Star Trek (TV Series)
A Piece of the Action (1968)
Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock
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Quotes
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Spock : [Gangster accent] I would advise yas to keep dialin', Oxmyx.
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[last lines]
Capt. Kirk : All right, Bones, in the language of the planet, "What's your beef?"
Dr. McCoy : Well, I don't know how serious this is, Jim. And I don't quite know how to tell you...
Capt. Kirk : Go ahead.
Dr. McCoy : But in all the confusion, I...
Capt. Kirk : Tell me.
Dr. McCoy : I think I left it in Bela's office.
Capt. Kirk : You left it?
Dr. McCoy : Somewhere, I'm-I'm not certain.
Capt. Kirk : You're not certain of what?
Dr. McCoy : I left my communicator.
Capt. Kirk : In Bela's office?
Spock : Captain, if the Iotians, who are very bright an imitative people, should take that communicator apart...
Capt. Kirk : They will, they will. And they'll find out how the transtator works.
Spock : The transtator is the basis for every important piece of equipment that we have - the transporter, the...
Capt. Kirk : [overlapping] Everything, everything.
Dr. McCoy : You really think it's that serious?
Capt. Kirk : Serious? Serious, Bones? It upsets the whole percentage.
Dr. McCoy : How do you mean?
Capt. Kirk : Well, in a few years, the Iotians may demand a piece of OUR action.
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Spock : [balking at the prospect of another ride in a car with Kirk at the wheel] Captain, must we?
Capt. Kirk : It's faster than walking.
Spock : But not as safe.
Capt. Kirk : Are you afraid of cars?
Spock : Not at all, Captain. It's your DRIVING that alarms me.
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Dr. McCoy : We're trying to help you, Oxmyx.
Bela Oxmyx : Nobody helps nobody but himself.
Spock : Sir, you are employing a double negative.
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Capt. Kirk : The name of the game is called, uh... fizzbin.
Kalo : Fizzbin?
Capt. Kirk : Fizzbin. It's, uh... not too difficult.
Kalo : Mm-hmm.
Capt. Kirk : Each player gets six cards, except for the dealer, er, the player on the dealer's right, who, er, gets seven.
Kalo : On the right?
Capt. Kirk : Yes. The second card is turned up, except on Tuesday.
Kalo : On Tuesday.
Capt. Kirk : Mm-hmm.
Capt. Kirk : [exited] Ooh, look what you got, two jacks. You got a half fizzbin already!
Kalo : Hehe! I need another jack.
Capt. Kirk : No, no. If you got another jack, why, you'd have, er, a sralk.
Kalo : A sralk?
Capt. Kirk : Yes. You'd be disqualified.
Kalo : Oh.
Capt. Kirk : No, what you need now, is either a king and a deuce, except at night, of course, when you'd need a queen and a, and a four.
Kalo : Except at night.
Capt. Kirk : Right. Oh, look at that. You've got another jack!
[Kalo laughs]
Capt. Kirk : How lucky you are! How wonderful for you. Now, if you didn't get another jack, if you'd gotten a king, why, then you'd get another card, except when it's dark, when you'd have to give it back.
Kalo : If it were dark on Tuesday.
Capt. Kirk : Yes, but what you're after is a royal fizzbin, but the odds in getting a royal fizzbin are astron... Spock, what are the odds in getting a royal fizzbin?
Spock : I have never computed them, Captain.
Capt. Kirk : Well, they're astronomical, believe me.
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Spock : [narrating] Ship's Log. Mr. Spock reporting. Incredible as it seems, Dr. McCoy and I are once again prisoners of the chief criminal boss of a society patterned after old Earth gangsters.
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Spock : Captain... you are an excellent starship commander. But as a taxi driver, you leave much to be desired.
Capt. Kirk : It was that bad?
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Capt. Kirk : [adopting a Chicago gangster accent] Now, you cooperate wid us and, uh, maybe we'll cut choo in for a piece o' dee action.
Spock : A minuscule... A very small piece.
Jojo Krako : How much is that?
Capt. Kirk : That's, uh...
Capt. Kirk : [dropping the accent] We'll figure it out later.
Jojo Krako : Thought you guys had laws! No interference!
Capt. Kirk : [accent on] Who's interferin'? We're... takin' over!
Capt. Kirk : [to Spock] Check?
Spock : Right.
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Dr. McCoy : How are you with primitive radio equipment?
Spock : Very simple. Amplitude modulation transmission. Simply adjust the frequency, throw this switch. The Enterprise should answer.
Radio Voice : That was the Jailbreakers with their latest recording on Request Time, brought to you by Bang-Bang, the makers of the sweetest little automatic in the wor...
Spock : [switches radio off] Fascinating.
Dr. McCoy : And very simple.
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Spock : Mr. Oxmyx, this is Mr. Spock.
Bela Oxmyx : [using a stolen communicator] Huh? Hey, how'd you get back up there?
Spock : Irrelevant, since we are here.
Bela Oxmyx : Huh, yeah. Hey, you better come on back down. Krako's put the bag on your captain.
Spock : Why would he put a bag on our captain?
Bela Oxmyx : Kidnapped him, ya dope. He'll scrag him, too.
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Spock : Captain, I'm neither brooding nor sombre, but I do have reservations about your solution to the problem of the Iotians.
Capt. Kirk : Ah, yes. I understand that. You don't think it's logical to leave a criminal organization in charge.
Spock : Highly irregular, to say the least, Captain. I'm also curious as to how you propose to explain to Starfleet Command that a starship will be sent each year to collect "our cut."
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Spock : [on the 1920's Chicago-style world] Fascinating.
Dr. McCoy : This is like coming home.
Capt. Kirk : Home was never like this.