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General Chang : [over the public address speakers] "I am constant as the northern star."
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : I'd give real money if he'd shut up.
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General Chang : "To be or not to be?" That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room.
Captain James T. Kirk : Earth, Hitler, 1938.
General Chang : I beg your pardon.
Chancellor Gorkon : Well... I see we have a long way to go.
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General Chang : I can see you, Kirk.
Captain James T. Kirk : Chang.
General Chang : Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."
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General Chang : "Cry havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War."
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General Chang : "Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
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Chancellor Gorkon : You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
General Chang : "taH pagh, taH be?"
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General Chang : [prosecuting] Dr. McCoy, would you be so good as to tell me? What is your current medical status?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Well, aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good.
[some scattered laughter from the audience; McCoy smiles, but sees Chang, unsmiling]
General Chang : [unamused] You have a singular wit, Doctor.
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General Chang : Well, most kind... parting is such sweet sorrow. Captain, have we not heard the chimes at midnight?
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General Chang : In space, all warriors are cold warriors.
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Chancellor Gorkon : And this is General Chang, my chief of staff.
General Chang : I have... so wanted to meet you, Captain.
Captain James T. Kirk : I'm not sure how to take that.
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[His ship is about to be destroyed by The Enterprise]
General Chang : [last words] To be... or not to be?
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[Quote adaptation from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962]
General Chang : Indeed. The record shows that Captain Kirk once held the rank of Admiral. And that Admiral Kirk was broken for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of regulations of the law. Do you deny being demoted for these charges? DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION. Answer me now.
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Chekov : We do believe all planets have a sovereign claim to inalienable human rights.
Azetbur : Inalien? If you could only hear yourselves. Human rights. Why, the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a "homo sapiens only" club.
General Chang : Present company excepted, of course.
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General Chang : There we have it, citizens. We have finally established the particulars of the crime. And now we come to the architect of this tragic affair: James Tiberius Kirk. What would your favorite author say, Captain? "Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings." Tell us your sad story, Kirk. Tell us that you planned to take revenge for the death of your son.
Captain James T. Kirk : That's not true.
Klingon Defense Attorney : Objection! Captain Kirk has not been identified as the assassin.
Klingon Judge : Sustained.
General Chang : I enter into the record this except from the captain's personal log.
Captain James T. Kirk : [voice recording] I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them for the death of my boy.
Klingon Translator : [clamoring from the Klingon gallery] Again! Again!
General Chang : [the recording repeats] Are those your words?
Captain James T. Kirk : Those words were spoken by me.
Klingon Defense Attorney : Objection! My client's political views are not on trial.
General Chang : On the contrary! Captain Kirk's views and motives are indeed at the very heart of the matter! This officer's record shows him to be an insubordinate, unprincipled, career-minded opportunist with a history of violating the chain of command whenever it suited him!
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Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Chancellor Gorkon.
Captain James T. Kirk : My god. What has happened here?
General Chang : You dare to feign ignorance?
Captain James T. Kirk : What happened?
General Chang : With a direct torpedo hit, you crippled our entire gravitational field! And two of your Starfleet crew beamed aboard wearing magnetic boots and did this.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Aren't you carrying a surgeon?
General Chang : We were until this disgrace.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Well, then for god sakes, man, let me help.
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Captain James T. Kirk : On occasion, I have disobeyed orders.
General Chang : And were you obeying or disobeying orders when you arranged the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon?
Captain James T. Kirk : I didn't know about the assassination until we boarded the ship.
General Chang : You still deny the Enterprise fired on Kronos One?
Captain James T. Kirk : Well...
Klingon Defense Attorney : Your Honors, please!
General Chang : And you still deny your men beamed aboard and shot the chancellor?
Klingon Defense Attorney : Objection!
Captain James T. Kirk : I cannot confirm or deny actions I did not witness.
General Chang : Captain Kirk, are you aware that as the captain of a starship, you are required to be responsible for the actions of your men?
Captain James T. Kirk : I am.
General Chang : And if it should be proved that members of your crew did in fact carry out such an assassination...
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Jim, they're setting us up. Your Honors...
Klingon Defense Attorney : Do not answer!
Klingon Judge : Captain Kirk, you will answer the question.
Captain James T. Kirk : As captain... I am responsible for the conduct of the crew under my command.
General Chang : Your Honors, the State rests.
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General Chang : Have you not a shred of decency in you, Kirk? We come in peace, and you blatantly defile that peace. For that, I shall blow you out of the stars.
Captain James T. Kirk : We haven't fired.
Captain Spock : Captain. According to our databanks, we have. Twice.
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Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : For 27 years, I've been ship surgeon aboard the USS Enterprise. In three months, I stand down.
General Chang : Ah. You know... I believe that you consumed a rather generous amount of Romulan ale in the officers' mess on the night in question. Am I right, Doctor?
Klingon Defense Attorney : Objection!
Klingon Judge : Sustained.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : We all did. All of us. That doesn't mean...
General Chang : Was Chancellor Gorkon alive when you first examined him?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Barely.
General Chang : Now, be careful, Doctor. Have you ever, in your past, saved patients as barely alive as he?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : I didn't have the medical knowledge I needed for Klingon anatomy.
General Chang : I see.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : You were there.
General Chang : You say you are due for retirement. May I ask, do your hands shake?
Klingon Defense Attorney : Objection!
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : I was nervous!
General Chang : No. You were incompetent.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Reverse engines. All astern. 1/2 impulse power. Back off! Back off!
General Chang : [in Klingonese, watching the Enterprise reverse course] What's she doing?
Captain James T. Kirk : What's she waiting for?
Captain Spock : Probably attempting to ascertain why we are reversing. Wondering whether we detect her.