James Doohan credited as playing...
Montgomery Scott 'Scotty'
- Capt. Kirk: If I only had some phasers.
- Scott: Phasers - you've got 'em. I have one bank recharged.
- Capt. Kirk: Scotty, you just earned your pay for the week.
- Mr. Spock: Captain, you're getting dangerously close to the planet killer.
- Capt. Kirk: I intend to get a lot closer: I'm going to ram her right down that thing's throat.
- Mr. Spock: Jim, you'll be killed, just like Decker.
- Capt. Kirk: No, no, I don't intend to die, Mr. Spock. We've rigged a delay detonation device, you'll have 30 seconds to beam me aboard the Enterprise before the Constellation's impulse engines blow.
- Mr. Spock: Your chances of survival are not promising. We don't even know if the explosion will be powerful enough.
- Capt. Kirk: A calculated risk, Mr. Spock.
- Mr. Spock: There's another factor, Captain. The transporter is not working at 100% efficiency. Thirty seconds is very slim timing.
- Capt. Kirk: A chance I'll have to take. Kirk out.
- Scott: A cranky transporter's a mighty finicky piece of machinery to be gambling your life on, sir.
- Capt. Kirk: What about the detonator?
- Scott: I've linked it in with the impulse control system.
- [presses a switch]
- Scott: It's armed now.
- [points to the last switch in the bank]
- Scott: Press this one, thirty seconds later, poof! Once it's activated, there's no way to stop it.
- Capt. Kirk: Understood.
- [as the Constellation nears the planet-killer, Kirk presses the detonator, then grabs his communicator]
- Capt. Kirk: Beam me aboard!
- Mr. Spock: Energize.
- Lt. Kyle: Energizing...
- [the transporter shorts out]
- Lt. Kyle: Bridge, it shorted out again!
- Scott: [seeing the short, jumps back into the Jeffries tube] Och...!
- Capt. Kirk: [still on the Constellation's bridge] Gentlemen... beam me aboard.