Star Trek (TV Series)

That Which Survives (1969)

James Doohan: Scott

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• Mr. Spock : You have 8 minutes, 41 seconds.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : I know what time it is. I don't need a bloomin' cuckoo clock.

• Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : [working in the service crawlway]  I'm so close to the flow now that it feels like ants crawling all over my body.

  Mr. Spock : Mr. Scott, I suggest you refrain from any further subjective descriptions. You now have 10 minutes and 19 seconds in which to perform your task.

• Mr. Spock : You spoke of the feel of the ship being wrong.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Aye. It was an emotional statement. I don't expect you to understand it.

  Mr. Spock : I note it, Mister Scott, without necessarily understanding it.

• Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Mr. Spock, the ship feels wrong.

  Mr. Spock : "Feels," Mr. Scott?

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : I know it doesn't make sense. Instrumentation reads correct, but the feel is wrong. It's something I can't quite put into words.

  Mr. Spock : That's is obvious, Mr. Scott.

• Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : [Scotty paces uneasily. Something bothers him]  Watkins... check the bypass valve on the matter-antimatter reaction chamber. Make sure it's not overheating.

  Watkins : But, Mr. Scott - the board shows correct.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : I didn't ask you to check the board, lad!

  Watkins : Yessir!

• Mr. Spock : Bridge to Engineering. Negative effect on power reduction. Speed is still increasing.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Aye, Mr. Spock, and I found out why. The emergency bypass control of the matter/antimatter integrator is fused. It's completely useless. The engines are running wild; there's no way to get at them. We should reach maximum overload in about 15 minutes.

  Mr. Spock : I would calculate 14.87 minutes, Mr. Scott.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Those few seconds will not make any difference, Mr. Spock, because you and I and the rest of the crew will no longer be here to bandy it back and forth. This thing is going to blow up, and there's nothing in the universe can stop it.

• Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Whatever did this is still aboard this ship. I fail to understand why you cancelled the security alert.

  Mr. Spock : A force that could hurl us 990.7 light-years away and at that distance still be able to sabotage our main source of energy will not be waiting around to be taken into custody.

• Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : What you're saying is that the planet didn't blow up and the Captain and the others, they're still alive?

  Mr. Spock : Please, Mr. Scott, restrain your leaps of illogic. I have said nothing. I was merely speculating.

• Mr. Spock : It is also illogical to assume that any explosion, even that of a small star going supernova could have hurled us a distance of 990.7 light years.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : The point is it shouldn't have hurled us anywhere, it should have destroyed us immediately. Vaporized us.

  Mr. Spock : That is correct, Mr. Scott, by all the laws that we know. There was no period of unconsciousness; our ship's chronometers registered a matter of only a few seconds. Therefore, we were displaced through space in some manner which I am unable to fathom.

• Mr. Spock : Mr. Scott, since the Enterprise is obviously functional, I suggest we return to our starting place at top warp speed.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Aye, sir, but even at that it'll take us a while to get there.

  Mr. Spock : In that case, Mr. Scott, I suggest we start at once. Can you give me warp 8?

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Aye, sir. And maybe a wee bit more. I'll sit on the warp engines myself and nurse them.

  Mr. Spock : That position, Mr. Scott, would not only be unavailing, but also... undignified.

• Mr. Spock : Mr. Scott, you have accomplished your task.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : You might at least say thank you.

  Mr. Spock : For what purpose, Mr. Scott? What is it in you humans...

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : [muttering]  Never mind.

  Mr. Spock : ...that requires an overwhelming display of emotion in a situation such as this? Two men pursue the only reasonable course of action, and yet you FEEL that something else is necessary.

• Rahda : It doesn't make any sense, but somehow I'd say that in a flash we've been knocked 1000 light-years away from where we were.

  Mr. Spock : 990.7 light-years to be exact, Lieutenant.

  Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : But that's not possible. Nothing can do that.

  Mr. Spock : Mr. Scott, since we are here, your statement is not only illogical but also unworthy of refutation.