Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series)

The Terratin Incident (1973)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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Quotes 

• Captain James T. Kirk : Spock, are you slumping?

  Mr. Spock : I have never slumped in my life, Captain. but I was about to ask you the same...

  [the intercom interrupts] 

• Lt. Uhura : Captain, the most incredible thing is happening.

  Captain James T. Kirk : We know. The whole ship has apparently expanded.

  Mr. Spock : An equally good possibility is that ship's personnel have contracted, and may be continuing to shrink.

• Mr. Spock : [noticing Christine's bracelet]  Miss Chapel, what is the composition of this decoration?

  Nurse Christine Chapel : Well, it was made for me by the Titanium smiths of Libra, but... it was an arm bracelet. More like a necklace now.

  Mr. Spock : Yet the uniform on which you wear it fits as well as ever. Uniform made of algae-based xenylon, I believe."

  Doctor McCoy : Aren't all our uniforms xenylon?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes, and they've all been shrinking proportionally with us.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Spock, who are the Terratins? Where'd they come from?

  Mr. Spock : [on viewscreen from Terratin]  Descendents of an early lost colony, which is why they retain some knowledge of starship methods, such as transporter mechanisms. These Earth colonists named and numbered this planet Terra Ten, hence the present corruption of their name.

• Mendant : People of the Enterprise, we have no way to pay the debt we owe, but this at least comes from a meeting of all our numbers: we name you honorary Terratins now and for all time to come.

  Mr. Spock : We came rather close to making it more than honorary.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes. I'd say just about a sixteenth of an inch close.

• Captain James T. Kirk : We're contracting.

  Doctor McCoy : That's why our weight remains the same. Same number of atoms. The effect is just reducing the space between the molecules. It's something I've never seen before.

  Mr. Spock : Agreed. And it is accelerating.

• Captain James T. Kirk : There've been no Earth colonists a sixteenth of an inch tall.

  Mr. Spock : Exactly why they were lost, Captain.