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Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 quotes

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S1 E15Unfinished Business

CGColonel Green

No one talks peace unless he's ready to back it up with war.

SSurak

He talks peace if it is the only way to live.

YYarnek

It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted. However, you have failed to demonstrate to me any of the difference between your philosophies. Your good and your evil use the same methods, achieve the same results.

There's still so much of their work (Lincoln's and Surak's) to be done in the galaxy, Spock.

Think, Spock – what's happening on your planet right now?

My people are barbarians... warlike barbarians.

Who nearly killed themselves off with their own passions. Spock – you're reverting back to the ways of your ancestors... five thousand years before you were born!

There's no further need to observe me, Doctor. As you can see, I've returned to the present in every sense.

But it did happen, Spock.

Yes, it happened. But that was five thousand years ago. And she is dead now. Dead and buried. Long ago.

I've seen the captain feverish, sick, drunk, delirious, terrified, overjoyed, boiling mad. But up to now, I have never seen him red-faced with hysteria.

I've lost..To the Captain...Kill Him....Now I'll never Command a starship

[last scene of series, Kirk laments Dr Lester's nervous breakdown]

Her life could've been as rich as any woman's... if only... if only..."

PBDr. Phillip Boyce

Sometimes, a man will tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor.

BDr. Boyce

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he... turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

CPChristopher Pike

Now you're beginning to talk like a doctor, bartender.

BDr. Boyce

Take your choice. We both get the same two kinds of customers-- the living and the dying.

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