Star Trek (TV Series)

The Savage Curtain (1969)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Captain James T. Kirk : Your Surak is a brave man.

  Mr. Spock : Men of peace usually are, Captain.

• Dr. McCoy : You're the science officer. Why aren't you... well, doing whatever a science officer does at a time like this?

  Mr. Spock : I am, Doctor. I am observing the alien.

• Mr. Spock : As I turned and my eyes beheld you, I displayed emotion. I beg forgiveness.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [after Kirk, Spock, and Lincoln materialize on the planet, but Kirk and Spock's tricorder and phasers did not, and their communicators are no longer functioning]  Your explanation, sir?

  Abraham Lincoln : I have none. To me, this seems quite as it should be.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Why were our weapons taken? Why can't we communicate with our ship?

  Abraham Lincoln : Please believe me. I know nothing other than what I already told you.

  Captain James T. Kirk : The game is over. We've treated you with courtesy. We've gone along with what and who you think you are.

  Abraham Lincoln : Despite the seeming contradictions, all is as it appears to be. I am Abraham Lincoln.

  Surak : Just as I am whom I appear to be.

  Mr. Spock : Surak.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Who?

  Mr. Spock : The greatest of all who ever lived on our planet, Captain. The father of all we became.

• Mr. Spock : [checking the sensors]  Fascinating. For a moment it appeared almost... mineral, like living rock with heavy foreclaws. Settling down now to completely human readings.

  Scott : We can beam IT aboard anytime now, sir.

• Mr. Spock : There's no doubt they want us down there for some hidden purpose, otherwise they would have revealed some logical reason for all of this.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Why Lincoln, Spock? Any speculation on that?

  Mr. Spock : Speculation is unnecessary, Captain. The answer is clear. President Lincoln has always been a very personal hero to you. What better way to titillate your curiosity than to make him come alive for you.

• Surak : [holding up his right hand in the Vulcan Salute]  Live long and prosper, Mr. Spock. May you also, Captain Kirk.

  Mr. Spock : It is not logical that you are Surak. There is no fact, extrapolation of fact, or theory, which would make possible...

  Surak : Whatever I am, would it harm you to give response?

  Mr. Spock : [holding up his right hand in the Vulcan Salute]  Live long and prosper, image of Surak, father of all we now hold true.

  Surak : The "image of Surak" read in your face what is in your mind, Spock.

  Mr. Spock : As I turned and my eyes beheld you, I displayed emotion. I beg for forgiveness.

  Surak : The cause was more than sufficient. Let us speak no further of it. In my time, we knew not of earth men. I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Spock, we will not go along with these charades any longer.