Star Trek: The Cage
1966 (TV)
Talosian: Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You'll find it an effective combination.
Capt Pike: I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and... I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't... and who lives... and who dies.
Capt Pike: Now you're beginning to talk like a doctor, bartender. Dr Boyce: Take your choice. They both get the same two kinds of customers: the living and the dying.
(Pike finds himself in Dante's Inferno) The Keeper: From a fable you once heard in childhood.
(Watching Captain Pike, who is imprisoned in a Talosian cell) Talosian: It appears, Magistrate, that the intelligence of the specimen is shockingly limited.
Captain Pike: I'll break out of this zoo somehow and get to you. Is your blood red like ours? I'm gonna find out.
(First words spoken on Star Trek) Spock: Check the circuit.
(Vina's true, asymmetrical, misshapen form is revealed) Vina: They rebuilt me. Everything works. But they had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together.
Captain Christopher Pike: If you were in here... wouldn't you test the strength of these walls too? There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it.
Spock: They're collecting all the information stored in this fly. They've decided to swat us.
The Keeper: With the female of your choice, you will now begin carefully guided lives. Capt Pike: Can we start by burying you? The Keeper: That is your choice.