Star Trek (TV Series)

A Taste of Armageddon (1967)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk

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• Spock : Captain, you almost make me believe in luck.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Why, Mr. Spock, you almost make me believe in miracles.

• Anan 7 : Are those five hundred people of yours more important than the hundreds of millions of innocent people on Eminiar and Vendikar? What kind of monster are you?

  Captain James T. Kirk : I'm a barbarian. You said it yourself.

• Anan 7 : You realize what you have done?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes, I do. I've given you back the horrors of war. The Vendikans now assume that you've broken your agreement and that you're preparing to wage real war with real weapons. They'll want do the same. Only the next attack they launch will do a lot more than count up numbers in a computer. They'll destroy cities, devastate your planet. You of course will want to retaliate. If I were you, I'd start making bombs. Yes, Councilman, you have a real war on your hands. You can either wage it with real weapons, or you might consider an alternative. Put an end to it. Make peace.

  Anan 7 : There can be no peace. Don't you see? We've admitted it to ourselves. We're a killer species. It's instinctive. It's the same with you. Your General Order Twenty Four.

  Captain James T. Kirk : All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill today. Contact Vendikar. I think you'll find that they're just as terrified, appalled, horrified as you are, that they'll do anything to avoid the alternative I've given you. Peace or utter destruction. It's up to you.

• Anan 7 : You can stop it!

  Captain James T. Kirk : STOP it? I'm COUNTING on it.

• Mea 3 : If I refuse to report, and other refuse, then Vendikar would have no choice but to launch real weapons. We would have to do the same to defend ourselves. More than people would die then. A whole civilization would be destroyed. Surely, you can see that ours is the better way.

  Captain James T. Kirk : No. I don't see that at all.

• Anan 7 : Enterprise, this is Anan 7, first councilman of the High Council of Eminiar. We hold your captain, his party, your ambassador and his party prisoners. Unless you immediately start transportation of all personnel aboard your ship to the surface, the hostages will be killed. You have thirty minutes. I mean it, Captain.

  Captain James T. Kirk : All that it means is that I won't be around for the destruction. You heard me give general order 24. That means in two hours the Enterprise will destroy Eminiar 7.

  Anan 7 : Planetary defense system, open fire on the Enterprise!

  Planetary Disruptor Bank Officer : I'm sorry, councilman, the target has moved out of range.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Code 710 means that under no circumstances are we to approach that planet - no circumstances whatsoever.

  Ambassador Fox : You will disregard that signal, Captain.

• Anan 7 : We have been at war for 500 years.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You conceal it very well.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Still, the Eminians keep a very orderly society, and actual war is a very messy business. A very, very messy business.