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Star Trek
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| Title: | Court Martial |
| Episode Number: | 21 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 21 |
| Production Number: | 6149-15 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday February 02nd, 1967 |
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Kirk is forced to eject a sensor pod containing a crewman and friend during an ion storm. When he arrives at the next starbase, he discovers he must face a court martial when he is accused of violating procedure.
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| This is the first episode in which the terms "Starfleet" and "Starfleet Command" are used.
| This is the first time Starfleet dress uniforms are worn. It is only the first and only time in the original series that a female dress uniform is seen.
| This is the first time a Starfleet starbase is seen in the series.
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| McCoy: Dr. Leonard McCoy. And you?
Areel Shaw: Areel Shaw. And I'm a friend, too--an old one.
McCoy: All of my old friends look like doctors. All of his look like you.
| Kirk: But if what you suspect is true, then I should be punished.
Portmaster Stone: I'm thinking of the service. I won't have it smeared.
Kirk: By what, Commodore Stone?
Portmaster Stone: All right. By an evident perjurer who's either covering his bad judgment, his cowardice, or...
Kirk: That's as far as you go, sir.
| Kirk: Dr. McCoy said you were here. I should have felt it in the air like static electricity.
Areel Shaw: Flattery will get you everywhere.
Kirk: It's been... how long has it been?
Areel Shaw: Four years, seven months, and an odd number of days--not that I'm counting.
| Kirk: What is all this?
Cogley: I figure we'll be spending some time together, so I moved in.
Kirk: I hope I'm not crowding you.
Cogley: What's the matter? Don't you like books?
Kirk: Oh, I like them fine, but a computer takes less space.
Cogley: A computer, huh? I got one of these in my office. Contains all the precedents, a synthesis of all the great legal decisions written throughout time. I never use it.
Kirk: Why not?
Cogley: I've got my own system. Books, young man, books. Thousands of them. If time wasn't so important, I'd show you something--my library. Thousands of books.
Kirk: What would be the point?
Cogley: This is where the law is, not in that homogenized, pasteurized, synthesized... do you want to know the law, the ancient concepts in their own language, learn the intent of the men who wrote them, from Moses to the tribunal of Alpha 3? Books.
Kirk: You have to be either an obsessive crackpot who's escaped from his keeper or Samuel T. Cogley, attorney-at-law.
Cogley: Right on both counts.
| Areel Shaw: Were you watching him the exact moment he pressed the jettison button?
Spock: No. I was occupied. The ship was already on yellow alert.
Areel Shaw: Then how can you dispute the finding of the log?
Spock: I do not dispute it. I merely state that it is wrong.
Areel Shaw: Oh? On what do you base that statement?
Spock: I know the captain. He is in...
Areel Shaw: Please instruct the witness not to speculate.
Spock: Lieutenant, I am half Vulcanian. Vulcanians do not speculate. I speak from pure logic. If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has, in fact, fallen.
Areel Shaw: I do not see what that has to...
Spock: Gentlemen, human beings have characteristics just as inanimate objects do. It is impossible for Captain Kirk to act out of panic or malice. It is not his nature.
Areel Shaw: In your opinion.
Spock: Yes. In my opinion.
Areel Shaw: Thank you.
| Cogley: I'd like to call Captain Kirk to the stand.
Computer: James T. Kirk, serial number C-937-0176-CEC. Service rank-- captain. Position-- Starship command. Current assignment-- U.S.S. Enterprise. Commendations-- Palm Leaf Of Axinar Peace Mission, Grand Kite Order of Tactics, Class of Excellence, Frenterus Ribbon of Commendation, - Classes first and second...
Areel Shaw: May it please the court. Court recognizes counsel for the prosecution. The prosecution concedes the inestimable record of Captain Kirk.
Portmaster Stone: Mr. Cogley?
Cogley: I wouldn't want to slow the wheels of progress. But then on the other hand, I wouldn't want those wheels to run over my client in their unbridled haste.
Portmaster Stone: Continue.
Computer: Awards of valor--medal of honor, silverpalm with cluster, Starfleet citation for conspicuous gallantry, Carragite Order of Heroism...
Cogley: Stop! I think that's enough. I wouldn't want to slow things up too much.
| Spock: Captain, I've run a complete megalyte survey on the computer.
Kirk: I'll tell you what you found. Nothing, right?
Spock: You sound bitter, Captain.
Kirk: Not bitter enough to forget to thank you for your efforts.
Spock: Further instructions?
Kirk: No. It's not all bad, Mr. Spock. Who knows. You may be able to beat your next captain at chess. Kirk out.
| McCoy: Well, I had to see it to believe it.
Spock: Explain.
McCoy: They're about to lop off the captain's professional head, and you're playing chess with the computer.
Spock: That is true.
McCoy: Mr. Spock, you're the most cold-blooded man I've ever known.
Spock: Why, thank you, Doctor.
| Areel Shaw: Mr. Cogley is well-known for his theatrics.
Cogley: Is saving an innocent man's career a theatric?
Portmaster Stone: Counsels will direct their remarks to the bench.
Cogley: I'd be delighted to, sir, now that I've got something human to talk about. Rights, sir, human rights--the Bible, the Code of Hammurabi and of Justinian, Magna Carta, the Constitution of the United States, Fundamental Declarations of the Martian colonies, the Statutes of Alpha 3--gentlemen, these documents all speak of rights. Rights of the accused to a trial by his peers, to be represented by counsel, the rights of cross-examination, but most importantly, the right to be confronted by the witnesses against him--a right to which my client has been denied.
| Cogley: I speak of rights. A machine has none. A man must. My client has the right to face his accuser, and if you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine. Indeed, you have elevated that machine above us. I ask that my motion be granted, and more than that, gentlemen, in the name of humanity, fading in the shadow of the machine, I demand it. I demand it!
| Kirk: Why kill innocent people?
Finney: Innocent? Ha! Officers and gentlemen, captains all, except for Finney and his one mistake a long time ago, but they don't forget.
Kirk: I logged the mistake, Ben. Blame me.
Finney: But they are to blame. All of them. I was a good officer. I really was. I loved the service more than any man ever dared.
| Areel Shaw: How long will it be before I see you again?
Kirk: At the risk of sounding like a mystic, that depends on the stars.
Areel Shaw: Sam Cogley asked me to give you something. It's not a first edition, just a book. Sam says that makes it special.
Kirk: I didn't get to thank him.
Areel Shaw: He's busy on a case. He's defending Ben Finney. He says he'll win.
Kirk: I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
| Areel Shaw: Do you think it would cause a complete breakdown of discipline if a lowly lieutenant kissed a Starship captain on the bridge of his ship?
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| Finney is identified as a Lieutenant Commander in dialogue, but is seen wearing a Commander's stripes. However, he may either have stolen or synthesized a commander's shirt out of necessity or his dementia.
| Kirk says they're amplifying the heartbeats to "one to the fourth power." One to any power is one.
| The crewman and officers in the starbase bar are seen wearing Enterprise insignia. Later episodes will e tablish that different ships have different insignia.
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| Portmaster Stone, a Commodore, is the highest-ranking African-American seen in the original series.
| The Intrepid is mentioned as in for repairs. It will later be destroyed in the second season episode "The Immunity Syndrome."
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| What Changed in the Remastered Version
Many upgrades to the starbase exterior shots - in some we see personnel moving about inside the taller building in the foreground. Better effects on the ringed companion planet, including alterations to its position in the sky consistent with the passage of time. Nice model shots of the Enterprise include a "rivet scraper" (extreme close-up - the term appears in the commentary dialogue) and a port where we are meant to realize the ion pod was at one time mated. The opening orbital shot of the Enterprise also features another Constellation-class ship in orbit. An exterior shot of the Enterprise shows technicians reattaching the ion pad, and a shuttlecraft, SB11-1201-1.
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