Star Trek (TV Series)

Errand of Mercy (1967)

John Abbott: Ayelborne

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• [Ayelborne and Claymare have interfered in the quarrel between Kirk and Kor] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : You have no right to dictate to our Federation...

  Kor : Or our Empire!

  Captain James T. Kirk : ...how to handle their interstellar relations! We have the right...

  Ayelborne : To wage war, Captain? To kill millions of innocent people? To destroy life on a planetary scale? Is that what you're defending?

• Ayelborne : Oh, eventually, you will have peace; but only after millions of people have died. It is true that in the future, you and the Klingons will become fast friends. You will work together.

  Kor : Never!

• Claymare : We do not wish to seem inhospitable but, gentlemen, you must leave.

  Ayelborne : Yes, please leave us. The mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.

• Claymare : We find interference in other people's affairs... most disgusting. But you, gentlemen, have given us no choice.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You should be the first to be on our side. Two hundred hostages killed!

  Ayelborne : No one has been killed, Captain.

  Claymare : No one has died here in uncounted thousands of years.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Gentlemen, I have no great love for you, your planet, your culture. Despite that, Mr. Spock and I are gonna go out there, and quite probably die - in an attempt to show you that there are some things worth dying for.

  Ayelborne : But there're only two of you against an army. Don't you realize that what you intend to do will be hopeless?

• Trefayne : Eight space vehicles have assumed orbit around the planet.

  Capt. Kirk : How does he know that?

  Ayelborne : Oh, our friend Trefayne is quite intuitive.