Star Trek (TV Series)

Bread and Circuses (1968)

Nichelle Nichols: Uhura

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Spock : [referring to Flavius]  I wish we could've examined that belief of his more closely. It seems illogical for a sun worshiper to develop a philosophy of total brotherhood. Sun worship is usually a primitive superstition religion.

  Uhura : I'm afraid you have it all wrong, Mister Spock, all of you. I've been monitoring some of their old-style radio waves, the empire spokesman trying to ridicule their religion. But he couldn't. Don't you understand? It's not the sun up in the sky. It's the Son of God.

  Capt. Kirk : Caesar - and Christ. They had them both. And the word is spreading... only now.

  Dr. McCoy : A philosophy of total love and total brotherhood.

  Spock : It will replace their imperial Rome; but it will happen in their twentieth century.

  Capt. Kirk : Wouldn't it be something to watch, to be a part of? To see it happen all over again? Mister Chekov, take us out of orbit. Ahead warp factor one.

  Chekov : Aye, sir.

• [the Enterprise is scanning Planet 892-IV] 

  Uhura : Captain? Both amplitude and frequency modulation being used. I think I can pick up something visual - some news broadcast using a system I... think they once called video.

  Mr. Spock : 'Television' was the colloquial term.

• Uhura : [Kirk and Spock are assessing Planet 892-IV]  Captain, both amplitude and frequency modulation being used. I think I can pick up something visual. It's a news broadcast using a system I think they once called video.

  Mr. Spock : "Television" was the colloquial term.

  Capt. Kirk : Put it on the screen.

  Uhura : Aye.

  Announcer : [static clears]  ... Today, police rounded up still another group of dissidents. Authorities are as yet unable to explain these fresh outbreaks of treasonable disobedience by well-treated, well-protected, intelligent slaves. Now turning to the world of sports, and bringing you the taped results of the arena games last night: The first heat involved amateurs. They're petty thieves from the city prison - conducted, however, with traditional weapons, it provided some amusement...

  [one contestant kills the other] 

  Announcer : ...for a few moments. In the second heat, a slightly more professional display, in the spirit of our splendid past, when gladiator Claudius Marcus killed the last of the Barbarians, William B. Harrison, in an excellent example of...

  [the picture fades] 

  Uhura : Transmission lost, sir. Shall I try to get it back?

  Capt. Kirk : [Spock returns to his scanner]  Slaves and gladiators... What are we seeing, a 20th-Century Rome?

  Mr. Spock : Captain, the one described as the barbarian is also listed here: Flight Officer William B. Harrison, of the S.S. Beagle. At least there WERE some survivors down there.