Star Trek (TV Series)

And the Children Shall Lead (1968)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Mr. Spock : Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth.

  Dr. McCoy : Or by misleading the innocent.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Misleading the innocent? I wonder.

• Captain James T. Kirk : A child suppresses the fact that both parents are dead? I... I can't believe it.

  Mr. Spock : Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose, and excluding that which is painful.

• Mr. Spock : Captain, so long as the children are present, there is danger. They are the carriers.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Spock, they're not the alien beings, they're children being misled.

  Mr. Spock : They are followers. Without followers, evil cannot spread.

  Captain James T. Kirk : They're children!

  Mr. Spock : Captain, the 430 men and women on board the Enterprise, and the ship itself, are endangered by these... children.

  Captain James T. Kirk : They don't understand the evil that they're doing.

  Mr. Spock : Perhaps that is true. But the evil that is within them is spreading fast. And unless we can find a way to remove it...

  Captain James T. Kirk : ...we'll have to kill them.

• Mr. Spock : It appears we are no longer orbiting Triacus.

  Captain James T. Kirk : That's impossible. If we're not orbiting Triacus, then the men I beamed down... are dead.

• Captain James T. Kirk : I'm getting a feeling of anxiety in this place. It doesn't sound very scientific, does it? But it's strongest right here.

  Mr. Spock : I'm not aware of it, Captain.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Maybe that's what's registering on your tricorder.

  Mr. Spock : I am not familiar with anxiety, but I was not aware that it could be registered on sensors.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Whatever happened here... is locked up inside those children.

  Mr. Spock : The attack on Professor Starnes' party must surely have been unprovoked.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Attack? Mass suicide is what it seems to be.

  Mr. Spock : I stand corrected, Captain. 'Induced' would be a more precise term. Induced by an outside force.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Such as?

  Mr. Spock : The release of bacteria, or a helpless mental depression, and a state of suicidal anxiety could have been chemically induced.

• Mr. Spock : According to the legend, Triacus was the seat of a band of marauders who made constant war throughout the system of Epsilon Indi. After many centuries, the destroyers were themselves destroyed by those they had preyed upon.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Is that the end of it?

  Mr. Spock : No. Like so many legends, this one, too, has a frightening ending. It warns that the evil is awaiting a catalyst to set it again into motion and send it marauding across the galaxy.

• Mr. Spock : Captain, we must get off this bridge.

• Captain James T. Kirk : I'm losing command. I'm losing the Enterprise! The ship is sailing on and on. I'm alone! Alone... Alone... I'm losing command.

  Mr. Spock : Captain.

  Captain James T. Kirk : I've lost command. I've lost the Enterprise.

  Mr. Spock : Jim.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [calms down]  I've got command. I've got command. I've got command.

  Mr. Spock : Correct, Captain.