Star Trek (TV Series)

Return to Tomorrow (1968)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock, Henoch

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• Henoch : [in Spock's body]  This is an excellent body, Doctor. I seem to have received the best of the three. Strength, hearing, eyesight, all far above your human norms. I'm surprised the Vulcans never conquered your race.

  Dr. McCoy : Vulcans worship peace above all, Henoch.

  Henoch : [in Spock's body]  Yes, of course, of course. Just as we do, Doctor.

• Capt. Kirk : Well?

  Mr. Spock : Someone or something is attempting to attract our attention.

  Capt. Kirk : Someone or something has succeeded.

• Mr. Spock : Not even a Vulcan can know the unknown, Captain.

• Henoch : [in Spock's body]  Hello. Oh, you are a lovely female. A pleasant sight to wake up to after half a million years.

  Nurse Christine Chapel : [obviously flattered]  Thank you.

  Henoch : [in Spock's body]  You're welcome.

• Mr. Spock : Captain, I do wish to inspect whatever this is that lived that long ago.

  Capt. Kirk : And I would like to have my science officer with me on something as unusual as this, but it is full of unknowns, and we can't risk both of us being off the ship.

  [all ship's controls suddenly shut down] 

  Sulu : All power gone, sir.

  Capt. Kirk : On the other hand, perhaps this Sargon would like you to come with us.

  [all power suddenly returns] 

  Mr. Spock : Fascinating.

• Henoch : Pain, Captain.

• Capt. Kirk : That's twice you referred to us as "my children."

  Sargon : Because it is possible you are our descendants, Captain Kirk. Six thousand centuries ago, our vessels were colonizing this galaxy, just as your own starships have now begun to explore that vastness. As you now leave your own seed on distant planets, so we left our seed behind us. Perhaps your own legends of an Adam and an Eve were two of our travelers.

  Ann Mulhall : Our beliefs and our studies indicate that life on our planet Earth evolved independently.

  Mr. Spock : That would tend, however, to explain certain elements of Vulcan prehistory.

• Henoch : [in Spock's body]  Just think how much we can do for Mankind. Are these bodies too much to ask for in return?

• Sulu : The reading's growing stronger, Captain. Coming from a star system directly ahead.

  Uhura : It's not a signal, sir. It does not seem to even exist, and yet it's affecting all my channels.

  Capt. Kirk : [addressing Mr. Spock]  Well?

  Mr. Spock : Someone - or some *thing* - is attempting to attract our attention.

  Capt. Kirk : "Someone or something" has succeeded. Our distress signal relays have been activated. We've been given a direction to follow, but how? What's causing it?

  Mr. Spock : I do not know. Not even a Vulcan can know the unknown, Captain. We are hundreds of light years past where any Earth ship has ever explored.

• Mr. Spock : Class "M" planet, Captain.

  Capt. Kirk : Close to Earth conditions.

  Mr. Spock : With two very important exceptions. It's much older than Earth, and about a half million years ago, its atmosphere was totally ripped away by some sort of cataclysm.