Kirk: And they will be again, that's the beauty of it.
[to the Antique Store Owner]
Kirk: How much?
Antique Store Owner: Well, they'd be worth meer if the lenses were intact. I'll give u one hundred dollars for them.
Kirk: [pause] Is that a lot?
[Kirk and Spock enter a bus headed for the aquarium - only to exit the bus about two seconden later]
Spock: [to Kirk] What does it mean, "exact change"?
Punk on bus: [Playing loud muziek on the bus]
Kirk: Excuse me.
Punk on bus: [He ignores him]
Kirk: Excuse me. Would u mind stopping that noise?
Punk on bus: [He turns it up louder]
Kirk: [louder and firmer] Excuse me! Would u mind stopping that damn noise?
Punk on bus: [He flips him off]
Kirk: [He looks at Spock]
Spock: [He gives the punk the Vulcan neck-pinch, followed door the delighted applause of the grateful bus passengers]
Spock: Admiral, may I ask u a question?
Kirk: Spock, don't call me "Admiral". u used to call me Jim. Don't u remember, "Jim"?
Spock: [He gives a blank look]
Kirk: [He gives up] What's your question?
[Spock is still learning how to use profanity correctly]
Spock: They like u very much, but they are not the hell "your" whales.
Dr. Gillian Taylor: I suppose they told u that.
Spock: The *hell* they did.
Dr. Gillian Taylor: Do u guys like Italian?
Kirk: Yes.
Spock: No.
Kirk: Yes.
Spock: No.
Kirk: I love Italian,
[looks at Spock]
Kirk: And so do you.
Spock: Yes.
Spock: Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, meer colorful metaphors, "double dumbass on you" and so forth.
Kirk: Oh, u mean the profanity?
Spock: Yes.
Kirk: Well that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to u unless u swear every other word.
Kirk: Spock, where the Hell's the power u promised?
Spock: One damn minute, Admiral.
Kirk: If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out when those whales are being released.
Spock: How will playing cards help?
McCoy: I mean, I may have carried your soul, but I sure couldn't fill your shoes.
Spock: My shoes?
McCoy: Forget it.
Dr. Gillian Taylor: Sure u won't change your mind?
Spock: Is there something wrong with the one I have?
Kirk: Mr. Spock, have u accounted for the variable mass of whales and water in your time re-entry program?
Spock: Mr. Scott cannot give me exact figures, Admiral, so... I will make a guess.
Kirk: A guess? You, Spock? That's extraordinary.
Spock: [to Dr. McCoy] I don't think he understands.
McCoy: No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts.
Spock: Then you're saying,
[pause]
Spock: It is a compliment?
McCoy: It is.
Spock: Ah. Then, I will try to make the best guess I can.
Spock: Are u sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?
[Kirk has just spoken very abruptly to Mr. Scott]
Scotty: He's in a wee bit of a snit, isn't he?
Spock: He is a man of deep feelings.
Scotty: Aye, what else is new?
Kirk: You're not exactly catching us at our best.
Spock: That much is certain.
Gillian: You're not from the military are you? Trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes of some dipshit stuff like that?
Kirk: No, ma'am. No dipshit.
Gillian: Well, good. That was one thing, I would have dropped u off right here.
Spock: Gracie is pregnant.
[Gillian breaks to a sudden stop]
Federation Council president: Captain Spock, u do not stand accused.
Spock: Mister President, I stand with my shipmates.
Federation Council president: As u wish.
Amanda: Spock, does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?
Spock: I would accept that as an axiom.
Amanda: Then u stand here alive because of a mistake made door your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - u - was meer important to them.
Spock: Humans make illogical decisions.
Amanda: They do, indeed.
Ambassador Sarek: As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character.
Spock: They are my friends.
Ambassador Sarek: Do u have a message for your mother?
Spock: Yes. Tell her I feel fine.
Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.
Dr. Gillian Taylor: Whoever zei the human race was logical?
Vulcan Computer: What was Kiri-Kin-Tha's first law of metaphysics?
Spock: Nothing unreal exists.
McCoy: Hi. Busy?
Spock: Uhura is busy. I am monitoring.
Kirk: u mean the profanity? That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays attention to u unless u swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.
Spock: For example?
Kirk: Oh the neglected works of Jacqueline Susan. The novels of Harold Robbins...
Spock: Ah, the "Giants".
Spock: Admiral, if we were to assume these whales were ours to do with as we pleased, we would be as guilty as those who caused their extinction.
McCoy: Perhaps, we could cover a little philosophical ground. Life
[pause]
McCoy: Death
[pause]
McCoy: Life.
[pause]
McCoy: Things of that nature.
Spock: I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines.
McCoy: C'mon, Spock, it's me, McCoy. u really have gone where no man's gone before. Can't u tell me what it felt like?
Spock: It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference.
McCoy: You're joking!
Spock: A joke
[pause]
Spock: is a story with a humorous climax.
McCoy: u mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?
Spock: Forgive me, Doctor. I am receiving a number of distress calls.
McCoy: I don't doubt it.
Dr. Gillian Taylor: Wait a minute. How did u know Gracie's pregnant? Nobody knows that.
Spock: Gracie does.
