Catherine Hicks: Gillian
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[Spock is still learning how to use profanity correctly]
Spock : They like you very much, but they are not the hell "your" whales.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : I suppose they told you that.
Spock : The hell they did.
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Don't tell me! You're from outer space.
Kirk : No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space.
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Kirk : [Explaining Spock's odd behavior] Oh, him? He's harmless. Back in the sixties, he was part of the free speech movement at Berkeley. I think he did a little too much LDS.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : LDS?
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Sure you won't change your mind?
Spock : Is there something wrong with the one I have?
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Kirk : Out of the way...
Shore Patrolman : Sorry, Doctor, I have strict orders...
Dr. Gillian Taylor : [Gillian moans in pain]
McCoy : My God, man. Do you want an acute case on your hands? This woman has immediate postprandial, upper-abdominal distention. Now, out of the way! Get out of the way!
[They enter the operating room]
Kirk : What did you say she has?
McCoy : Cramps.
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Don't tell me you don't use money in the 23rd Century.
Kirk : Well, we don't.
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Spock : To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Whoever said the human race was logical?
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Wait a minute. How did you know Gracie's pregnant? Nobody knows that.
Spock : Gracie does.
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Gillian : You're not from the military are you? Trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes or some dipshit stuff like that?
Kirk : No, ma'am. No dipshit.
Gillian : Well, good. That was one thing, I would have dropped you off right here.
Spock : Gracie is pregnant.
[Gillian brakes to a sudden stop]
Gillian : All right, who are you? And don't jerk me around anymore, I want to know how you know that!
Kirk : We can't tell you.
Gillian : But...
Kirk : Please, just let me finish. I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales. In fact, we may be able to help - in ways that, frankly, you couldn't possibly imagine.
Gillian : Or believe, I'll bet.
Kirk : Very likely.
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : He's just gonna hang around the bushes while we eat?
Kirk : [shrugs] It's his way.
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Gillian : [to Kirk] See you round the galaxy.
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Kirk : Where are you going?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : You're going to your ship. I'm going to mine. Science vessel. I got 300 years of catch-up learning to do.
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Kirk : This is good-bye?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Why does it have to be good-bye?
Kirk : Well, like they say in your century, I don't even have your telephone number.
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Kirk : I am from what, on your calendar, would be the late 23rd century. I've come back in time to bring two humpback whales with me in an attempt to... repopulate the species.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Well, why didn't you just say so? I mean, why all the coy disguises?
Kirk : You want the details?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Oh, I wouldn't miss this for all the tea in China.
Kirk : When are those whales being released?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Okay. What the hell? Your friend was right. Gracie's not only pregnant, she is *very* pregnant. And at noon tomorrow, in what is sure to be a media circus, the whales get shipped out.
Kirk : Noon tomorrow?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : [he gets up] Are we leaving?
Kirk : Come on. We don't have much time.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : [their food is brought out] Could we have that to go, please?
Waiter : Sure. Who gets the bad news?
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : I want to know why you hang out with that creepy guy who calls you Admiral.
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Kirk : [running towards the Bounty with an injured Checkov after he, Gillian, and McCoy escaped a hospital] Where would the whales be by now?
Gillian : At sea. If you have a chart on board, I'll show you.
Kirk : No, no, no. All I need is the radio frequency to track them.
Gillian : What are you talking about? I'm coming with you.
Kirk : You can't. Our next stop is the 23rd Century.
Gillian : Well, I don't care. I've got nobody here. I have got to help those whales!
Kirk : I haven't got time to argue with you, or to tell you how much you've meant to us. The radio frequency, please.
Gillian : The frequency's 401 megahertz.
Kirk : Thank you for everything.
[pulls out a communicator]
Kirk : Scotty, beam me up.
[the transport activates. Gillian hugs Kirk]
Gillian : Surprise!
[the transport takes them on board the Bounty]
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Kirk : You know, it's ironic, when man was killing these creatures, he was destroying his own future.
Scotty : The beasties seem happy to see you, Doctor. I hope you like our little aquarium.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : A miracle, Mr. Scott.
Scotty : A miracle? That's yet to come.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : What does that mean?
Kirk : It means that our chances of getting home are not too good. You might have lived longer if you'd stayed where you belong.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : I belong here. I am a whale biologist. Suppose, by some miracle, you do get them through. Who in the 23rd century knows anything about humpback whales?
Kirk : You have a point.
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Kirk : You know, I could take those whales somewhere where they'd never be hunted.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : [laughing] You can't even get yourself from Sausalito to San Francisco without a lift.
Kirk : If you have such a low opinion of my abilities, how come we're here having dinner?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Sucker for hard-luck cases.
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Well, Admiral, that was the briefest dinner I've ever had in my life, and certainly the biggest cockamamie fish story I've ever heard.
Kirk : You asked. Now, you tell me something. George and Gracie's transmitter, what's the radio frequency?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Sorry, that's classified. Look, I don't have a clue who you are, really. You wouldn't want to show me around your spaceship, would you?
Kirk : That wouldn't be my first choice, no.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Well, there we are.
Kirk : Let me tell you something. I'm here to bring two humpbacks into the 23rd century. If I have to, I'll go to the open sea to get them. I'd much rather have yours. It's better for me, it's better for you, it's better for them. Think about it.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : [he gets out of her truck's passenger seat] Who are you?
Kirk : Think about it, but don't take too long. I'm out of time. If you change your mind, this is where I'll be.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Here? In the park?
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Where could you take them?
Kirk : Hmm?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : My whales. Where could you take them where they'd be safe?
Kirk : Well, it's not so much a matter of a place as of a time.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Well, the time would have to be right now.
Kirk : Why right now?
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Let's just say that no humpback born in captivity has ever survived. The problem is that they won't be that much safer at sea because of all the hunting this time of year. So you see, that, as they say, is that.
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Bob Briggs : And besides, we're not talking about human beings here. It's never been proven their intelligence is anyw...
Gillian Taylor : Oh, come on, Bob. I don't know about you, but my compassion for someone is not limited to my estimate of their intelligence.
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Bob Briggs : [Gillian finds the whales gone] They left last night. We didn't want a mob scene with the press. It wouldn't have been good for them. Besides, we thought it would be easier on you this way.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : You sent them away without even letting me say goodbye to them?
Bob Briggs : Gillian.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : [slapping him] You son of a bitch!
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Dr. Gillian Taylor : Where you fellas headed?
Kirk : Back to San Francisco.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Came all the way down here to jump in and swim with the kiddies, huh?
Kirk : [shrugs] ... Very little point in my trying to explain.
Dr. Gillian Taylor : Yeah, I'll buy that.
