“My love has wings, slender feathered things with grace and upswept curve and tapered tip”
Ah. You are trying to seduce me!
Oh, how marvellous! Devastating! Why, this could kill millions.
It is a tool. We use it.
KIRK: Yes, Mister Spock, what is it?
SPOCK: I picked this up from Doctor McCoy’s log. We have a crewmember aboard who’s showing signs of stress and fatigue. Reaction time down nine to twelve percent, associational reading norm minus three.
KIRK: That’s much too low a rating.
SPOCK: He’s becoming irritable and quarrelsome, yet he refuses to take rest and rehabilitation. Now, he has that right, but we’ve found…
KIRK: A crewman’s right ends where the safety of the ship begins. That man will go ashore on my orders. What’s his name?
SPOCK: James Kirk. Enjoy yourself, Captain.
That’s perhaps the cleverest bit of writing in the original series!
Listen, Kirk, I can play anything you can figure out.
Yes, I love that scene with Spock outfoxing his C.O.
Next:
Who wants to counteract Paradise, Jim-boy?
KIRK: You say you’re convinced he knows what it is?
MCCOY: He does, and he’s as tightlipped about it as an Aldebaran Shellmouth. No use to ask him, Jim. He won’t talk.
I’d advise youse t’keep dialin’, Oxmyx! :dubious:
You calling me a babe?
Well then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears.
I’m callin’ you a babe, but it’s nothin’ personal.
Away! Away, spirit! And let honest men approach.
Aye, lad, lead on; I’m game! Where’s “Library”?
I’m cutting the Federation in for forty percent. You got any objections?
You think forty per cent is enough?
“We’re in a wilderness of arctic characteristics.”
“He means it’s cold!”
I believe I said that, Doctor.
I heard the spirit talk to him. He answered… and did call it “Bones”!
You seem to be moving very slowly, Doctor. Fascinating…