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| McCoy : | "A cage is a cage, Jim." | | to Kirk; unimpressed with his description of how humane the colony is |
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| Adams : | "To all mankind. May we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth." | | His toast |
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| Spock : | "Interesting. Your Earth people glorify organized violence for forty centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately." | | to McCoy |
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| Kirk : | "One of the advantages of being a captain, doctor, is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it." | | to Noel |
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| Spock : | "Open your mind... we move together, our minds sharing the same thoughts." | | performing a meld on Van Gelder |
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| Kirk : | "Can you imagine the mind, emptied by that thing? Without even a tormentor for company?" | | to Spock; about Adams |
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