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I want answers!

Nerdius Maximus

Fleet Captain
Fleet Captain
I wonder how many times Kirk said "I want answers!" during the course of TOS.:rommie: I was thinking about this the other day when I watched "shore leave." He's constantly demaning "answers" throughout the entire show.
 
I wonder how many times Kirk said "I want answers!" during the course of TOS.:rommie: I was thinking about this the other day when I watched "shore leave." He's constantly demaning "answers" throughout the entire show.

He said it to Scotty in The Immunity Syndrome as well. "I AM asking how, Mister! I want answers! Kirk out!"
 
John Belushi even said it as Kirk in "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" on Saturday Night Live in 1976.
 
Wow, you're right, Nerdius Maximus - Shore Leave is filled with Kirk wanting answers. In addition to that and TheLonelySquire's quote from The Immunity Syndrome, searching through downloads of the Czech transcripts shows:

In The Ultimate Computer: Dr. Daystrom, I want an answer right now.
In Operation: Annihilate!: I want some answers to all this.
Later in Operation: Annihilate!: I want another answer.
In The Deadly Years: I want the answers, and I want the remedy.
In Return of the Archons: I want some answers.
In Catspaw: I want some answers.

Not quite "I want answers" but similar:

In Space Seed: I'd like those answers now.
In The Naked Time: The purpose of a briefing, gentlemen, is to get me answers based on your abilities and experience.
In Return of the Archons: A question has been asked. Answer it.
In The Alternative Factor: Meanwhile, I'll talk to our unexpected guest. Maybe he can provide some answers.
In Charlie X: Are you responsible for what happened to the Antares, Charlie? ... Answer me.
In City on the Edge of Forever: How long before we get a full answer?
In This Side of Paradise: Let's go get some answers.
In Wink of an Eye: I want an investigation and an explanation.
In Operation: Annihilate!: I want an analysis of all this from Medical and Life Science departments within the hour.
In Assignment: Earth: I want a medical analysis fast. Is he or isn't he human?
In Who Mourns for Adonais: I want a complete sensor scan of the planet. I want to know what's going on down there.
In The Doomsday Machine: Answer me! What was it?
Later in The Doomsday Machine: I want a complete report of what happened when they went in on that planet.
In Journey to Babel: I want an autopsy.
In The Tholian Web: Bones, what is it? Answer me!
In For the World Is Hollow...: Bones, answer me! Bones, what is it?
In That Which Survives: I want a detailed analysis of this planet-- now.
In And the Children Shall Lead: Tell Starfleet Command I suspect them of being alien in nature, and I want a thorough investigation made upon our arrival.
In Miri: There must be records somewhere... and answers to some of our questions.
In The Cloud Minders: All right, I'll make a deal with you: you answer some questions, and I'll let you up.
In The Savage Curtain: Spock, any answers?
In Conscience of the King: Captain's log-- stardate 2818.9. There are many questions in my mind-- too many, perhaps-- about the actor Karidian and his daughter. For personal reasons, I'm almost afraid to learn the answers.

A video compilation would be difficult but would make Kirk look like quite the curious fellow. :)
 
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Kirk wasn't alone:

Early in Act I of TNG's "Contagion", Captain Picard made a similar exclamation: "Enough! Answers! I want answers, not conjecture, and I want them at a staff meeting in one hour!"
 
And I'm sure Kirk was just copying it from his childhood hero Jonathan Archer. :lol:
 
No, Archer was someone else's hero. Kirk just copied the name from that guy's paper. He actually a Shran fan.
 
John Belushi even said it as Kirk in "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" on Saturday Night Live in 1976.

This is very true, Belushi did.

BTW: I still think that parody is the best ever created. I still miss John Belushi!
 
Eliot Gould was awesome in that sketch.

"Nimoy...we're gonna need those ears back." (rip, rip) :lol:
 
And he was especially perturbed when "I can't get an answer" in Star Trek III regarding Genesis when "Starfleet is up to its brass in galactic controversy".
 
Please don't hold it against Kirk. He can't help himself. He has a medical condition:

He doesn't like mysteries. They give him a bellyache... and he's getting a Beauty right now...
 
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