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Balance of Terror

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Kirk : 
"Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge."
to Stiles
Bones : 
"War is never imperative, Mister Spock."
Spock : 
"It is for them, Doctor."
McCoy : 
"You're discussing tactics! Do you realise what this really comes down to? Millions and millions of lives hanging on what this vessel does next!"
to Spock
Kirk : 
"I wish I were on a long sea voyage somewhere. Not too much deck tennis, no frantic dancing. And no responsibility."
to McCoy
McCoy : 
"In this galaxy there's a mathamatical probability of three million Earth type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more... only one of each of us."
to Kirk
Romulan commander : 
"He's a sorcerer, that one! He reads the thoughts in my brain!"
to Decius; regarding Kirk
Romulan commander : 
"You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend."
to Kirk

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