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Skwidj

Skwidj is an engineer who, like all great starship engineers, needs to learn to operate under pressure. He’s not great at it yet, but he’s learning.

First Appearance: The Seat Of Your Pants Page 8

Archive

Maybe this is a bad time to tell you, but the door is open.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 8

If you are worthy of your command, prove your strength and try to destroy me!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 10

Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 11

Don't Blink. Blink and you're dead.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 21

Even dogs have dreams, but not you. You are just a machine.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 22

Out here in space, no one is completely independent. We all depend on one another.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 25

I know how alone you feel... alone in all that cold blackness... but I'm there in the dark with you.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 29

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 1

Time... you can't see it, you can hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't... measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of... becoming, what we... are, in stead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time's a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it... slice by slice.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 2

How come I never make friends like that?' 'You really need to get out more.' 'We're in another galaxy. How much more out can you get?'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 6

In the name of extreme profit, you're under arrest.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 7

Each man gets a chance to be his own kind of hero. Your time will come, and when it does, watch out. Chances are it'll be the last thing you ever expected.'

The Smooshsonian Institute Part 9

Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.'

He who allows the alien to live shares in the crime of its existence.

Now You39re A Man Pt 3

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Give Pease A Chance

It's the simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.