Leonard Nimoy credited as playing...
Mr. Spock
- Hodin: [on viewscreen, speaking from Gideon] Mr. Spock you are an officer of a spaceship. In your profession you use many instruments, tools and weapons to achieve your objectives.
- Mr. Spock: [on the bridge of the Enterprise] True, your excellency.
- Hodin: However, the only 'tool' diplomacy has is language. It is of the utmost importance that the meaning be crystal clear.
- Mr. Spock: Your excellency, I am basically a scientist. Clarity of formulation is essential in my profession also.
- Hodin: I am glad to hear it. Perhaps you could then make greater effort to choose your words more precisely.
- [sits down]
- Dr. McCoy: [to Spock] Are you gonna let him get away with that?
- Scott: No matter what ye say, Mr. Spock, he'll twist your meaning.
- Uhura: Yes, he's infuriating, sir, how can you stand it?
- Spock: Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results.
- Mr. Spock: Unfortunately, I must violate a direct order from Starfleet.
- Dr. McCoy: That's the best possible decision you could make, Spock. I'm with you.
- Mr. Spock: I do not make it lightly, Doctor. However, Command knows that Ambassador Hodin has not been totally honest with us. Lieutenant Uhura, repeat original Gideon co-ordinates for beam down.
- Uhura: Eight seven five, zero two zero, zero seven nine.
- Mr. Spock: Mister Scott, the co-ordinates given you?
- Scott: Eight seven five, zero two zero, seven zero nine.
- Dr. McCoy: Co-ordinates don't match.
- Mr. Spock: Precisely. I shall beam down at once. Mr. Scott, you have the con.
- Dr. McCoy: I'll pick up my medical tricorder and meet you in the transporter room.
- Mr. Spock: Negative, Doctor. I cannot accept the responsibility for ordering a fellow officer to violate a Starfleet directive. I can make such a decision only for myself.
- Dr. McCoy: I'm not asking you to make the decision for me.
- Mr. Spock: The situation forces me to do so, Doctor.
- Dr. McCoy: Well in that case, it's the worst possible decision you can make, Spock.
- Spock: We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong crisis.
- Dr. McCoy: Well, what are we waiting for, Mr. Spock, we're not diplomats.
- Spock: We are representatives of the Federation, doctor.
- Dr. McCoy: That doesn't mean we have to behave like children and listen to some fool lecture by a diplomat.
- Spock: Unfortunately, diplomacy is the only channel available to us at the moment.
- Spock: Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results
- Mr. Spock: The planet is shielded from our sensors, therefore, we cannot scan it. Therefore, we are unable to select coordinates, they must be provided by Gideon.
- Chekov: We should never have agreed to such restrictions.
- Mr. Spock: We did not, Mr. Chekov, the Federation did. Lt. Uhura.
- Uhura: Yes, Mr. Spock.
- Mr. Spock: Contact Starfleet immediately, explain our problem, request permission to use every means at our disposal to press the search for Captain Kirk.
- Uhura: At once, sir.
- Chekov: Are there any other possibilities?
- Mr. Spock: They are endless, Mr Chekov.
- Dr. McCoy: Where do we start, Mr. Spock.
- Mr. Spock: Institute a sensor scan 360 degrees, one degree at a time.
- Dr. McCoy: You mean you're going to scan space for him?
- Chekov: But, sir, that could take years.
- Mr. Spock: Then the sooner you begin, the better.
- Mr. Spock: Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results.