The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series) Quotes

The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . The Menagerie ended its run in 1970.

It features Alexander Courage in charge of musical score.

The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series) Quotes

• (Captain James T. Kirk) "Mr. Spock, even if regulations are explicit, you could have come to me and explained."
• (Mr. Spock) "Ask you to face the death penalty, too? One of us was enough, Captain."

• (Captain Christopher Pike) "And that's it. No apologies. You captured one of us, threatened all of us --"
• (First Talosian) "Your unsuitability has condemned the Talosian rase to eventual death. Is this not sufficient?"

• (Number One) "Well, you all know the situation. We're hoping to transport down inside the Talosian community."
• (Mr. Spock) "If our measurements and readings are an illusion also, one could find oneself materialized inside solid rock."

• (The Keeper) "You overlook the unpleasant alternative of punishment."

• (Mr. Spock) "If we start buzzing about down there, we're liable to find their mental power is so great they could reach out and swat this ship as though it were a fly."

• (Vina) "Now THERE'S a FINE choice for intelligent offspring."
• (Yeoman J.M. Colt) "Offspring? As in children?"
• (Number One) "Offspring as in -- he's Adam, is that it?"

• (Vina) "Let me -- please you."
• (Captain Christopher Pike) "Yes, yes, you can please me. You can tell me about them."

• (Dr. Boyce) "Their power of illusion is so great, we can't be sure of anything we do or anything we see."

• (Captain Christopher Pike) "It's starting just as it happened two weeks ago; except for you."

• (The Keeper) "I read most strongly a recent death struggle in which it fought to protect its life. We will begin with this, giving the specimen something more interesting to protect."

• (Vina) "Quick. If you attack while it's not looking --"
• (Captain Christopher Pike) "But it's only a dream."
• (Vina) "You have to kill him as you did here before."
• (Captain Christopher Pike) "You can tell my jailers I won't go along with it. I'm not an animal performing for its supper."
• (Vina) "It doesn't matter what you call this. You'll FEEL it; that's what matters. You'll feel every moment of when it happens to you."

• (Vina) "-- When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating. You even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit, living and re-living other lives left behind in the thought records."

• (Vina) "Perhaps they made me from dreams you've forgotten."

• (The Keeper) "Each of the two new specimens has qualities in her favor. The female you call Number One has the superior mind and will produce highly intelligent children."
• (Captain Christopher Pike) "All I want to do is get my hands on you."

• (Space Officer) "Nice place you have here, Mr. Pike."

• (The Keeper) "Despite its frustration, the creature appears more adaptable than our specimens from other planets. We can soon begin the experiment."

• (Captain James T. Kirk) "Eh, Mr. Spock, when you're finished, please come back and see me, I want to talk to you. This regrettable tendency you've been showing lately towards flagrant emotionalism --"
• (Mr. Spock) "I see no reason to insult me, sir. I believe I've been completely logical about the whole affair."

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