Star Trek (TV Series)

The Squire of Gothos (1967)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk

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• Captain James T. Kirk : Turn in your glass slippers. The ball is over.

• Trelane : [noticing Kirk talking with his men]  Discussing deep-laid plans, I'll wager. I cannot WAIT to see them evolve.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Trelane, we haven't planned...

  Trelane : [interrupting]  Tut, tut. Do not think that I deplore your martial virtue of deception and strategem. Quite the contrary. I have nothing but admiration for your whole species.

• Trelane : Ah, you've been, eh, quite derelict in your social duties, Captain. You haven't introduced me to the charming contingent of your crew.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [begrudgingly]  This is General Trelane.

  Trelane : Retired. But if you prefer, you may address me as the lonely Squire of Gothos, dear ladies.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Lieutenant Uhura of communications.

  Trelane : Ah, a Nubian prize.

  [he kisses her hand] 

  Trelane : Taken on one of your raids of conquest, no doubt, Captain?

  Captain James T. Kirk : No doubt.

• Trelane : Oh, the remarkable treachery of the species!

  Captain James T. Kirk : Go on, Trelane! Look at it! It's over. Your power is blanked out. You're finished!

  Trelane : You've earned my wrath! Go back. Go back to your ship! All of you! And prepare: you're all dead men! You, especially, Captain!

• Mr. Spock : Captain.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Mr. Spock. Still thinking about Trelane, is that it?

  Mr. Spock : For the record, Captain, how do we describe him? Pure mentality? A force of intellect? Embodied energy? Super-being? He must be classified, sir.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [thinks a moment]  God of War, Mr. Spock.

  Mr. Spock : Well, I hardly find that fitting.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Then a small boy. And a very naughty one at that.

  Mr. Spock : It WILL make a strange entry in the library banks.

  Captain James T. Kirk : But then he was a very strange small boy.

• Captain James T. Kirk : How were our scanners able to penetrate that radiation field?

  Mr. Spock : They didn't, Captain. Not clearly. We merely beamed up all life forms in a given area.

  Dr. McCoy : Which means Trelane is not a life form as we know it or he'd be beaming through now.

• Captain James T. Kirk : I want you to leave my crewmen alone. I want you to leave my crew-WOMEN alone, too.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Here you have an opportunity to experience something really unique and you waste it. You want to commit murder? Go ahead. But where's the sport in a simple hanging?

• Captain James T. Kirk : There's STILL not enough sport in just killing me with a sword.

  Trelane : I know. That WILL be dull.

• Trelane : You broke it. You broke my sword!

  Captain James T. Kirk : You've got a lot to learn about winning, Trelane.

  Trelane : You dare to defy me!

  Captain James T. Kirk : In fact, you've got a lot to learn about everything, haven't you?

  [slaps him on both cheeks] 

  Trelane : I'll fix you for that! You cheated! You haven't played the game right! I'll show you!

• Lt. Hikaru Sulu : Captain... we're about to warp.

  Lt. Vincent DeSalle : Large body ahead!

  Mr. Spock : [Spock studies his scanner]  Collision course!

  Captain James T. Kirk : Hard to port, Mr. Sulu!

  [the Enterprise evades the planet] 

  Mr. Spock : That was the planet Gothos, Captain.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Gothos? Mr. Sulu, have we been going in circles?

  Lt. Hikaru Sulu : No, sir. All instruments show on course.

  Mr. Spock : Gothos again, Captain!

  Captain James T. Kirk : [the planet has reappeared again in front of the ship, which evades it again, barely]  Hard over, Mr. Sulu.

  Mr. Spock : Cat and mouse game...

  Captain James T. Kirk : With us as the mouse...

  Lt. Vincent DeSalle : There it is again, dead ahead!

  Captain James T. Kirk : Ninety degrees to starboard, Mr. Sulu

  Lt. Hikaru Sulu : Turning, Captain.

  Lt. Hikaru Sulu : [the planet moves to block their course changes]  ... but not veering off from it.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Ninety degrees sub port, Mr. Sulu. Adjust...

  Lt. Hikaru Sulu : Turn completed... and still accelerating toward the planet!

  Mr. Spock : Or it toward us.

• Trelane : Until a moment ago, I didn't think it possible, but it was. I did it. I was angry! I actually experienced genuine rage. This experiment has been successful.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [sarcastically]  I'm glad you weren't disappointed.

  Trelane : Why, Captain, you're still angry! Would that I could have sustained that moment.

• Trelane : Ah, yes, I've been looking in on the doings of your lively little Earth.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Then you've been looking in on the doings 900 years past.

  Trelane : Oh, really? Have I made an error in time? How fallible of me.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Beam me up, Mr. Spock. We're free to go.

• Trelane : Now... do let me anticipate your next question.

  [Looks around his drawing room] 

  Trelane : You want to know how I've managed all of this.

  Captain James T. Kirk : That's correct.

  Trelane : We... meaning I and others, have, to state the matter briefly, perfected a system by which matter can be transferred to energy, and back to matter again.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Like the transporter system aboard the Enterprise.

  Trelane : [Dismissively]  Oh, a crude example of an infinitely more sophisticated process! You see, we not only transport matter from place to place... but we can alter its shape. At will.