Leonard Nimoy credited as playing...
Mr. Spock
- Captain James T. Kirk: Well there it is - war. We didn't want it, but we've got it.
- Mr. Spock: Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
- Mr. Spock: I should say the Organians are as far above us on the evolutionary scale... as we are above the amoeba.
- [Spock prevents Kirk from reacting to a Klingon's provocation]
- Captain James T. Kirk: You didn't really think I was gonna beat his head in, did you?
- Mr. Spock: I thought you might.
- Captain James T. Kirk: You're right.
- Captain James T. Kirk: What would you say the odds are on our getting out of here?
- Mr. Spock: Difficult to be precise, Captain. I should say, approximately 7,824.7 to 1.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Difficult to be precise? 7,824 to 1?
- Mr. Spock: 7,824.7 to 1.
- Captain James T. Kirk: That's a pretty close approximation.
- Mr. Spock: I endeavor to be accurate.
- Captain James T. Kirk: You do quite well.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Spock, did I or did I not see something that looked like a munitions dump outside of Kor's headquarters?
- Mr. Spock: You did.
- Captain James T. Kirk: I think it's time we did a little simple and plain communicating. Tonight.
- Mr. Spock: A very meritorious idea, Captain.
- Captain James T. Kirk: We're short of tools.
- Mr. Spock: I am certain the Klingons will provide whatever is necessary.
- Captain James T. Kirk: It's a pleasure doing business with you, Mr. Spock.
- [last lines]
- Captain James T. Kirk: I'm embarrassed. I was furious with the Organians for stopping a war I didn't want. We think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe. It's unsettling to discover that we're wrong.
- Mr. Spock: Captain. It took millions of years for the Organians to evolve into what they are. Even the gods did not spring into being overnight. You and I have no reason to be embarrassed. We did, after all, beat the odds.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Oh, no, no, no, Mr. Spock, we didn't beat the odds; we didn't have a chance. The Organians rated the game.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Organia's description, Mr. Spock.
- Mr. Spock: Inhabited by humanoids, a very peaceful, friendly people, living on a primitive level. Little of intrinsic value. Approximately class D minus on the Richter scale of cultures.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Another Armenia, Belgium.
- Mr. Spock: Sir?
- Captain James T. Kirk: The weak innocents. They always seem to be located on the natural invasion routes.
- Mr. Spock: Captain, our information on these people and their culture was not correct. This is not a primitive society making progress toward mechanization. They are totally stagnant. There is no evidence of any progress as far back as my tricorder can register.
- Captain James T. Kirk: That doesn't seem likely.
- Mr. Spock: Nevertheless, it is true. For tens of thousands of years, there's been absolutely no advancement, no significant change in their physical environment. This is a laboratory specimen of an arrested culture.
- Captain James T. Kirk: So - we're stranded here, in the middle of a Klingon occupation army.
- Mr. Spock: So it would seem. Not a very pleasant prospect.
- Captain James T. Kirk: You have a gift for understatement, Mr. Spock. It's not a very pleasant prospect at all!
- Captain James T. Kirk: [beaming down into the middle of an Organian village, with no reaction from the people around] You'd think they had people beaming down every day.
- Mr. Spock: Yes. Curious lack of interest.