- Captain James T. Kirk: You'd make a splendid computer, Mr Spock.
- Mr. Spock: That is very kind of you, Captain.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [seeing Spock knock a lawgiver unconscious] Isn't that somewhat old-fashioned?
- Bilar: Joy to you, friends.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Joy to *you*.
- Bilar: You be strangers. Come for the festival, are ya?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Yes.
- Bilar: Got a place to sleep it off yet? Go around to Reger's house. He's got rooms, but you'll have to hurry. It's almost the red hour.
- Landru: You have come to a world without hate, without fear, without conflict, no war, no disease, no crime. None of the ancient evils. Landru seeks tranquility, peace for all, the universal good.
- [Dr. McCoy returns to the holding cell, a changed man]
- Captain James T. Kirk: Doc...
- Dr. McCoy: [not recognizing Captain Kirk] Can I help you, friend?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Don't you know me?
- Dr. McCoy: We all know one another - in Landru.
- Captain James T. Kirk: You said you wanted freedom. It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [Spoken to two lawgivers, after Landru's self-destruction] You can get rid of those robes. And if I were you I'd start looking for another job.
- Landru: You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good.
- Mr. Spock: This is a soulless society, Captain. It has no spirit, no spark. All is indeed peace and tranquility - the peace of the factory, the tranquility of the machine, all parts working in unison.
- [Landru's image appears against a wall]
- Mr. Spock: Projection, Captain. Unreal.
- Captain James T. Kirk: But beautiful, Mr. Spock, with no apparatus at this end.
- Mr. Spock: [speaking of the robed lawgivers] Their reaction to your defiance was remarkably similar to the reaction of a computer when fed insufficient or contradictory data.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Are you suggesting the lawgivers are mere computers, that they aren't human?
- Mr. Spock: How often mankind has wished for a world as peaceful and secure as the one Landru provided.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Yes. And we never got it. Just lucky, I guess.
- Mr. Spock: [Kirk has been vainly trying to communicate with Landru's image] Useless, Captain. A projection.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [Pulling out a pocket phaser] Yes, Mr. Spock. Let's have a look at the projector.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's log, stardate 3156.2. While orbiting planet Beta III, trying to find some trace of the starship Archon that disappeared here a hundred years ago, a search party consisting of two Enterprise officers were sent to the planet below. Mr. Sulu has returned, but in a highly agitated mental state. His condition requires I beam down with an additional search detail.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Spock, the plug must be pulled.
- Mr. Spock: Sir?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Landru must die.
- Mr. Spock: Captain, our prime directive of non-interference...
- Captain James T. Kirk: That refers to a living, growing culture. You think this one is?
- Captain James T. Kirk: [recognizing his crewman among the stunned citizens] Lieutenant O'Neal. He's one of our men.
- Reger: Not anymore. He's been absorbed.
- Reger: The body absorbs its enemies. It only kills when it has to. When the first Archons came, they were free, out of control, opposing the will of Landru. Many were killed. Many more were absorbed.