"This vessel carries my daughter Kara Zor-El from the now dead planet Krypton. Treat her as you would your own child for you will see the treasure she will be for your world."
— Zor-El, The Supergirl from Krypton (2004)
Raymus Antilles: Your Highness, the transmission we received. What is it they sent us?
Princess Leia: Hope.
Princess Leia: Hope.
— The ending of Rogue One
This is our harbinger. It brings good tidings.
We will be dead when it reaches you. Our planet is dying. We do not have time to save ourselves. We only have time to ready ourselves, and to send a message.
We have seen the signals from those who came before us. They were different, and we still don't really understand them. But if there were those who came before, there may be those who come after. It is in this hope that our harbingers travel.
One has found you and learned your language so it can relay this message. Please listen.
The galaxy is dark, and empty, and cold. It spins inevitably toward death. You will die too, one day. Perhaps you will have longer than we have. We hope so. But one day you too must vanish.
Before that time comes, you must light the darkness. You must make the night less empty. We are all small, and the universe is vast. But a universe with voices saying "I am here" is far greater than a universe silent. One voice is small, but the difference between zero and one is as great as one and infinity.
We waited too long. Our voice is gone to echoes. Find others while there is still time. Make a chorus.
And if this finds you too late, and your time is also passing, please send this message on, so the next voice can speak against the darkness.
We will be dead when it reaches you. Our planet is dying. We do not have time to save ourselves. We only have time to ready ourselves, and to send a message.
We have seen the signals from those who came before us. They were different, and we still don't really understand them. But if there were those who came before, there may be those who come after. It is in this hope that our harbingers travel.
One has found you and learned your language so it can relay this message. Please listen.
The galaxy is dark, and empty, and cold. It spins inevitably toward death. You will die too, one day. Perhaps you will have longer than we have. We hope so. But one day you too must vanish.
Before that time comes, you must light the darkness. You must make the night less empty. We are all small, and the universe is vast. But a universe with voices saying "I am here" is far greater than a universe silent. One voice is small, but the difference between zero and one is as great as one and infinity.
We waited too long. Our voice is gone to echoes. Find others while there is still time. Make a chorus.
And if this finds you too late, and your time is also passing, please send this message on, so the next voice can speak against the darkness.
"It didn't take long for Reach to fall. Our enemy was ruthless. Efficient. But they weren't nearly fast enough. For you had already passed the torch. And because of you, we found Halo, unlocked its secrets, shattered our enemy's resolve. Our victory - your victory - was so close... I wish you could have lived to see it."
—Dr. Catherine Halsey, giving a eulogy for Noble Six, Halo: Reach
Sure, in the end, it would probably all just come to nothing... like everything else. But for 50,000 years or more, whatever data I left behind would still be there.
It wouldn't be much. But it wouldn't be nothing, either.
It wouldn't be much. But it wouldn't be nothing, either.
—Bashar Mati in a time capsule in Horizon Zero Dawn
Humanity, with all its fears,
With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Picard: What is it they're launching?
Meribor: You know about it, Father. You've already seen it.
Picard: Seen it? What are you talking about? I haven't seen any missile.
Batai: Yes, you have, old friend. Don't you remember?
Picard: Batai?
Batai: You saw it just before you came here. We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the future. Someone who could be a teacher. Someone who could tell the others about us.
Picard: Oh, it's me, isn't it? I'm the someone. I'm the one it finds. That's what this launching is. A probe that finds me in the future.
Eline: Yes, my love.
Picard: Eline.
Eline: The rest of us have been gone for a thousand years. If you remember what we were, and how we lived, then we'll have found life again.
Picard: Eline...
Eline: Now we live in you. Tell them of us, my darling.
Meribor: You know about it, Father. You've already seen it.
Picard: Seen it? What are you talking about? I haven't seen any missile.
Batai: Yes, you have, old friend. Don't you remember?
Picard: Batai?
Batai: You saw it just before you came here. We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the future. Someone who could be a teacher. Someone who could tell the others about us.
Picard: Oh, it's me, isn't it? I'm the someone. I'm the one it finds. That's what this launching is. A probe that finds me in the future.
Eline: Yes, my love.
Picard: Eline.
Eline: The rest of us have been gone for a thousand years. If you remember what we were, and how we lived, then we'll have found life again.
Picard: Eline...
Eline: Now we live in you. Tell them of us, my darling.
You realize that this is just a recording. A clever one. But no doubt by now this sort of thing is commonplace and I look hopelessly old-fashioned... Bien. And perhaps the entire conversation is out of date and everything is well. But in case it is not, and since your here, I'm going to ask you to save the world for me. I hope that isn't too much trouble.
If you're here, all grown up...then the future is safe, right?
—Future Gohan to Time Patrol Trunks, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
[Terraforming] is a philosophical debate. Some people think the universe has a big sign on it that says 'Do not touch'. "Leave it alone, it was made this way, it is not in our purview as human beings to change anything." I can respect that view, although I disagree with it. I think the universe has a big sign on it that says, "Go forth and spread life". Because when I look around at the universe, I think life is the most amazing thing we see. It is just incredible. And we human beings are uniquely positioned to help spread life from this little tiny planet, which it seems to have started on, beyond. And... that's our gift. Earth's gift to the universe, I think, is the gift of life!''
— Dr. Christopher McKay, a NASA planetary scientist
If you can hear this, you're alone. The only thing left of me is the sound of my voice. I don't know if any of us made it. Did we win? Did we lose? I don't know. But either way, it's over. So let me tell you who we were. Let me tell you who you are. Someone once asked me if I had learned anything from it all. So let me tell you what I learned. Everyone dies alone. But if you meant something to someone, if you helped someone, or loved someone, if even a single person remembers you, then maybe you never really die. And maybe, this isn't the end at all.
— The Machine (speaking through an analog recording to its reincarnated self), Person of Interest
Zor-El: We have a month before kryptonite radiations slowly poison the air! But before that fatal hour, this rocket will send our daughter to another world!
Alura: But which world? I'll use the super-space telescope to find some civilized world where Kara can grow up safely!
Alura: But which world? I'll use the super-space telescope to find some civilized world where Kara can grow up safely!
"My hope is that your mother and I have already welcomed you to a new, safe place where the spirit of Krypton can live on, and this message is unnecessary. But if the opposite is true, know that you carry in your heart the memory of your city, your planet... and your family."
— Zor-El's recording, Last Daughter of Krypton
