Leonard Nimoy: Spock
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[Spock is still learning how to use profanity correctly]
Spock : They like you very much, but they are not the hell "your" whales.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : I suppose they told you that.
Spock : The hell they did.
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Punk on bus : [Playing loud music on the bus]
Kirk : Excuse me.
Punk on bus : [He ignores him]
Kirk : Excuse me. Would you mind stopping that noise?
Punk on bus : [He turns it up louder]
Kirk : [louder and firmer] Excuse me! Would you mind stopping that damn noise?
Punk on bus : [He flips him off]
Kirk : [He looks at Spock]
Spock : [He gives the punk the Vulcan neck-pinch, followed by the delighted applause of the grateful bus passengers]
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Sure you won't change your mind?
Spock : Is there something wrong with the one I have?
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Kirk : Mr. Spock, have you accounted for the variable mass of whales and water in your time re-entry program?
Spock : Mr. Scott cannot give me exact figures, Admiral, so... I will make a guess.
Kirk : A guess? You, Spock? That's extraordinary.
Spock : [to Dr. McCoy] I don't think he understands.
McCoy : No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts.
Spock : Then you're saying...
[pause]
Spock : It is a compliment?
McCoy : It is.
Spock : Ah. Then, I will try to make the best guess I can.
McCoy : Please do.
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Spock : Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors, "double dumb-ass on you" and so forth.
Kirk : Oh, you mean the profanity?
Spock : Yes.
Kirk : Well that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word.
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Ambassador Sarek : Do you have a message for your mother?
Spock : Yes. Tell her I feel fine.
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Spock : To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Whoever said the human race was logical?
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Spock : [in response to Kirk pawning his antique spectacles from The Wrath of Khan] Excuse me, Admiral. But weren't those a birthday gift from Dr. McCoy?
Kirk : And they will be again, that's the beauty of it.
[to the Antique Store Owner]
Kirk : How much?
Antique Store Owner : Well, they'd be worth more if the lenses were intact. I'll give you one hundred dollars for them.
Kirk : [pause] Is that a lot?
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Ambassador Sarek : As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character.
Spock : They are my friends.
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Wait a minute. How did you know Gracie's pregnant? Nobody knows that.
Spock : Gracie does.
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Spock : Admiral, if we were to assume these whales were ours to do with as we pleased, we would be as guilty as those who caused their extinction.
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Gillian : You're not from the military are you? Trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes or some dipshit stuff like that?
Kirk : No, ma'am. No dipshit.
Gillian : Well, good. That was one thing, I would have dropped you off right here.
Spock : Gracie is pregnant.
[Gillian brakes to a sudden stop]
Gillian : All right, who are you? And don't jerk me around anymore, I want to know how you know that!
Kirk : We can't tell you.
Gillian : But...
Kirk : Please, just let me finish. I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales. In fact, we may be able to help - in ways that, frankly, you couldn't possibly imagine.
Gillian : Or believe, I'll bet.
Kirk : Very likely.
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Federation Council president : The Council is now in session. If you will all take your seats. Bring in the accused.
[Spock leaves his seat and he moves at side of Kirk]
Federation Council president : Captain Spock, you do not stand accused.
Spock : Mister President, I stand with my shipmates.
Federation Council president : As you wish. The charges and specifications are: conspiracy, assault on Federation Officers, theft of Federation Property namely the Starship Enterprise, sabotage of the U.S.S. Excelsior, wilful destruction of Federation Property specifically the aforementioned U.S.S. Enterprise, and finally disobeying direct orders of the Starfleet Commander. Admiral Kirk, how do you plead?
Kirk : On behalf of all of us, Mister President, I am authorised to plead guilty.
Federation Council president : So entered. Because of certain mitigating circumstances, all charges but one are summarily dismissed. The remaining charge, disobeying orders of a superior officer is directed solely at Admiral Kirk. I'm sure the Admiral will recognise the necessity of keeping discipline in any chain of command.
Kirk : I do, sir.
Federation Council president : James T. Kirk. It is the judgment of this Council that you be reduced in rank to Captain, and that as a consequence of your new rank, you be given the duties for which you have repeatedly demonstrated unswerving ability: the command of a starship.
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Amanda : Spock, does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?
Spock : I would accept that as an axiom.
Amanda : Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them.
Spock : Humans make illogical decisions.
Amanda : They do, indeed.
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Spock : Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?
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Vulcan Computer : What was Kiri-Kin-Tha's first law of metaphysics?
Spock : Nothing unreal exists.
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McCoy : [18:57] Perhaps, we could cover a little philosophical ground. Life
[pause]
McCoy : Death
[pause]
McCoy : Life.
[pause]
McCoy : Things of that nature.
Spock : I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines.
McCoy : C'mon, Spock, it's me, McCoy. You really have gone where no man's gone before. Can't you tell me what it felt like?
Spock : It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference.
McCoy : You're joking!
Spock : A joke
[pause]
Spock : is a story with a humorous climax.
McCoy : You mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?
Spock : Forgive me, Doctor. I am receiving a number of distress calls.
McCoy : I don't doubt it.
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Spock : Ready to engage computer, Admiral.
Kirk : What's our target in time?
Spock : Late twentieth century.
Kirk : Can you be more specific?
Spock : Not with this equipment. I've had to program some of the variables from memory.
Kirk : What are some of the variables?
Spock : The availability of fuel components, mass of the vessel through a time continuum, and probable location of humpback whales - in this case, the Pacific Basin.
Kirk : And you programmed all that from memory?
Spock : I have.
McCoy : Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
Spock : [recognizing the quote] Hamlet, Act One, Scene Four.
Kirk : [smiling] No doubt about your memory, Spock. Engage computers. Prepare for warp speed.
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Federation Council president : Captain Spock, you do not stand accused.
Spock : Mister President, I stand with my shipmates.
Federation Council president : As you wish.
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Kirk : You mean the profanity? That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.
Spock : For example?
Kirk : Oh the collected works of Jacqueline Susann. The novels of Harold Robbins...
Spock : Ah, the "Giants".
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Spock : Father.
Ambassador Sarek : I am returning to Vulcan within the hour, I would like to take my leave of you.
Spock : It was most kind of you to make this effort.
Ambassador Sarek : It was no effort. You are my son. And besides, I am most impressed with your performance in this... crisis.
Spock : Most kind.
Ambassador Sarek : As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character.
Spock : They are my friends.
Ambassador Sarek : Yes, of course. Do you have a message for your mother?
Spock : Yes. Tell her, "I feel fine." Live long and prosper, father.
Ambassador Sarek : Live long and prosper, my son.
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[Kirk and Spock enter a bus headed for the aquarium - only to exit the bus about two seconds later]
Spock : [to Kirk] What does it mean, "exact change"?
