Star Trek (TV Series)
Requiem for Methuselah (1969)
James Daly: Flint
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Quotes
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Flint : [I was born] in that region of Earth later called Mesopotamia, in the year 3834 B.C., as the millennia are reckoned. I was Akharin, a soldier, a bully and a fool. I fell in battle, pierced to the heart - and did not die.
Dr. McCoy : [amazed] Instant tissue regeneration, coupled with some perfect form of biological renewal - you learned that you were immortal...
Flint : ...and to conceal it, to live some portion of a life, to pretend to age and then move on before my nature was suspected.
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Flint : I have married a hundred times, Captain. Selected, loved, cherished, caressed a smoothness, inhaled a brief fragrance. Then age, death, the taste of dust. Do you understand?
Mr. Spock : You wanted a perfect, ultimate woman, as brilliant, as immortal as yourself. Your mate for all time.
Flint : Designed by my heart. I could not love her more.
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Captain James T. Kirk : You'd wipe out four hundred lives? Why?
Flint : I have seen a hundred billion fall. I know death better than any man. I have tossed enemies into his grasp. And I know mercy. Your crew is not dead but suspended.
Captain James T. Kirk : Worse than dead! Restore them. Restore my ship!
Flint : In time - a thousand, two thousand years. You will know the future, Captain Kirk.
Dr. McCoy : You have been such men, you've known and created such beauty, you've watched your race evolve from cruelty and barbarism throughout your enormous life - and, yet, now you would do this to us?
Flint : The flowers of my past; I hold the nettles of the present. I am "Flint" now, with MY needs.
Captain James T. Kirk : WHAT needs?
Flint : Tonight, I have seen something wondrous, something I've waited for, laboured for - nothing must endanger it: At last, Rayna's emotions have stirred to life. Now they will turn to me in this solitude which I preserve.
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Flint : Rayna... have you been lonely?
Rayna Kapec : What is loneliness?
Flint : 'Tis thirst. 'Tis a flower dying in the desert.
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Flint : A last tender encounter, Capt. Kirk, to end your usefulness.