Cmdr. Nyota Uhura Quotes in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: You understand, we have lost all contact with the Captain and Dr. McCoy.

Captain Spock: Yes, at the moment, they are surrounded by a magnetic shield. However, if I know the Captain, by this time, he is deep into planning his escape.

[Cut to Captain Kirk on the losing end of a fist fight with an alien at least twice his size]

Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: You are Crewman Dax?

Crewman Dax: Yes Commander. What is the problem?

Commander Pavel Chekov: Perhaps you have heard Russian epic of Cinderella? If shoe fits, wear it!

[drops magnetic boots at Dax's feet]

Captain Spock: Mr. Chekov...

[camera pans down to show that Dax's feet are incapable of fitting into boots]

Captain Spock: [to Lt. Valeris] Lieutenant, the torpedo hit, once again, please.

[Valeris replays video]

Captain Spock: Hold.

[replay pauses]

Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: It *is* Enterprise. *We* fired.

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: That is *not* possible! All weapons *visually* accounted for,

[to Spock]

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: sir.

Captain Spock: An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: What, exactly, does *that* mean?

Captain Spock: It means that we can not have fired those torpedoes, someone else did.

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Well, they dinna fire on themselves, and there were no the ships present.

Captain Spock: There was an enormous neutron energy surge.

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Not from us!

Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: A neutron surge that big could only be produced by another ship.

Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: Kronos One?

Captain Spock: Too far away. Very near *us*. Possibly *beneath* us.

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: If there were a ship beneath us, the Klingons would have seen her.

Captain Spock: [pause] Would they?

Lieutenant Valeris: A bird-of-prey.

Captain Spock: A bird-of-prey.

Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: *Cloaked?*

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: A bird-of-prey cannot fire when she's cloaked.

Captain Spock: All things being equal, Mr. Scott, I would agree. However, things are not equal. This one *can*.

Lieutenant Valeris: We must inform Starfleet Command.

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Inform them of what? A new weapon that is invisible? Raving lunatics, that's what they'll call us. They'll say we're so desperate to exonerate the Captain, we'll say *anything*.

Captain Spock: And they would be correct. We have no evidence, only a theory which happens to fit the facts.

Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: Assuming you're right, Mr. Spock, why would they fire on their own president?

Captain Spock: Indeed.