Star Trek (TV Series)

Bread and Circuses (1968)

Bart La Rue: Announcer

Quotes 

• 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.

• Announcer : Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Live and direct from City Arena, and in color, we bring you Name the Winner, brought to you tonight by your Jupiter Eight dealers from coast to coast. In just a moment, tonight's first heat.

• Announcer : And first tonight, ladies and gentlemen, a surprise extra. In the far corner, a pair of highly aggressive barbarians. Strong, intelligent, with strange ways, and I'm sure full of a lot of surprises. And facing them, two favorites here from previous encounters - Achilles and Flavius.

  [the canned applause is turned up by a sound effects man] 

  Announcer : Victory or death? And for which of them? Well, ladies and gentlemen, you know just as much about that at this moment as I do because this is your program. You name the winner.