"THE NAKED TIME" - Spock, "Take D'Artagnan to sickbay." Look at you, Spock... coming up with the jokes. Loved it.
Favorite 'Little' Moments...
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Doesn't James Blish's novel say that Mitchell's skin is becoming almost metallic or something along those lines?
JB
Good one. Also great is how Kirk gives this little confirmatory head nod to McCoy. I bet that wasn't in the script, but was a great nuance by Shatner
There is a similar moment in "A Piece Of The Action" when Kalo goes the toss the phaser to Oxmyx and Kirk says "I wouldn't do that...", which impresses Oxmyx about the power of the phaser.
"You couldn't sell fake patterns to your Mother!" Mudd to Spock in I, Mudd!
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Dr. McCoy's puzzled reaction when his diagnostic scanner freaks out in "Mudd's Women": "I wonder what makes it do that!" And later, in sotto voce conversation with Kirk on the bridge:
KIRK: What are they?
MCCOY: You mean are they alien illusions? That sort of thing?
KIRK: I asked you first.
MCCOY: No, an alien smart enough to pull this could also keep my medical scanner from going bleep!
KIRK: I don't follow you.
MCCOY: I don't either.
KIRK: What are they?
MCCOY: You mean are they alien illusions? That sort of thing?
KIRK: I asked you first.
MCCOY: No, an alien smart enough to pull this could also keep my medical scanner from going bleep!
KIRK: I don't follow you.
MCCOY: I don't either.
Fake patents, actually.
“Gamesters of Triskelion”
SPOCK: I see. (pause) Gentlemen, I am in command of this vessel, and we shall continue on our present course. (conspiratorial whisper) Unless it is your intention to declare a mutiny.
With a stage-whispered button:
SCOTT: I would be more than content to do so, sir, and maybe a wee bit more.
SPOCK: Ensign, warp seven.
SPOCK: I see. (pause) Gentlemen, I am in command of this vessel, and we shall continue on our present course. (conspiratorial whisper) Unless it is your intention to declare a mutiny.
With a stage-whispered button:
SCOTT: I would be more than content to do so, sir, and maybe a wee bit more.
SPOCK: Ensign, warp seven.
Let's not forget "double dumb ass on you!"
If we're including the movies:
SPOCK: Jim, be careful.
McCOY: We will.
SPOCK: Jim, be careful.
McCOY: We will.
Not to make more of this than is necessary, but this brief scene—including Kirk’s wry smile when Spock wishes him well—tells us everything we need to know about these three.
This scene got cut out of syndication for a long time, I don't remember seeing it until the uncut episodes started coming out on VHS.
Pre-tape syndication cuts were the worst. My local affiliate would edit out the beginnings of acts, which led to all kinds of “a-ha” moments when my dad got us a Curtis Mathes.
One example is Act II of “The Doomsday Machine”: I was startled to learn that the planet killer attacked the Enterprise and missed the knowing, professional glances exchanged between Decker and Spock as they righted the ship.
A small thing, sure, but it added a little something to the ensuing power struggle and a bit of pathos to Spock relieving the commodore of command.
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Strangely enough this scene was always in the BBC transmissions! And they loved cutting the show down each and every time!
JB
Perhaps there could be a whole thread devoted to great little moments cut for broadcast to increase commercial length (and thus ruined). The versions aired on Me TV even up to very recently were notorious for this - for example the curtailed turbolift conversation between Kirk and Captain Christopher in "Tomorrow is Yesterday", culminating in Christopher saying that he never believed in little green men as they exit the lift and Christopher sees Spock for the first time - the lack of such dialog ruins the comedic impact of Spock's and Uhura's subsequent facial expressions and the musical cues (Which were retained). Amazingly, whoever made the decision For that cut saw no problem with it.
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It was a foregone conclusion that Spock would invite Kirk to his wedding in "Amok Time," but I've always had a fondness for what comes next. Without looking at the good doctor, Spock says stiffly, "I also request McCoy accompany me." McCoy, obviously moved by the fact that Spock values him enough to include him on an occasion for close friends, says just as formally, "I would be honored, sir."
"She's got some grey, Bones!"
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"Tomorrow is Yesterday": When the security guy threatens to lock Kirk up for two hundred years and Kirk sighs and says "That would be just about right." (Or words to that effect.)
Two great McCoy moments from the third movie:
That quiet scene where McCoy is talking to an unconscious Spock and confesses that he couldn't bear to lose him again.
Later, when the High Priestess asks McCoy if he's willing to endure the ritual to restore Spock and McCoy mutters, "Hell of a time to ask."
Like the "We will" bit, McCoy always brings things down to Earth a bit.
Two great McCoy moments from the third movie:
That quiet scene where McCoy is talking to an unconscious Spock and confesses that he couldn't bear to lose him again.
Later, when the High Priestess asks McCoy if he's willing to endure the ritual to restore Spock and McCoy mutters, "Hell of a time to ask."
Like the "We will" bit, McCoy always brings things down to Earth a bit.
In Is There in Truth No Beauty
Spock merges with Kollos and then hits on Uhura quoting Byron.
SPOCKOLLOS: Uhura, whose name means freedom. "She walks in beauty, like the night."
MCCOY: That's not Spock!
SPOCKOLLOS: Are you surprised to find that I’ve read Byron, Doctor?
MCCOY: That’s Spock!
Spock merges with Kollos and then hits on Uhura quoting Byron.
SPOCKOLLOS: Uhura, whose name means freedom. "She walks in beauty, like the night."
MCCOY: That's not Spock!
SPOCKOLLOS: Are you surprised to find that I’ve read Byron, Doctor?
MCCOY: That’s Spock!
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