Logan Ramsey credited as playing...
Claudius
- Claudius Marcus: Guards. Take him to the arena. Oh, we've pre-empted fifteen minutes on the early show for you. In full colour. We guarantee you a splendid audience. Er, you may not understand, because you're centuries beyond anything as crude as television.
- Capt. Kirk: I've heard it was... similar.
- Claudius Marcus: Would you leave us, Merik? The thoughts of one man to another cannot possibly interest you.
- Claudius Marcus: So, this is a Vulcan. Interesting. From what I have heard I wish I had fifty of you for the arena.
- Merik: This other is your ship's surgeon?
- Capt. Kirk: McCoy.
- Merik: It's a pity we can't let him loose in our hospitals. Our level of medicine would improve immeasurably, I'm sure.
- Spock: I find the checks and balances of this civilization quite illuminating.
- Dr. McCoy: Next he'll be telling us he prefers it over Earth history.
- Spock: They do seem to have escaped the carnage of your first three world wars, Doctor.
- Dr. McCoy: They have slavery, gladiatorial games, despotism.
- Spock: Situations quite familiar to the six million who died in your first world war, the eleven million who died in your second, the thirty-seven million who died in your third. Shall I go on?
- Claudius Marcus: Interesting...
- Claudius Marcus: Admit it, you find these games frightening, revolting.
- Capt. Kirk: Proconsul, in some parts of the galaxy, I have seen forms of entertainment that makes this look like a folk dance.
- Merik: The Romans have always been the strongest; and they've had practice for over two thousand years in enslaving men, using them, killing them.
- Claudius Marcus: Quite true, Captain Kirk. The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar pattern. We don't fear it as you do.
- Claudius Marcus: And you, Captain, er, which world do you prefer?
- Capt. Kirk: My world, Proconsul, is my vessel, my oath, my crew.
- Claudius Marcus: Now, Captain, what are you going to order your men to do?
- Capt. Kirk: If I brought down a hundred of them armed with phasers...
- Claudius Marcus: ...you could probably defeat the combined armies of our entire empire - and violate your oath regarding non-interference with other societies. I believe you all swear you'll die, before you'd violate that directive. Am I right?
- Spock: Quite correct.
- Dr. McCoy: Must you always be so blasted honest?