"Fascinating."
--Spock (after staring at the posterior of a woman in a
short skirt walking by)
"This is like coming home."
--McCoy
"Home was never like this."
--Kirk
"Don't give me those baby blue eyes."
--Gangster
"That man's dead back there."
--McCoy
"Published in 1992."
--Kirk
"On Beta Antares Four they play a card game..."
--Kirk
"The name of the game is called fizbin. Each player gets six cards
exceptfor the dealer and the player on the dealer's [right]."
--Kirk
"The odds of getting a royal fizbin are astronomical... Spock, what are
the odds of getting a royal fizbin?"
--Kirk
"I have never computed them."
--Spock
"Makers of bang-bang... the sweetest little [heater|cereal] in the..."
--radio
"I just think your behavior is arrested."
--Kirk
"I ain't never been arrested in my whole life."
--Krako
"Why would he put a bag on my captain?"
--Spock
"They can't do nothin' til they're through sparklin'"
--Gangster
"Sir, you are employing a double negative."
--Spock
"Eh?"
--Oxmix
"[...] logic [...]
---Spock
"You admit that."
--McCoy
"To deny that would be illogical."
--Spock
"Get out of the clothes."
--Kirk
"Captain, you are an excellent Starship Captain, but as a taxi driver
you leave much to be desired."
--Spock
"Where'd you get them ears?"
--Kid
"Young man!"
--Spock
"Out of the mouths of babes..."
--Kirk
"Who you callin' a babe?"
--Young Man
"I'm calling you a babe... but [don't take it personally.]"
--Kirk
"Who's your friend with the ears, Kirk?"
--Krako
"I believe it would be wise to do as he says. I believe I [just heard]"
--Spock
"[Just heard the] sound of a machine gun bolt being pulled
back."
--Kirk
"That's peanuts to [an outfit like the] Federation. Right?"
--Kirk
"Unquestionably."
--Spock
"Right?"
--Kirk
"Right."
--Spock
"Miniscule... a very... small... piece [of the action]"
--Spock
"Check?"
--Kirk
"Right."
-Spock
"Right?"
--Kirk
"Check."
--Spock
"It looks like we put the bag on you."
--Scott
"[___] you'll be wearin' concrete galoshes."
--Scott
"You mean cement overshoes?"
--Krako
"Aye."
--Scott
"You afraid of cars?"
--Kirk
"[No], it's your driving."
--Spock
"[ ] neutronium, but [ ]."
--Scott
"I would advise youse to keep dialing, Oxmix."
--Spock
"I'm comin' over with a couple of my boys and I'll... mother."
--Boss
"The transtator is the basic [component] in all of our machinery."
--Kirk
"Daddy, daddy, I hurt myself!"
--Boy
"Whatsa matter kid, you hurt yourself?"
--Guard
PLOT
Kirk must find a way to counteract the effects of an earlier expedition,
which caused a planet's civilization (Iotians) to pattern itself after the
Chicago mobs of the Twenties. Kirk calls McCoy "Sawbones" and calls Spock
"Spocko".
FACTS
Alternate Earth (the Iotians are imitative and pattern their lives after
a book about the 1920s).
The USS Horizon left the book.
Vulcan nerve pinch.
OPINIONS
A good "campy" episode; entertaining in much in the same way as the old
"Batman" television series was. Another one of those wonderful episodes
where the actors are able to step out of character.
It could have been worse. They could have accidentally left a really bad
novel behind... like maybe "The Royale". :-)