Leonard Nimoy: Mr. Spock

By Any Other Name

Mr. Spock

Captain James T. Kirk: Well?
Mr. Spock: Impossible, Captain. The power source is protected by a material we cannot breach even with our phasers. Mr. Scott and I have prepared the means for the only logical alternative available to us.
Captain James T. Kirk: What alternative?
Mr. Spock: The barrier we must penetrate is composed of negative energy.
Scott: I have opened the control valves to the matter-anti-matter nacelles. On your signal, I will flood them with positive energy.
Captain James T. Kirk: What?
Mr. Spock: When we engage the barrier, the ship will explode. The Kelvans will be stopped here.
Scott: And so will we.

[McCoy has given Tomar some of the ship's food to taste, which the latter seems to enjoy]
Mr. Spock: Most curious.
Captain James T. Kirk: What is?
Mr. Spock: The isolated glimpses of things I saw when I touched Kelinda's mind are beginning to coalesce in my consciousness. The Kelvans have superior intellectual capacity. To achieve it, they've apparently sacrificed anything which would tend to distract them - perceptive senses such as taste, touch, smell, and, of course, emotions.
Captain James T. Kirk: But then, Tomar shouldn't be enjoying the taste of his food.
Mr. Spock: Yes, quite correct, Captain. But they have taken human form, and are therefore having human reaction.
Dr. McCoy: [looking at Tomar] Hm... If he keeps reacting like that, he's gonna need a diet.

Captain James T. Kirk: Vulcans have the ability to place themselves in a kind of trance, a complete relaxation of every part of the mind and the body.
Mr. Spock: We find it more restful to the body than your so-called vacation.

Mr. Spock: [describing his vision of the Kelvans] Immense beings, a hundred... limbs which resemble tentacles. Minds of such control and capacity, that each limb is capable of performing a different function.
Dr. McCoy: Do you mean that's what the Kelvans really are?
Mr. Spock: Undoubtedly.
Dr. McCoy: Well, if they look that way normally, why did they adapt themselves to our bodies?
Captain James T. Kirk: Perhaps practicality. They chose the Enterprise as the best vessel for the trip. Immense beings with a hundred tentacles would have difficulty with the turbolift.

Rojan: Have you seen Captain Kirk?
Mr. Spock: If you wish, I shall call him to the bridge.
Rojan: No. I was wondering where he was.
Mr. Spock: I left him in the recreation room.
Rojan: He was alone, then.
Mr. Spock: No, Kelinda was with him. She seemed anxious to speak to him.
Rojan: I told her to stay away from him.
Mr. Spock: It would appear, sir, that you have little control over her. Or perhaps Captain Kirk... has more.

Captain James T. Kirk: [after the crew is turned into dehydrated solid orbs] Is this all?
Mr. Spock: I have reviewed ship's personnel, Captain. It appears we four are the only ones the Kelvans consider essential.
Dr. McCoy: Scotty tells me you could've destroyed the ship in the barrier. Why didn't you?
Captain James T. Kirk: I couldn't.
Dr. McCoy: But that was our only chance to stop them...
Captain James T. Kirk: I didn't think it was.
Dr. McCoy: Jim...
Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, that's enough!
Dr. McCoy: Jim, I saw them reduce four of my doctors and nurses into those little...!
Captain James T. Kirk: They've reduced the whole CREW!
[punches the rec room table]