A scene from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984
David Marcus

I used protomatter in the Genesis matrix.

Saavik

Protomatter, a highly unstable substance which every ethical scientist condones as dangerously unpredictable.

David Marcus

It was the only way to solve certain problems.

Saavik

So like your father, you changed the rules.

David Marcus

If I hadn't, it might have been years or never.

Saavik

How many have paid the price for your impatience? How many have died? How much damage have you done? And what is yet to come?

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