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- To be honest, too many to list. Pretty much safe to say that Kirk striding around hoping that he's got the distant past nailed is one long howl of laughter.
- When played in Moscow, McCoy's line "The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe." got the whole audience laughing right up to the end credits.
- Any time Spock tries to swear.
- "They like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales."
- "One damn minute, Admiral."
- Kirk too:
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Angry Driver: "Get out of the way you dumbass!" |
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- Much of Kirk's interaction with Dr. Taylor.
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Dr. Gillian Taylor: Do you guys like Italian? |
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- Scotty and the (classic) Macintosh. "Hello, computer!" And Sulu and the helicopter. And poor Chekov having to cope with the commie-haters.
- The entire film is one of these: they go back in time to steal whales!
- And it's McCoy who puts it explicitly out there:
- "Ve are lookink for nuclear wessels. Can you direct us to the naval base in Alameida?"
- "Ooh, I don't know if I know the answer to that. I think it's across the Bay. In Alameida."
- With that motorcycle cop just glaring at Chekov the whole time he's asking everybody where the nuclear wessels are.
- Chekov's interrogation is a classic!
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- Kirk's reaction when he sees Spock in the aquarium tank mind-melding with the whales is priceless.
- Spock meets punk. Punk refuses to turn down ghettoblaster. Spock nerve-pinches punk. Everyone - the bus passengers, the audience in the theater, aliens watching this broadcast on satellite TV from 500 light years away - cheers.
- And then Spock continues his conversation with Kirk as if he's still trying to speak over the punk's music, with Kirk's expression just screaming 'On top of everything else, I just don't have the energy to tell you you don't need to shout anymore.'
- The entire scene where they spring Chekov from the hospital is funny. From McCoy's disdain for 20th-century medicine, to the elderly woman who grows a new kidney, to Chekov's cheeky promotion of himself to admiral, to the way they get into Chekov's room in the first place...
- "The doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!" The giddiness of the old woman and the utter bafflement of the doctors makes the scene.
- McCoy's in top Deadpan Snarker form here as well:
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Scotty: ... Are ye plannin' to take a swim? |
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- "This woman has immediate, post-prandial, upper abdominal distention!!" "What did you say she had?" " Cramps."
- And then, as they're leaving:
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Guard: How's your patient? |
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- "He did a little too much LDS."
- "No, I'm from Iowa. I work in outer space."
- The two garbage men, after witnessing the Bounty's landing in the park.
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Garbage man A: Did you see that? |
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- "YOU POMPOUS ASS!"
- Captain Kirk has read Jacqueline Susann. And Harold Robbins.
- Fridge Funny: When the Probe shuts down Spacedock, you can see the Excelsior in the hangar. That's right Starfleet, your shiny new ubership just conked out on you.... again.