Star Trek (TV Series)
The Changeling (1967)
Vic Perrin: Nomad
Quotes
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Capt. Kirk : [of Uhura] What d'you do to her?
Nomad : That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me.
Spock : That "unit" is a woman.
Nomad : A mass of conflicting impulses.
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Spock : [Places hands on Nomad and conducts mild meld] I am Nomad. I am performing my function. Deep, emptiness. It approaches, collision, damage, blackness. I am the other. I am Tan Ru. Tan Ru. Nomad. Tan Ru. Error. Flaw. Imperfection. Must sterilize. Rebirth. We are complete. Much power. Gan Ta Nu Ika. Tan Ru. The creator instructs, search out, identify, sterilize imperfections. We are Nomad. We are Nomad. We are complete. We are instructed. Our purpose is clear. Sterilize imperfections. Sterilize imperfections. Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!
Capt. Kirk : Spock!
Spock : Nomad! Sterilize!
Capt. Kirk : Spock!
Capt. Kirk : Nomad, you're in contact with the unit Spock! Stop! Stop!
Nomad : Acknowledged.
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Capt. Kirk : I am the Kirk, the creator?
Nomad : You are the creator.
Capt. Kirk : You're wrong! Jackson Roykirk, your creator, is dead. You have mistaken me for him. You are in error! You did not discover your mistake; you have made two errors. You are flawed and imperfect, and you have not corrected by sterilization; you've made three errors!
Nomad : [starting to have a meltdown over this] Error? Error? Error? Examine.
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Nomad : I contain no parasitical beings. I am Nomad.
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Nomad : You are the Kirk, the creator. You programmed my function.
Dr. McCoy : [outraged] Well, I'M not the Kirk. Tell ME what your function is.
Nomad : This is one of your units, creator?
Capt. Kirk : Yes, he is.
Nomad : It functions irrationally.
Capt. Kirk : Sometimes, but tell him your function, nevertheless.
Nomad : My function is to probe for biological infestations, to destroy that which is not perfect.
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Spock : [Places hands on Nomad and conducts mind meld] I am Nomad. I am performing my function. Deep, emptiness. It approaches, collision, damage, blackness. I am the other. I am Tan Ru. Tan Ru. Nomad. Tan Ru. Error. Flaw. Imperfection. Must sterilize. Rebirth. We are complete. Much power. Gan Ta Nu Ika. Tan Ru. The creator instructs, search out, identify, sterilize imperfections. We are Nomad. We are Nomad. We are complete. We are instructed. Our purpose is clear. Sterilize imperfections. Sterilize imperfections. Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!
Capt. Kirk : Spock!
Spock : Nomad! Sterilize!
Capt. Kirk : Spock!
[to Nomad]
Capt. Kirk : Stop it! You're in contact with the unit Spock! Stop! Stop!
Nomad : Acknowledged.
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Nomad : Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated...
