Star Trek (TV Series)

The Menagerie: Part I (1966)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk

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• Captain James T. Kirk : There's a false entry in the log right now which doesn't jibe with the established facts. How do you explain that?

  Dr. McCoy : I can't! But to question Spock, of all people... Me, yes. I could run off half-cocked given a good reason, so could you, but not Spock. It's impossible.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [stranded in a shuttle]  Part of me is hoping that the Enterprise WON'T come back for us. We step on that deck, Spock is finished, court-martialed, disgraced.

  Commodore Jose Mendez : He's DEAD if he makes it to Talos 4.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Mutiny requires a trial board of no less than three command officers. Since there are only two of that rank available...

  Mr. Spock : Sir, I must point out that there ARE three officers of command rank available: yourself, Commodore Mendez and Captain Christopher Pike.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Denied! Captain Pike is a complete invalid.

  Mr. Spock : I believe you'll find he's still on the active duty list.

  [Captain Kirk looks to the Commodore] 

  Commodore Jose Mendez : We didn't have the heart to retire him, Jim. He's got you. Whatever he's up to, he's planned it well.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [narrating]  Captain's log, stardate 3012.4. Despite our best efforts to disengage computers, the Enterprise is still locked on a heading for the mysterious planet Talos IV. Meanwhile, as required by Starfleet General Orders, a preliminary hearing on Lieutenant Commander Spock is being convened and in all the years of my service this is the most painful moment I've ever faced.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Miss Piper, a Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing. That goes for his present commander as well as his past.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Someone's interfering with my command and my ship. I don't know who it is but I mean to find out.

• Captain James T. Kirk : General Order 7: "No vessel under any condition, emergency or otherwise, is to visit Talos 4."

  Commodore Jose Mendez : And to do so is the only death penalty left on our books. Only Fleet Command knows why. Not even this file explains that, but it does name the only Earth ship that ever visited the planet.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [reading]  The Enterprise.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [narrating]  Captain's log, supplemental: Mr. Spock, on trial for mutiny, has forced the court to accept unusual evidence. On our monitor screen, the voyage of Captain Pike and the Enterprise to the one forbidden world in all the galaxy.

• [last lines] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : Lock him up!