Michael Ansara credited as playing...
Miguel Alvarez
- Admiral Nelson: Alvarez, are you saying - that man must accept destruction even though it's in his power to avert it?
- Alvarez: It's not for us to judge, Admiral. Freeze!
- Admiral Nelson: Not to judge, maybe, but we can reason. If God ordains that man should die without a fight, then why does he give us the will to live?
- Capt. Lee Crane: What kind of talk is this anyway?
- Alvarez: I only came to offer comfort.
- Capt. Lee Crane: Comfort? You offer defeatism! May I remind you this is a federal ship and these are federal seamen. By what right do you dare preach of imminent death of meek resignation to the inevitable?
- Alvarez: Captain, I...
- Capt. Lee Crane: Nothing is inevitable except defeat - for those who give up without a fight. I'll remind you to keep your sniveling philosophies to yourself.
- Alvarez: Man must accept what is ordained.
- Dr. Susan Hiller: That's a convenient rationalization, but under the circumstances - there seems to be no alternative.
- Alvarez: Has man a right to even try to oppose God's will?
- Lt Cathy Connors: Why should God want to destroy us?
- Alvarez: Haven't we tried to destroy ourselves?
