Star Trek (TV Series)

Metamorphosis (1967)

Glenn Corbett: Zefram Cochrane

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• Captain James T. Kirk : You say you can communicate with it. Perhaps you can find out what we're doing here.

  Zefram Cochrane : I already know.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You wouldn't mind telling us?

  Zefram Cochrane : You won't like it.

  Captain James T. Kirk : I already don't like it.

• Captain James T. Kirk : You wanna leave here?

  Zefram Cochrane : Believe me, Captain, immortality consists largely of boredom.

• Captain James T. Kirk : There's no doubt about it, the Companion is female.

  Zefram Cochrane : I don't understand.

  Dr. McCoy : You don't? A blind man could see it with a cane. You're not a pet. You're not a specimen kept in a cage. You're a lover.

• Zefram Cochrane : I could even offer you a hot bath.

  Nancy Hedford : [dripping with sarcasm]  How perceptive of you to notice that I needed one.

• Mr. Spock : Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical. Your relationship with the Companion has for one hundred and fifty years been emotionally satisfying, eminently practical, and totally harmless. It may indeed have been quite beneficial.

  Zefram Cochrane : Is this what the future holds? Men who have no notion of decency or morality? Well maybe I'm 150 years out of style, but I'm not gonna be fodder for any inhuman monster.

• Zefram Cochrane : [looking at the shuttlecraft personnel]  Food to a starving man. All of you.

• Zefram Cochrane : What was it they used to call it, the Judas goat?

• Zefram Cochrane : I was eighty seven years old when I came here.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You say this Companion found you and rejuvenated you? What were you doing in space at the age of eighty seven?

  Zefram Cochrane : I was tired, Captain. I was gonna die, and I wanted to die in space. That's all.

  Mr. Spock : True, his body was never found.

  Zefram Cochrane : You're looking at it, Mister Spock.

  Mr. Spock : If so, you wear your age very well.

• Captain James T. Kirk : The Enterprise is waiting, Mr. Cochrane.

  Zefram Cochrane : I can't take her away from here. If I do, she'll die. If I leave her, she'll die of loneliness. I owe everything to her; I can't leave her. I love her. Is that surprising?

  Mr. Spock : Not coming from a human being. You are, after all, essentially irrational.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Think it over, Mr. Cochrane. There's a whole galaxy out there waiting to honor you.

  Zefram Cochrane : I have honors enough.

  Mr. Spock : But you will age, both of you. There will be no immortality; you'll both grow old here and finally die.

  Zefram Cochrane : That's been happening to men and women for a long time. I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being human... as long as you grow old together.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Are you sure?

  Zefram Cochrane : There's plenty of water here, the climate's good for growing things, I might even try and plant a fig tree here. A man's entitled to that, isn't he? It isn't gratitude, captain, now that I see her, touch her, I know that I love her. We'll have a lot of years together, and they'll be happy ones.

  Captain James T. Kirk : All the best.

  Zefram Cochrane : Captain, don't tell them about me.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Not a word, Mr. Cochrane.

• Nancy Hedford : Must you keep it so terribly hot in here?

  Zefram Cochrane : Well the temperature is a constant seventy-two degrees. Let me get you something cool to drink.