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Governor Wesley: Three and a half hours, Jim. That isn't enough. Even if I had the ships available to totally evacuate the planet.
Captain Kirk: You have time to save some people, Bob.
Governor Wesley: That won't be long enough either, but it'll have to do.
Captain Kirk: How are you going to choose?
Governor Wesley: There is no choice, Jim, we'll save the children.
   
Mr. Spock: It's like a huge bull, grazing here and there in the pasture of the universe.
   
Captain Kirk: If the anti-matter touches any part of the ship or any of us, we'll all be blown to bits!
   
Captain Kirk: Scotty, you've just given the Enterprise and Mantilles a chance to live.
Scotty: Why, thank you, sir!
   
Captain Kirk: We'll use the photon torpedoes to destroy the brain.
Mr. Spock: Captain, this is a living creature. Starfleet regulations--
Captain Kirk: I know the regulations against the killing of intelligent life-forms, Mr. Spock, but we don't know this life-form is intelligent. And we do know the people on Mantillies are doomed if we don't stop it. If I have to be a judge, I decide in favor of saving Mantillies.
   
Captain Kirk: Am I doing the right thing, Bones? Once I said "man rose above primitiveness by vowing 'I will not kill today.'"
   
Mr. Spock: The brain could be completely destroyed if we convert the entire ship to energy aimed at the brain's cortex and expend the energy in one mortal strike.
Dr. McCoy: That sounds like you're telling us to blow up the ship.
Mr. Spock: I believe that is what I just said, Doctor.