Star Trek (TV Series)

Metamorphosis (1967)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Mr. Spock : Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical. Your relationship with the Companion has for one hundred and fifty years been emotionally satisfying, eminently practical, and totally harmless. It may indeed have been quite beneficial.

  Zefram Cochrane : Is this what the future holds? Men who have no notion of decency or morality? Well maybe I'm 150 years out of style, but I'm not gonna be fodder for any inhuman monster.

• Dr. McCoy : I'm not a scientist or a physicist, Mr. Spock, but am I correct in assuming that anything that generates electricity can be shorted out?

  Mr. Spock : Quite correct, Doctor.

• Zefram Cochrane : I was eighty seven years old when I came here.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You say this Companion found you and rejuvenated you? What were you doing in space at the age of eighty seven?

  Zefram Cochrane : I was tired, Captain. I was gonna die, and I wanted to die in space. That's all.

  Mr. Spock : True, his body was never found.

  Zefram Cochrane : You're looking at it, Mister Spock.

  Mr. Spock : If so, you wear your age very well.

• Mr. Spock : This is a marvelous opportunity to add to our knowledge. Ask it about its nature, its history.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Spock, this isn't a classroom. I'm trying to get us out of here.

  Mr. Spock : A chance like this may never come again. It could tell us so much.

  Captain James T. Kirk : This isn't the time.

• Mr. Spock : [checking the crashed shuttlecraft for malfunctions]  Unusual... unlikely... in fact, Captain, I would say quite impossible.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Nothing wrong, but nothing works.

  Mr. Spock : Precisely.

• Captain James T. Kirk : The Enterprise is waiting, Mr. Cochrane.

  Zefram Cochrane : I can't take her away from here. If I do, she'll die. If I leave her, she'll die of loneliness. I owe everything to her; I can't leave her. I love her. Is that surprising?

  Mr. Spock : Not coming from a human being. You are, after all, essentially irrational.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Think it over, Mr. Cochrane. There's a whole galaxy out there waiting to honor you.

  Zefram Cochrane : I have honors enough.

  Mr. Spock : But you will age, both of you. There will be no immortality; you'll both grow old here and finally die.

  Zefram Cochrane : That's been happening to men and women for a long time. I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being human... as long as you grow old together.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Are you sure?

  Zefram Cochrane : There's plenty of water here, the climate's good for growing things, I might even try and plant a fig tree here. A man's entitled to that, isn't he? It isn't gratitude, captain, now that I see her, touch her, I know that I love her. We'll have a lot of years together, and they'll be happy ones.

  Captain James T. Kirk : All the best.

  Zefram Cochrane : Captain, don't tell them about me.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Not a word, Mr. Cochrane.