Star Trek (TV Series)

The Return of the Archons (1967)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk

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• Captain James T. Kirk : You'd make a splendid computer, Mr Spock.

  Mr. Spock : That is very kind of you, Captain.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [seeing Spock knock a lawgiver unconscious]  Isn't that somewhat old-fashioned?

• Bilar : Joy to you, friends.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Joy to *you*.

  Bilar : You be strangers. Come for the festival, are ya?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes.

  Bilar : Got a place to sleep it off yet? Go around to Reger's house. He's got rooms, but you'll have to hurry. It's almost the red hour.

• [Dr. McCoy returns to the holding cell, a changed man] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : Doc...

  Dr. McCoy : [not recognizing Captain Kirk]  Can I help you, friend?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Don't you know me?

  Dr. McCoy : We all know one another - in Landru.

• Captain James T. Kirk : You said you wanted freedom. It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [Spoken to two lawgivers, after Landru's self-destruction]  You can get rid of those robes. And if I were you I'd start looking for another job.

• [Landru's image appears against a wall] 

  Mr. Spock : Projection, Captain. Unreal.

  Captain James T. Kirk : But beautiful, Mr. Spock, with no apparatus at this end.

• Mr. Spock : [speaking of the robed lawgivers]  Their reaction to your defiance was remarkably similar to the reaction of a computer when fed insufficient or contradictory data.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Are you suggesting the lawgivers are mere computers, that they aren't human?

• Mr. Spock : How often mankind has wished for a world as peaceful and secure as the one Landru provided.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes. And we never got it. Just lucky, I guess.

• Mr. Spock : [Kirk has been vainly trying to communicate with Landru's image]  Useless, Captain. A projection.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [Pulling out a pocket phaser]  Yes, Mr. Spock. Let's have a look at the projector.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's log, stardate 3156.2. While orbiting planet Beta III, trying to find some trace of the starship Archon that disappeared here a hundred years ago, a search party consisting of two Enterprise officers were sent to the planet below. Mr. Sulu has returned, but in a highly agitated mental state. His condition requires I beam down with an additional search detail.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Mr. Spock, the plug must be pulled.

  Mr. Spock : Sir?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Landru must die.

  Mr. Spock : Captain, our prime directive of non-interference...

  Captain James T. Kirk : That refers to a living, growing culture. You think this one is?

• Captain James T. Kirk : [recognizing his crewman among the stunned citizens]  Lieutenant O'Neal. He's one of our men.

  Reger : Not anymore. He's been absorbed.