"Journey to Babel" Line-by-Line

[LeadHead]

Spock's quarters

doorbell rings

Spock: Come in.

 

[Leandar]

Amanda: Spock, you must turn command over to somebody else.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Mother, when I was commissioned, I took an oath to carry out responsibilities which were clearly and exactly specified.

 

[Leandar]

Amanda: Any competent officer can command this ship. Only you can give your father the blood transfusions that he needs to live.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Any competent Officer can command this ship under normal circumstances. The circumstances are not normal. We're carrying over one hundred valuable Federation Passengers. We're being pursued by an alien ship. We are subject to possible attack. There has been murder and attempted murder on board. I can not dismiss my duties.

 

[Leandar]

Amanda: Duty? Your duty is to your father!

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: I know, but this must take precedence. If I could give a transfusion without loss of time or efficiency I would. Sarek understands my reason.

 

[Leandar]

Amanda: Well, I don't. It's not human! Oh, that's not a dirty word, you're human, too. Let that part of you come through! Your father's dying.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Mother, how can you have lived on Vulcan so long, married a Vulcan, raised a son on Vulcan without understanding what it means to be a Vulcan?

 

[Leandar]

Amanda: Well, if this is what it means, I don't want to know!

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: It means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life, which is logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for personal gain, now matter how important that gain might be.

 

[Orac]

Amanda: Nothing is as important as your fathers life.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Can you imagine what my father would say if I were to agree, if I were to give up command of this vessel, jeopardize hundreds of lives, risk interplanetary war, all for the life of one person?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

AMANDA: When you were five years old and came home stiff-lipped, anguished, because the other boys tormented you saying that you weren't really Vulcan. I watched you, knowing that inside that the human part of you was crying and I cried, too. There must be some part of me in you, some part that I still can reach. If being Vulcan is more important to you, then you'll stand there speaking rules and regulations from Starfleet and Vulcan philosophy, and let your father die. And I'll hate you for the rest of my life.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: Mother.

 

[LeadHead]

Amanda: Go to him please.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: I cannot.

(Amanda slaps his face and storms out.)

 

[Orac]

(meanwhile in sickbay)

Chapel: Doctor McCoy.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: I'd like to get my hands on the guy with the sledgehammer.

 

[LeadHead]

Chapel: The one who hit you?