Star Trek (TV Series)

Patterns of Force (1968)

David Brian: John Gill

Quotes 

• Capt. Kirk : Gill. Gill, why did you abandon your mission? Why did you interfere with this culture?

  John Gill : Planet... fragmented... divided. Took lesson from... Earth history.

  Capt. Kirk : But why Nazi Germany? You studied history. You knew what the Nazis were.

  John Gill : Most efficient state... Earth ever knew.

  Spock : Quite true, Captain. That tiny country, beaten, bankrupt, defeated; rose in a few years to stand only one step away from global domination.

  Capt. Kirk : But it was brutal, perverted; had to be destroyed at a terrible cost. Why that example?

  Spock : Perhaps Gill felt that such a state, run benignly, could accomplish its efficiency without sadism.

• John Gill : I was wrong. The non-interference directive is the only way. We must stop the slaughter.

  Capt. Kirk : You did that, Professor. You told them in time.

  John Gill : Even historians... fail to learn from history. They repeat the same mistakes.

• John Gill : Ekosians, the road ahead is difficult. It requires courage and dedication. It requires faith. The Zeon colony has existed for nearly a half a century. If we fulfill our own greatness, that will all be ended. Working together will at times be difficult to reach that goal. And we will reach that goal!

  Spock : Captain, the speech follows no logical pattern.

  Capt. Kirk : Random sentences strung together.

  McCoy : He looks drugged, Jim. Almost at a cataleptic state.