Star Trek (TV Series)

Plato's Stepchildren (1968)

Barbara Babcock: Philana

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Quotes 

• Philana : How old would you say I am? Oh, don't be afraid. I'm not vain.

  Spock : [without hesitation]  Thirty-five.

  Philana : [obviously surprised]  THAT old? I stopped aging at thirty. Well, anyway, you're off by 2,000 years.

• Dr. McCoy : [as the Platonians force Spock into fits of laughter]  He's a Vulcan! You can't force emotion out of him!

  Philana : Oh, you must be joking, Doctor.

  Dr. McCoy : It could destroy him.

  Parmen : We can't let him die laughing, can we?

  [gestures towards Spock, who promply starts crying] 

• Philana : Alexander, you talk too much.

• Philana : To our noble captain: the shield carried by Pericles, as a symbol of gallant leadership.

  [gestures to the shield, which flies into Kirk's hands] 

  Philana : To our silent and cerebral Mr. Spock, this kithara to pluck music to sooth his ever-active brow.

  [the kithara, likewise, levitates over to Spock] 

  Philana : And lastly, to the physician Dr. McCoy who saved Platonius and my spouse, this ancient collection of Greek cures penned by Hippocrates himself.

  [she bows as the scrolls fly upwards towards McCoy]