TOS: Season 1

Season 1

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The Cage

The First Pilot

Captain Christopher Pike: "There's a way out of any cage."

Captain Christopher Pike: "You want me to test my theory out on your head?"

Dr. Phillip Boyce: "Sometimes a man'll tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor."

Dr. Boyce: "A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away."

Dr. Boyce (to Pike): "We both get the same two kinds of customers - the living and the dying."

Keeper: "The customs and history of your race show a unique hatred of captivity. Even when it's pleasant and benevolent, you prefer death. This makes you too violent and dangerous a species for our needs."

Number One: "It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves."

Vina: "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records."

Vina: "A person's strongest dreams are about what he can't do."

The Man Trap

Professor Robert Crater: "Earth history, remember? Like the passenger pigeon, or the buffalo…once there were millions of them; prairies black with them. One herd covered three whole states. When they moved - like thunder."

Kirk: "It isn't a bad life to have everyone in the universe at your beck and call, and you win all the arguments."

Kirk: "You could learn something from Mr. Spock and stop thinking with your glands."

Sulu: "May the great bird of the galaxy bless your planet."

Trivia

Star Trek first aired September 8, 1966.

First appearance of Dr. McCoy.

First appearance of Sulu.

First appearance of Janice Rand.

Charlie X

Charlie Evans: "He had a mean look. I had to freeze him. I like happy looks."

Charlie (to Yeoman Janice Rand): "Do you know about being with somebody? Wanting to be? If I had the whole universe, I'd give it to you. When I see you, I feel like I'm hungry all over. Do you know how that feels?"

Kirk (to Charlie): "You go slow, be gentle. It's no one-way street - you know how you feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels too. Don't press. If the girl feels anything for you at all, you'll know."

Kirk: "There's a million things in this universe you can have and a million things you can't. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are."

Where No Man Has Gone Before

Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver: "Women professionals do tend to over-compensate."

Dehaver: "A mutated, superior man could also be a wonderful thing…the forerunner of a new and better kind of human being!"

Gary: "Pray you die easily."

Gary: "My friend James Kirk."

Kirk: "More than anything else, a god needs pity."

Trivia

Star Trek became the first TV series in the history of television to provide two pilot episodes to the network. The Cage was the first pilot.

The pilot that sold Star Trek to the network.

First appearance of James Doohan as Montgomery Scott.

Only appearance of the phaser rifle in TOS.

The Naked Time

Riley: "I will render Kathleen…one…more…time!"

Spock: "Instruments register only through things they're designed to register. Space still contains infinite unknowns."

Sulu: "Fencing tones the muscle, sharpens the eye, improves the posture."

Uhura to Sulu: "Sorry, neither." (In response to him referring to her as a fair maiden.)

Trivia

First time the Enterprise travels through time.

The Enemy Within

McCoy: "We all have our darker side. We need it; it's half of what we are. It's not really ugly, it's human."

McCoy: "He's dead, Jim!"

Spock: "You have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man. His negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence; and his positive side, which Earth people express as compassion, love, tenderness. And what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see here indications that it is his negative side which makes him strong - that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength. Your negative side removed from you, the power of command begins to elude you."

Spock: "I have a human half you see as well as an alien half…constantly at war with each other. I survive it because my intelligence wins out, makes them live together."

Trivia

First time Dr. McCoy uttered the words "He's dead, Jim!"

First appearance of the Vulcan nerve pinch.

Mudd's Women

Kirk: "There's only one kind of woman or man. You either believe in yourself or you don't."

Eve McHuron: "Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel halfway across the galaxy and it's still the same song."

Mudd: "Men will always be men - no matter where they are."

What are Little Girls Made Of?

Dr. Brown: "Freedom of movement and choice produced the human spirit."

Dr. Roger Corby: "Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away with jealousy, greed, hate…." Kirk: "It can also be improved by eliminating love, tenderness, sentiment - the other side of the coin."

Kirk: "We humans are full of unpredictable emotions that logic cannot solve."

Kirk android: "Androids don't eat Miss Chapel."

Ruk: "Existence…survival must cancel out programming."

Miri

Kirk: "I think children have an instinctive need for adults; they want to be told right and wrong."

Kirk: "I never get involved with older women."

Kirk: "It seems impossible, but there it is."

McCoy: "Spare me the analysis. It's enough that it works!"

Spock: "Bickering is pointless."

Spock: "I will never understand the medical mind."

Dagger of the Mind

"To all mankind - may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth."

Kirk: "One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."

McCoy: "It's hard to believe a man could die of loneliness."

Spock: "When there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence."

Spock: "You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately."

Trivia

First appearance of the Vulcan mind meld.

The Corbomite Maneuver

Balok: "We are much alike, Captain, you and I."

Kirk: "A little suffering is good for the soul."

Kirk: "I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise."

Kirk: "The greatest danger facing us is…our irrational fear of the unknown. But there is no such thing as the unknown. There are only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood."

Kirk: "Man is ultimately superior to any mechanical device."

McCoy: "What am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?"

Spock (to Kirk): "There's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about."

Spock: "Once checkmate exists, the game is ended."

Spock: "Fascinating!"

Uhura: "Hailing frequencies open, sir."

Trivia

"Hailing frequencies open, sir." Was Uhura's only spoken line in this episode.

This is the first Spock uses the phrase "Fascinating!" He will use the phrase 48 more times through Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

McCoy's first variation of the "I'm a doctor, not a ...." phrase.

The Menagerie, Part I

Captain Christopher Pike: "There's a way out of any cage."

Dr. Phillip Boyce: "Sometimes a man'll tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor."

Dr. Boyce: "A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away."

Dr. Boyce (to Pike): "We both get the same two kinds of customers - the living and the dying."

Keeper: "Captain Pike has illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant."

Kirk: "A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing."

McCoy: "Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every organ in the human body but one. The brain! The brain is what life is all about."

Number One: "It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves."

Vina: "A person's strongest dreams are about what he can't do."

The Menagerie, Part II

Captain Christopher Pike: "You want me to test my theory out on your head?"

The Conscience of the King

Anton Karidian: "…humanity…striving of man to achieve greatness through his own resources."

Kirk: "Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate; but a woman always remains a woman."

Kodos: "Let bloody vengeance take its final course."

Lenore: "The play's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the king."

McCoy: "The man on top walks a lonely street; the 'chain' of command is often a noose."

McCoy: "In the long history of medicine, no doctor has ever caught the first few minutes of play."

McCoy: "If you don't join me, don't disapprove of me. Not, at least, until you've tried it."

Riley: "He killed my father…and my mother."

Uhura: "Forever is just another day. Forever is just another journey."

Trivia

Last appearance of Yeoman Rand in TOS.

Related Quotations

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. - H.L. Mencken

Balance of Terror

Centurion: "Power is danger."

Kirk: "Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge."

McCoy: "War is never imperative."

McCoy: "In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe three million million galaxies like this one. But in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us."

Romulan Commander (re: Kirk): "He's a sorcerer, that one."

Romulan Commander: "Another war…must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way?…Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death…."

Romulan Commander: "First study the enemy. Seek weakness."

Stiles: "We'll do it without your help, this time, Vulcan."

Trivia

First appearance of Romulans.

Mark Lenard's first appearance in TOS.

Shore Leave

Kirk: "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play."

McCoy: "A princess should not be afraid - not with a brave knight to protect her."

Spock: "On my planet, to rest is to rest - to cease using energy. To me, it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy, instead of saving it."

The Galileo Seven

Kirk (to Spock): "You're not going to admit that, for the first time in your life, you made a completely emotional decision based on desperation?"

Kirk: "Desperation is a highly emotional state of mind."

McCoy: "Respect is a rational process."

McCoy: "Life and death are seldom logical." Spock: "But attaining a desired goal always is."

McCoy: "A little less analysis and a little more action…that's what we need."

Spock: "There are always alternatives."

Spock: "It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six."

Spock: "I realize that command does have its fascination, even under circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy the idea of command, nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever logically needs to be done."

Spock: "I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life."

Trivia

First appearance of an Enterprise shuttlecraft.

The Squire of Gothos

Kirk: "Our missions are peaceful - not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice."

Kirk: "We are living beings, not playthings."

Spock: "I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose."

Spock: "Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected."

Trelane (written message): "Hip-Hip-Hurrah. Tally ho!"

Trelane (re: humans): "Oh, how absolutely typical of your species! You don't understand something, so you become fearful."

Trelane (re: humans): "Do you know that you're one of the few predator species that preys even on itself?"

Trelane: "Make the most of an uncertain future. Enjoy yourself today. Tomorrow - may never come at all."

Arena

Kirk: "We're a most promising species, Mr. Spock, as predators go. Did you know that? Spock: I frequently have my doubts." Kirk: "I don't. Not any more. And maybe in a thousand years or so, we'll be able to prove it."

Metron: "Sparing your helpless enemy who surely would have destroyed you, you demonstrated the advanced trait of mercy, something we hardly expected. We feel that there may be hope for your kind. Therefore you will not be destroyed. It would not be civilized."

Metron: "You are still half-savage - but there is hope."

Tomorrow is Yesterday

Court Martial

Samuel T. Cogley: "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!"

Spock: "If I let go of a hammer on a planet having a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has, in fact, fallen."

Trivia

Lieutenant Shaw wears the only female dress uniform seen in TOS.

The Return of the Archons

Kirk: "Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. Without creativity there is no life."

Kirk: "…freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned."

McCoy: "…blessed be the body and health to all of its parts."

Spock: "Creativity is necessary for the health of the body."

Trivia

The sound used to accompany the materializing of Landru is the sound effect later used for the tricorder.

Space Seed

Khan Noonian Singh: "You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second-in-command attack while you sit and watch for weakness."

Khan: "Suffocating together…would create heroic camaraderie."

Khan: "Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousand fold."

Khan: "Have you read Milton, Captain?"

Khan: "Go. Or stay, but do it because it is what you wish to do."

Kirk: "If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes."

Kirk: "We humans have a streak of barbarism in us - appalling, but there nevertheless."

McCoy (to Khan): "It would be most effective if you would cut the carotid artery just under the left ear."

Spock: "Insufficient facts always invite danger."

Spock: "Superior ability breeds superior ambition."

Trivia

The model used as the sleeper ship "Space Seed" was used in "The Ultimate Computer" as a freighter.

A Taste of Armageddon

Ambassador Fox: "Diplomacy should be a job left to diplomats."

Kirk: "Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on."

Kirk (re: war): "It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers…but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today!"

Kirk: "Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business."

Kirk: "Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all about. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided."

This Side of Paradise

Kirk: "Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder."

Kirk: "No wants - no needs? We weren't meant for that. None of us. Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."

Kirk: "Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through... struggle, claw our way up…scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of lutes. We must march to the sound of drums."

Leila: "You never told me your first name, Mr. Spock?" Spock: "You couldn't pronounce it."

Spock: "Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist."

Spock: "If there are self-made purgatories and we all have to live in them, mine can be no worse than someone else's."

Spock: "I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question."

Spock (to Liela): "I can love you."

Trivia

Spock transports from the Enterprise to the planet in his Federation uniform but rematerializes on the planet's surface in a colony uniform.

The Devil in the Dark

Horta: "No…Kill…I."

Kirk: "Either one of us, by himself, is expendable. Both of us are not."

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

Spock: "If it is the only survivor of a dead race, to kill it would be a crime against science."

Errand of Mercy

Ayleborne: "To us, violence is unthinkable."

Ayleborne: "Oh, our friend Trefayne is quite intuitive."

Kirk: "…the weak innocents who always seem to be located on the natural invasion route."

Kirk: "Well, we've been anticipating an attack. I'd say what we've just experienced very nearly qualifies." Spock: "Yes, it would seem to be an unfriendly act."

Kirk: "Well there it is...war. We didn't want it, but we've got it." Spock: "Curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want."

Kirk: "No one wants war."

Kirk: "The trigger has been pulled. We've got to get there before the hammer falls."

Kirk: "I would like to speak to someone in authority." Ayleborne: "We, we don't have anybody in authority. But I am the chairman of the Council of Elders, perhaps I will do.

Kirk: "With the Federation, you have a choice. You have none with the Klingons. The Klingons are a military dictatorship. War is their way of life. Life under the Klingon rule would be very unpleasant."

Kirk: "We offer you protection." Ayleborne: "We have no defenses, Captain, nor are any needed."

Kirk: "Gentlemen, I have seen what the Klingons do to planets like yours. They are organized into vast slave labor camps. No freedoms whatsoever. Your goods will be confiscated. Hostages taken and killed. Your leaders confined. You'd be far better on a penal planet, infinitely better off."

Kirk: "You keep insisting that there's no danger, I keep assuring you that there is. Would you mind telling me--" Ayleborne: "It is our way of life, Captain." Kirk: "That's the first thing that will be lost!"

Kirk: "I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth."

Kirk: "So, we're stranded here, in the middle of a Klingon occupation army." Spock: "So it would seem. Not a very pleasant prospect." Kirk: "You have a gift for understatement, Mister Spock. It's not a very pleasant prospect at all."

Kirk: "There are some things worth dying for."

Kirk: "We think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe. It's unsettling to discover that we're wrong."

Kor (to Kirk): "Where is your smile? …The stupid, idiotic smile everyone else seems to be wearing."

Kor (to Spock): "You do not look like a storekeeper."

Kor (to Kirk): "Well, have we a ram among the sheep?"

Kor (to Kirk): "Coming from an Organian, yours is practically an act of rebellion. Very good."

Kor (to Kirk): "Good, honest...hatred. Very refreshing."

Kor: "I don't trust men who smile too much."

Kor (to Kirk): "You do not like to be pushed. Very good. You may be a man I can deal with, Barona."

Kor: "You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference between courage and foolhardiness. Always it is the brave ones who die, the soldiers."

Kor: "It would have been glorious."

Spock: "Negotiating…will be time-consuming, Captain. And time is the one thing we'll have the least of."

Spock: "Yes, curious lack of interest."

Spock: "Captain, our information on these people and their culture is not correct. This is not a primitive society making progress toward mechanization. They are totally stagnant. There is no evidence of any progress as far back as my tricorder can register…. For tens of thousands of years, there's been absolutely no advancement, no significant change in their physical environments. This is a laboratory specimen of an arrested culture."

The Alternative Factor

Kirk: "Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure."

Lazarus: "He is mad…or I am. It depends on your point of view."

Spock: "Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal."

Spock: "Possible existence of a parallel universe has been scientifically conceded."

The City on the Edge of Forever

Edith Keeler: "Prepare for tomorrow - get ready."

Keeler: "I think that one day they're going to take all this money that we spend now on war and death…." Kirk: "And make them spend it on life."

Keeler: "Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes."

Keeler: "I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for! One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energy - maybe even the atom. Energy that could ultimately hurl men to other worlds in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world, and to cure their diseases. They'll be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for."

Keeler: "A lie is a very poor way to say hello."

Kirk: "Peace was the way."

Kirk: "'Let me help.' A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over 'I love you.'"

Kirk: "Let's get the hell out of here."

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

Spock: "Time is fluid…like a river with currents, eddies, backwash."

Spock: "I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins."

Spock: "I hardly believe that insults are within your prerogative."

Trivia

First Vulcan nerve pinch ever executed on Earth.

Operation: Annihilate!

Kirk: "I'm putting you gentlemen on the hot seat with me."

McCoy: "'tis a pity brief blindness did not increase your appreciation of beauty."

Spock: "Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled."