76 74 14.02.1969 03.02.1980 12 38 (PG) Jerome Bixby Murray Golden Fred Steiner Requiem per Matusalemme (5) 10.1978 Requiem per Matusalemme Requiem por Metusalen Requiem pour Mathusalem Planet der Unsterblichen 6200sai no Koi (6200-years-old's Love) Réquiem Para Matusalém soggetto: 02.10.1968 prima stesura: 19.11.1968 Inizio di dicembre 1968

Flint James Daly Rayna Kapec Louise Sorel Oderly John Buonomo Controfigura di William Shatner Paul Baxley Controfigura di James Daly Phil Adams

Trama

Data Stellare 5843.7: A causa di un'epidemia di febbre rigeliana a bordo dell'Enterprise, Kirk, Spock e McCoy scendono su Holberg 917G per cercare della ryetalina, l'unico antidoto per quella malattia. Qui trovano Flint, un umano che sembra aver vissuto sulla Terra secoli addietro, e la sua protetta Rayna Kapec.

Riciclati

• L'esterno del castello di Flint è la matte riutilizzata per la fortezza di Rigel VII di The Cage.

Citazioni

Rayna Kapec: What is loneliness?
Flint: It is a thirst... it is a flower, dying in a desert. [T:07:54]

McCoy: Mr. Spock, I know you won't have one [100 year old Saurian Brandy]. Heaven forbid those matematically perfect brainwaves be corrupted by this all too human vice.
Spock: Thank you, Doctor. I will have a brandy.
McCoy: Do you think the two of us can handle a drunk Vulcan? [T:08:49]

Spock: I am close to experiencing an unaccustomed emotion.
McCoy: I'll drink to that. [T:09:11]

Flint: ...the intellect is not all, but its cultivation must come first, or the individual makes errors... wastes time in unprofitable pursuits. [T:12:47]

Kirk: Those pressures are everywhere... in everyone, urging him to what you call «savagery». The private hells -the inner needs and mysteries -the beast instinct. As human beings, that is the way it is. To be human is to be complex. You can't avoid a little ugliness, from within, and from without. [T:15:13]

Flint: To be human is also to seek pleasure. To laugh... to dance. [T:15:49]

Flint: Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic thing. [T:24:45]

Spock: The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. [T:44:25]

McCoy: ...the things love can drive a man to -the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures and the glorious victories. [T:46:34]

Spock: Forget. [T:47:36]