Star Trek (TV Series)

The Doomsday Machine (1967)

James Doohan: Scott

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• Capt. Kirk : If I only had some phasers.

  Scott : Phasers - you've got 'em. I have one bank recharged.

  Capt. Kirk : Scotty, you just earned your pay for the week.

• Mr. Spock : Captain, you're getting dangerously close to the planet killer.

  Capt. Kirk : I intend to get a lot closer: I'm going to ram her right down that thing's throat.

  Mr. Spock : Jim, you'll be killed, just like Decker.

  Capt. Kirk : No, no, I don't intend to die, Mr. Spock. We've rigged a delay detonation device, you'll have 30 seconds to beam me aboard the Enterprise before the Constellation's impulse engines blow.

  Mr. Spock : Your chances of survival are not promising. We don't even know if the explosion will be powerful enough.

  Capt. Kirk : A calculated risk, Mr. Spock.

  Mr. Spock : There's another factor, Captain. The transporter is not working at 100% efficiency. Thirty seconds is very slim timing.

  Capt. Kirk : A chance I'll have to take. Kirk out.

  Scott : A cranky transporter's a mighty finicky piece of machinery to be gambling your life on, sir.

• [as the Constellation nears the planet-killer, Kirk presses the detonator, then grabs his communicator] 

  Capt. Kirk : Beam me aboard!

  Mr. Spock : Energize.

  Lt. Kyle : Energizing...

  [the transporter shorts out] 

  Lt. Kyle : Bridge, it shorted out again!

  Scott : [seeing the short, jumps back into the Jeffries tube]  Och...!

  Capt. Kirk : [still on the Constellation's bridge]  Gentlemen... beam me aboard.

• Capt. Kirk : What about the detonator?

  Scott : I've linked it in with the impulse control system.

  [presses a switch] 

  Scott : It's armed now.

  [points to the last switch in the bank] 

  Scott : Press this one, thirty seconds later, poof! Once it's activated, there's no way to stop it.

  Capt. Kirk : Understood.