"Bread and Circuses" Line-by-Line!

CLAUDIUS: Contamination. Can't risk that. Oh, you'll understand as you learn more about us.

 

MERIK: So I made the decision to stay.

 

KIRK: What happened to your crew? Did they voluntarily beam, come ashore?

 

MERIK: This is an ordered world, Jim, a conservative world based on time-honored Roman strengths and virtues.

 

KIRK: What happened to your crew?

 

MERIK: There's been no war here for over four hundred years, Jim. Could, let's say, your land of that same era make that same boast? I think you can see why they don't want to have their stability contaminated by dangerous ideas of other ways and other places.

 

SPOCK: Interesting, and given a conservative empire, quite understandable.

 

MCCOY: Are you out of your head?

 

SPOCK: I said I understood it, Doctor. I find the checks and balances of this civilization quite illuminating.

 

MCCOY: Next he'll be telling us he prefers it over Earth history.

 

SPOCK: They do seem to have escaped the carnage of your first three world wars, Doctor.

 

MCCOY: They have slavery, gladiatorial games, despotism.

 

SPOCK: Situations quite familiar to the six million who died in your first world war, the eleven million who died in your second, the thirty seven million who died in your third. Shall I go on?

 

Claudius: Interesting. And you, Captain, which world do you prefer?

 

KIRK: My world, proconsul, is my vessel, my oath, my crew. What happened to your vessel you've explained. What happened to your oath is obvious.

 

MERIK: And as for my men, those that were able to adapt to this world are still alive. Those who couldn't adapt are dead. That's the way it is with life everywhere, isn't it?

 

KIRK: You sent your own men into the arena?

 

MERIK: Just as I did, Jim, you're going to order your own people ashore.

 

MCCOY: You must know that's impossible. Starfleet regulations....

 

CLAUDIUS: Are designed to circumvent any such order. There may be over four hundred men on your ship, Captain, but they can be brought down if it's handled properly. Say, a few at a time. You see, I have the advantage of a trained ship captain to tell me what is and what is not possible. Your communicator, Captain Kirk. Now do save us all a lot of unnecessary trouble and issue the appropriate orders.