Star Trek (TV Series)

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969)

Frank Gorshin: Bele

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• Bele : It is obvious to the most simpleminded that Lokai is of an inferior breed.

  Mr. Spock : The obvious visual evidence, Commissioner, is that he is of the same breed as yourself.

  Bele : Are you blind, Commander Spock? Well, look at me. Look at me!

  Captain James T. Kirk : You are black on one side and white on the other.

  Bele : I am black on the right side!

  Captain James T. Kirk : I fail to see the significant difference.

  Bele : Lokai is white on the right side. All of his people are white on the right side.

• Bele : My people... all dead?

  Mr. Spock : Yes Commissioner, *all* of them.

  Lokai : No one alive?

  Mr. Spock : *None* at all, sir.

• [Bele and Lokai are bi-colored aliens whose skin is white on one side and black on the other, except on differing sides] 

  Bele : You're finished, Lokai! We've got your kind penned in on Cheron into little districts, and it's no good to change. You've combed the galaxy and come up with nothing but mono-colored trash, do-gooders and bleeding hearts. You're dead, you half-white!

  Lokai : [to the crew]  You useless pieces of bland flesh.

  [to Bele] 

  Lokai : I'll take you with me, you half-black!

• Bele : Surely, stealing a shuttlecraft, uh, cannot be equalled with the importance of murdering thousands of people.

  Mr. Spock : We do not know that Lokai has done that.

  Bele : One thing we are agreed on is that Lokai is a criminal.

  Captain James T. Kirk : No, Commissioner. The one thing we're agreed upon is that Lokai took a shuttlecraft.

• Bele : [to Lokai]  You insane... you filthy little plotter of ruin. You... vicious subverter of every decent thought. Oh... you're coming back to pay for your crimes!

• Bele : For fifty thousand of your terrestrial years, I have been pursuing Lokai through the galaxy. I have not traveled this far this long only to give him up now. This ship goes where my will drives it.

• Bele : [to Kirk]  You can no more destroy this ship than I can change color.

• Computer voice : 25 seconds.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Let's see you prevent the computer from fulfilling my commands.

  Computer voice : 20 seconds.

  Captain James T. Kirk : From five to zero, no command in the universe can prevent the computer from fulfilling its destruct orders.

  Computer voice : 15 seconds.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You can use your will to drag this ship to Cheron, but I command the computer. Mine is the final command.

  Computer voice : 10... 9... 8... 7... 6...

  Bele : [shouts desperately]  I agree!

  Captain James T. Kirk : Computer, this is Captain James Kirk of the USS Enterprise. Code 1-2-3-continuity. Abort destruct order. Repeat: code 1-2-3-continuity. Abort destruct order.

  Computer voice : Destruct order aborted. Destruct order aborted.