Gil Gerard credited as playing...
Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers
- Princess Ardala: [Buck starts dancing at Ardala's reception] What are you doing?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: It's called gettin' down. It's a little before your time, if it frightens you.
- Princess Ardala: Nothing frightens me.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: I would suggest thoroughly searching her ship before you allow it inside your defense shield.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Rather an insulting manner to begin an alliance based on good faith.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Good faith is for bureaucrats and what gets you a city with a lid on it. I'd go up there armed to the teeth, full squadrons. Otherwise, you'll be sitting ducks.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: [bristling] For a man whose expertise is allegedly five centuries old, you seem quite opinionated.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: You're right. It's none of my business how to blow up your world. My generation didn't know what they were doing either.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well, I'm scheduled for termination. And if I miss it, I could be in a great deal of trouble.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Buck, you are impossible. I'm offering you your life, and you're giving me practical jokes?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well, that's the point. Are you offering me termination of my termination, or are you just postponing it?
- Colonel Wilma Deering: If you can prove that your story is true...
- Colonel Wilma Deering: We owe you a great deal more than an apology, Buck. Especially me. I confess I thought the Princess had you beguiled.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well, I will say she did have the nicest set of... horns at the ball.
- Dr. Theopolis: [agrees] Yes, it was an attractive hat.
- [last lines]
- [Buck sees Ardala's shuttle escaping, Twiki looks out the window]
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [readjusts him] Twiki, eyes forward, you'll get starsick!
- Twiki: Bedeep bedeep bedeep! Buck, you're my kind of guy!
- Colonel Wilma Deering: [out in space, to the antiquated spacecraft] Do you have manual override capabilities?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Sure.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Then follow me closely.
- [her sleek spacecraft zooms away]
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Be right on your tail.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Look, I don't know what went wrong with our combat computers. Thank you. Now, Captain, let's go home.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: My place or yours?
- Colonel Wilma Deering: What? What did you say?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Just joking.
- Colonel Wilma Deering: I thought you were a spy, Captain Rogers. I was wrong.
- [in the mood for love]
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Do you want to go someplace?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [has another engagement] I, uh... I'm not up to that yet. I've... been out of it for quite a while. Five hundred years.
- [her face drops]
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: I've got to go easy on re-entry.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [to Princess Ardala, on her growling bodyguard Tigerman] They make better pets if you have them fixed.
- Twiki: Bedeep bedeep bedeep!
- [commenting on Buck's rock 'n' roll dance with Princess Ardala]
- Twiki: It's expressive!
- Colonel Wilma Deering: It's disgusting!
- Princess Ardala: [to her dance partner] What happens if we bump together?
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: We automatically become husband and wife.
- Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Well Colonel, what brings you out on a night like this?
- Colonel Wilma Deering: Captain, I came to find you at some personal risk.