Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Harve Bennett
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Release: June 1, 1984
Tagline(s): Join the search.
The final voyage of the starship Enterprise.
A dying planet. A fight for life. The search for Spock.
The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.
Kirk must battle the Klingons to protect the Genesis Planet and save a friend’s life.
Producer: Harve Bennett
Associate Producer: Ralph Winter
Executive Producer: Gary Nardino
Stars/Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Robin Curtis, Christopher Lloyd
Music by: James Horner
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller
ID: tt0088170
Rating: PG
Runtime: 105 minutes
Based On: Based Star Trek: The Original Series.
Synopsis: Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock’s body.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek III The Search for Spock
Quotes and Lines
KIRK: U.S.S. Enterprise. Captain’s personal log. With most of our battle damage repaired, we’re almost home. Yet I feel uneasy and I wonder why. Perhaps it’s the emptiness of this vessel. Most of our trainee crew has been reassigned. Lieutenant Saavik and my son, David are exploring the Genesis planet which he helped create. And Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone. No, more empty than even that. The death of Spock is like an open wound. It seems that I have left the noblest part of myself back there …on that newborn planet.
SCOTT: Eight weeks, sir. But you don’t have eight weeks so I’ll do it for ya in two.
KIRK: Mister Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
SCOTT: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
KIRK: Your reputation is secure, Scotty.
McCOY: Then perhaps it’s not too late. …Climb the steps, Jim. …Climb the steps of Mount Seleya.
KIRK: Mount Seleya? Bones, Mount Seleya is on Vulcan! We’re home, …on Earth!
SAREK: Because he asked you to! He entrusted you with his very essence, with everything that was not of the body. He asked you to bring him to us …and bring that which he gave you, his katra, his living spirit.
MORROW: No. Absolutely not, Jim, …You are my best officer. But I am Commander, Starfleet, so I don’t break rules!
KIRK: Don’t quote rules to me. I’m talking about loyalty and sacrifice. One man who’s died for us, another who has deep emotional problems.
MORROW: Now! Wait a minute! This business about Spock and McCoy. …Honestly, I never understood Vulcan mysticism.
KIRK: You don’t have to believe! I’m not even sure I believe. But even if there’s a chance that Spock has an eternal soul …then it’s my responsibility.
MORROW: Yours?
KIRK: As surely as if it were my very own! Give me back the Enterprise! With Scotty’s help I could…
MORROW: Out of the question, my friend! The Council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis! Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behaviour and you’ll lose everything. You’ll destroy yourself! Do you understand me, Jim?
KIRK: I hear you. …I had to try.
KIRK: How many fingers do I have up?
McCOY: That’s not very damn funny.
KIRK: Your sense of humour’s returned.
McCOY: The hell it has. What’s that?
KIRK: Lexorin.
McCOY: Lexorin? What for?
KIRK: You’re suffering from a Vulcan mind meld, Doctor.
McCOY: That green-blooded son of a bitch! It’s his revenge for all the arguments he lost.
KIRK: Let me see your hand. This will make you well enough to travel.
KIRK: Unit two, this is unit one. The Kobayashi Maru has set sail for the promised land. Acknowledge.
SCOTTY: Up your shaft.
KIRK: How are we doing?
McCOY: How are we doing? …Funny you should put it quite that way, Jim. …We are doing fine. But I’d feel safer giving him one of my kidneys than what’s scrambled in my brain.
KIRK: My god, Bones. What have I done?
McCOY: What you had to do. What you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance to live.
McCOY: Rapid ageing, …all genetic functions highly accelerated.
KIRK: What about his mind?
McCOY: His mind’s a void. It seems, Admiral, that I’ve got all his marbles.
PRIESTESS: Who is the Keeper of the katra?
McCOY: I am …McCoy, …Leonard H., …Son of David.
PRIESTESS: McCoy, son of David, since thou art human, we cannot expect thee to understand fully what Sarek has requested. Spock’s body lives. …With your approval, we shall use all our powers to return to his body that which you possess. But McCoy, …you must now be warned! The danger to thyself is as grave as the danger to Spock. …You must make the choice.
McCOY: I choose the danger. …Hell of time to ask.
KIRK: Because the needs of the one …outweigh the needs of the many.