotes:

  • [Launching the Jupiter-1]

    Major West: And the monkey flips the switch.

  • [the Robinson family shares a tender moment of love as they are reunited]

    Major West: You know, the planet IS breaking up around us.

  • Judy Robinson: Who was it that said, "Those who can't think, fight"? I think it was me.

    [walks away]

    Major West: [to Prof. Robinson] That's one cold fish I'd like to thaw.

    [Judy returns]

    Major West: [to Prof. Robinson]

    Judy Robinson: Oh, I won't be home for dinner tonight, *Dad*.

    [Judy walks away. West stares at John, who also walks away]

    Major West: It's gonna be a *long* flight.

  • Major West: You know, I'm thinking this is your "kiss for luck" situation.

    Judy Robinson: Thinking. Not your strong point, is it?

  • Major West: 8 years of flight training. Navigational holographics online. 50 combat missions. Course confirmed for slingshot exit of the solar system. Just so I could take the family camper on an interstellar picnic.

  • Major West: OK, last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer.

  • Dr. Zachary Smith: Like the drip, drip, drip of blood...

    Major West: You really need to shut up.

  • Major West: What about you, Doc? Is there some lucky little nerd you left behind?

    Judy Robinson: I've spent the last three years training for this mission. I'm trying to save the planet. I haven't had time for fun.

    Major West: If there's no time for fun, Doc, then what are we saving the planet for?

  • [Major West arms the Proteus' reactor to explode, to kill the Space Spiders]

    John Robinson: What are you doing?

    Major West: You never leave an enemy stronghold intact.

    John Robinson: Major, stop.

    Major West: One of your father's first rules of engagement.

    John Robinson: That's a direct order.

    Major West: I hate spiders.

  • [the Jupiter II is hurtling towards the Sun]

    John Robinson: We're caught in the sun's gravitational pull. We're headed straight for it.

    Major West: Oh, really? Is that what the big round ball is?

  • Major West: It's working.

    John Robinson: What?

    Major West: If we can't go around the Sun, then we go straight through it, using your hyperdrive.

    John Robinson: If we engage the hyperdrive without a gate, we could be thrown anywhere in the galaxy.

    Major West: Anywhere but here.

  • Major West: I'm going to try to break us out of the atmosphere.

    John Robinson: No, we don't have enough core material for that.

    Major West: Well, maybe if we catch one of the thermal...

    John Robinson: No, it won't work. I *know*. We have to go... down. Through the planet as she's breaking up. We can use the planet's gravity...

    Major West: What?

    John Robinson: To throw us ut the other side and back into space!

    Major West: That's insane!

    John Robinson: I don't have time to argue.

  • Major West: [West assembles his gun as the spiders are attacking] A million bucks worth of weaponry, and I'd trade it all back for a lousy can of Raid.

  • Major West: If this is all a dream, why can't there be more girls?

  • Major West: [just before the spaceship explodes] I'm sorry.

  • [First night on an unknown unfriendly looking planet they crashed on]

    Maureen Robinson: Good night, John.

    John Robinson: Good night, Maureen.

    Will Robinson: Good night, Judy.

    Penny Robinson: Good night, Will.

    Judy Robinson: Good night, Penny.

    [pause]

    Major West: You guys have got to be kidding.

  • Major West: In the old days, I would have raped and tortured you for hours. There's just no time for life's simple pleasures anymore. Oh, well. Goodnight.

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