"The Menagerie" Line-by-Line

[CoveTom]

KIRK: Receiving transmissions from Talos IV? Then the images we've been seeing are...

 

[Orac]

Spock: Are coming from Talos IV Sir.

 

[CoveTom]

UHURA (on comm): Captain Kirk is hereby relieved. You are ordered to assume command of the Enterprise. Disable vessel if necessary to prevent further contact. Message signed Council, Starfleet Command.

 

[Leandar]

Mendez: Mr. Spock, you're aware of the orders regarding any contact with Talos IV. You have deliberately invited the death penalty. You've not only finished yourself Spock, but you've finished your captain as well!

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: The Commodore must be aware that Captain Kirk had no knowledge of this.

 

[Orac]

Mendez: And you're aware that a captain is responsible for everything that occurs on his ship. I order you to return this vessel to manual control!

 

[Captain Robert April]

Sir, I respectfully decline.

 

[Orac]

Mendez: Very well you've earned the consequences, this court is in recess.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

[Mendez and yeoman leave, Scott and McCoy wheel Pike out after him]

Kirk: Do you know what you're doing? Have you lost your mind?

 

[CoveTom]

SPOCK: Captain... Jim... please. Don't stop me. Don't let him stop me. It's your career and Captain Pike's life. You must see the rest of the transmission.

 

[Leandar]

Kirk: Lock him up. (The guards take Spock out, leaving Kirk alone in the courtroom)

To be concluded next week...

(Part II, Prologue)

Kirk: Personal log, stardate 3013.1. I find it hard to believe the events of the past twenty four hours or the plea of Mr. Spock standing general court-martial.

 

[Leandar]

Mendez: How do you plead to unlawfully taking command of this starship?

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Spock: Guilty.

 

[Leandar]

Mendez: Of sabotaging the computers of this vessel and locking it on a course for planet Talos IV?

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Guilty.

 

[CoveTom]

(Actually, the personal log line was correct at that point.)

MENDEZ: And of forcibly attempting to transport Captain Pike to that planet?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SPOCK: Guilty.

 

[CoveTom]

MENDEZ: Of replacing the sugar with high fructose corn syrup?

Er... wait... no... I mean...

KIRK: Why? Why does Spock want to take to that forbidden world his former Captain. Mutilated by a recent space disaster, now a shell of a man, unable to speak or move. The only answer Spock would give was on the hearing room screen. How Spock could do this he refused to explain, but there before our eyes, actual images from thirteen years ago of Captain Pike as he was when he commanded this vessel, of Spock in those days, and of how the Enterprise had become the first and only starship to visit Talos IV. They had received a distress signal from that planet and discovered there, still alive after many years, the survivors of a missing vessel, only to find it was all an illusion. No survivors, no encampment, it was all a trap set by a race of beings who could make a man believe he was seeing anything they wished him to see, and Captain Pike was gone, a prisoner for some unknown purpose.

 

[Leandar]

^^Finishing:

Kirk (cont.): Then the images we've been seeing are...

Spock: Are coming from Talos IV, sir.

 

[CoveTom]

MENDEZ: Mr. Spock, you're aware of the orders regarding any contact with Talos IV. You have deliberately invited the death penalty.