Star Trek (TV Series)

Requiem for Methuselah (1969)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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Quotes 

• Flint : Constantinople, Summer 1334. It marched through the streets, the sewers. It left the city by oxcart, by sea, to kill half of Europe. The rats, rustling and squealing in the night as they, too, died. The rats...

  Mr. Spock : Are you a student of history, sir?

  Flint : I am.

• Flint : I have married a hundred times, Captain. Selected, loved, cherished, caressed a smoothness, inhaled a brief fragrance. Then age, death, the taste of dust. Do you understand?

  Mr. Spock : You wanted a perfect, ultimate woman, as brilliant, as immortal as yourself. Your mate for all time.

  Flint : Designed by my heart. I could not love her more.

• Mr. Spock : [about Rayna]  The joys of love made her human, and the agonies of love destroyed her.

• [last lines] 

  Mr. Spock : [touching the face of the grieving but sleeping Captain Kirk]  Forget.

• Mr. Spock : A man of Flint's obvious wealth and impeccable taste scarcely needs to hang fakes, yet my tricorder analysis indicates that the canvas and pigments used are of contemporary origin.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Stay out of this. We're fighting over a woman.

  Mr. Spock : No, you're not, for SHE is not.

• Mr. Spock : I am close to experiencing an unaccustomed emotion.

  Dr. McCoy : I'll drink to that.

• Mr. Spock : This waltz I just played is by Johannes Brahms.

  Capt. Kirk : Later, Spock.

  Mr. Spock : Captain, it is written in manuscript - in original manuscript in Brahms' own hand, which I recognize. It is totally unknown, definitely the work of Brahms - and yet... unknown.

• Mr. Spock : This is the most splendid private collection of art I've ever seen, and the most unique. The majority are the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance period, some of the works of Reginald Pollack, 20th century, and even a sten from Marcus Two.

• Mr. Spock : We have still a greater mystery, Captain. I was able to run a tricorder scan on Mr. Flint. He is human, but there are certain biophysical peculiarities. Some body function readings are disproportionate. For one thing, extreme age is indicated on the order of six thousand years.

• McCoy : [whistling]  Saurian brandy, one hundred years old. Jim?

  Capt. Kirk : Please.

  McCoy : Mr. Spock, I know you won't have one. Heaven forbid those mathematically perfect brainwaves be corrupted by this all too human vice.

  Spock : Thank you, Doctor, I will have a brandy.

  [Kirk and McCoy look at each other in amazement] 

  McCoy : [to Kirk]  Do you think the two of us can handle a drunk Vulcan? Once alcohol hits that green blood...

• Mr. Spock : Our host's interests do not seem confirmed to art and science.

  Capt. Kirk : He... loves her?

  Mr. Spock : Strongly indicated.

  Capt. Kirk : Jealousy. Yes, that would explain the attack, but he seemed to want us together. The billiard game? He suggested we dance.

  Mr. Spock : It does appear to defy the male logic as I understand it.