"What am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?"
--McCoy
"If I jumped every time a light came on I'd end up talking to myself."
--McCoy (to self)
"I'd like to get my hands on the person who assigned a female yeoman to
me."
--Kirk (after being nagged)
"Radiation level has entered the lethal zone"
--Spock (although no one seems to have died from it.)
"What is it's mass?"
--Kirk
"It goes off the scale"
--Spock
"It's over a mile in diameter."
--Sulu
"You have an annoying fascination for timepieces, Mr. Sulu.
--Scotty
PLOT
To stave off an attack by an alien vessel, Kirk concocts the now-famous
"Corbomite" bluff. Charting uncharted space, the Enterprise comes upon a
warning buoy in the form of a rotating cube. They decide not to heed its
warning and continue onward. A short guy in huge ship with smaller
separatable ship offers tranja and "demonstrates superiority" by turning
off visual on the Enterprise. Spock learns poker and the art of bluffing.
Bailey is a weapon-happy dork who wants to shoot the buoy and anything else
that moves.
FACTS
During the power outage, a yeoman uses a hand-phaser to heat up some
coffee.
Engine temperature reaches 8600 degrees (6400 is the maximum safe
temperature.)
This episode has Spock, Sulu, Scotty, Bones, Uhura.
