Star Trek (TV Series)

Balance of Terror (1966)

George Takei: Sulu

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• Captain James T. Kirk : Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all shipmasters have had one happy privilege, that of uniting two people in the bonds of matrimony. And so, we are gathered here today with you, Angela Martine, and you, Robert Tomlinson, in the sight of your fellows, and in accordance with our laws and our many beliefs, that you may pledge your...

  [the ceremony is interrupted by a siren] 

  Sulu : [through intercom]  Alert! Alert! All decks, alert! Alert! Alert! Captain to the bridge! All decks, alert!

• Captain James T. Kirk : Go to full magnification.

  Sulu : Screen is on full mag, sir.

  Captain James T. Kirk : I don't see anything. Can't understand it.

  Mr. Spock : Invisibility is theoretically possible, Captain - selective bending of light - but the power cost is enormous. They may have solved that problem.

• Sulu : More wreckage, sir. Scattering across our path.

  Capt. Kirk : Cease fire.

  Mr. Spock : Debris on our scanner.

  Capt. Kirk : Analysis, quickly.

  Mr. Spock : Same type as before. Except... one metal cased object...

  Capt. Kirk : Helm! Hard over! Phasers, fire! Point blank!

  Stiles : PHASERS, FIRE!

  [a nuclear weapon detonates close by. The ship shakes violently and the bridge goes dark save for a few telltales. Enterprise hangs in space, apparently disabled]