Star Trek (TV Series)

Day of the Dove (1968)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Dr. McCoy : Gentlemen, if we are pawns, you're looking at one who is extremely sorry.

  Mr. Spock : I understand, Doctor. I, too, felt a brief surge of racial bigotry. Most distasteful.

• Mr. Spock : Those who hate and fight must stop themselves, Doctor, otherwise it is not stopped.

• Mr. Spock : Captain, neither the Klingon technology nor ours is capable of this - the instantaneous transmutation of matter. I doubt that they are responsible.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Any other logical candidate?

  Mr. Spock : None. However, if they had such power, would they not have used it to create more effective weapons, and only for themselves?

• Mr. Spock : Recent events would seem to be directed toward a magnification of the basic hostilities between Humans and Klingons. Apparently, it is by design that we fight. We seem to be pawns.

  Captain James T. Kirk : But what's the game? And whose? And what are the rules?

• Mr. Spock : No one can guarantee the actions of another.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [after learning there is an unknown alien on board]  A brother that never existed, a phantom colony, imaginary distress calls, the creation of these... weapons. Do you sense a pattern, Mr. Spock?

  Mr. Spock : If the alien is creating these events, Captain, it is apparently capable of manipulating matter and mind.

  Captain James T. Kirk : And now it has control of the Enterprise and taking us out of the galaxy. But why?

  Mr. Spock : Captain, I am constrained to point out that since minds are evidently being influenced, we cannot know at this moment whether our own memories are completely accurate and true.

  Captain James T. Kirk : We must talk to Kang, bury the hatchet.

  Mr. Spock : [as McCoy enters]  An appropriate choice of terms, Captain. However, it is notoriously difficult to arrange a truce with the Klingons once blood has been drawn.

  Dr. McCoy : Truce? Are you serious? I've got men in Sickbay, some of them dying, atrocities committed on their persons, and you talk about making peace with these fiends? If our backs were turned, they'd jump on us in a minute! And you know what Klingons do to prisoners: slave labor, death planets, experiments!

  Captain James T. Kirk : McCoy.

  Dr. McCoy : While you're talking, they're planning attacks. This is a fight to the death! We'd better start trying to win it!

• Mr. Spock : [deflecting Scott's maniac temper from Kirk]  Easy, Mr. Scott.

  Scott : Keep your Vulcan hands off me! Just keep away! Your feelings might be hurt, you green-blooded half-breed!

  Mr. Spock : May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with Humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

  Scott : Then transfer out, freak!

• Mr. Spock : The cessation of violence appears to have weakened it, Captain. I suggest that good spirits might make an effective weapon.

• Mr. Spock : Captain, the enemy ship is drifting, totally disabled, and WE never fired upon it.