Star Trek (TV Series)
The Immunity Syndrome (1968)
Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock
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Quotes
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Mr. Spock : [from shuttlecraft] Brace yourselves... the area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive.
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Dr. McCoy : Spock, how can you be so sure the Intrepid was destroyed?
Mr. Spock : I sensed it die.
Dr. McCoy : But I thought you had to be in physical contact with a subject before...
Mr. Spock : Doctor, even I, a half-Vulcan, could hear the death scream of four hundred Vulcan minds crying out over the distance between us.
Dr. McCoy : Not even a Vulcan could feel a starship die.
Mr. Spock : Call it a deep understanding of the way things happen to Vulcans, but I know that not a person, not even the computers on board the Intrepid, knew what was killing them or would have understood it had they known.
Dr. McCoy : But, 400 Vulcans?
Mr. Spock : I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.
Dr. McCoy : Suffer the death of thy neighbour, eh, Spock? Now, you wouldn't wish that on us, would you?
Mr. Spock : It might have rendered your history a bit less bloody.
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Mr. Spock : [Kirk has chosen Spock over McCoy for the mission] We're wasting time. The shuttlecraft is ready.
Dr. McCoy : You're determined not to let me share in this, aren't you?
Mr. Spock : This is not a competition, Doctor. Whether you understand it or not, grant me my own kind of dignity.
Dr. McCoy : Vulcan dignity? How can I grant you what I don't understand?
Mr. Spock : Then employ one of your own superstitions - Wish me luck.
[Spock walks into the shuttlecraft bay and climbs aboard the shuttlecraft. The bay door closes]
Dr. McCoy : [quietly] Good luck, Spock.
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Mr. Spock : That sound was the turbulence caused by the penetration of a boundary layer, Captain.
Capt. Kirk : What boundary layer?
Mr. Spock : Unknown.
Capt. Kirk : A boundary layer between what and what?
Mr. Spock : Between where we were and where we are.
Capt. Kirk : Are you trying to be funny, Mr. Spock?
Mr. Spock : It would never occur to me, Captain.
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Mr. Spock : [form the shuttlecraft] This is Spock. I am slowly losing life support and minimal shield energies. According to my calculations...
[static]
Mr. Spock : ...nervous energy of the organism...
[louder static]
Mr. Spock : ...is maximal... just within... its outer... protective... membrane. Relatively insensitive to interior irritation.
[static]
Mr. Spock : Believe sufficient charge of...
[static]
Mr. Spock : ...could destroy the organism. Tell Dr. McCoy...
[static]
Mr. Spock : ...he should have wished me luck.
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Capt. Kirk : Spock! You're alive!
Mr. Spock : [communicating from shuttlecraft] Obviously, Captain, and I have some fascinating data on the organism.
Dr. McCoy : Don't be so smart, Spock, you botched the acetylcholine tests!
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Mr. Spock : Captain, the Intrepid would have done all these things, too, and yet they were destroyed.
Capt. Kirk : Well, they may not have done ALL of these things. You just pointed out how illogical this situation is.
Mr. Spock : True. It is also true they never knew what was killing them. Their logic would not have permitted them to believe they were being killed.
Capt. Kirk : Explain.
Mr. Spock : Vulcan has not been conquered within its collective memory. The memory goes back so far that no Vulcan can conceive of a conqueror. I knew the ship was lost because I sensed it.
Capt. Kirk : What was it you sensed?
Mr. Spock : Touch of death.
Capt. Kirk : And what do you think they felt?
Mr. Spock : Astonishment.
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Capt. Kirk : If you can't tell me what it is, let's use reverse logic. Perhaps it'll help if you tell me what it isn't.
Mr. Spock : It is not liquid, gaseous, or solid, despite the fact we cannot see through it.
Capt. Kirk : So far that's not much help.
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Capt. Kirk : Spock, give me an update on the dark area ahead.
Mr. Spock : No analysis due to insufficient information.
Capt. Kirk : No speculation, no information, nothing? I've asked you three times for information on that thing and you've been unable to supply it. Insufficient data is not sufficient, Mr. Spock! You're the science officer. You're supposed to have sufficient data all the time.
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Mr. Spock : Personal log, Commander Spock, U.S.S. Enterprise. I have noted the passage of the Enterprise on its way to whatever awaits it. If this record should survive me, I wish it known that I bequeath my highest commendation and testimonial to the Captain, officers, and crew of the Enterprise, the finest Starship in the fleet.
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Capt. Kirk : Spock?
Dr. McCoy : What is it, Spock? Are you in pain?
Mr. Spock : Captain, the Intrepid. It just died. And the four hundred Vulcans aboard, all dead.
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[the viewscreen is completely blank]
Chekov : Captain, the stars are gone!
Capt. Kirk : Malfunction, Mr. Spock?
Mr. Spock : Negative, Captain. All systems functioning properly.
Capt. Kirk : Then kindly tell me what happened to the stars.
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Mr. Spock : Sir, we are accelerating. We're being pulled toward the center of the zone of darkness.
Capt. Kirk : By what, Spock?
Mr. Spock : Unknown, Captain. I suggest you order Mr. Scott to give us reverse power.
Capt. Kirk : He just gave us reverse power. We lurched forward.
Mr. Spock : In that case, Captain, I would suggest we apply forward thrust.
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Mr. Spock : It's logical to assume that something within this zone absorbs all forms of energy whether mechanically or biologically produced. Whatever it is, it would seem to be the same thing which drew all the energy out of an entire solar system and the Intrepid.
Capt. Kirk : The same thing, not the zone itself?
Mr. Spock : I would say not, Captain. The analysis of the zone indicates it is a negative energy field, however illogical that may sound, but it is not the source of the power drain.
Capt. Kirk : Maybe it's a shield of some kind, some form of protection for something else.
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[Spock, McCoy and Kirk discuss sending a one-man probe into the giant creature. McCoy volunteers to go]
Mr. Spock : You have a martyr complex, Doctor. I submit that it disqualifies you.
