Ian Hendry credited as playing...
John Kane
- Jason Webb: You are going to sit there and watch me take a man for one billion dollars.
- John Kane: The words of an egotistical megalomaniac.
- Jason Webb: Remind me to be as charitable to you when one of your rockets blows up on the pad.
- John Kane: I could grow attached to those.
- Dr. Pontini: That's the idea. Now you can be hooked up to the heart, lung, and kidney machine during flight. With sedation, you'll sleep, three weeks there, and three weeks back.
- John Kane: That part I'm looking forward to.
- Jason Webb: I've been thinking John, about the second astronaut to accompany Ross.
- John Kane: Well Bogemann is the obvious choice, or Mitchell.
- Jason Webb: If we want just an astronaut, I agree.
- John Kane: But?
- Jason Webb: It occurs to me, that we need someone more flexible.
- John Kane: Well they're trained to be-
- Jason Webb: I mean, in terms of knowledge. Someone who could take full advantage of any findings on the new planet, no matter how bizarre or unusual they happen to be.
- John Kane: You mean an astrophysicist. (a beat) Me?
- Jason Webb: The idea doesn't appeal to you?
- John Kane: You must be joking!
- Jason Webb: It'll grow on you.