Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.
The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles