Star Trek (TV Series)

Requiem for Methuselah (1969)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk

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Quotes 

• Captain James T. Kirk : You'd wipe out four hundred lives? Why?

  Flint : I have seen a hundred billion fall. I know death better than any man. I have tossed enemies into his grasp. And I know mercy. Your crew is not dead but suspended.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Worse than dead! Restore them. Restore my ship!

  Flint : In time - a thousand, two thousand years. You will know the future, Captain Kirk.

  Dr. McCoy : You have been such men, you've known and created such beauty, you've watched your race evolve from cruelty and barbarism throughout your enormous life - and, yet, now you would do this to us?

  Flint : The flowers of my past; I hold the nettles of the present. I am "Flint" now, with MY needs.

  Captain James T. Kirk : WHAT needs?

  Flint : Tonight, I have seen something wondrous, something I've waited for, laboured for - nothing must endanger it: At last, Rayna's emotions have stirred to life. Now they will turn to me in this solitude which I preserve.

• 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 : 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.

• 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.

• [first lines] 

  Capt. Kirk : Captain's log, stardate 5843.7. The Enterprise is in the grip of a raging epidemic. Three crewmen have died and twenty-three others have been struck down by Rigelian fever. In order to combat the illness, Dr. McCoy needs large quantities of ryetalyn, which is the only known antidote for the fever. Our sensors have picked up sufficient quantities of pure ryetalyn on a small planet in the Omega system. We are beaming down to secure this urgently needed material.