Court Martial Line-by-Line

[May 20]

SPOCK: Negative.

 

[Orac]

Shaw: That answer is based on your mechanical survey of the Enterprise computer ordered by the defendant prior to this trial, is it not?

 

[Oddish]

SPOCK: "Affirmative."

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

SHAW: Now the stardate--

 

[Orac]

Spock: But the computer is inaccurate, never the less.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

SHAW: Why do you say that?

 

[May 20]

SPOCK: It reports that the jettison button was pressed before the Red Alert.

 

[Orac]

Shaw: In other words, it reports that Captain Kirk was reacting to an extreme emergency that did not then exist.

 

[mattman8907]

SPOCK: And that is impossible.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

SHAW: Is it? Were you watching him the exact moment he pressed the jettison button?

 

[Orac]

Spock: No, I was occupied. The ship was already on Yellow Alert.

 

[Athena28]

SHAW: Then how can you dispute the finding of the log?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

SPOCK: I do not dispute it. I merely state that it is wrong.

 

[Orac]

Shaw: Oh? On what do you base that statement?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

SPOCK: I know the Captain. He is inc--

 

[Athena28]

SHAW: Please instruct the witness not to speculate.

 

[Orac]

Spock: Lieutenant, I am half Vulcanian. Vulcanians do not speculate. I speak from pure logic. If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has in fact fallen.

 

[mattman8907]

SHAW: I do not see what that has to....

 

[Oddish]

SPOCK: "Gentlemen, human beings have characteristics just as inanimate objects do. It is impossible for Captain Kirk to act out of panic or malice. It is not his nature."

 

[Athena28]

SHAW: In your opinion.