Star Trek (TV Series)
The Doomsday Machine (1967)
Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock
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Quotes
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Capt. Kirk : Mr. Spock, relieve Commodore Decker immediately. That's a direct order.
Matt Decker : You can't relieve me and you know it, according to regulations...
Capt. Kirk : BLAST REGULATIONS! Mr. Spock, I order you to assume command on my personal authority as Captain of the Enterprise.
Mr. Spock : Commodore Decker, you are relieved of command.
Matt Decker : I don't recognize your authority to relieve me.
Mr. Spock : You may file a formal protest with Starfleet Command, assuming we survive to reach a Starbase, but you are relieved. Commodore, I do not wish to place you under arrest.
Matt Decker : You wouldn't dare.
[Mr. Spock signals two security guards who immediately step forward at his command]
Matt Decker : You're bluffing.
Mr. Spock : Vulcans never bluff.
Matt Decker : [sadly] No. No, I don't suppose that they do. Very well, Mr. Spock, the bridge is yours.
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[Decker has taken a shuttlecraft]
Mr. Spock : Commodore, I must insist that you return to the ship.
Matt Decker : You said it yourself, Spock - There is no way to blast through the hull of that machine, so... I'm gonna take this thing right down its throat.
Capt. Kirk : This is Kirk. Matt, you'll be killed!
Matt Decker : I've been prepared for death ever since I... ever since I killed my crew.
Capt. Kirk : No one expects you to die for an error in judgment!
Matt Decker : [final words] A commander is responsible for the lives of his crew, and for their deaths. Well... I should have died with mine.
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Matt Decker : That thing must be destroyed!
Mr. Spock : You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore. The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.
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Capt. Kirk : Am I correct in assuming that a fusion explosion of 97 mega-tons will result if a starship impulse engine is overloaded?
Mr. Spock : No, sir. 97.835 mega-tons.
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Mr. Spock : It's closing fast on the Constellation.
Sulu : Standing by, sir.
Mr. Spock : Commodore, I suggest...
Matt Decker : Kirk pulled us out of there by distracting it. Now it's our turn. Fire phasers.
[the Enterprise fires upon the planet-killer, causing it to release the Constellation]
Matt Decker : Did it! Hard about! Give me some distance.
[the Enterprise veers sharply to the left, away from the planet-killer]
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Mr. Spock : Captain, sensors show this entire solar system has been destroyed. Nothing left but rubble and asteroids.
Capt. Kirk : That's incredible. The star in this system is still intact. Only a nova could destroy like that.
Mr. Spock : Nonetheless, Captain, sensors show nothing but debris where we charted seven planets last year.
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Mr. Spock : We're being pulled inside, Commodore. You must veer off.
Matt Decker : Maintain phaser fire, helmsman.
Mr. Spock : We've lost warp power. If we don't break the tractor beam within sixty seconds, we never will.
Matt Decker : But don't you understand? We've got to destroy it!
Mr. Spock : That, sir, is illogical. It is suicide. Attempted suicide would be proof that you are psychologically unfit for command. If you don't veer off, I shall relieve you on that basis.
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Mr. Spock : Captain, you're getting dangerously close to the planet killer.
Capt. Kirk : I intend to get a lot closer: I'm going to ram her right down that thing's throat.
Mr. Spock : Jim, you'll be killed, just like Decker.
Capt. Kirk : No, no, I don't intend to die, Mr. Spock. We've rigged a delay detonation device, you'll have 30 seconds to beam me aboard the Enterprise before the Constellation's impulse engines blow.
Mr. Spock : Your chances of survival are not promising. We don't even know if the explosion will be powerful enough.
Capt. Kirk : A calculated risk, Mr. Spock.
Mr. Spock : There's another factor, Captain. The transporter is not working at 100% efficiency. Thirty seconds is very slim timing.
Capt. Kirk : A chance I'll have to take. Kirk out.
Scott : A cranky transporter's a mighty finicky piece of machinery to be gambling your life on, sir.
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Mr. Spock : Sensors show the object's hull is solid neutronium. A single ship cannot combat it.
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Mr. Spock : It came up on us fast, Captain, but we seem able to maintain our distance.
Capt. Kirk : We're blind here. What's it look like?
Mr. Spock : It looks very much like Commodore Decker's planet killer.
[the doomsday machine begins a turn towards Enterprise]
Mr. Spock : And it is pursuing... us...
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[as the Constellation nears the planet-killer, Kirk presses the detonator, then grabs his communicator]
Capt. Kirk : Beam me aboard!
Mr. Spock : Energize.
Lt. Kyle : Energizing...
[the transporter shorts out]
Lt. Kyle : Bridge, it shorted out again!
Scott : [seeing the short, jumps back into the Jeffries tube] Och...!
Capt. Kirk : [still on the Constellation's bridge] Gentlemen... beam me aboard.
