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Captain Tracey
- Captain Tracey: [excitedly] You've isolated the serum?
- Captain James T. Kirk: [shouting] There's no serum! There're no miracles! There's no immortality here! All this is for nothing!
- Captain Tracey: Explain it to him, Doctor!
- Dr. McCoy: Leave medicine to medical men, Captain! You found no fountain of youth here!
- Captain Tracey: [about the Yangs] Animals, who happen to look like us. Still think the Prime Directive's for this planet?
- Captain James T. Kirk: I don't think we've a right or the wisdom to interfere, however a planet is evolving.
- Captain Tracey: They sacrificed hundreds, just to draw us out in the open. And then they came, and they came. We drained four of our phasers, and they still came. We killed thousands and they still came.
- Captain Tracey: No native to this planet has ever had any trace of any kind of disease. How long would a man live if all disease were erased, Jim?
- Captain Tracey: [calling to Wu, who enters] Wu!... Tell Captain Kirk your age.
- Wu: Age? I have seen forty two years of the red bird. My eldest brother...
- Captain Tracey: [cutting Wu off] Their year of the red bird comes once every eleven years, which he's seen forty two times. Multiply it. Wu is four hundred and sixty two years old. His father is well over a thousand. Interested, Jim?
- Captain James T. Kirk: McCoy could verify all that.
- Captain Tracey: He will if you order it. We must have a doctor researching this. Are you grasping all it means? This immunizing agent here, once we've found it, is a Fountain of Youth. Virtual immortality, or as much as any man will ever want.
- Captain James T. Kirk: For sale by...
- Captain Tracey: [glances at Wu, orders him out. Wu leaves and closes the door] Out!
- Captain Tracey: By those who own the serum. McCoy will eventually isolate it. Meanwhile, you inform your ship your situation's impossible. Order them away. When we're ready, we'll bargain for a whole fleet of ships to pick us up. And they'll do it.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Yes, I suppose they would.
- Captain James T. Kirk: In my land we have a tribe like you.
- Cloud William: Where is your tribe?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Up there. One of those points of light that you see at night.
- Yang Scholar: Why are you here? Were you cast out?
- Captain James T. Kirk: You're confusing the stars with heaven.
- Captain Tracey: He was cast out! Don't you recognize the Evil One? Who else would trick you with your own sacred words? Let your God strike me dead if I lie. But he won't, because I speak for him.
- Captain Tracey: This immunizing agent here, once we've found it, is a fountain of youth. Virtual immortality, or as much as any man will ever want.
- Captain James T. Kirk: For sale by...?
- Captain Tracey: [...] By those who own the serum. McCoy will eventually isolate it. Meanwhile, you inform your ship your situation's impossible. Order them away. When we're ready, we'll bargain for a whole fleet of ships to pick us up. And they'll do it.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Yes, I suppose they would.
- Captain Tracey: We've got to stay alive. Let the Yangs kill us and destroy what we have to offer, and we'll have committed a crime against all humanity. I'd say that's slightly more important than the Prime Directive. Wouldn't you, Jim?