Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series)

The Terratin Incident (1973)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius Kirk

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• Doctor McCoy : Jim, you don't mean you're going to abandon the mapping mission to check out some meaningless signal?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Meaningless at the moment, Bones, but it was sent twice. Odds against that occuring in a totally random transmission are too high to ignore.

• Scotty : Engineering. No casualties, Captain, but trouble aplenty with the engines. Every dilithium crystal connection smashed in the warp engine circuitry. We're trying to bypass them now.

  Captain James T. Kirk : What about main circuits?

  Scotty : Well, you have to see it to believe it, sir. Those big crystals in there have come apart, each of them, unpeeling like the rind of an orange.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Spock, are you slumping?

  Mr. Spock : I have never slumped in my life, Captain. but I was about to ask you the same...

  [the intercom interrupts] 

• Lt. Uhura : Captain, the most incredible thing is happening.

  Captain James T. Kirk : We know. The whole ship has apparently expanded.

  Mr. Spock : An equally good possibility is that ship's personnel have contracted, and may be continuing to shrink.

• Mr. Spock : [noticing Christine's bracelet]  Miss Chapel, what is the composition of this decoration?

  Nurse Christine Chapel : Well, it was made for me by the Titanium smiths of Libra, but... it was an arm bracelet. More like a necklace now.

  Mr. Spock : Yet the uniform on which you wear it fits as well as ever. Uniform made of algae-based xenylon, I believe."

  Doctor McCoy : Aren't all our uniforms xenylon?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes, and they've all been shrinking proportionally with us.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [narrating]  Captain's log, stardate 5577.7. We will lose effective control of this vessel at the point when we have become approximately one centimeter tall. At the present rate, we will reach this less-than-fingernail-length in thirty-two minutes.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [Bones is using a miniature laser to heal Sulu's broken leg]  How is it, Sulu?

  Lt. Hikaru Sulu : I can feel it knitting, sir.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Spock, who are the Terratins? Where'd they come from?

  Mr. Spock : [on viewscreen from Terratin]  Descendents of an early lost colony, which is why they retain some knowledge of starship methods, such as transporter mechanisms. These Earth colonists named and numbered this planet Terra Ten, hence the present corruption of their name.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [gazing at the Terratin city through a macroscope]  Mendant, we welcome your people aboard the Enterprise.

  Mendant : Captain Kirk, we welcome your eye upon our city.

• Mendant : People of the Enterprise, we have no way to pay the debt we owe, but this at least comes from a meeting of all our numbers: we name you honorary Terratins now and for all time to come.

  Mr. Spock : We came rather close to making it more than honorary.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes. I'd say just about a sixteenth of an inch close.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Scotty, how are your engines?

  Scotty : Purring like happy kittens, Captain.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Cut down sensor sweeps, Mr. Arex.

  Lt. Arex : Visual sweeps are already impossible, sir. My eyes no longer fit the opticals.

  Lt. Uhura : And I can't reach the dial I turned five minutes ago.

• Captain James T. Kirk : We're contracting.

  Doctor McCoy : That's why our weight remains the same. Same number of atoms. The effect is just reducing the space between the molecules. It's something I've never seen before.

  Mr. Spock : Agreed. And it is accelerating.

• Captain James T. Kirk : We've got twenty-nine minutes before we're too small to operate ship controls.

• Captain James T. Kirk : No more climbing heights for you, nurse. Got that clear?

• Captain James T. Kirk : There've been no Earth colonists a sixteenth of an inch tall.

  Mr. Spock : Exactly why they were lost, Captain.