Star Trek (TV Series)

The Naked Time (1966)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk

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• Riley : And now, crew, I will render 'Kathleen'... ONE MORE TIME!

  Capt. Kirk : [murmuring to himself]  Please, not again.

• Dr. McCoy : Jim, he was decontaminated, he's been medically checked, we've run every test we know for everything that we know...

  Capt. Kirk : That's not good enough!

  Dr. McCoy : Well, we're doing everything that's possible.

  Capt. Kirk : Bones, I want the impossible checked out, too.

• Riley : [over the intercom]  Lt. Uhura, you've interrupted my song, uh... I'm sorry but there'll be no ice cream for YOU tonight.

  Capt. Kirk : Cut him off.

  Uhura : I can't, sir. There's no way to do it.

  Riley : Attention, crew, this is Capt. Riley. There will be a formal dance in the bowling alley at nineteen hundred hours tonight.

• [the Enterprise is spiraling out of control toward a disintegrating planet, crewmen are going loopy as flies, and Riley, barricaded in the engine room, has been singing off-key over the ship's intercom for the last several hours. Rand enters the bridge hurriedly as Kirk drags an hysterically giggling Leslie away from the helm station] 

  Yeoman Rand : I would have gotten here sooner, sir, but Crewman Williams stopped me in the hall and...

  Capt. Kirk : Take the helm!

  Yeoman Rand : Sir?

  Capt. Kirk : [shoving her into the chair]  TAKE THE HELM!

  Yeoman Rand : Yes, sir.

  [Kirk pulls a semi-comatose crewman away from the engineering section as Riley's song comes to an end] 

  Riley : [over the intercom]  And now... ONE MORE TIME.

  Capt. Kirk : [stalking over to a frantically-working Uhura]  At least TRY cutting him off!

  Uhura : [shouting]  Sir, if I could cut him off, don't you think I...?

  [She suddenly remembers to whom she's speaking and visibly gets her temper under control] 

  Uhura : Yes, sir. I'll keep trying.

  Capt. Kirk : [ruefully]  Sorry.

  [Uhura smiles back at him and gets back to work] 

• Uhura : [over the intercom]  Entering planet's outer atmosphere, sir.

  Scotty : Captain!

  Capt. Kirk : What is it?

  Scotty : He's turned the engines off. They're completely cold. It'll take 30 minutes to regenerate them.

  Uhura : [over the intercom]  Entering planet's outer atmosphere, sir. Ship's outer skin is beginning to heat, Captain. Orbit plot shows we have about 8 minutes left.

  Capt. Kirk : Scotty!

  Scotty : I can't change the law of physics! I've got to have 30 minutes!

• Riley : You rang, sir?

  Capt. Kirk : Who is this?

  Riley : This is Captain Kevin Thomas Riley of the Starship Enterprise. And who's this?

  Capt. Kirk : This is Captain Kirk. Get out of the engine room, Navigator. Where's Mr. Scott?

  Riley : I've relieved Mister Scott of his duties.

• Capt. Kirk : We've got to risk implosion. It's our only chance!

  Spock : It's never been done.

  Capt. Kirk : Don't tell me that again, Science Officer! It's a theory! It's possible! We may go up into the biggest ball of fire since the last sun in these parts exploded, but we gotta take that one in 10,000 chance!

  Uhura : [over the intercom]  Bridge to Captain: Engineer asks "Did you find..."

  Capt. Kirk : Yes, I found Mr. Spock! I'm talking to Mr. Spock, d'you understand!

  Uhura : [over the intercom]  Yes, sir. Three and a half minutes left, captain.

• Capt. Kirk : No beach to walk on.

  Yeoman Rand : Sir?

• Capt. Kirk : [to Spock]  Love. You're better off without it, and I'm better off without mine. This vessel... I give, she takes. She won't permit me my life; I've got to live hers!

• Capt. Kirk : The purpose of a briefing, gentlemen, is to get me answers based on your abilities and experience. In a critical orbit there's no time for surprise.

  Scotty : Unless you people on the bridge start taking showers with your clothes on, my engines can pull us out of anything. We'll be warping out of orbit within a half second a' getting your command.

• Capt. Kirk : What is it?

  Sulu : Nothing but gravity increase, sir. Like the planet reached out and yanked at us.

  Capt. Kirk : Compensate.

• Capt. Kirk : Mr. Spock?

  Spock : Yes, sir.

  Capt. Kirk : The time warp. What did it do to us?

  Spock : We've regressed in time, 71 hours. It is now three days ago, Captain. We have three days to live over again.

  Capt. Kirk : [pleading wryly]  Not those last three days.

• [In a room alone, talking to the ceiling] 

  Capt. Kirk : Never lose you. Never.

• [last lines] 

  Sulu : Course laid in, Sir.

  Capt. Kirk : Steady as she goes.

• [first lines] 

  Capt. Kirk : Captain's log: Our position: orbiting Psi 2000, an ancient world, now a frozen wasteland about to rip apart in its death throes Our mission: pick up a scientific party below and observe the disintegration of the planet.