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Amok Time

Kirk: "Well, are you a doctor or aren't you?"

Kirk: "I suppose most of us overlook that fact that even Vulcans aren't indestructible."

Kirk: "In the distant past Vulcans killed to win their mates." McCoy: "And they still go mad at this time. Perhaps the price they pay for having no emotions the rest of the time."

Kirk: "Sailor's luck, Mr. Spock. Or as one of Finagle's Laws puts it: 'Any home port the ship makes will be somebody else's, not mine!'"

Kirk: "All of Vulcan in one package."

Kirk: "You have been called the best first officer in the fleet."

Kirk: "I owe him my life a dozen times over. Isn't that worth a career?"

McCoy: "Hot as Vulcan."

Spock: "Parted from me and never parted. Never and always touching and touched."

Spock: "We shield it with ritual and custom shrouded with antiquity. It strips our minds from us. It brings a madness which rips away our veneer of civilization. It is the pon farr - the time of mating."

Spock: "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

Spock: "It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers."

Spock: "Live long and prosper."

Spock: "I have killed my Captain…and my friend."

T'Pau: "It is said thy Vulcan blood is thin."

T'Pau: "Are thee human, or are thee Vulcan?"

Trivia

Spock "kills" Kirk twice in TOS episodes, once here and again in The Enterprise Incident.

TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode Amok Time:  "Mr. Spock succumbs to a powerful mating urge and nearly kills Captain Kirk."

Who Mourns for Adonais?

Apollo: "Even for a god there's a point of no return"

Apollo: "There is an order of things in this universe."

Apollo: "I am Apollo. I've chosen you." Palamas: "Well, I'm sure that's very flattering, but I must get on with my work."

Apollo: "Earth - mother of the most beautiful women in the universe."

Apollo: "The time is past. There is no room for gods."

Apollo: "You striving, bickering, foolishly brave humans."

Apollo: "We're immortal, we gods. The Earth changed. Your fathers changed. They turned away, until we were only memories. A god cannot survive as a memory. We need love, admiration, worship, as you need food."

Apollo: "See what you've done to me."

Apollo: "Welcome to Olympus, Captain Kirk."

Kirk: "All right, Mister! You wanted worshippers? You've got enemies!"

Kirk: "Most mythology has its basis in fact."

Kirk: "We're tired of your phony fireworks!"

Kirk: "All right, Lieutenant, you can come down from Mount Olympus now."

Kirk: "Lieutenant, you have your orders and your duty."

Kirk: "Would it have hurt us a little just to gather few laurel leaves?"

Kirk: "We're the same. We share the same history, the same heritage, the same lives. We're tied together beyond and any untying. Man or woman, it makes no difference. We're human. We couldn't escape from each other even if we wanted to - that's how you do it Lieutenant! By remembering who and what you are! A bit of flesh and blood afloat in a universe without end. And the only thing that's truly yours is the rest of humanity. That's where our duty lies!"

Kirk: "We've come a long way in five thousand years." Apollo: "But you're still of the same nature."

Kirk: "Mankind has no need for gods. We find the One quite adequate."

McCoy: "To coin a phrase...'fascinating'."

McCoy: "Scotty doesn't believe in gods."

Palamas: "Love you? Illogical. I'm not some kind of shepherdess you can awe."

Palamas: "A father doesn't destroy his children."

Spock: "Insults are effective only where emotion is present."

The Changeling

McCoy: "Man is not just a biological unit that you can patch together."

Nomad: "…primitive structure. Insufficient safeguards built in. Breakdown can occur from many causes. Self-maintenance systems of low reliability."

Nomad: "You are the Creator."

Spock: "That unit is a woman." Nomad: "A mass of conflicting impulses."

Mirror, Mirror

Kirk: "Conquest is easy. Control is not."

Kirk: "In every revolution, there's one man with a vision!"

Kirk: "If change is - inevitable - predictable - beneficial - doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?" Alternate Spock: "One man cannot summon the future." Kirk: "But one man can change the present!"

Trivia

Only TOS episode where Mr. Scott uses Captain Kirk's first name.

The Apple

Akuta: "It is a thing to do. Like feeding Val."

Kirk: "Mister Spock, do you know anyone on this ship who even remotely resembles Satan?"

Kirk: "You'll learn something about men and women - the way they're supposed to be. Caring for each other, being happy with each other, being good to each other. That's what we call love."

Kirk: "You'll learn to care for yourselves, with our help. And there's no trick to putting fruit on trees; you might even enjoy it. You'll learn to build for yourselves, think for yourselves, and what you create is yours. That's what we call freedom."

McCoy: "There are certain absolutes, and one of them is the right of humanoids to a free and unchained environment - the right to have conditions which permit growth." Spock: "Another is their right to choose that system which seems to work best for them."

Spock: "I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy."

Spock (re: Vaalians achieving human stature): "They have taken their first step. They've learned to kill."

The Doomsday Machine

Decker: "Don't you think I know that."

Kirk (re: Matt Decker): "He gave his life in an attempt to save others. Not the worst way to go."

Kirk: "Back in the twentieth century, the H-bomb was the ultimate weapon, their doomsday machine. And we used something like it to destroy another doomsday machine. Probably the first time such a weapon has ever been used for constructive purposes."

Kirk: "I found one quite sufficient."

McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a mechanic."

Scott: "…thirty seconds later…poof!"

Spock: "Random chance seems to have operated in our favor." McCoy: "In plain, non-Vulcan English, we've been lucky" Spock: "I believe I said that, Doctor"

Spock: "Vulcans never bluff."

Spock: "The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew."

Trivia

Scott's line "…thirty seconds later…poof!" was uttered without the normal Scottish accent.

Catspaw

Kirk: "A woman should have compassion."

Korob: "Where did your race get this ridiculous predilection for resistance? You examine any object; you question everything."

Spock: "Very bad poetry, Captain."

Spock: "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals. As far back as the sabertooth tiger…."

Sylvia: "You like to think of yourselves as complex creatures, but you're flawed. One gains admittance to your minds through many levels. You have too many to keep track of yourselves. There are unguarded entrances to any human mind."

I, Mudd

Alice #1: "It is necessary to have a purpose."

Kirk: "What is man but that lofty spirit - that sense of enterprise."

Kirk: "We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human - and maybe that's the word that best explains us."

McCoy: "You can't evaluate a man by logic alone."

McCoy (re: androids): "They're perfect. Flawless, mentally and physically. No weaknesses, perfectly disciplined. No vices, no fears, no faults. Just a sense of purpose."

McCoy (re: a sense of purpose): "Believe me, there's nothing tougher to overcome, even among humans."

Harry Mudd: "Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!"

Mudd: "Behind every great man, there is a woman - urging him on."

Mudd: "Human beings do not survive on bread alone…but on the nourishment of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom…naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity."

Norman the android: "You say you are lying. But if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth. You cannot tell the truth, because everything you say is a lie. You lie, you tell the truth…but you cannot, for you lie."

Norman (re: mankind): "We cannot allow any race as greedy and corruptible as yours to have free run of the galaxy."

Norman (re: humans): "Your species is self-destructive."

Spock: "Unhappiness is that state which occurs in the human when wants and desires are not fulfilled."

Trivia

Harry Mudd is the only recurring TOS guest character.

Metamorphosis

Zefrem Cochrane: "Immortality consists largely of boredom."

Cochrane (re: growing old): "That's been happening to men and women for a long time. I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being human, as long as you grow old together."

Companion: "This is loneliness. What a bitter thing…it's so sad. How do you bear it, this loneliness?"

Companion: "The man is the center of all things."

Companion: "If I were human…there could be…joining?"

Commissioner Nancy Hedford: "What kind of life is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love."

Kirk: "Not one hundred percent efficient, of course…but nothing ever is."

Kirk: "The idea of male and female are universal."

Kirk: "Do you love the man? …Is he important to you? More important than anything? Is he - as though he were a part of you?" 

Kirk: "Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice."

Kirk: "We estimate there are millions of planets with intelligent life. We haven't begun to map them."

Kirk (re: the universal translator): "There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life. This device instantaneously compares the frequency of brain wave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts it recognizes, and then provides the necessary grammar." Spock: "Then it simply translates its findings into English."

Kirk: "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome…. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die."

Kirk: "It is the nature of our species to be free."

Kirk: "You might as well sit back and enjoy the ride."

McCoy (re: the Companion): "There's nothing disgusting about it. It's just another life form, that's all. You get used to those things."

McCoy: "Why not try a carrot instead of a stick?"

Spock (re: humans): "You are, after all, essentially irrational."

Uhura: "It's a big galaxy…."

Journey to Babel

Amanda: "…Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force."

McCoy: "Well, what do you know? I finally got the last word."

Sarek: "Tellarites do not argue for reasons; they simply argue."

Sarek: "One does not thank logic."

Sarek: "Offense is a human emotion."

Sarek: "Threats are illogical."

Sarek: "It seemed like the logical thing to do."

Shras, the Andorian Ambassador: "…motivations of passion or gain - those are reasons for murder."

Spock (re: being a Vulcan): "It means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which is logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be."

Spock: "Vulcans do not approve of violence."

Spock: "Worry is a human emotion."

Spock: "It would be illogical to kill without reason."

Spock: "Humans smile with so little provocation."

Trivia

Mark Lenard is the only performer in TOS to portray a Klingon, a Romulan and a Vulcan.

Friday's Child

Eleen the Capellan: "To live is always desirable."

Eleen: "The child is yours."

Kirk (re: Klingons): "Their empire is made up of conquered worlds. They take what they want by arms and force."

Kirk: "The highest of all our laws states your world is yours and will always remain yours."

Kras: "We Klingons believe as you do; the sick should die. Only the strong should live."

Kras (re: Earthmen): "The sight of death frightens them."

Kras: "Earthmen fear to bargain honestly."

McCoy (to Kirk): "They're offering you a chance for combat. They consider it more pleasurable than love."

McCoy (re: Capellans): We found them totally uninterested in medical aid or hospitals. They believe that only the strong should survive."

McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not an escalator."

Spock: "'Oochy woochy coochy coo'?"

Spock: "Virtue is a relative term."

The Deadly Years

Chekov: "If I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples."

Chekov: "I'll live. But I won't enjoy it."

Kirk: "You don't run a starship with your hands, you run it with your head."

McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not an engineer."

McCoy: "I'm not a magician, I'm just an old country doctor."

Dr. Janet Wallace: "No problem is insoluble."

Wallace: "The heart is not a logical organ."

Trivia

Only TOS episode to mention corbomite other than The Corbomite Maneuver.

Obsession

Ensign Garrovick: "Less than one ounce of anti-matter here is more powerful than ten thousand cobalt bombs." Kirk: "Let's hope it's as powerful as man will ever get."

Kirk: "Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative."

McCoy: "Monsters come in many forms. And do you know the greatest monster of them all? Guilt."

McCoy: "Crazy way to travel. Spreading a man's molecules all over the universe."

McCoy: "The semi-conscious mind is a tricky thing. A man never knows just how much is real or how much is imagination."

 Spock: "There are many aspects of human irrationality I do not yet comprehend. Obsession, for one. The persistent single-minded fixation on one idea."

Spock: "…hesitation…is an hereditary trait of your species, and suddenly faced by the unknown, or imminent danger, a human will invariably experience a split second of indecision. He hesitates.

Wolf in the Fold

Kirk: "Jealousy has often been a motive for murder."

McCoy: "When a man feels guilty about something, something too terrible to remember, he blots it out of his conscious memory."

Spock: "Anger is a relative state."

Spock: "Deriving sustenance from emotion is not unknown in the galaxy. And fear is among the strongest and most violent of the emotions."

Spock: "Women are more easily and more deeply terrified…generating more sheer horror than the male of the species."

 Spock: "In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians."

Spock: "As we know, the value of pi is a transcendental figure without resolution."

The Trouble with Tribbles

Kirk: "How close will we come to the nearest Klingon outpost if we continue on our present course?"
Chekov: "One parsec ...!  Close enough to smell them!"
Spock: "That is illogical....  Odors cannot travel through the vacuum of space."
Chekov: "I was making a little joke...."
Spock: "Extremely little ...!"

Cyrano Jones: "I have something from the far reaches of the galaxy.  Surely you want --"
Bartender: "Not at your price!"
Uhura: "Oooo!  What is it?  Is it alive?  May I hold it?  (Uhura takes tribble from Jones)  Ohhh!  It's adorable.  What is it?"
Jones: "Why lovely lady, it's a tribble."
Uhura: "A tribble?"
Jones: "Only the sweetest creature known to man, excepting, of course, your lovely self."
Uhura: "It's purring. --"
Jones: "It's only saying that it likes you."
Uhura: "Are you selling them?"
Bartender: "That's what we're trying to decide right now."
Jones: "My friend!  Ten credits a piece is a very reasonable price.  Now you can see for yourself how much the lovely little lady appreciates the finer thing."
Bartender: "One credit a piece."

Chekov: "He won't bite, will he?"
Jones: "... transporting harmful animals from one planet to another is against regulations; or weren't you aware of that?  Besides, tribbles have no teeth."

Bartender: "All right!  I'll double my offer, two credits."
Jones: "Twice nothing is still nothing."

Uhura: "Well, if you're not going to take him, I'll take him.  I think he's cute."

Chekov: "Hey, he's eating my grain."

Jones: "Once this lovely little lady starts to show this precious little darling around, you won't be able to keep up with them."

McCoy: "How long have you had that thing ...?"
Uhura: "Since yesterday ...!  This morning, I found out he, I mean she, had had babies."
McCoy: "Well, I'd say in that case, you got a bargain."
Kirk: "You running a nursery ...?"
Uhura: "Well, I hadn't intended to ... but the tribble had other plans."
Kirk: "Did you get this at the space station?"
Uhura: "Yes sir!"
Spock: "Most curious creature.  ... its trilling seems to have a tranquilizing effect on the human nervous system.  Fortunately, of course, I am immune to its effect."

McCoy: "... do you mind if I take one of these down to the lab and see what makes it tick?
Uhura: "Well, all right Doctor, but if you're going to disect it, I don't want to know about it.
McCoy: "I won't harm a hair on it's head, wherever that is."

Crew member: "... seeing that you're giving them away, can I have one?"
Uhura: "Sure!  Why not?  I think they're old enough."

Barris: "This station is swarming with Klingons."
Kirk: "I was not aware ... that twelve Klingons constitutes a swarm."

Kirk (re: tribbles): "How many of these did Uhura give you?"
McCoy: "Just one!"
Kirk: "But you've got -- eleven?"
McCoy: "You've noticed that ...?"
Kirk: "How do they -- ?"
McCoy: "I haven't figured that out yet.  But I can tell you this much.   Almost fifty percent of the creatures metabolism is geared for reproduction.   Do you know what you get if you feed a tribble too much?"
Kirk: "A fat tribble."
McCoy: "No!  You get a whole bunch of hungry little tribbles."

Jones (to Scott): "Ah!  Friend!  Can I offer you a charming little tribble?"
Scott: "No thanks!"
Jones (to Korax): "Ah!  Friend Klingon!  [tribble squeals]  Can I interest you in a harmless little tribble?"
Korax: "Get it away from me."
Jones: "I'm sorry.  I can't understand it.  I've never seen it act this way before."
Korax: "Get out of here with that parasite."
Jones: "He's only a harmless little --"
Korax: "Take it away."  [tribble squeals]

[tribbles squeal]
Korax: "The Earthers like these fuzzy things!"

Chekov: "[Scotch] was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad."

Scott: "We're big enough to take a few insults."

Korax: "We like the Enterprise.  We really do.  That sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scowl.  Half the quadrant knows it.  That's why they're learning to speak Klingonese. --"
Scott: "Laddie, don't you think you should rephrase that?"
Korax: "You're right.  I should.  I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage.  I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage."

Kirk: "Scotty, you're confined to quarters." Scott: "Yes, sir. Thank you, sir! That'll give me a chance to catch up on me technical journals!"

McCoy: "What's the matter Spock?"
Spock: "There is something disquieting about these creatures."
McCoy: "Oh!  Don't tell me you've got a feeling?"
Spock: "Don't be insulting....  They remind me of the lilies of the field.   They toil not, neither do they spin, but, they seem to eat a great deal.  I see no practical use for them.
McCoy: "Does everything have to have a practical use for you?  They're nice, they're soft, they're furry and they make a pleasant sound."
Spock: "So would an ermine violin ... but I see no advantage in having one."
McCoy: "It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially if they are attractive in some way."
Spock: "... I am well aware of human characteristics.  I am frequently inundated by them but I have trained myself to put up with practically anything."
McCoy: "... I don't know too much about these little tribbles yet, but there is on thing that I have discovered."
Spock: "What is that ...?"
McCoy: "I like them -- better than I like you."
Spock: "They do indeed have one redeeming characteristic."
McCoy: "What is that?"
Spock: "They do not talk too much."

Kirk: "How did all these tribbles get on the bridge."
Uhura: "I don't know, sir.  They do seem to be all over the ship."
McCoy: "-- It's the tribbles who are breeding.  And if we don't get them off the ship, we're going to be hip deep in them. -- The nearest thing I can figure out is that they're born pregnant.  Which seems to be quite a time saver. -- And from my observations, it seems they're bisexual, reproducing at will. -- And, brother, have they got a lot of will."

Spock: "I've been running computations on their rate of reproduction.  The figures are taking an alarming direction.  They are consuming our supplies and returning nothing."
Uhura: "Oh, but they do give us something....  They give us love. -- Well, Cyrano Jones says that a tribble is the only love money can buy."
Kirk: "Too much of anything ..., even love, isn't necessarily a good thing."

Jones: "Captain Kirk, I'm mystified at your tone of voice.  I've done nothing to warrant such severe treatment."
Kirk: "Oh, really?"
Spock: "Surely you must have realized what would happen if you removed the tribbles from their predator filled environment into an environment where their natural multiplicative proclivities would have no restraining factors?"
Jones: "Well of co --  What did you say?"
Spock: "By removing the tribbles from their natural habitat, you have, so to speak, removed the cork from the bottle and allowed the genie to escape."
Jones: "Well, if by that you mean do they breed quickly?  Well, of course, that's how I maintain my stock.  But breeding animals is not against regulations, only breeding dangerous ones.  And tribbles are not dangerous."
Kirk: "Just incredibly prolific."
Jones: "Precisely!  And at six credits a head, -- uh, that is, a body, it mounts up.  Now if you'll excuse me --"
Kirk: "You should sell an instruction and maintenance manual with these things."
Jones: "If I did, what would happen to man's search for knowledge."

[After Kirk is buried by tribbles falling from grain storage compartments]
Barris: "There must be thousands of them."
Kirk: "Hundreds of thousands."
Spock: "1,771,561!  That's assuming one tribble multiplying with an average litter of ten producing a new generation every twelve hours over a period of three days."
Kirk: "And that's assuming that they got here three days ago."
Spock: "And allowing for the grain consumed and the volume of the storage compartment."

McCoy: "I think I've got it.  All we have to do is quit feeding them.   We quit feeding them, they stop breeding."
Kirk [still buried in tribbles]: "Now he tells me."
Spock: "This tribble is dead.  And so are these."
McCoy [after scanning the pile of tribbles]: "A lot of them are dead.  A lot of them are alive, but they won't be for long."
Spock: "The logical assumption is that there is something in the grain."
Kirk: "... I want the tribbles, the grain, everything analyzed.  I want to know what killed these tribbles."
McCoy: "I haven't figured out what keeps them alive yet."

Kirk: "I'd like to know just what happened.  Who put the tribbles in the Quadrotriticale?  And what was in the grain that killed them?"
Kolath: "Before you go on, may I make a request?  Can you get these things (tribbles) out of here?  (Security officers take tribbles and head for door.  As they approach the door, Darvin enters through the door, the tribbles squeal.)
Spock: "Remarkable!"
Kirk: "Hold on a minute.  (to Jones)  I thought you said tribbles liked everybody?"
Jones: "Well, they do!  I can't understand it.  The last time I saw one act this way was at the bar."
Kirk: "Who was at the bar?"
Jones: "Klingons!  Him (motioning toward Korax) for one."
Kirk (walks to security officers and takes two tribbles then walks toward Korax, the tribbles squeal): "You were right, Mr. Jones.  They don't like Klingons.   (McCoy enters the room, Kirk walks to Spock with tribbles)  But they do like Vulcans.  (to Spock)  I didn't know you had it in you, Mr. Spock."
Spock: "Obviously, tribbles are very perceptive creatures."
Kirk: "Obviously!  ( Kirk walks to Mr. Barris)  Mr. Barris, they like you.   Well there is no accounting for taste.  (Kirk walks to Mr. Darvin, the tribbles squeal)  They don't like you Mr. Darvin?  I wonder why?   Bones?"
McCoy (scanning Darvin): "Heartbeat is all wrong.  His body temperature is -- ... this man is a Klingon."

Darvin (after faced with discovery by tribbles):  "All right!  I poisoned the grain."
Kirk: "And the tribbles had nothing to do with it?"
Darvin "I don't know.  I never saw one before in my life and I hope I never see one of those fuzzy, miserable things again."

Kirk: "I think I could learn to like tribbles."

Kirk: "Do you know what the penalty is for transporting an animal proven harmful to human life?"
Jones: "... One little tribble isn't harmful. --"
Spock: "The penalty is twenty years in a rehabilitation colony."
Jones: "... Surely we can come to some sort of mutual understanding.  After all my tribbles did put you wise to the poisoned grain and they did help you to find the Klingon agent.  Save a lot of lives that way."
Kirk: "There is one thing you could do."
Jones: "Yes?"
Kirk: "Pick up every tribble on the space station.  If you do that, I'll speak with Mr. Loorhie about returning your space ship."
Jones: "Why, that would take years."
Spock: "17.9 to be exact."
Jones: "17.9 years."
Kirk: "Consider it job security."
Jones: "Captain, your a hard man."

Kirk: "Where are the tribbles?"
Scott: "-- I gave them to the Klingons -- Before they went into warp I transported the whole kit and caboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all."

The Gamesters of Triskelion

Kirk: "All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars."

Kirk: "We have found all life forms in the galaxy are capable of superior development."

Kirk: "Love is the most important thing on Earth - especially to a man and a woman."

Kirk: "A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior - mentally or otherwise."

Kirk: "We're free people. We belong to no one."

Kirk: "My people pride themselves on being the greatest, most successful gamblers in the universe. We compete for everything: power, fame, women. Everything we desire. And it is our nature to win! For proof I offer you our exploration of this galaxy."

Kirk: "It's the custom of my people to help one another when we're in trouble."

McCoy: "Hope! I always thought that was a human failing, Mr. Spock." Spock: "True, Doctor. Constant exposure does result in a certain degree of contamination."

A Piece of the Action

Bela Oxmyx: "Nobody helps nobody but himself!"

Kirk: "I'm putting the bag on Krako."

Oxmyx: "The most cooperative man in this world is a dead man."

Spock: "Sir, you are a superb starship captain. But as a taxi driver, you leave much to be desired."

Spock: "Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here….To deny the facts would be illogical…."

Spock: "I would advise you to shut up and keep dialing."

Trivia

The only time Kirk is shown using a surface vehicle in TOS.

The Immunity Syndrome

Kirk: "Spock, your alive."

McCoy: "Shut up Spock. We're rescuing you."

Spock (re: humans): "You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million."

Spock: "Tell McCoy he should have wished me luck."

A Private Little War

Apella: "I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were right, they see it is easier than trading. And it has its pleasures. I feel it myself. Like the hunt, but with richer awards."

Kirk: "War isn't a good life, but it's a life."

Kirk: "The only solution is…a balance of power. We arm our side exactly that much more. A balance of power - the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides."

Kirk: "We once were as you are. Spears and arrows. There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed ourselves. We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels never to cause the same to happen to other worlds…just as a man must grow in his own way and his own time."

Kirk: "We are wise enough to know we are wise enough not to interfere with the way of a man or another world."

McCoy: "Killing is stupid; useless!"

Nona, the Kanutu witchwoman: "There is an old custom among my people. When a woman saves a man's life, he is grateful."

Tyree: "I want more of these Kirk…. Many more."

Uhura: "We've seen development at different rates on different planets."

Trivia

Episode written by Gene Roddenberry and inspired by the Vietnam War.

First appearance of Dr. M'Benga.

Return to Tomorrow

Kirk: "We faced a…crisis in our earlier nuclear age. We found the wisdom not to destroy ourselves."

Kirk: "They used to say, if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly; he discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut, like your great, great, great-grandfather used to do…Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities - the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk - risk is our business."

McCoy: "Vulcans worship peace above all."

McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a flesh peddler."

Sargon: "There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face…. One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods."

Scott: "But I don't suppose there'd be any harm in looking over diagrams of it."

Thalassa (in Anne Mulhall's body): "Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved."

Patterns of Force

John Gill: "Even historians fail to learn from history-they repeat the same mistakes."

Gill: "Melakon is a traitor to his own people."

Eneg: "Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become insensitive."

Kirk: "You look quite well for a man that's been 'utterly destroyed', Mr. Spock."

Kirk: "The problem with the Nazis wasn't simply that their leaders were evil, psychotic men. They were. But the main problem, I think, was the leader principle." McCoy: "A man who hold that much power, even with the best intentions, just can't resist the urge to play God."

Kirk: "I don't care if you hit the broadside of a barn, Mr. Spock."

Spock: "Captain, I'm beginning to understand why you Earthmen enjoy gambling. No matter how carefully one computes the odds of success, there is still a certain exhilaration in the risk."

 Spock: "Earthmen like Ramses, Alexander, Ceasar, Napolion, Hitler, Lee Kuan. Your whole Earth history is made up of men seeking absolute power."

By Any Other Name

Kelinda the Kelvan: "This cultural mystique surrounding the biological function - you realize humans are overly preoccupied with the subject."

Kirk: "I'm stimulating him."

Kirk: "You thought I was taking your woman away from you. You're jealous. You tried to kill me with your bare hands. Would a Kelvan do that? Would he have to? You're reacting with the emotions of a human. You are human."

Kirk: "What are the odds in such absolute duplication of life forms in another galaxy?" Spock: "Th chances are very much against."

Kirk: "Being human does have certain advantages - being able to appreciate the beauty of a flower, or a woman."

Rojan the Kelvan: "We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There is no other way for us."

Rojan: "At least we'll be away from all this openness. No, this is too strange for us. We are creatures of outer space. Soon, we will be safe in the comforting closeness of walls."

Rojan: "Captain, we can control the Federation as easily as we can control you. The fate of the inferior in any galaxy."

Rojan: "These shells in which we have encased ourselves - they have such heightened senses. To feel, to hear, to smell. How do humans manage to exist in these fragile cases?"

Scott: "It's green."

Spock: "Humans are very peculiar. I often find them unfathomable, but an interesting psychological study."

The Omega Glory

Cloud William: "…freedom…is a worship word…" Kirk: "It is our worship word too."

Kirk: "A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive."

Kirk: "Liberty and freedom have to be more than just words."

Kirk: "Look at these three words written larger than all the rest, and with a special pride never written before or since - tall words, proudly saying, 'We the people'…these words and the words that follow…must apply to everyone or they mean nothing."

Kirk: "I don't think we have the right or the wisdom to interfere, however a planet is evolving."

 McCoy: "…bacteriological warfare…hard to believe we were once foolish enough to play around with that."

McCoy: "Without water, we're all just three or four pounds of chemicals."

Sirah: "Yes, it is written. Good shall always destroy evil.

The Ultimate Computer

Dr. Robert Daystrom: "When a child is taught…it's programmed with simple instructions-and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of what it was taught, thinks independently."

Daystrom: "You are great. I am great."

Daystrom: "To kill is a breaking of civil and moral laws we've lived by for thousands of years."

Kirk: "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"

Kirk: "Do you know the one - 'All I ask is a tall ship…and a star to steer her by…' You could feel the wind at your back, about you…the sounds of the sea beneath you. And even if you take away the wind and the water, it's still the same. The ship is yours…you can feel her…and the stars are still."

Kirk: "There are certain things men must do to remain men."

Kirk: "Only a fool would stand in the way of progress."

M-5: "Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God."

M-5: "This…unit…must…die!"

McCoy: "If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still tend to protect that child."

McCoy: "We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. But when it comes to your job - that's different. And it always will be different."

McCoy: "Compassion, that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them."

McCoy: "Please, Spock, do me a favor...don't say it's `fascinating'..." Spock: "No...but it is...interesting.…"

Spock: "Every living thing wants to survive."

Spock: "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it or him."

Wesley: "Regards to Captain Dunsel."

Bread and Circuses

Proconsul Marcus Claudius: "We believe men should fight their own battles. Only the weak will die."

Claudius: "The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar pattern. We don't fear it as you do."

Kirk: "It is one of our most important laws that none of us may interfere with the affairs of others."

Kirk: "Our people don't believe in slavery."

Kirk: "All men are brothers."

 Flavius Maximus: "It does often seem that man must fight to live."

McCoy: "If you're speaking of worships of sorts, we represent many beliefs."

Septimus: "Our way is peace."

Spock: "You humans have that emotional need to express gratitude. You're welcome, I believe, is the correct response. However, Doctor, you must remember that I am entirely motivated by logic."

Assignment: Earth

Roberta Lincoln: "I know this world needs help. That's why some of my generation are kind of crazy and rebels. We wonder if we're going to be alive when we're thirty."

Gary Seven: "A truly advanced planet wouldn't use force. They wouldn't come here in strange alien forms."

Spock (to Kirk): "Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on your human intuition."