Leonard Nimoy credited as playing...
Mr. Spock
- [last lines]
- [McCoy has restored Spock's brain]
- Captain James T. Kirk: How do you feel, Spock?
- Mr. Spock: On the whole, Captain, I believe I am quite fit. It's fascinating. A remarkable example of a retrograde civilization. At the peak, advanced beyond any of our capabilities, and now operating at this primitive level which you saw. And it all began thousands of years ago, when a glacial age reoccurred. You see, this underground complex was developed for the women. The men remained above, and a male-female schism took place. A fascinating cultural development of a kind which has...
- Dr. McCoy: I knew it was wrong. I shouldn't have done it.
- Captain James T. Kirk: What's that?
- Dr. McCoy: I should have never reconnected his mouth.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Well, we took the risk, Doctor.
- Mr. Spock: [unfazed by the interruption] As I was saying, a fascinating cultural development of the kind which hasn't been seen in ages. The last such occurrence took place on old Earth, when the Romans were warring...
- Captain James T. Kirk: We came to put you back. Where are you?
- Mr. Spock: [voice] Back where?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Back into your body. We brought it along with us.
- Mr. Spock: [voice] Thoughtful, Captain, but probably impractical. While I might trust the Doctor to remove a splinter, or lance a boil, I do not believe he has the knowledge to restore a brain.
- Mr. Spock: [voice] Captain, there is a definite pleasurable experience connected with the hearing of your voice.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Spock, you're in a black box tied in with light rays into a complex control panel.
- Mr. Spock: [voice] Fascinating.
- Mr. Spock: [voice] I seem to have a body which stretches into infinity.
- Scott: Body? Why, ya have *none*.
- Mr. Spock: Then, what am I?
- Dr. McCoy: You are a disembodied brain.
- Mr. Spock: Fascinating. It could explain much, Doctor. My medulla oblongata is hard at work apparently breathing, apparently pumping blood, apparently maintaining a normal physiologic temperature.