Star Trek (TV Series)

Bread and Circuses (1968)

William Smithers: Merik

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• Claudius Marcus : So, this is a Vulcan. Interesting. From what I have heard I wish I had fifty of you for the arena.

  Merik : This other is your ship's surgeon?

  Capt. Kirk : McCoy.

  Merik : It's a pity we can't let him loose in our hospitals. Our level of medicine would improve immeasurably, I'm sure.

• Merik : The Romans have always been the strongest; and they've had practice for over two thousand years in enslaving men, using them, killing them.

  Claudius Marcus : Quite true, Captain Kirk. The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar pattern. We don't fear it as you do.

• Merik : This is not an Academy training test. This is for real. They're taking you to die.