Clerk: If you ever want to buy a book...?Marlowe:Ben-Hur, 1860?Clerk: With duplications? So long.Marlowe: So long, pal.BackgroundThe Birds(1963) is a modern Hitchcock thriller/masterpiece, his first film with Universal Studios."Great Scene(s):The formal state dinner party between Klingons andEnterprisecrew members (with Romulan ale served) and Gorkon boasting: "You haven""t heard Shakespeare until you""ve heard it in the original Klingon!", he scene of Spock""s traumatizing mind-meld technique intimately used on Vulcan Lieutenant Valeris, and the destruction of General Chang""s invisible Klingon ship Bird of Prey as he spoke: "To Be or Not to Be.Before the film cuts to the next scene, the loud noise of a jet engine plays on the soundtrack.In the next scene of their dope deal, they are now in California where they have smuggled the drugs for sale to a dealer.Dr.Branton was incredulous: "Why doesn""t she take it?" -- and Zira, exasperated by this time, blurted out: "Because I loathe bananas!", impatiently exposing the fact that she had the power of speech.