Star Trek: The Original Series Sentence Starters (The Cage)
“Definitely something out there, ___________, headed this way.”
“We’re passing through an old style distress signal.”
“That’s it. No other message.”
“We’ve no ships or Earth colonies that far out.”
“It disappeared in that region approximately eighteen years ago.”
“Number 4 seems to be Class M, oxygen atmosphere.”
“Then they could still be alive, even after eighteen years.”
“We aren’t going to go, to be certain?”
“You have the helm. Maintain present course.”
“Drop by my cabin, ___________.“
“I didn’t say there’s anything wrong with me.”
“What the devil are you putting in there? Ice?”
“Who wants a warm martini?”
“Sometimes a man will tell his bartender things he’ll never tell his doctor.”
“Was there anything you could’ve personally done to prevent it?”
“Oh, I should’ve smelled trouble when I saw the swords and the armor.”
“You treat everyone on board like a human being except yourself.”
“You bet I’m tired. You bet.”
“I’m tired of being responsible for 203 lives.”
“I’m tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn’t, and who’s going on the landing party and who doesn’t, and who lives and who dies.”
“Remember I told you I had two horses and we used to take some food and ride out all day.”
“Sounds exciting. Ride out with a picnic lunch every day.”
“I said that’s one place I might go.”
“I might go into business on Regulus or on the Orion colony.”
“The point is that this isn’t the only life available. There’s a whole galaxy of things to choose from.”
“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head on and licks it or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”
“You wanted the reports by 0500. It’s 0500 now.”
“There’s no indication of problems down there, but let’s not take any chances.”
“We’ll begin transporting the survivors and their effects up here very shortly.”
“Have I permission to send out scouting and scientific parties now?”
“You appear to be healthy and intelligent, ___________. A prime specimen.”
“I think it’s time to show the captain our secret.”
“There’s a reason for our condition, but we’ve had some doubt if Earth is ready to know the secret.
“You’re tired. Don’t worry, you’ll feel much better soon.”
“Don’t you see it? Here and here.”
“This is all some sort of trap.”
“It appears, ___________, that the intelligence level of the specimen is shockingly limited.”
“You’re not speaking, yet I can hear you.”
“You now see the primitive fear threat reaction.”
“There’s a way out of any cage, and I’ll find it.”
“Despite its frustration, the creature appears more adaptable than our specimens from other planets.”
“We can soon begin the experiment.”
“The inhabitants of this planet must live deep underground.”
“Our tests indicate the planet’s surface, without considerably more vegetation or some animals, is simply too barren to support life.”
“It was a perfect illusion. They had us seeing just what we wanted to see.”
“Now, let’s be sure we understand the danger of this.”
“The inhabitants of this planet can read our minds, they can create illusion out of a person’s own thoughts, memories and experiences, even out of a person’s own desires.”
“That entry may have stood up against hand lasers, but we can transmit the ship’s power against it. enough to blast half a continent.”
“Come on, we must hide ourselves!”
“You can tell my jailers I won’t go along with it. I’m not an animal performing for its supper.”
“It doesn’t matter what you call this. You’ll feel it, that’s what matters. You’ll feel every moment of whatever happens to you.”
“Please, don’t you know what he’ll do to us?”
“Why would an illusion be frightened?”
“I’ve never met you before, never even imagined you.”
“Well, I have to wear something, don’t I?”
“Or I can wear anything you wish, be anything you wish.”
“They want to see how I react, is that it?”
“Don’t you have a dream, something you’ve always wanted very badly?”
“You can have any dream you want.”
“You can have anything you want in the whole universe. Let me please you.”
“Increase to full power.”
“Their power of illusion is so great, we can’t be sure of anything we do or anything we see.”
“Perhaps if you asked me some questions, I could answer.”
“They can punish you if you’re not cooperative, you’ll find out about that.”
“When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating.”
“You overlook the unpleasant alternative of punishment.”
“You will now consume the nourishment.”
“You do have limitations, don’t you?”
“It became necessary to attract a mate.”
“I’m the one that’s not cooperating! Why don’t you punish me?”
“You want some coffee, dear?”
“Well, they think of everything, don’t they?”
“Have you forgotten my headaches, darling? I get them when you talk strangely like this.”
“It’s funny. About twenty-four hours ago, I was telling the ship’s doctor how much I wanted something not very different from what we have here.”
“I hope you’re hungry. These little white sandwiches are your mother’s recipe for chicken tuna.”
“You’re home. You can even stay if you like.”
“We’re in a menagerie, a cage.”
“Don’t you care what they’ll do to us?”
“You can’t keep it up for long enough. I’ve tried.”
“A person’s strongest dreams about what he can’t do.”
“Always having to be so formal, so decent and honest and proper. You must wonder what it’s like to forget all that.”
“Suppose you had all of space to choose from, and this was only one small sample.”
“Nothing will be said if any volunteer wants to back out.”
“It’s not fair, you don’t need them.”
“He doesn’t need you, he’s already picked me.”
“It’s no fair! I did what you asked.”
“Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be ask quickly rewarded. You will find it an effect combination.”
“There’s nothing. Every system aboard is fading out.”
“Don’t hurt them. They don’t mean to be evil.”
“You try anything at all and I’ll break your neck.”
“Your ship. Release me or we’ll destroy it.”
“They kept us from seeing this, too. We go through and never knew it.”
“The weapon is building up an overload. A force chamber explosion.”
“You still have time to get underground.”
“If you all think it’s this important, then I can’t go either.”
“I suppose if they have one human being, they might try again.”
“Are you prepared to assimilate?”
“The customs and history of your race show a unique hatred of captivity.”
“He means that they can’t use you. You’re free to go back to the ship.”
“No other specimen has shown your adaptability.”
“You were our last hope.”
“We have transporter control now.”
“Let’s go back to the ship.”
“You see why I can’t go with you.”
“They found me in the wreckage, dying.
“They rebuilt me. Everything works but they had never seen a human. They had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together.”
“She has an illusion and you have reality.”
“The system is coming on again.”
“You recommended rest and a change of pace, didn’t you?”
“What are we running, a cadet ship here, ___________?”
