"The Squire of Gothos" Line-by-Line

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: What happened? Fill me in.

 

[BlueStuff]

MCCOY: You disappeared from the bridge after Sulu. We've been looking for you for four hours.

 

[Admiral Shran]

TRELANE: You must excuse my whimsical way of fetching you here, but when I saw you passing by I simply could not resist.

 

[Alienesse]

KIRK: I'm Captain James Kirk of the United Starship Enterprise.

 

[Admiral Shran]

TRELANE: Ah, so you're the Captain of these brave lads. My greetings and felicitations, Captain. So good of you and your officers to drop in. Absolutely smashing.

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRK: Who are you? Where do you come from?

 

[Admiral Shran]

TRELANE: General Trelane, retired. At your service, sirs. My home is your home.

(He goes back to his playing.)

 

[BlueStuff]

DESALLE: We've lost contact with the ship, Captain. We're trapped here.

 

[Admiral Shran]

TRELANE: I can't tell you how delighted I am to have visitors from the very planet that I've made my hobby. Yes, but according to my observations, I didn't think you capable of such voyages.

 

[BlueStuff]

JAEGER: Notice the period, Captain. Nine hundred light years from Earth. It's what might be seen through a viewing scope if it were powerful enough.

 

[Alienesse]

TRELANE: Ah, yes. I've been looking in on the doings on your lively little Earth.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: Then you've been looking in on the doings nine hundred years past.


Nice little continuity error.

 

[BlueStuff]

TRELANE: Oh, really? Have I made an error in time? How fallible of me. Oh, I did so want to make you feel at home. I'm quite proud of the detail.

EPISODE'S WRITER: Oh, really? Have I made an error in time? How fallible of me.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: General Trelane....

 

[Alienesse]

TRELANE: Retired, sir. Just Squire Trelane now. And you may call me Squire. Yes, I rather fancy that.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: For what purpose have you imprisoned us here?

 

[BlueStuff]

TRELANE: Imprisoned? Nonsense. You're my guests. You see, I just finished my studies of your curious and fascinating society. You came by at the most propitious moment. I want to know all about your campaigns, your battles, your missions of conquest.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: Our missions are peaceful, not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice.

 

[Alienesse]

TRELANE: Ah, but that's the official story, eh?

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRK: I must ask you to let us go back to our ship.