Star Trek TOS - season 1, ep 2. The Deep Muddy Maneuver
The Enterprise is exploring new, uncharted regions of space - seeking out new life and civilizations and such. They encounter the Fesarius, a spinning space cube (never a good thing) that warns them away and keeps blocking their path. What does our intrepid Captain do? “Phasers on Full. Destroy the buoy!”
No dice. Mr. (Blalok) Burns comes onscreen, says “Ex-cell-ent” and muahahas delightedly, then summarily says the Enterprise has trespassed and committed hostile actions, and therefore must be destroyed. Sometime soon.
“Indeedily-doodily” says Spock.
Kirk, clearly flustered at his predicament, snarls back at his First Officer, “Thank you Senator Zell Miller!”
Spock, not letting his emotions control his actions like the dumbass before him, merely arches an eyebrow and stalks off to contemplate the Amok Time episode where Kirk shall be crushed.
So Kirk tells Blalok - go ahead and blow us up if you think we’re so evil. We’ve got Corbomite and if you fire on our ship, we’ll die, you’ll die as will this series… of adventures. Kirk then orders an offensive retreat that, incredibly seems to disable Blalok’s ship! Then a distress signal comes from The Fesarius!
“Mission Accomplished!” beams Kirk. “Let’s beam over to the Fesarius and wallow in our glory!”
The being they encounter, a toddling Clint Howard, who upon seeing Kirk cannot help but rolling on the floor, laughing out loud. “Corbomite! What a maroon!” He stops laughing long enough to pull a string and wheel out his Blalok puppet, mounted on wheels, whom he addresses unctuously, “Oooh, Blalok! They’ve got corbomite! What a bluff!”
So that’s how I got my username, FizzBin