[zonesources]

—🛸 STARTERS : STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES, SEASON 1, PART 1

"There's still something out there"

"I understand we picked up a distress signal."

"What the devil are you putting in there, ice?"

"There's no indication of problems down there, but let's not take chances."

"You're tired, but don't worry. You'll feel much better soon."

"Quick. If you attack while it's not looking-!"

"I've lost a man. I want to know what killed him."

"We can't search this whole planet on foot."

"He's not trying to kill us, he's trying to frighten us, and he's doing a pretty good job."

"Perhaps I can help. Fill me in."

SCENARIOS

[beam] sender has been looking for receiver for some time after receiver went missing.

[lost] sender and receiver, who had a fling or relationship years or decades ago, meet again unexpectedly.

[mask] sender is in a conversation with receiver. then another version of receiver walks into the room. sender needs to find and neutralize the imposter (who may or may not be a shapeshifter).

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[zonesources]

—🛸 STARTERS : THE TWILIGHT ZONE, SEASON 5

"What are <his/her/their> chances?"

"Whew. It smells like a brewery in here."

"The rich get richer and the long shots lose."

"All you do is complain."

"Had a teensy weeny breakdown, but now I'm cured."

"Go back to sleep. I'm alright."

"It isn't there. It isn't there."

"Well, you live and you learn."

"Excuse me for laughing. It's a funny question."

"How dense do you think I am?"

"This place, does it have a name?"

"Well now, what about it, <name>? You want to cooperate, or you want your neck broken?"

"You came as intruders, but now you're murderers."

"You're free now."

"I would like to find out what you putter around with down there."

"A lack of candor has never been one of your deficiencies."

"If you had an ounce of gristle or an inch of intestines, you'd have murdered me years ago."

"Tell us your situation, please."

"Which of us has the better chance of survival?"

"Personally, I don't care."

"Don't you'd think we'd better get back?"

"You got something to say, why don't you say it?"

"I didn't ask you to run a mile, just to go dancing or to the movies or something."

I know you two haven't been exactly close.

"You look a little tired, <name>."

"You haven't been out of your room all day."

"Get some sleep. Or at least eat. Promise?"

"Each man measures his time... some with hope, some with joy, some with fear."

"Let's not start fighting again."

"You think I'm crazy, don't you?"

"My, what a strange world we live in."

"You have to admit you spend a lot of time with it."

"In those days, it was very fashionable for spouses to be in love with each other."

"I could talk about <thing> for hours, <name>."

"Why don't you just lie down and try to take it easy."

"I don't want to show my face anywhere."

"You can do my a favor. Quit bucking my job, huh?"

"I've heard much of you, <name>."

"Should I thank you or report you for insubordination?"

"You remember me... don't you?"

"You know what you are? You're a loser."

"You don't care about me. Not really. You don't care about anybody."

"Being like everybody... isn't that the same as being nobody?"

"There's nothing to be frightened of."

"One minute, you sound like a professor, the next you sound like a beatnik."

"I don't see how anyone as nice as you has survived this long."

"You think I don't know?"

"You're making a mistake, <name>. These people aren't worth it."

"You're working yourself up over nothing. "

"Stop speaking in riddles!"

"You can go to the devil!"

"If you were in your right noodle, you wouldn't talk like that."

"Did it ever occur to you something odd's going on here?"

"Get going before they attack us."

"I'm quite aware of what drinking any of that will do to me."

"There's bound to be an explanation!"

"I got a short fuse, so don't strike matches."

"What do you want me to do, lie down and play dead?"

"Don't go out there! Please!"

"It's a footprint. Look at the size of it."

"I'm just a natural-born screamer. I can't play unless I holler."

[zonesources]

—🛸 STARTERS : THE TWILIGHT ZONE, SEASON 2

"Oh... oh, yeah, I remember now. At least I remember parts of it."

"There are reasons. There are explanations."

"We can't walk out. That's for sure."

"You can break the silence now."

"It's a mausoleum, a graveyard for hopes and dreams."

"Rather than to go into any lengthy generic explanation, suffice it to say I am a <species>."

"There's something unholy about this."

"Ask and you shall revieve, <name>."

"You're nothing but a con artist."

"You could get roasted to death. Or poisoned by small creatures. "

"I know you. You're pulling my leg."

"Kill <him/her/them>? You want me to kill <him/her/them>?"

"I'd like very much not to be alone for a while."

"Things have been happening. Very odd things."

"I know what I see. I know what I hear."

"You're not going to intimidate me. Do you hear me?"

"I'm going to tell you the whole thing. Then you will believe, because you must. "

"Please, in the name of mercy, help me!"

"Why are you in such a hurry for me to leave? What are you worried I'll find out?"

"You asked for the truth. Now you have it. Do you believe me?"

"They'll kill both of us. Don't you understand that?"

"I never was one for staring up at the sky."

"Nothing we've done so far has made any difference at all."

"Now, you can't expect to live any kind of life around... normal people. "

"You look tired, <title>."

"I think we ought to celebrate."

"Well, you don't really think that..."

"Not possible to foretell the future, is it?"

"When was this picture taken?"

"What you've done to yourselves is an atrocity."

"They're creatures. They have minds and wills."

"I don't love <him/her/them> anymore. I don't remember when I did."

"You know, there are some moments in life that have an indescribable loneliness to them."

"Bet you never saw anything like that."

"Here. Take a drink."

"Let's see what I can do for you."

"Get out of the way, <name>!"

"You never felt such misery in you that salvation seemed to look at you from only out of a bottle?"

"When was it God made people? Was it the sixth day? He should have stopped on the fifth."

"It's very rare. Magic, you know."

"Where might your sympathies lie?"

"At the moment, I'm your benefactor, apparently I'm your only friend."

"I shall try to prevent it if you can prove to me you're neither drunk nor insane."

"I tried to tell you! I tried to warn you! Why didn't you listen?!"

"You shock me, you know that?"

"You mind telling me how it's haunted, hmm? Or how I can un-haunt it?"

"<name> and I, we're finished! Stay away! Stay away!!!"

"A one-way ticket to the stars beyond has the ultimate price tag."

"No time for sentiment now. Quick, what's the plan?"

"You got to believe me. You're the only one. You're really the only one I thought would believe me."

"I feel funny..."

"Do I appear abnormal in any way?"

"I'm not trying to change anything. I'm just talking."

"Did you see it? That thing... that monster-like thing that came at me."

"Why is it that greedy men are the most dreamless, the least imaginative, the most stupid?"

"I didn't know I was bothering anybody."

"You don't seem surprised to see me."

"Get comfortable and get a little hot food in you."

"Just like a science fiction, that's what it is! A regular Ray Bradbury!"

"You landed in the river, but your clothes are all dry..."

"Do you know why you're here, <name>?"

"Stand back in the light!"

"No man is obsolete!"

"I am nothing more than a reminder to you that you cannot destroy proof by burning pages!"

"I don't care! I'm a human being! I exist! And if I speak one thought aloud, that thought exists, even after I'm shoveled into my have!"

"You waste our time, <name>, and you're not worth the waste."

"I am a very rich man. I have such a luxury of choices..."

"I came to prove something, <name>."

"I don't fit your formulae. Somewhere along the line, there's been a deviation from the norm."

"In a few moments, you'll be cringing and pleading, just like they all do!"

"Well, were being televised now!"

"You never learn, do you? History teaches you nothing!"

"What a charming room you have, <name>."

"You're cheating your audience! They want to see how you die! Turn and face the camera!"

"Yes, that would please you, wouldn't it? A little abject handwringing, chest pounding, falling down on my hands and knees?"

"I'm afraid I haven't been very fair with you. I brought you here for a very special purpose."

"What kind of idiocy is this? You've locked the door!"

"This is insane. Let me out of here."

"No, they won't help you."

"You underestimated me."

[zonesources]

—🛸 STARTERS : THE TWILIGHT ZONE, SEASONS 1-5, ASSORTED

“It is humanity’s prerogative to create their own particular and private hell.”

“There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of people.”

“Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation.“

“There’s a saying: ‘Every person is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown.’ Perhaps this is as it should be.”

“They say a dream takes only a second or so, and yet in that second someone can live a lifetime.“

“Yet another human being returns to the vast nothingness that is the beginning and into the dust that is always the end.“

“The most common ailment of all people is the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle.“

“Odd how the real consorts with the shadows, how the present fuses with the past.“

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

“There’s nothing mightier than the meek.”

“In any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human heart.“

“Life can be rich and rewarding and full of beauty, just like the music people play, if a person would only pause to look and to listen.”

“The magic of a child’s smile, the magic of liking and being liked, the strange and wondrous mysticism that is the simple act of living."

“For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized."

“The cure to some nightmares is not to be found in known medical journals.”

“Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, the talent becomes a curse."

“We know that a dream can be real, but who ever thought that reality could be a dream?“

“Some superstitions, kept alive by the long night of ignorance, have their own special power."

“<name>’s my name... at least the name I’m using this month.”

“I’ve never been gone. I’ve been here for some time.”

“I swear, they’ve cheated me. Immortality. What’s the good of it? There isn’t any kicks, any excitement.”

“You’re as tasteless as a potato pancake."

“I wanna look proper on the day I die.”

“You have to leave here. There’s no room, there’s no place. Do you understand that?”

“We only get one chance.”

"<name>, is it so bad where you’re from?”

“You’ve been looking behind you, <name>. Try looking ahead.”

“I only wanted to tell you that this is a wonderful time of life for you. Don’t let any of it go by without enjoying it.”

“I’d like to wake up. I’d like to wake up now.”

“You realize, of course, that you’ve reached the terms of our deal.”

“I’m not imagining it, he’s out there! Don’t look, he’s not out there now. He jumps away whenever anyone might see him, except me.”

“Look, I swear it isn’t me! I swear it isn’t! But I know who it is! I know who the monster is!"

“Honest men make unconvincing liars.”

“It’s pretty bad, isn’t it? I know it’s pretty bad.”

“I never wanted to be beautiful. I never even wanted to be loved. I just wanted people not to scream when they looked at me.”

“Conformity we must worship and hold sacred. Conformity is the key to survival.”

“You can decide your own life. You have a mind, a wonderful mind. Don’t destroy it trying to justify that <thing> to yourself.”

“They’re too much for us. Too powerful. Stay away. <name> and I…we’re finished! Stay away. Stay away…”

“It doesn’t work like that!”

“I think I should tell you my name isn’t really <name> and I wasn’t really going to <place>."

“I think I should tell you now, your friends aren’t coming. They’ve been intercepted.”

“You cannot erase God with an edict!”

“No person is obsolete."

“These are delusions that you inject into your veins with printer’s ink. The Bible, poetry, essays of all kind an opiate to make you think you have a strength when you have no strength at all!"

“I don’t know what normal is. I thought I did once; I don’t anymore.”

“Where’s the judge? Where’s the jury? Where’s the executioner? I’ll tell you where they are. They’re in your mind. You’ve hatched them out of your hatred.”

“<name>! Don’t get on that ship!”

“What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.”

[zonesources]

—🛸 STARTERS : THE TWILIGHT ZONE, SEASON 5

"What are <his/her/their> chances?"

"Whew. It smells like a brewery in here."

"The rich get richer and the long shots lose."

"All you do is complain."

"Had a teensy weeny breakdown, but now I'm cured."

"Go back to sleep. I'm alright."

"It isn't there. It isn't there."

"Well, you live and you learn."

"Excuse me for laughing. It's a funny question."

"How dense do you think I am?"

"This place, does it have a name?"

"Well now, what about it, <name>? You want to cooperate, or you want your neck broken?"

"You came as intruders, but now you're murderers."

"You're free now."

"I would like to find out what you putter around with down there."

"A lack of candor has never been one of your deficiencies."

"If you had an ounce of gristle or an inch of intestines, you'd have murdered me years ago."

"Tell us your situation, please."

"Which of us has the better chance of survival?"

"Personally, I don't care."

"Don't you'd think we'd better get back?"

"You got something to say, why don't you say it?"

"I didn't ask you to run a mile, just to go dancing or to the movies or something."

I know you two haven't been exactly close.

"You look a little tired, <name>."

"You haven't been out of your room all day."

"Get some sleep. Or at least eat. Promise?"

"Each man measures his time... some with hope, some with joy, some with fear."

"Let's not start fighting again."

"You think I'm crazy, don't you?"

"My, what a strange world we live in."

"You have to admit you spend a lot of time with it."

"In those days, it was very fashionable for spouses to be in love with each other."

"I could talk about <thing> for hours, <name>."

"Why don't you just lie down and try to take it easy."

"I don't want to show my face anywhere."

"You can do my a favor. Quit bucking my job, huh?"

"I've heard much of you, <name>."

"Should I thank you or report you for insubordination?"

"You remember me... don't you?"

"You know what you are? You're a loser."

"You don't care about me. Not really. You don't care about anybody."

"Being like everybody... isn't that the same as being nobody?"

"There's nothing to be frightened of."

"One minute, you sound like a professor, the next you sound like a beatnik."

"I don't see how anyone as nice as you has survived this long."

"You think I don't know?"

"You're making a mistake, <name>. These people aren't worth it."

"You're working yourself up over nothing. "

"Stop speaking in riddles!"

"You can go to the devil!"

"If you were in your right noodle, you wouldn't talk like that."

"Did it ever occur to you something odd's going on here?"

"Get going before they attack us."

"I'm quite aware of what drinking any of that will do to me."

"There's bound to be an explanation!"

"I got a short fuse, so don't strike matches."

"What do you want me to do, lie down and play dead?"

"Don't go out there! Please!"

"It's a footprint. Look at the size of it."

"I'm just a natural-born screamer. I can't play unless I holler."

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