Star Trek (TV Series)

By Any Other Name (1968)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Captain James T. Kirk : Well?

  Mr. Spock : Impossible, Captain. The power source is protected by a material we cannot breach even with our phasers. Mr. Scott and I have prepared the means for the only logical alternative available to us.

  Captain James T. Kirk : What alternative?

  Mr. Spock : The barrier we must penetrate is composed of negative energy.

  Scott : I have opened the control valves to the matter-anti-matter nacelles. On your signal, I will flood them with positive energy.

  Captain James T. Kirk : What?

  Mr. Spock : When we engage the barrier, the ship will explode. The Kelvans will be stopped here.

  Scott : And so will we.

• [McCoy has given Tomar some of the ship's food to taste, which the latter seems to enjoy] 

  Mr. Spock : Most curious.

  Captain James T. Kirk : What is?

  Mr. Spock : The isolated glimpses of things I saw when I touched Kelinda's mind are beginning to coalesce in my consciousness. The Kelvans have superior intellectual capacity. To achieve it, they've apparently sacrificed anything which would tend to distract them - perceptive senses such as taste, touch, smell, and, of course, emotions.

  Captain James T. Kirk : But then, Tomar shouldn't be enjoying the taste of his food.

  Mr. Spock : Yes, quite correct, Captain. But they have taken human form, and are therefore having human reaction.

  Dr. McCoy : [looking at Tomar]  Hm... If he keeps reacting like that, he's gonna need a diet.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Vulcans have the ability to place themselves in a kind of trance, a complete relaxation of every part of the mind and the body.

  Mr. Spock : We find it more restful to the body than your so-called vacation.

• Mr. Spock : [describing his vision of the Kelvans]  Immense beings, a hundred... limbs which resemble tentacles. Minds of such control and capacity, that each limb is capable of performing a different function.

  Dr. McCoy : Do you mean that's what the Kelvans really are?

  Mr. Spock : Undoubtedly.

  Dr. McCoy : Well, if they look that way normally, why did they adapt themselves to our bodies?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Perhaps practicality. They chose the Enterprise as the best vessel for the trip. Immense beings with a hundred tentacles would have difficulty with the turbolift.

• Rojan : Have you seen Captain Kirk?

  Mr. Spock : If you wish, I shall call him to the bridge.

  Rojan : No. I was wondering where he was.

  Mr. Spock : I left him in the recreation room.

  Rojan : He was alone, then.

  Mr. Spock : No, Kelinda was with him. She seemed anxious to speak to him.

  Rojan : I told her to stay away from him.

  Mr. Spock : It would appear, sir, that you have little control over her. Or perhaps Captain Kirk... has more.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [after the crew is turned into dehydrated solid orbs]  Is this all?

  Mr. Spock : I have reviewed ship's personnel, Captain. It appears we four are the only ones the Kelvans consider essential.

  Dr. McCoy : Scotty tells me you could've destroyed the ship in the barrier. Why didn't you?

  Captain James T. Kirk : I couldn't.

  Dr. McCoy : But that was our only chance to stop them...

  Captain James T. Kirk : I didn't think it was.

  Dr. McCoy : Jim...

  Captain James T. Kirk : Bones, that's enough!

  Dr. McCoy : Jim, I saw them reduce four of my doctors and nurses into those little...!

  Captain James T. Kirk : They've reduced the whole CREW!

  [punches the rec room table]