"Day of the Dove" Line-by-Line

SCOTT: But this is war!

 

KIRK: There isn't any war! Or is there?

 

SCOTT: Have we forgotten how to defend ourselves?

 

KIRK: Scotty. What's happening to us? We've been trained to think in other terms than war. We've been trained to fight its causes, if necessary. Then why are we behaving like a group of savages? Look at me. Look at me. Two forces aboard this ship, each of them equally armed. Has a war been staged for us, complete with weapons and ideology and patriotic drum beating? Even, Spock, even race hatred?

 

SPOCK: Recent events would seem to be directed toward a magnification of the basic hostilities between humans and Klingons. Apparently, it is by design that we fight. We seem to be pawns.

 

KIRK: But what's the game? And whose? And what are the rules?

 

SPOCK: It is most urgent that we locate the alien entity immediately, and determine its motives and a method for halting its activities.

 

SCOTT: Without sensors? All our power down? This thing could go anywhere.

 

KIRK: Yes. Mister Sulu, report.

 

SULU [OC]: No good, Captain.

[Jefferies tube]

SULU: Circuits are in, but systems just aren't responding.
(Then the lights come back on.)

 

Kirk: We're getting something.

 

[Jefferies tube]

SULU: Aye, Captain. Power and life-support restored. Remotes on standby.

 

KIRK [OC]: Good work.

 

SCOTT: But, Captain, I didn't do it. Everything just came on by itself.

 

[Engineering]

MARA: Their life-support systems have resumed.

 

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Sensors may be operating.

 

KIRK: Start scanning. Let's find that alien.

 

Engineering

Mara: Holding steady.

 

KANG: Cause them to be unsteady.

 

Mara: They appear to be controlled from another location. Also unable to affect ships course for return to our empire.