- Captain Christopher Pike: What the devil are you putting in there, ice?
- Dr. Boyce: Who wants a warm martini?
- Captain Christopher Pike: What makes you think I need one?
- Dr. Boyce: Sometimes... a man will tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor.
- Captain James T. Kirk: There's a false entry in the log right now which doesn't jibe with the established facts. How do you explain that?
- Dr. McCoy: I can't! But to question Spock, of all people... Me, yes. I could run off half-cocked given a good reason, so could you, but not Spock. It's impossible.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [stranded in a shuttle] Part of me is hoping that the Enterprise WON'T come back for us. We step on that deck, Spock is finished, court-martialed, disgraced.
- Commodore Jose Mendez: He's DEAD if he makes it to Talos 4.
- Mr. Spock: Captain - Jim, please - don't stop me. Don't let HIM stop me. It's your career and Captain Pike's life. You MUST see the rest of the transmission.
- Commodore Jose Mendez: [about Captain Pike] His mind is as active as yours and mine but it's trapped inside a useless, vegetating body. He's kept alive mechanically - a battery-driven heart.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Mutiny requires a trial board of no less than three command officers. Since there are only two of that rank available...
- Mr. Spock: Sir, I must point out that there ARE three officers of command rank available: yourself, Commodore Mendez and Captain Christopher Pike.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Denied! Captain Pike is a complete invalid.
- Mr. Spock: I believe you'll find he's still on the active duty list.
- [Captain Kirk looks to the Commodore]
- Commodore Jose Mendez: We didn't have the heart to retire him, Jim. He's got you. Whatever he's up to, he's planned it well.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [narrating] Captain's log, stardate 3012.4. Despite our best efforts to disengage computers, the Enterprise is still locked on a heading for the mysterious planet Talos IV. Meanwhile, as required by Starfleet General Orders, a preliminary hearing on Lieutenant Commander Spock is being convened and in all the years of my service this is the most painful moment I've ever faced.
- Commodore Jose Mendez: Mr Spock, you are aware of the orders regarging any contact with Talos IV. You have deliberately invited the death penalty. You've not only finished yourself, Spock, but you've finished your captain as well.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Miss Piper, a Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing. That goes for his present commander as well as his past.
- Mr. Spock: This is Mr. Spock. Ship's computers will handle the helm on this voyage, Mr. Hansen. Course will be computed and set automatically. You will not discuss this with ship's crew or Starbase Personnel. Do you read?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Someone's interfering with my command and my ship. I don't know who it is but I mean to find out.
- Captain James T. Kirk: General Order 7: "No vessel under any condition, emergency or otherwise, is to visit Talos 4."
- Commodore Jose Mendez: And to do so is the only death penalty left on our books. Only Fleet Command knows why. Not even this file explains that, but it does name the only Earth ship that ever visited the planet.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [reading] The Enterprise.
- Commodore Jose Mendez: Why? What does it accomplish to go there, or to take Captain Pike there? I wanna know why?
- Mr. Spock: Are your comments part of the record, sir?
- Commodore Jose Mendez: Yes, it's on the record!
- Mr. Spock: Thank you. Request monitor screen be engaged.
- Commodore Jose Mendez: For what purpose?
- Mr. Spock: To comply with the request you just made, sir, that I explain the importance of going to Talos 4.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [narrating] Captain's log, supplemental: Mr. Spock, on trial for mutiny, has forced the court to accept unusual evidence. On our monitor screen, the voyage of Captain Pike and the Enterprise to the one forbidden world in all the galaxy.
- Captain Christopher Pike: Now you're beginning to talk like a doctor... bartender.
- Dr. Boyce: Take your choice. We both get the same two kinds of customers. The living, and the dying.
- Miss Piper: Welcome to Starbase 11, captain. The commodore is waiting to see you, and he's curious why you suddenly changed course and came here.
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