Showing posts with label Spock. Show all posts
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Saturday 5 August 2023

Sarek and His Son, Spock






alien (adj.)
c. 1300, "strange, foreign," from Old French alien "strange, foreign;" as a noun, "an alien, stranger, foreigner," from Latin alienus "of or belonging to another, not one's own, foreign, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner," adjective from alius (adv.) "another, other, different" (from PIE root *al- (1) "beyond").

The meaning "residing in a country not of one's birth" is from mid-15c. The sense of "wholly different in nature" is from 1670s. The meaning "not of this Earth" is recorded by 1920. An alien priory (mid 15c.) is one owing obedience to a religious jurisdiction in a foreign country.
also from c. 1300

alien (n.)
"foreigner, citizen of a foreign land," early 14c., from alien (adj.) or from noun use of the adjective in French and Latin. In the science fiction sense "being from Another Planet," from 1953.

also from early 14c.


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*al- (1)
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "beyond."

It forms all or part of: adulteration; adultery; alias; alibi; alien; alienate; alienation; allegory; allele;  allergy; allo-; allopathy; allotropy; Alsace; alter; altercation; alternate; alternative; altruism; eldritch; else; hidalgo; inter alia; other; outrage; outrageous; outre; parallax; parallel; subaltern; synallagmatic; ulterior; ultimate; ultra-.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit anya "other, different," arana- "foreign;" Avestan anya-, Armenian ail "another;" Greek allos "other, different, strange;" Latin alius "another, other, different," alter "the other (of two)," ultra "beyond, on the other side;" Gothic aljis "other," Old English elles "otherwise, else," German ander "other."

alienage (n.)
"state of being alien," 1753, from alien (adj.) + -age. Other abstract noun forms include alienship (1846); alienness (1881).

Friday 16 April 2021

He is Not Spock

 
 He is a Liar.


The Devil is a Liar.

He will lie to confuse  us —

But, He will also mix lies with 
The Truth
To ATTACK Us.

The Attack is Psychological — 
and POWERFUL.

So Do NOT Listen —
Remember That —
Whatever Happens
Do NOT Listen.

  


I'm afraid.
 
 
Dr. Kibner :
I understand. I know.
Let me have your hand.
 
Isn't Dr. Kibner wonderful?
 

Dr. Kibner :
Come on. That's not so bad, is it?
Who's this behind you?
 
 
Ted.
 

Dr. Kibner :
That's right. Hold on.
Just relax now.
You gonna be all right?
 
Yeah.
 
 Dr. Kibner :
You feel better?
You want to go home now?
 
 
Yes.


Dr. Kibner : 
Will you come and see me tomorrow?
Please, tomorrow.
We'll all talk. The three of us.
I think I'd better take her home.
It's gonna be all right.
 
All right?
Okay.
 
There's too many people here.

Matthew Bennell : 
Thank you. 
I've never heard anything like it in my life.
They don't want to hear about the accident.
 

Jack Bellicec : 
It's a conspiracy.
 
 Matthew Bennell :
What's a conspiracy?


Jack Bellicec : 
Everything.
 


Elizabeth Driscoll
Excuse me — 

I understand what you're saying.

My Name is Elizabeth Driscoll.
The Public Health Department.
Call me.
 
Come on, Katherine.
 
Elizabeth Driscoll
That woman's husband is not her husband!
I saw him today with Geoffrey.
He's one of them.
She knows about it, and nobody's helping her.


Matthew Bennell : 
That's Not True.
Somebody's helping.
 

Dr. Kibner : 
I'm glad you heard that.


Matthew Bennell : 
David Kibner, Elizabeth Driscoll.
 

Elizabeth Driscoll 
Hi.
 

Dr. Kibner :
I've been hearing it all week.
It's getting very popular.
 

Elizabeth Driscoll
What's getting popular? 
I was trying to tell you that I also know somebody who's changed.
 

Dr. Kibner :
Can we go outside and talk about it?
 
(to Bellicec (who he does not like))
There's a lady up top, red hair, blue dress.
She's interested in your work.
 


Dr. Kibner :
I've heard the same damn story this week from six patients.
People are changing, becoming less human.
It's happening all around us.
 

Elizabeth Driscoll
That's not what we're talking about.
This has nothing to do with the man I live with.
 

Dr. Kibner :
It has everything to do with it.
Don't you see?
People are stepping in and out of relationships too fast.
 
They Don't Want The Responsibility.
 
That's why Marriage is going to hell.
The whole Family Unit is shot to hell.
 

Matthew Bennell :
David, you're not listening to her.
 

Dr. Kibner :
Please, stay out of this — 
You see? That's The Point.
 
I'm listening to you, 
but he doesn't think I am. Why?
 
He doesn't expect me to bother enough, or to care.
 
Bellicec, for the last time,
I want you to stop!
 
Jack Bellicec :
Stop what?


Dr. Kibner : 
 Stand Still,
Be Quiet and Shut Up!
 
How did you feel about what I just did?
 

Jack Bellicec :
Why?
He's a nut.
 

Dr. Kibner :
How did you feel?
You were probably shocked.
 
You wanted to shut your feelings off,
withdraw maybe make believe it wasn't happening
so you don't have to deal with it.
 


Elizabeth Driscoll
I want to deal with that woman in the bookstore.
 

Dr. Kibner :
WHY?
Do you identify with her?
 

Elizabeth Driscoll
Yes.
 

Dr. Kibner :
Okay. Come on.
Suppose I were to tell you
that Katherine trying to escape 
from a relationship--
 
 


Matthew Bennell :
He's Treating her.
 

Jack Bellicec :
What does that have to do with pushing me up against The Wall?
She looks fine to me.
 

Matthew Bennell : 
She is upset, Jack.


Jack Bellicec :
You look upset to me now.


Matthew Bennell :
Do me a favor, will you?
 
 

Jack Bellicec : 
I'll do any favor you want.
 
 

Matthew Bennell :
Go home, and I'll call you later.
Leave us alone for a little bit.

Okay?
 


Jack Bellicec : 
Okay.
 

Matthew Bennell :
Thank you.


Dr. Kibner : 
You're jumping to 
a very bizarre conclusion,
that this man you live with has been replaced by Somebody Else.
 
Isn't it more likely that you want to believe he's changed because you're really looking for
an excuse to get out?
 
 


Tom : 
We have The Power to do anything we like. 
Absolute Power over every particle in The Universe. 
 
Everything that has ever existed or ever will exist. 
As from this moment —
 
 Are you listening to me, Romana? 
 
ROMANA: 
Yes, of course I'm listening. 
 
Tom : 
Because if you're not listening I can •make• you listen,
Because I can do anything
 
(The Doctor rolls his eyes back like a maniac.
 
DOCTOR: 
As from This Moment there's no such thing as free will in the entire universe. 
 
There's only •my• will
because •I• possess 
The Key to Time....!!
 
ROMANA: 
Doctor, are you all right? 
 
DOCTOR:
(normal) 
Well of course I'm all right. 
 
But supposing I wasn't all right. 
 
This thing makes me feel 
in such a way,
I'd be very worried
if I felt like that,
 about Someone Else
feeling like this about that —
Do you understand? 
 
ROMANA: 
….yes. 
 
Tom: 
What Do You Understand? 
 
 
ROMANA: 
That the sooner we hand this over to the White Guardian —
 
BOTH:
The BETTER!

Friday 9 April 2021

The Spock of Vulcan-Two



 

(Spock is staring at the transporter pad as Sarek enters)

 

The Sarek of Vulcan-Two : 

Speak your mind, Spock.

 

The Spock of Vulcan-Two : 

That would be unwise.

 

The Sarek of Vulcan-Two : 

What is Necessary is never unwise.

 

The Spock of Vulcan-Two : 

I'm as conflicted as I once was as a child.

 

The Sarek of Vulcan-Two

You will always be 

A Child of Two Worlds. 

I am grateful for this. 

And for you.

 

The Spock of Vulcan-Two : 

I feel anger for the one who took mother's life. 

An anger I cannot control.

 

The Sarek of Vulcan-Two : 

I believe, as she would say

'Do Not Try to.' 


You asked me once why I married Your Mother --

I married her because I loved her.

 

Thursday 1 April 2021

I am Abraham Lincoln



Where Men are forbidden to honour A King
they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead :
even famous prostitutes or gangsters. 
 
For Spiritual Nature, like Bodily Nature, will be served;
Deny it Food and it will Gobble Poison.”
 
— C.S. Lewis, 
Present Concerns
 
 
LINCOLN 
[on viewscreen] : 
Captain Kirk, I believe. 
A pleasure to make your acquaintance, sir. 
 
KIRK: 
Uhura 
 
LINCOLN 
[on viewscreen] : 
No need to check your voice telegraph device. 
Do I gather that you recognise me?
 
KIRK: 
I recognise what you appear to be.
 
LINCOLN 
[on viewscreen]: 
And appearances can be most deceiving, 
but not in this case, James Kirk. 
 
I am Abraham Lincoln.
 
KIRK: 
Spock.
 
SPOCK: 
Fascinating. 
 
LINCOLN
[on viewscreen]: 
I have been described in many ways, Mister Spock, 
but never with that word. 
 
KIRK: 
I was requesting your analysis, Spock. 
 
SPOCK: 
They did scan us and our vessel, Captain, 
and doubtless obtained sufficient information to present this illusion. 
 
LINCOLN
[on viewscreen]: 
Illusion? Captain, will you permit me to come aboard your vessel?
 
No doubt you have devices which can check my reality. 
 
KIRK: 
We'd be honoured to have you aboard, Mister President. 
 
LINCOLN
[on viewscreen]: 
Do you still measure time in minutes? 
 
KIRK: 
[smiling]
We can convert to it, sir. 
 
LINCOLN : 
Then you should be directly over my position in. 
There. Exactly twelve and one half minutes. 
Until then, Captain. 
 
(And the orange planet is back in view) 
 
 
KIRK: 
Security, send a detachment to the transporter room immediately,
phaser side arms, and be prepared to give
Presidential Honours. 
 
MCCOY: 
Jim, do you really believe he's Abraham Lincoln? 
 
KIRK: 
It's obvious he believes it. 
 
Doctor McCoy, Mister Spock,
Full dress uniforms.
 
[Transporter room]
 
(Scott is in kilt and plaid, the three security guards look smart)
 
SCOTT :
Full Dress? Presidential Honours? 
What is this nonsense, Mister Dickerson? 
 
DICKERSON: 
I understand President Lincoln's coming aboard, sir. 
 
SCOTT: 
Ha! You're daft, man. 
 
DICKERSON: 
All I know is what The Captain tells me, 
and he says he'll have the hide of the first man that so much as smiles
 
(McCoy enters
 
SCOTT: 
I'd have expected sanity from the ship's surgeon, at least.
 
President Lincoln, indeed.
No doubt to be followed by Louis of France and Robert the Bruce. 
 
(Kirk and Spock enter
 
KIRK: 
If so, we'll execute appropriate honours to each, Mister Scott. 
 
SCOTT: 
Aye, sir. 
 
KIRK: 
Gentlemen, I don't for a moment believe that President Lincoln is actually coming aboard,
but we're dealing with an unknown
and apparently highly advanced life-form. 
 
Until we know, when in Rome,
we'll do as the Romans do. 
 
CHEKOV [OC]: 
Bridge to Transporter room.
One minute to overhead position. 
 
SCOTT: 
Locked on to something. 
Does that appear human to you, Mister Spock? 
 
SPOCK: 
Fascinating. For a moment, it appeared almost mineral. 
Like living rock with heavy fore claws. 
It's settling down now to completely human readings. 
 
SCOTT: 
We can beam it aboard anytime now, sir. 
 
KIRK: 
Doctor McCoy, take tricorder readings and see if it is human. 
Appropriate ruffles and flourishes, Mister Spock. 
Security, stand ready. 
 
DICKERSON: 
Phaser team, set ready for a heavy stun. 
 
SPOCK: 
Band honours ready, Captain. 
 
KIRK: 
Energise. 
 
(A tall, lean figure in a black frock coat is beamed aboard to drum beat and a bosun's whistle
 
KIRK : 
The USS Enterprise is honoured to have you aboard, Mister President. 
 
LINCOLN: 
Strange.
Where are the musicians? 
 
KIRK: 
That's taped music, sir. 
A Starship on active duty never carries an honour detachment.
 
LINCOLN: 
Taped music, you say. 
Well, perhaps Mister Spock will be good enough to explain that to me later. 
 
A most interesting way to come aboard, Captain. 
What was the device used? 
 
KIRK: 
An energy-matter scrambler, sir. 
The molecules in your body are converted into energy,
then beamed into this chamber and reconverted back into their original pattern. 
 
LINCOLN: 
Well, since I'm obviously here, and quite whole,
whatever you mean apparently works very well indeed. 
Gentlemen, if those are weapons, please lower them. 
At my age, I'm afraid I'm not very dangerous. 
 
MCCOY: 
Human, Jim. 
 
LINCOLN: 
All too human, Doctor McCoy. 
Happy to make your acquaintance. 
 
KIRK: 
Mister President, may I present my officers. 
 
Commander Spock, second in command 
Engineering Officer Scott
and
Security Officer Dickerson. 
 
LINCOLN: 
Mister Spock, Mister Scott, Mister Dickerson. 
 
Gentlemen,
I hope to talk to each of you. 
 
But meanwhile, your captain is consumed with questions
and I shall do my utmost to answer them. 
And I trust your duties will permit time to answer some of mine.
 
At your service, Captain. 
 
KIRK: 
Lieutenant Dickerson,
you and your men may return to quarters.
Mister President. 
 
LINCOLN: 
A most interesting vessel. 
 
(Kirk, Lincoln, Spock and security leave)
 
MCCOY:
Just what was it you locked onto before you beamed him aboard? 

 
SCOTT:
You heard Mister Spock yourself.
Mineral he called it, like living rock. 

 
MCCOY:
And that became Lincoln? 

 
SCOTT:
I couldn't tell.
It may have been another figure down there standing by.
What do you make of it? 
 
MCCOY: 
I'm not quite sure.
 
Captain's log, stardate 5906.4
 
Who or what has been beamed aboard our vessel? 
 
An alien who has changed himself into this form? 
An illusion? 
 
I cannot conceive it possible that Abraham Lincoln could have actually been reincarnated. 
And yet his kindness, his gentle wisdom, his humour, everything about him is so right.
 
 
[Bridge]
 
KIRK: 
Yes, if I recall, your Union Army observation balloons were tendered six hundred or so feet high. 
We're six hundred and forty three miles above the surface of this planet. 
 
LINCOLN: 
You can measure great distances that closely? 
 
SPOCK: 
We do, sir. 
Six hundred forty three miles,
two thousand twenty one feet, two point zero four inches
at this moment, using your old-style measurements. 
 
LINCOLN:
Bless me. 
 
UHURA: 
Excuse me, Captain Kirk. 
 
KIRK: 
Yes, Lieutenant. 
 
UHURA: 
Mister Scott 
 
LINCOLN: 
What a charming negress. 
Oh, forgive me, my dear. 
I know in my time some used that term as a description of property.
 
UHURA: 
But why should I object to that term, sir? 
You see, in our century we've learned not to fear words. 
 
KIRK: 
May I present our communications officer, 
Lieutenant Uhura. 
 
LINCOLN: 
The Foolishness of My Century had me apologising 
where no offence was given. 
 
KIRK: 
We've each learned to be delighted with what we are. 
The Vulcans learned that centuries before we did. 
 
SPOCK: 
It is basic to the Vulcan philosophy, sir.
 
The combination of a number of things
to make existence worthwhile. 
 
LINCOLN: 
Yes. Philosophy of Nome,
meaning all. 
 
...How did I know that?
 
Just as I seem to know that on the planet surface
you will meet one of the greatest living Vulcans
in all the long history of your planet. 
 
My mind cannot recall his name, 
but I know he will be there. 
 
What is it that powers your vessel, Captain? 
May I see your engine room? 
 
 
KIRK: 
Certainly.
Our engineering officer  --
 
UHURA: 
Has been waiting in the briefing room for you, sir, for over two hours. 
 
KIRK: 
Oh, dear. If you'll forgive me, our communications officer 
 
LINCOLN: 
I would be delighted to have her as guide. 

 
KIRK:
Forgive me again.
We'll rejoin you shortly.
 
[Briefing room]
 
MCCOY:
Where the devil are they? 

 
SCOTT:
Why, they're probably looking up a plate of haggis in the galley.
They've been everywhere else. 

 
(Kirk and Spock enter)
KIRK:
Sorry to have been delayed, gentlemen. 

 
MCCOY:
Jim, I would be the last to advise you on your command image. 

 
KIRK:
I doubt that, Bones, but continue. 

 
MCCOY:
Do I have to lay it out for you?
Practically the entire crew has seen you treat this impostor like The Real Thing
when he can't possibly be the real article. 

 
SCOTT:
Lincoln died three centuries ago on a planet hundreds of light years away.
 
[ pointing ]

 
SPOCK:
More that direction, Engineer. 

 
MCCOY:
You're The Science Officer.
Why aren't you, well,
doing whatever a Science Officer does at a time like this? 

 
SPOCK:
I am, Doctor.
I am observing The Alien. 

 
MCCOY:
At last! At least somebody agrees with us he's an alien. 

 
KIRK:
Yes, of course he's an alien. 

 
MCCOY :
And he's potentially dangerous. 

 
SCOTT:
Mad. Loony as an Arcturian dogbird. 

 
KIRK:
Gentlemen, as you know, Mister Spock and I
have been invited to beam down to the planet surface with him.
 
Any comments on that? 

 
MCCOY:
Yes, a big one. Suddenly, miraculously, we see a small spot of Earth-type environment down there.
Now is it really there, or do we just think we see it down there? 

 
SCOTT:
You might beam down into a sea of molten lava. 

 
KIRK:
But why would he want to kill only two of us? 

 
SPOCK:
It would be illogical.
With such abilities, they could as easily trick us into destroying the entire vessel. 

 
MCCOY:
Are you implying, Mister Spock, that it's probably safe to beam down there? 

 
SPOCK:
No, I'm not, Doctor.
There's no doubt they want us down there for some hidden purpose.
Otherwise, they would have revealed some logical reason for all of this. 

 
KIRK:
Why Lincoln, Spock?
Any speculation on that? 

 
SPOCK:
Speculation is unnecessary, Captain. The Answer is clear.
President Lincoln has always been a very personal hero to you. What better way to titillate your curiosity than to make him come alive for you. 
K
 
KIRK:
But not only to me, Spock. 

 
SPOCK:
Agreed. I, too, experienced his charm.
It is a magnificent work of duplication. 

 
MCCOY:
But he holds a special involvement to you, Jim.
I think it's interesting, in as much as you're the one
who's going to make the decision
whether to beam down or not.
 
SCOTT:
Don't do it, Captain. 

 
KIRK:
The very reason for the existence of our starships is contact with other life.
Although the method is beyond our comprehension, we have been offered contact.
 
Therefore, I shall beam down.
 
Mister Spock, as for you 

 
SPOCK:
Captain, since I was included in the invitation to make contact,
I must beam down with you. 

 
MCCOY:
You're both out of your heads! 

 
SCOTT:
Aye, sir. 
 
KIRK:
And you're on the edge of insubordination. 
 
MCCOY:
Would I be on the edge of insubordination to remind The Captain
that this smells of something happening to him that I might not be able to patch together again? 

 
SCOTT:
Aye! 

 
KIRK:
Gentlemen, your concern is noted and appreciated.
Mister Spock, standard dress, tricorders and phasers.
 
We will guide President Lincoln to the transporter room.
 
We'll beam down immediately.
 
 
[Transporter room]
KIRK: Standing by, Mister Scott. 

 
SCOTT:
Transporter room to bridge. Standing by. 

 
CHEKOV [OC]:
We are now locked in synchronous orbit, Mister Scott.
Sensors continue to show the area as completely Earth-like in all respects. 

 
MCCOY:
If they're wrong and they do beam into a pool of lava 
--
 
SCOTT:
Then they're dead men.
I couldna pull them back in time. 

 
KIRK:
All right, Mister Scott, energise. 

 
(Lincoln, Kirk and Spock are beamed away, but - ) 

 
MCCOY:
Scotty.
 
[Planet surface]
(Sandy ground, big rocks, orange sky) 

 
SPOCK:
Captain. Our phasers and tricorders did not beam down with us. 

 
KIRK:
Kirk to Enterprise. Enterprise?
Enterprise, come in. Kirk to Enterprise.
Enterprise, come in. 

SPOCK: Undamaged, yet something is preventing them from functioning.
 
 
[Transporter room]
 
SCOTT:
Come in, landing party. Report.
Enterprise to Captain Kirk.
Can you read us? 

 
MCCOY:
If they're all right, they should've reported in.
 
 
[Planet surface]
 
KIRK:
Your explanation, sir? 

 
LINCOLN:
Well, I have none.
To me, this seems quite as it should be. 

 
KIRK:
Why were our weapons taken?
Why can't we communicate with our ship? 

 
LINCOLN:
Please, believe me.
I know nothing other than what I have already told you. 

 
KIRK:
The Game is over.
We've treated you with courtesy.
We've gone along with what and who you think you are. 

 
LINCOLN:
Despite the seeming contradictions, all is as it appears to be.
I am Abraham Lincoln. 

 
SURAK:
Just as I am whom I appear to be. 

 
SPOCK:
Surak…. 

 
KIRK:
Who? 

 
SPOCK:
The Greatest of all who ever lived on our planet, Captain.
The Father of All We Became.
 
 
[Bridge]
 
SULU:
(in the captain's chair)
All ship's systems going dead.
Switch to reserve power. All decks report status. 

 
 
UHURA:
All decks report status.
All decks report status. 

 
SULU:
Bridge to Engineering. Come in.
What's happening to our power?
Bridge to Engineering, report. 

 
ENGINEER :
Everything's out.
We've switched to reserve power.
Lost all power in the warp engines. 

 
(Scott and McCoy enter) 

 
SCOTT:
How is it, Mister Sulu?
 

SULU:
No answer yet on what caused it.
They're standing by. 

 
SCOTT:
Shut down all but the most necessary systems. 

 
 
UHURA:
No damage report, Mister Scott. 

 
 
ENGINEER :
No indication of engine damage, sir. 

 
SCOTT:
Engage restart cycle. 

 
ENGINEER [OC]:
I can't. I don't understand it. 

 
SCOTT:
Start emergency procedures. 

 
ENGINEER :
Aye, aye, sir.
 
[Planet surface]
 
SURAK:
Live long and prosper, Spock.
 
May you also, Captain Kirk. 

 
SPOCK:
It is Not Logical that you are Surak.
There is no Fact, Extrapolation of Fact or Theory,
which would make possible. 

 
SURAK:
Whatever I am,
Would it harm you to give response? 

 
SPOCK:
Live Long and Prosper, Image of Surak,
Father of All We Now Hold True. 

 
SURAK:
The Image of Surak read in Your Face
What is in Your Mind, Spock. 

 
SPOCK:
As I turned and my eyes beheld you, I displayed emotion.
I beg forgiveness. 

 
 
SURAK:
The cause was more than sufficient.
Let us speak no further of it.
 
In my time, we knew not of Earth men.
 
I am pleased to see that we have differences.
May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. 

 
KIRK :
Spock, we'll not go along with these charades any longer. 

 
(A rock changes into a creature with heavy fore-claws) 

 
ROCK:
You'll have an answer soon, Captain.
 
Our World is called Excalbia.
Countless who live on that planet are watching.
 
Before this drama unfolds,
we give welcome to the ones named Kirk and Spock. 

 
KIRK:
We know nothing of Your World or Your Customs.
 
What do you mean,
Drama about to unfold? 

 
ROCK:
You're intelligent life form,
but I'm surprised you do not perceive the honour we do you.
Have we not created in this place on our planet a stage identical to your own world? 

 
KIRK:
We perceive we were invited to come here, and we came in friendship.
 
And you have deprived us of our instruments to examine Your World,
to defend ourselves, to communicate with our vessel. 

 
ROCK:
Your objection is well taken.
 
We shall communicate with your vessel
so your fellow life forms may also enjoy and profit from the play.
 
Behold. 

(More people arrive. A human, a Mongol, an alien woman and a Klingon) 

 
ROCK:
Captain, Mister Spock, some of these you may know through history.
 
Genghis Khan, for one.
 
And 
Colonel Green 
Who led a genocidal war early in the 21st century on Earth. 
 
Zora
Who experimented with the body chemistry of subject tribes on Tiburon. 
 
Kahless, The Unforgettable
The Klingon who set the pattern for his planet's tyrannies. 
 
We Welcome The Vessel Enterprise
 
 
To our solar system and to our spectacle.
 
MCCOY: 
At least The Captain and Spock are safe. 
 
SCOTT: 
It's a confrontation of some sort. 
Those are all figures out of history. 
Notoriously Evil
 
ROCK : 
We ask you to observe with us
 
 
The confrontation of the two opposing philosophies you term 
Good and Evil
 
Since this is our first experiment with Earthlings, 
our theme is a simple one. 
 
Survival
Life and Death.
 
Your philosophies are alien to us,
and we wish to understand them
and discover which is the stronger. 
 
We learn by observing such spectacles. 
 
KIRK: 
What do you mean,
"Survival"? 
 
ROCK: 
The Word is Explicit.
 
If you and Spock survive, you return to your vessel.
 
If you do not, your existence is ended.