Star Trek (TV Series)

The Savage Curtain (1969)

Bart La Rue: Yarnek

Quotes 

• Yarnek : We offer you an opportunity to become our teachers by demonstrating whether good or evil is more powerful.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [grabbing the alien then pulling back his hand at the sound of a sizzle]  Oh!

  Yarnek : You find my body heat distressing, Captain? You forget the nature of this planet.

• Captain James T. Kirk : What gives you the right to hand out life and death?

  Yarnek : The same right that brought you here: the need to know new things.

• Yarnek : Your good and your evil use the same methods; achieve the same results. Do you have an explanation?

  Captain James T. Kirk : You established the methods and the goals...

  Yarnek : For you to use as you chose

  Captain James T. Kirk : What did you offer the others, if they won?

  Yarnek : What they wanted most. Power.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You offered me... the lives of my crew.

  Yarnek : I perceive. You have won their lives