Star Trek (TV Series)

Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Dr. McCoy : [toasting]  How can one so beautiful condemn herself to look upon ugliness the rest of her life? Will we allow it, gentlemen?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Certainly not.

  Mr. Spock : Negative.

  Scott , Larry Marvick : No-no.

  Dr. Miranda Jones : [counter-toast to McCoy]  How can one so full of joy and the love of life as you, Doctor, condemn yourself to look upon disease and suffering for the rest of YOUR life? Can we allow THAT, gentlemen?

• Dr. McCoy : Isn't it suicidal to deal with something ugly enough to drive men mad? Why do you do it?

  Mr. Spock : I see, Doctor McCoy, that you still subscribe to the outmoded notion, promulgated by your ancient Greeks, that what is good must also be beautiful.

  Larry Marvick : And the reverse, of course, that what is beautiful is automatically expected to be good.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes, I think most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness - one of the last of our prejudices. At the risk of sounding prejudiced, gentlemen, here's to beauty.

• Mr. Spock : [as Kollos]  How compact your bodies are. And what a variety of senses you have. This thing you call... language though - most remarkable. You depend on it, for so very much. But is any one of you really its master? But most of all, the aloneness. You are so alone. You live out your lives in this... shell of flesh. Self-contained. Separate. How lonely you are. How terribly lonely.

• Mr. Spock : [to Miranda]  My compliments to you... and to your dressmaker.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Tell me, Doctor Jones, why isn't it dangerous for you to be with Kollos? Spock I can understand. Nothing makes an impression on him.

  Mr. Spock : Why, thank you, Captain.

• Chekov : Our position is so close to the point where we entered the void, the difference isn't worth mentioning. Bullseye, Mr. Spock.

  Mr. Spock : Thank you, Mr. Chekov.

• Spock : [as Kollos]  O brave new world, that has such creatures in it.

  Dr. Miranda Jones : 'Tis new to thee.

• Mr. Spock : I fail to understand why you apparently try to conceal your blindness, Doctor Jones.

  Captain James T. Kirk : I think I understand. You said it. Pity is the worst of all.

  Dr. Miranda Jones : Pity... Which I hate. Do you think you can gather more information with your eyes than I can with my sensors? I could play tennis with you, Captain Kirk. I might even beat you. I am standing exactly one meter, four centimeters from the door. Can you judge distance that accurately? I can even tell you how fast your heart is beating.

  Captain James T. Kirk : No, that won't be necessary.

• Mr. Spock : Dr. Jones, may I congratulate you on your assignment with Ambassador Kollos.

  Dr. Miranda Jones : Thank you. But the assignment's not yet definite. It will depend upon my ability to achieve a true mind-link with the Ambassador.

  Mr. Spock : I'm sure you will find it a fascinating experience.

  Dr. Miranda Jones : I wasn't aware that anyone had ever achieved a mind-link with the Medusans.

  Mr. Spock : No one ever has. I was referring to mind-links I had attempted with members of other species.

• Dr. Miranda Jones : Ambassador Kollos often finds the process of transport somewhat unsettling.

  Mr. Spock : I understand. Our ship's surgeon often makes the same complaint.

• Chekov : A madman got us into this, and it's beginning to look as if only a madman can get us out.

  Mr. Spock : An entertaining suggestion, Mr. Chekov, but not very helpful.

• [Spock has performed a mind-meld with Kollos, who now shares Spock's body] 

  Mr. Spock : [as Kollos]  This is delightful. I know you. All of you. James Kirk, Captain and friend for many years. And Leonard McCoy, also of long acquaintance. And Uhura, whose name means freedom. "She walks in beauty, like the night."

  Dr. McCoy : That's not Spock.

  Mr. Spock : Are you surprised to find that I've read Byron, Doctor?

  Dr. McCoy : That's Spock.

• Dr. Miranda Jones : I know now the great joy you felt when you joined minds with Kollos.

  Mr. Spock : I rejoice in your knowledge and in your achievement.

  Dr. Miranda Jones : [regarding the Vulcan IDIC]  I understand, Mr. Spock. The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

  Mr. Spock : And the ways our differences combine, to create meaning and beauty.

• Dr. Miranda Jones : I've heard, Mr. Spock, that you turned down the assignment with the Ambassador.

  Mr. Spock : I was unable to accept. My life is here.

• Mr. Spock : Do you know whether he saw the Medusan?

  Dr. Miranda Jones : Yes, he did...

  Mr. Spock : Then insanity will surely be the result, Captain. Dangerous insanity.