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Who's there?

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It's your relief, Sam.

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All quiet?

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Didn't see
a thing, Chief.

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Nobody ever does.

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Whatever the thing is,
it's already killed 50 people.

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I never realized
how dark it is down here.

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Stay on your toes,
Schmitter.

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Keep your phaser in your hand
at all times.

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What good will that do?

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You saw what happened to Ed Appel
when he shot at it.

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How about those
other people?

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I'm sorry, Schmitter,
but we've got to have guards.

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O.K., Chief.

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I'll do what I can.

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Keep alert.

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If you hear anything
or see anything, call in.

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Somebody can arrive
in three minutes.

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A lot can happen
in three minutes.

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Chief, is it true
the Enterprise is on its way?

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It's coming.

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You think it could get here
in the next four hours?

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You'll be all right.

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[Fiery Noise]

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No.

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Aah!

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Come on.

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Aah...

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Schmitter.

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Like the rest of them.

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Burned to a crisp.

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Space --
the final frontier.

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These are the voyages
of the starship Enterprise.

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Its five-year mission--

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to explore
strange new worlds...

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to seek out new life
and new civilizations...

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to boldly go where
no man has gone before.

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Captain 's Log -- star date 3196.1.

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A distress call
from the pergium

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production station
on Janus 6

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has brought
the Enterprise

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to that
long-established colony.

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Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy,
and I have beamed down

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to meet with
Chief Engineer Vanderberg,

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administrative head
of Janus 6.

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Let's assume
there is a monster.

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What has it done?
When did it start?

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About three months ago,
we opened up a new level.

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Sensors gave us
an unusually rich pergium reading.

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Not only pergium,
whatever you want.

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Uranium, serium, platinum.

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The whole planet's
like that.

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It's a treasure house.

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We're aware of that.

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If mining conditions
weren't so difficult,

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Janus 6 could supply the mineral
needs of a thousand planets.

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But what happened?

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First, the automatic
machinery, piece by piece,

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started to almost
disintegrate.

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Metal began
dissolving away.

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There was no reason
for it,

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and our chemists were unable
to analyze the corrosive agent.

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I'm sure there
is an answer.

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It simply has not
yet been discovered.

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Yes, it has.

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I don't know what this
butchering monster is,

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but I know
what it's doing.

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Our maintenance engineer
sent down to the drifts

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to repair
the corroded machinery.

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We found him...
seared to a crisp.

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Volcanic activity?

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There is none currently
on this planet, Captain.

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He's right. None.

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At first, the deaths
were down deep,

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but they've been moving
up toward our levels.

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The last man
died two days ago

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three levels below this.

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Same way? Burned?

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I'd like
to examine the body.

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We kept it for you.
There isn't much left.

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Roberts will show you.

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It isn't pretty.

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You post sentries? Guards?

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Of course.
Five of them have died.

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Who else has seen this?

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I have.

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This is Ed Appel,
chief processing engineer.

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Describe it.

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I can't.
I only got a glimpse of it,

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but it's...
big and shaggy.

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Ed shot it.

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Oh. You mean shot at it.

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No. I mean shot it.
With this.

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Fascinating.

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A good, clean shot.

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Didn't even
slow it down.

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Well, I've made
my report to you.

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Production's stopped, nobody
will go into the lower levels,

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and I don't blame them.

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The Federation
wants pergium,

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then you'll have to do
something about it.

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That's why we're here.

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You're all pretty
tough, aren't you?

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Starship,
phaser banks.

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You can't get your starship
down in the tunnels.

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No need to.

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Mr. Vanderberg, I'll need
a complete subsurface chart

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of all the drifts,
galleries, tunnels.

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You'll get it.

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Mr. Vanderberg,
what is this?

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It's a silicon
nodule.

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Millions of them
are down there.

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No commercial
value.

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But a geological oddity,
to say the least.

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Pure silicon?

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A few trace elements.

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Look, we didn't call you here
so you could collect rocks.

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Thank you,
Mr. Vanderberg.

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We'll need your
complete cooperation.

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You'll have it.

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Just find that creature,
whatever it is.

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I've got a quota
to meet.

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Come on, Appel.

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Vast number of tunnels
won't make our hunting any easier.

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Schmitter didn't
burn to death,

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not in the usual
sense, anyway.

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Explain that.

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Well, there are
only fragments

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of bone and teeth left,

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but the plant's physician agrees
with me -- a chemical corrosion...

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Almost as if he'd been
thrown into a vat

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of extremely
corrosive acid.

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Strong enough
to eat machinery?

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Strong enough to eat
anything you can think of.

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Mr. Spock,

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show me
the positions

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of the deaths and
acts of sabotage.

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Here, here,
and here.

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If the times of these incidents
are accurate,

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the creature would
have to have moved

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at an incredible speed.

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Mm-hmm.
Mr. Vanderberg,

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how recent are
these charts?

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They were made
last year.

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Before the appearance
of whatever it is?

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That's right.

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I see.

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Mr. Spock...
give us a report

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on life beneath
the surface.

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Within range of our sensors,
there is no life,

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other than
the accountable human residents

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of this colony
beneath the surface,

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uh, at least, no
life as we know it.

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We can't cover
all the tunnels on foot.

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Production
must be resumed.

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We must have
that pergium!

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If we could force another
appearance of this creature...

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When that creature
appears, men die.

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[Fiery Noise]

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Aaaahhhh!

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Too many tunnels.

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We couldn't possibly --

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Mr. Spock, our sensors
can pick up

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normal life functions
at a considerable distance.

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But what about
abnormal life functions?

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[Siren Blares]

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Something's happening
in the reactor room!

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Back to your stations.

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Look at that.

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I wouldn't
touch it, Captain.

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An extremely
active corrosive.

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Traces may linger.

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Kirk! Quickly!

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The main circulating pump
for the entire reactor--

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It's gone.

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Same indication as shown
at the door, Captain --

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very strong
corrosive.

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Is there a replacement
for that?

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No. None.
It's outdated,

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but it always
worked fine.

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Spock, onboard?

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Nothing for a device
this antiquated.

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Without the pump
mechanism,

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the reactor will
go supercritical.

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It could poison
half the planet.

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We can't
shut it down.

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It provides heat and air
and life support

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for the whole
colony.

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Mr. Spock, we seem
to have been given a choice --

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death by asphyxiation...

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or death by
radiation poisoning.

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A PXK pergium reactor?

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No, sir. We don't have
any spare circulating pump

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for a thing like that.

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I haven't seen
a PXK in 20 years.

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Can you rig one up?
It's vital.

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I can put together
some odds and ends,

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but it won't hold
for long.

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How long?

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48 hours maybe,
with luck.

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48 hours is better
than nothing.

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Gather what you need
and beam down here. Top priority.

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Aye, Captain.

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I'll be right down.
Scott out.

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What happens
when it breaks down?

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Hopefully we'll find
the missing part by then.

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Small chance.

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The alternative
is to evacuate

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all you people
to the Enterprise.

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A dozen planets
depend on you

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for pergium
for their reactor.

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They're already screaming.
Reactors closing down,

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life support
systems --

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I'm concerned with my
people right here, Kirk.

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They're being murdered.

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Find that monster
and kill it.

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The missing pump
wasn't taken by accident.

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It was the one piece of equipment
absolutely essential

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for the operation
of the reactor.

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Do you think
the creature

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is trying to push the colonists
off the planet?

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It would seem so.

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But why now?
These production facilities

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have been in operation
for over 50 years.

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I don't know.

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But there is
a possibility.

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What's that?

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Life as we know it

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is universally based on some
combination of carbon compounds.

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But what if life exists
based on another element?

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For instance...

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Silicon?

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You're creating
fantasies, Mr. Spock.

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Not necessarily. I've heard
of the theoretical possibility

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of life based
on silicon,

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but life of an entirely
different order.

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It's possible that our phasers
might not affect it.

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Certainly not phaser I, which is
far less powerful than phaser II.

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All right.

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How about this --

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a creature that lives deep
in the planet below us,

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at home in solid rock.

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It seems to me that
in order to survive,

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it would have to have some form
of natural armor plating.

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It could explain much,

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especially since the colonists
are armed only with phaser I.

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But we have phaser II.

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Which I could render
more effective against silicon.

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Silicon-based life
is physiologically impossible,

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especially in
an oxygen atmosphere.

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It may be, Doctor,
that the creature can exist

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for brief periods
in such an atmosphere

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before returning
to its own environment.

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00:13:07,343 --> 00:13:09,277
I still think
you're imagining things.

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Maybe, but at least
it's something to go on.

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Mr. Spock, have
Lieutenant Commander Giotto

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assemble
the security troops

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and arm them
with phaser II.

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You make the proper
adjustments.

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You seem fascinated
by this rock.

262
00:13:37,873 --> 00:13:38,931
Yes, Captain.

263
00:13:40,376 --> 00:13:42,970
You recall that
Vanderberg commented

264
00:13:43,045 --> 00:13:46,481
there were thousands of these
at a lower level--

265
00:13:46,549 --> 00:13:48,983
the level which
the machinery opened

266
00:13:49,051 --> 00:13:51,815
Just prior to the first appearance
of the creature.

267
00:13:51,887 --> 00:13:53,411
Do they tie in?

268
00:13:55,391 --> 00:13:56,824
I don't know.

269
00:13:56,892 --> 00:13:57,824
Speculate.

270
00:14:02,231 --> 00:14:05,098
I have already given Dr. McCoy
sufficient cause for amusement.

271
00:14:05,167 --> 00:14:08,330
I'd prefer to cogitate
the possibilities for a time.

272
00:14:08,404 --> 00:14:10,338
A short time,
Mr. Spock.

273
00:14:11,841 --> 00:14:13,365
We have very little.

274
00:14:16,846 --> 00:14:18,279
How's it going,
Scotty?

275
00:14:18,347 --> 00:14:19,609
It's a plumber's
nightmare,

276
00:14:19,682 --> 00:14:21,616
but it'll hold
for a bit.

277
00:14:21,684 --> 00:14:23,117
It has to hold
longer.

278
00:14:23,185 --> 00:14:25,619
Sorry. That's about
the best I can do.

279
00:14:25,688 --> 00:14:26,620
[Beep Beep]

280
00:14:26,689 --> 00:14:27,951
Kirk here.

281
00:14:28,024 --> 00:14:29,286
Captain, security officers
have gathered

282
00:14:29,358 --> 00:14:30,791
in Chief Vanderberg's office.

283
00:14:30,860 --> 00:14:32,293
I'll be right there.

284
00:14:32,361 --> 00:14:34,295
Scotty,
ride herd on it.

285
00:14:34,363 --> 00:14:36,297
Kind words.
Tender, loving care.

286
00:14:36,365 --> 00:14:39,300
Kiss it. Baby it.
Flatter it if you have to,

287
00:14:39,368 --> 00:14:40,630
but keep it going.

288
00:14:40,703 --> 00:14:42,637
I'll do what
I can, sir.

289
00:14:42,705 --> 00:14:44,639
You'll proceed
from level to level,

290
00:14:44,707 --> 00:14:46,641
checking out
every foot of opening.

291
00:14:46,709 --> 00:14:49,644
You are searching for
some sort of creature

292
00:14:49,712 --> 00:14:52,146
which is highly resistant
to phaser fire.

293
00:14:52,214 --> 00:14:54,808
Phasers will be set on maximum,
and remember this--

294
00:14:54,884 --> 00:14:57,751
50 people have died.
I want no more deaths.

295
00:14:57,820 --> 00:14:59,082
Except
the bloody thing.

296
00:14:59,155 --> 00:15:01,817
The creature may or may not
attack on sight.

297
00:15:01,891 --> 00:15:02,823
However, you must.

298
00:15:02,892 --> 00:15:04,257
It is vitally important

299
00:15:04,326 --> 00:15:07,989
we get this installation
back into production.

300
00:15:08,064 --> 00:15:10,498
Mr. Vanderberg,
may I ask at which level

301
00:15:10,566 --> 00:15:13,000
you discovered
the nodules of silicon?

302
00:15:13,069 --> 00:15:15,401
The 23rd. Why?

303
00:15:15,471 --> 00:15:17,405
Commander Giotto,
take your detail.

304
00:15:17,473 --> 00:15:19,407
Go directly
to the 23rd level.

305
00:15:19,475 --> 00:15:20,908
Start your search
there.

306
00:15:20,976 --> 00:15:23,774
Aye, aye, sir.
Do you have reason to suspect

307
00:15:23,846 --> 00:15:26,280
this creature may
be on that level?

308
00:15:26,348 --> 00:15:27,940
It's a possibility
we've discussed.

309
00:15:28,017 --> 00:15:31,282
Keep your people on the top level
together at a safe place.

310
00:15:31,353 --> 00:15:33,651
I don't know any safe place,
Captain,

311
00:15:33,722 --> 00:15:35,986
the way that thing
comes and goes.

312
00:15:36,058 --> 00:15:38,492
Well, gentlemen,
you have your instructions.

313
00:15:38,561 --> 00:15:39,994
Let's get at it.

314
00:16:14,663 --> 00:16:16,597
[Sensor Wails]

315
00:16:23,672 --> 00:16:25,264
Mr. Spock?

316
00:16:25,341 --> 00:16:26,433
Find something?

317
00:16:26,509 --> 00:16:29,444
Adjusting my tricorder
to register for silicon.

318
00:16:29,512 --> 00:16:31,275
[Sensor Continues
To Wail]

319
00:16:34,416 --> 00:16:35,348
Interesting.

320
00:16:35,417 --> 00:16:36,349
Traces?

321
00:16:46,862 --> 00:16:49,296
A life form, Captain...

322
00:16:49,365 --> 00:16:51,458
bearing -- 111 degrees.

323
00:16:51,534 --> 00:16:52,967
Elevation -- 4 degrees.

324
00:16:53,035 --> 00:16:54,468
One of our people?

325
00:16:54,537 --> 00:16:56,232
No, sir. Silicon.

326
00:16:59,375 --> 00:17:00,307
Come on.

327
00:17:17,826 --> 00:17:19,020
[Fiery Noise]

328
00:17:21,997 --> 00:17:24,932
Aaaaahhhh!

329
00:17:36,178 --> 00:17:38,772
He never even had
a chance to fire, Captain.

330
00:17:38,847 --> 00:17:41,441
It's only been seconds
since we heard him scream.

331
00:17:41,517 --> 00:17:43,451
The creature must
still be around.

332
00:18:06,208 --> 00:18:07,140
Captain.

333
00:18:10,913 --> 00:18:12,107
This tunnel.

334
00:18:12,181 --> 00:18:15,082
My readings indicate
it was made within the hour,

335
00:18:15,150 --> 00:18:16,412
moments ago,
in fact.

336
00:18:16,485 --> 00:18:18,350
- Are you certain?
- Positive.

337
00:18:18,420 --> 00:18:20,445
This tunnel goes
out of sight.

338
00:18:20,522 --> 00:18:23,423
Our best machinery couldn't
cut a tunnel like this.

339
00:18:23,492 --> 00:18:25,892
Indeed, Captain.
I'm quite at a loss.

340
00:18:25,961 --> 00:18:26,893
[Fiery Noise]

341
00:18:44,847 --> 00:18:45,779
Get gone.

342
00:18:46,849 --> 00:18:47,941
Disappeared.

343
00:18:48,017 --> 00:18:49,951
Astonishing that
anything of that bulk

344
00:18:50,019 --> 00:18:51,611
could move
so rapidly.

345
00:18:51,687 --> 00:18:53,120
These walls are hot.

346
00:18:53,188 --> 00:18:54,553
Indeed.

347
00:18:54,623 --> 00:18:55,954
This tunnel
was cut

348
00:18:56,025 --> 00:18:57,617
within the last
two minutes.

349
00:18:57,693 --> 00:18:58,955
You all right,
Captain?

350
00:18:59,028 --> 00:18:59,960
Yes. Perfectly.

351
00:19:00,029 --> 00:19:01,291
Did you see it?

352
00:19:01,363 --> 00:19:03,297
Yes. Where does
the tunnel go?

353
00:19:03,365 --> 00:19:05,890
Readings indicate a maze of tunnels
in that direction.

354
00:19:05,968 --> 00:19:07,560
Did you shoot
at it?

355
00:19:07,636 --> 00:19:10,400
Yes. We took
a bite out of it.

356
00:19:15,744 --> 00:19:17,678
Not animal tissue.

357
00:19:17,746 --> 00:19:19,179
What is it?

358
00:19:19,248 --> 00:19:21,682
Closest approximation
I could come to

359
00:19:21,750 --> 00:19:23,183
would be
fibrous asbestos,

360
00:19:23,252 --> 00:19:24,685
a mineral, Captain.

361
00:19:24,753 --> 00:19:26,414
Then your guess
was right.

362
00:19:26,488 --> 00:19:27,750
It would seem so.

363
00:19:27,823 --> 00:19:29,415
Silicon-based.

364
00:19:29,491 --> 00:19:30,458
Summation.

365
00:19:30,526 --> 00:19:32,926
We are dealing with
a silicon creature

366
00:19:32,995 --> 00:19:34,428
of the deep rocks,

367
00:19:34,496 --> 00:19:36,430
capable of moving
through solid rock

368
00:19:36,498 --> 00:19:38,932
as easily as we move
through the air.

369
00:19:39,001 --> 00:19:40,434
That explains
the tunnels.

370
00:19:40,502 --> 00:19:43,767
This creature's body secretes
an extremely powerful corrosive.

371
00:19:43,839 --> 00:19:46,706
Powerful enough to dissolve
the door of the reactor chamber.

372
00:19:46,775 --> 00:19:48,936
And it explains
the murdered men.

373
00:19:50,512 --> 00:19:52,104
It's definitely
phaser resistant.

374
00:19:52,181 --> 00:19:55,446
We had our weapons set
for silicon and on full power,

375
00:19:55,517 --> 00:19:58,213
yet we only damaged it.
It still lives.

376
00:19:58,287 --> 00:19:59,982
Meaning it's
impossible to kill?

377
00:20:00,055 --> 00:20:02,455
No. No, it might require
amassed phasers.

378
00:20:02,524 --> 00:20:05,459
Or a single phaser
with much longer contact.

379
00:20:05,527 --> 00:20:06,653
Commander...

380
00:20:08,530 --> 00:20:10,464
Pass this on
to your men --

381
00:20:10,532 --> 00:20:12,557
We knew
it was a killer.

382
00:20:12,634 --> 00:20:14,067
Now it's wounded...

383
00:20:14,136 --> 00:20:15,569
probably in pain

384
00:20:15,637 --> 00:20:17,195
somewhere
back there.

385
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,473
There's nothing more dangerous
than a wounded animal.

386
00:20:27,149 --> 00:20:28,639
Commander Giotto.

387
00:20:28,717 --> 00:20:31,185
Instruct your men to concentrate
the search in this sector.

388
00:20:31,253 --> 00:20:33,187
Remind them
the creature is wounded.

389
00:20:33,255 --> 00:20:34,688
Aye, aye, sir.

390
00:20:38,026 --> 00:20:39,459
What is it, Spock?

391
00:20:39,528 --> 00:20:42,964
I've run a complete check
on all life forms, radius 100 miles.

392
00:20:43,031 --> 00:20:44,623
I've located all our men,

393
00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:46,292
and I've located
one creature

394
00:20:46,368 --> 00:20:49,303
moving rapidly through
native rock, bearing 201.

395
00:20:49,371 --> 00:20:50,804
And that is all.

396
00:20:50,873 --> 00:20:52,807
One creature
in 100 miles?

397
00:20:52,875 --> 00:20:54,172
Exactly.

398
00:20:54,243 --> 00:20:56,643
Captain, there are literally
thousands of these tunnels

399
00:20:56,712 --> 00:20:58,304
in this general
area alone,

400
00:20:58,380 --> 00:21:01,315
far too many to be cut
by the one creature

401
00:21:01,383 --> 00:21:02,645
in an ordinary
lifetime.

402
00:21:02,718 --> 00:21:04,413
Then we're dealing with
more than one creature,

403
00:21:04,486 --> 00:21:05,919
despite your
tricorder readings,

404
00:21:05,988 --> 00:21:07,922
or we have
a creature

405
00:21:07,990 --> 00:21:09,924
with an extremely
long life span.

406
00:21:09,992 --> 00:21:13,257
Or it's the last
of a race of creatures

407
00:21:13,328 --> 00:21:14,556
which made these tunnels.

408
00:21:14,630 --> 00:21:18,088
If it is the only survivor
of a dead race,

409
00:21:18,167 --> 00:21:22,570
to kill it would be
a crime against science.

410
00:21:25,674 --> 00:21:27,073
Mr. Spock...

411
00:21:27,142 --> 00:21:30,077
our mission is
to protect this colony,

412
00:21:30,145 --> 00:21:31,908
to get the pergium
moving again.

413
00:21:31,980 --> 00:21:34,414
This is not a
zoological expedition.

414
00:21:36,518 --> 00:21:38,952
Maintain a constant
reading on the creature.

415
00:21:39,021 --> 00:21:42,457
If we have to, we'll use phasers
to cut our own tunnels.

416
00:21:42,524 --> 00:21:43,957
We'll try
to surround it.

417
00:21:47,529 --> 00:21:48,962
I'm sorry, Mr. Spock,

418
00:21:49,031 --> 00:21:51,966
but I'm afraid
the creature must die.

419
00:21:53,535 --> 00:21:55,969
I see no alternative
myself, Captain.

420
00:21:56,038 --> 00:21:57,699
It merely seems a pity.

421
00:21:57,773 --> 00:22:00,708
The search team
is gathering in the main tunnel.

422
00:22:00,776 --> 00:22:01,708
Good.

423
00:22:01,777 --> 00:22:04,405
So it is wounded...

424
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,914
and therefore
twice as dangerous.

425
00:22:06,982 --> 00:22:08,415
Stay in pairs.

426
00:22:08,484 --> 00:22:09,917
If you see it,

427
00:22:09,985 --> 00:22:11,418
concentrate
your phaser fire

428
00:22:11,487 --> 00:22:13,921
at what appears
to be its head.

429
00:22:13,989 --> 00:22:14,921
Concentrate it.

430
00:22:14,990 --> 00:22:16,116
Maintain it.

431
00:22:16,191 --> 00:22:18,921
It is definitely resistant,
but it can be hurt,

432
00:22:18,994 --> 00:22:21,428
and thus
it can be killed.

433
00:22:21,497 --> 00:22:23,431
Gentlemen, if you'll examine
your charts.

434
00:22:23,499 --> 00:22:25,091
I last located
the creature

435
00:22:25,167 --> 00:22:27,101
in the area
marked Attit-26

436
00:22:27,169 --> 00:22:29,797
moving in bearing 201.

437
00:22:29,872 --> 00:22:32,602
This particular group
will move out beyond that area

438
00:22:32,674 --> 00:22:34,767
in all directions
to surround it,

439
00:22:34,843 --> 00:22:36,037
possibly capture it.

440
00:22:37,179 --> 00:22:39,545
Your orders are
shoot to kill.

441
00:22:39,615 --> 00:22:42,948
Protect yourself
at all times.

442
00:22:43,018 --> 00:22:44,952
Commander Giotto,
disperse your search parties.

443
00:22:45,020 --> 00:22:46,453
Aye, aye, sir.

444
00:22:46,522 --> 00:22:48,956
Louis, Vinzi,
take your men out.

445
00:22:49,024 --> 00:22:50,184
Mr. Spock.

446
00:22:53,028 --> 00:22:55,622
Capture it? I don't recall
giving any such order.

447
00:22:55,697 --> 00:22:58,632
You did not. I thought,
if the opportunity arose--

448
00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:00,930
I will lose
no more men.

449
00:23:01,003 --> 00:23:03,471
The creature will
be killed on sight.

450
00:23:03,539 --> 00:23:04,904
That's the end of it.

451
00:23:04,973 --> 00:23:06,338
Very well, sir.

452
00:23:06,408 --> 00:23:07,340
Mr. Spock.

453
00:23:07,409 --> 00:23:09,400
I want you
to assist Scotty

454
00:23:09,478 --> 00:23:13,312
in maintaining
that make shift circulating pump.

455
00:23:15,150 --> 00:23:17,118
I--I beg your pardon, sir?

456
00:23:17,185 --> 00:23:21,087
You heard me. It's vital that
we keep that reactor in operation.

457
00:23:21,156 --> 00:23:22,418
Your scientific
knowledge --

458
00:23:22,491 --> 00:23:24,083
Is not needed there, sir.

459
00:23:24,159 --> 00:23:26,423
Mr. Scott has
far more knowledge

460
00:23:26,495 --> 00:23:28,258
of nuclear reactors
than I.

461
00:23:28,330 --> 00:23:29,797
You're aware of that.

462
00:23:29,865 --> 00:23:32,425
Mr. Spock, you
are second in command.

463
00:23:32,501 --> 00:23:34,401
This hunt
will be dangerous.

464
00:23:34,469 --> 00:23:37,370
Either one of us alone
is expendable. Both are not.

465
00:23:37,439 --> 00:23:39,930
Captain, there are
approximately 100 of us

466
00:23:40,008 --> 00:23:42,943
engaged in this search
against one creature.

467
00:23:43,011 --> 00:23:50,076
The odds against you and I
both being killed are 2,228.7 to 1.

468
00:23:51,853 --> 00:23:55,789
2,228.7 to 1?

469
00:23:58,527 --> 00:24:00,461
Those are pretty good odds,
Mr. Spock.

470
00:24:00,529 --> 00:24:02,963
And they are
of course accurate, Captain.

471
00:24:03,031 --> 00:24:03,963
Of course.

472
00:24:04,967 --> 00:24:07,401
Well, I hate
to use the word,

473
00:24:07,469 --> 00:24:10,404
but logically,
with those kind of odds,

474
00:24:10,472 --> 00:24:13,407
you might as well
stay.

475
00:24:13,475 --> 00:24:16,911
But please stay out of trouble,
Mr. Spock.

476
00:24:16,979 --> 00:24:19,072
That is always
my intention, Captain.

477
00:24:20,816 --> 00:24:21,748
[Beep Beep]

478
00:24:23,485 --> 00:24:24,417
Kirk here.

479
00:24:24,486 --> 00:24:25,919
Scotty here, Captain.

480
00:24:25,988 --> 00:24:28,422
My brilliant improvisation
Just gave up the ghost.

481
00:24:28,490 --> 00:24:29,923
He couldn't
stand the strain.

482
00:24:29,992 --> 00:24:31,584
Can you
fix it again?

483
00:24:31,660 --> 00:24:33,753
Negative, Captain.
It's gone for good.

484
00:24:33,829 --> 00:24:36,798
Start evacuation of all colonists
to the Enterprise.

485
00:24:36,865 --> 00:24:38,230
Not all, Captain.

486
00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:40,860
I and my key personnel
are staying.

487
00:24:40,936 --> 00:24:42,733
We'll be down
to join you.

488
00:24:42,804 --> 00:24:44,465
We haven't enough
phasers for you.

489
00:24:44,539 --> 00:24:45,972
We'll use clubs.

490
00:24:46,041 --> 00:24:48,475
We won't run away.
We're staying.

491
00:24:48,543 --> 00:24:51,478
Good. Get everybody else
aboard the Enterprise.

492
00:24:51,546 --> 00:24:52,979
The fewer people
down here,

493
00:24:53,048 --> 00:24:54,982
the longer
we can hold out.

494
00:24:55,050 --> 00:24:56,278
How much longer, Scotty?

495
00:24:56,351 --> 00:24:58,251
The reactor goes critical
in 10 hours

496
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,481
unless you find
the mechanism.

497
00:25:00,555 --> 00:25:01,988
We'll do our best.

498
00:25:02,057 --> 00:25:04,491
Start feeding us
constant status reports.

499
00:25:04,559 --> 00:25:07,187
Vanderberg, you
and your crew assemble

500
00:25:07,262 --> 00:25:10,698
at level 23, checkpoint Tiger.
Kirk out.

501
00:25:12,267 --> 00:25:13,700
Team up with
Enterprise personnel.

502
00:25:13,769 --> 00:25:15,202
They're better armed
than you.

503
00:25:15,270 --> 00:25:17,204
Always keep
someone in sight.

504
00:25:17,272 --> 00:25:19,706
Vanderberg, take two men
and enter that tunnel.

505
00:25:19,775 --> 00:25:21,208
Rendezvous
with Commander Giotto.

506
00:25:21,276 --> 00:25:23,710
Appel and the rest,
go through there.

507
00:25:23,779 --> 00:25:26,213
Tie up with
Lieutenant Osborne's detail.

508
00:25:26,281 --> 00:25:30,718
Mr. Spock and I will control
the operation from a central point.

509
00:25:30,786 --> 00:25:31,718
That's all.

510
00:25:36,291 --> 00:25:37,724
Mr. Spock?

511
00:25:38,794 --> 00:25:40,728
Captain, we are
being watched.

512
00:25:41,797 --> 00:25:43,230
Are you sure?

513
00:25:43,298 --> 00:25:44,731
Intuition?

514
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,233
No, sir.

515
00:25:46,301 --> 00:25:48,633
We're being watched.

516
00:25:58,146 --> 00:26:00,239
[Electronic Tone]

517
00:26:00,315 --> 00:26:01,247
Captain.

518
00:26:01,316 --> 00:26:03,250
Fresh readings
within the hour

519
00:26:03,318 --> 00:26:05,183
in each of these tunnels.

520
00:26:05,253 --> 00:26:08,188
Chart says both of these
tunnels converge

521
00:26:08,256 --> 00:26:10,190
a few thousand
yards further.

522
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,694
You go left.
I'll go right.

523
00:26:13,762 --> 00:26:15,195
Should we separate?

524
00:26:16,765 --> 00:26:19,199
Two tunnels,
two of us.

525
00:26:19,267 --> 00:26:20,700
We separate.

526
00:27:19,761 --> 00:27:20,853
Mr. Spock.

527
00:27:20,929 --> 00:27:22,863
Yes, Captain.

528
00:27:22,931 --> 00:27:27,698
I've found a whole layer
of these silicon nodules of yours,

529
00:27:27,769 --> 00:27:29,202
hundreds of them.

530
00:27:29,271 --> 00:27:30,363
[Spock]
Indeed?

531
00:27:30,438 --> 00:27:32,929
I find that most
illuminating, Captain.

532
00:27:33,008 --> 00:27:35,602
Be absolutely certain
you do not damage any of them.

533
00:27:36,778 --> 00:27:38,609
Explain.

534
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,375
Only a theory I have.

535
00:27:40,448 --> 00:27:42,040
[Rumbling]

536
00:27:43,218 --> 00:27:44,845
Captain?

537
00:27:48,290 --> 00:27:49,723
[Spock]
Are you all right?

538
00:27:50,792 --> 00:27:51,724
Jim?

539
00:27:52,794 --> 00:27:53,726
Jim!

540
00:27:55,797 --> 00:27:57,128
Yes, Mr. Spock.
All right.

541
00:27:57,199 --> 00:28:01,226
We...seem to have
had a cave-in.

542
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,174
I could phaser you out.

543
00:28:07,242 --> 00:28:08,675
[Kirk]
No, you better not.

544
00:28:08,743 --> 00:28:11,541
Any disturbance might
bring down the rest.

545
00:28:11,613 --> 00:28:13,672
Besides, it isn't necessary.

546
00:28:13,748 --> 00:28:17,411
The chart said the tunnels
meet further on.

547
00:28:17,485 --> 00:28:18,679
Very well,

548
00:28:18,753 --> 00:28:21,187
but I find it
extremely disquieting

549
00:28:21,256 --> 00:28:24,692
that your roof chose
that particular moment to collapse.

550
00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:26,693
Please proceed
with extreme caution.

551
00:28:26,761 --> 00:28:29,161
I shall quicken my pace.

552
00:28:29,231 --> 00:28:30,664
Very well, Mr. Spock.

553
00:28:30,732 --> 00:28:32,893
I'll meet you
at the other end--

554
00:28:32,968 --> 00:28:35,334
[Rumbling]

555
00:29:45,173 --> 00:29:47,107
[Beep Beep]

556
00:29:47,175 --> 00:29:48,437
Kirk here.

557
00:29:48,510 --> 00:29:51,968
Captain, I just read
some fresh signs.

558
00:29:52,047 --> 00:29:53,742
The creature is
in this area.

559
00:29:53,815 --> 00:29:55,248
I'll take
a life form reading.

560
00:29:55,317 --> 00:29:56,750
It's not necessary,
Mr. Spock.

561
00:29:56,818 --> 00:29:59,116
I know exactly where
the creature is.

562
00:29:59,187 --> 00:30:00,745
Where, Captain?

563
00:30:00,822 --> 00:30:03,791
10 feet away from me.

564
00:30:03,858 --> 00:30:05,257
Kill it, Captain,
quickly.

565
00:30:05,327 --> 00:30:09,991
It's not making any
threatening moves, Spock.

566
00:30:10,065 --> 00:30:11,760
You don't dare
take the chance.

567
00:30:11,833 --> 00:30:13,266
Kill it.

568
00:30:13,335 --> 00:30:15,769
I thought you wanted it
kept alive,

569
00:30:15,837 --> 00:30:16,929
captured if possible.

570
00:30:17,005 --> 00:30:18,768
Jim, your life
is in danger.

571
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,774
You can't take
the risk.

572
00:30:20,842 --> 00:30:24,039
It seems to be waiting.

573
00:30:24,112 --> 00:30:26,945
I remind you
it's a proven killer.

574
00:30:27,015 --> 00:30:29,540
I'm on my way.
Spock out.

575
00:30:58,546 --> 00:30:59,808
Well...

576
00:30:59,881 --> 00:31:02,816
what do we do,
Just...talk it over?

577
00:31:08,323 --> 00:31:11,258
Well, you can be hurt,
can't you?

578
00:31:13,695 --> 00:31:15,458
We just sit here?

579
00:31:17,832 --> 00:31:19,197
It's your move.

580
00:31:22,137 --> 00:31:23,661
No, no! Don't shoot.

581
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,295
Come on over,
Mr. Spock.

582
00:32:06,815 --> 00:32:08,146
Fascinating.

583
00:32:09,317 --> 00:32:11,751
He's made no moves
against you.

584
00:32:11,820 --> 00:32:14,983
No. It seems
to be waiting.

585
00:32:15,056 --> 00:32:17,524
I tried talking to it,
but no response.

586
00:32:21,296 --> 00:32:22,763
Yes...

587
00:32:24,099 --> 00:32:25,532
They're all through here.

588
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,500
All over the place.

589
00:32:28,570 --> 00:32:29,764
Thousands of them.

590
00:32:29,838 --> 00:32:31,396
Yes, I see.

591
00:32:33,608 --> 00:32:35,041
It means something to you?

592
00:32:36,611 --> 00:32:38,545
Possibly the answer,
Captain,

593
00:32:38,613 --> 00:32:41,047
but I'm not certain.

594
00:32:43,118 --> 00:32:46,053
Captain, you are aware
of the Vulcan technique

595
00:32:46,121 --> 00:32:48,055
of the joining
of two minds.

596
00:32:52,627 --> 00:32:55,562
You think you can get
through to that thing?

597
00:32:55,630 --> 00:32:57,063
Possible.

598
00:32:59,134 --> 00:33:00,260
Mr. Spock...

599
00:33:01,436 --> 00:33:03,563
I know it's a...

600
00:33:03,638 --> 00:33:06,573
terrible personal lowering
of mental barriers...

601
00:33:06,641 --> 00:33:08,768
but if there's a chance...

602
00:33:08,843 --> 00:33:10,538
I'll try.

603
00:33:48,449 --> 00:33:49,711
Aah!

604
00:33:54,622 --> 00:33:55,919
Pain!

605
00:33:57,625 --> 00:33:59,115
Pain!

606
00:33:59,194 --> 00:34:01,389
Pain!

607
00:34:06,801 --> 00:34:08,996
That's all I got,
Captain...

608
00:34:09,070 --> 00:34:11,163
waves and waves
of searing pain.

609
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:12,433
It's in agony.

610
00:34:42,103 --> 00:34:44,003
''No kill I.''

611
00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:48,641
What is that,
a plea for us not to kill it,

612
00:34:48,710 --> 00:34:51,008
or a promise that
it won't kill us?

613
00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:53,047
I don't know,
Captain.

614
00:34:53,114 --> 00:34:55,048
Evidently, it gained
an immediate knowledge of us

615
00:34:55,116 --> 00:34:57,550
from its empathy
with me.

616
00:34:57,619 --> 00:34:59,712
In my brief contact
with the creature's mind,

617
00:34:59,787 --> 00:35:01,721
I discovered it is
a highly intelligent,

618
00:35:01,789 --> 00:35:02,983
extremely sophisticated animal...

619
00:35:03,057 --> 00:35:05,719
in great pain, of course,
because of its wound,

620
00:35:05,793 --> 00:35:08,762
but not reacting at all
like a wounded creature.

621
00:35:08,830 --> 00:35:10,764
It calls itself
a Horta.

622
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:14,333
A Horta.

623
00:35:16,404 --> 00:35:18,497
A Horta!

624
00:35:18,573 --> 00:35:21,167
Mr. Spock, we need that
retardation mechanism.

625
00:35:21,242 --> 00:35:23,176
You must reestablish
communications with it.

626
00:35:23,244 --> 00:35:26,179
Captain, it has no reason
to give us the device,

627
00:35:26,247 --> 00:35:27,509
and apparently
every reason

628
00:35:27,582 --> 00:35:29,516
for wishing us
off this planet.

629
00:35:29,584 --> 00:35:30,778
I'm aware of that.

630
00:35:30,852 --> 00:35:33,514
If we could only
win its...

631
00:35:33,588 --> 00:35:35,112
confidence.

632
00:35:39,927 --> 00:35:41,792
Dr. McCoy,
this is Captain Kirk.

633
00:35:41,863 --> 00:35:43,125
[McCoy]
Yes, Captain?

634
00:35:43,197 --> 00:35:47,031
Grab your medical kit
and come down here on the double.

635
00:35:47,101 --> 00:35:48,261
Is somebody
injured?

636
00:35:48,336 --> 00:35:49,394
What happened?

637
00:35:49,470 --> 00:35:51,836
Never mind. Just come down
to the 23rd level.

638
00:35:51,906 --> 00:35:54,272
You'll be led to us
by tricorder readings.

639
00:35:54,342 --> 00:35:55,536
Jim, I remind you

640
00:35:55,610 --> 00:35:58,044
that this is
a silicon-based form of life.

641
00:35:58,112 --> 00:36:00,046
Dr. McCoy's medical knowledge
will be useless.

642
00:36:00,114 --> 00:36:02,207
He's a healer,
let him heal.

643
00:36:02,283 --> 00:36:05,548
Mr. Spock, you must
reestablish communications.

644
00:36:05,620 --> 00:36:09,317
I want to know why it
suddenly took to murder.

645
00:36:09,390 --> 00:36:12,325
To obtain that kind
of communication, Captain,

646
00:36:12,393 --> 00:36:14,827
it will be necessary
to touch it.

647
00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,164
We have seen how
the creature destroys.

648
00:37:03,111 --> 00:37:04,544
Lieutenant Commander Giotto.

649
00:37:04,612 --> 00:37:05,806
Giotto here,
Captain.

650
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:06,972
Are you
all right?

651
00:37:07,048 --> 00:37:08,982
Perfectly all right.
Where are you?

652
00:37:09,050 --> 00:37:10,984
We're at the end
of the tunnel.

653
00:37:11,052 --> 00:37:12,986
A Mr. Vanderberg and
his men are here,

654
00:37:13,054 --> 00:37:14,214
and they're
pretty ugly.

655
00:37:14,288 --> 00:37:15,482
Shall I let them
through?

656
00:37:15,556 --> 00:37:18,491
Under no circumstances
allow them in here yet.

657
00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:20,493
The minute
Doc McCoy gets there,

658
00:37:20,561 --> 00:37:21,892
send him through.

659
00:37:21,963 --> 00:37:22,987
Aye, aye, sir.

660
00:37:28,403 --> 00:37:29,836
Pity!

661
00:37:32,907 --> 00:37:35,000
The thousands...

662
00:37:36,477 --> 00:37:37,842
Devils!

663
00:37:40,248 --> 00:37:42,910
Eternity ends...

664
00:37:46,087 --> 00:37:49,682
The chamber of the ages...

665
00:37:49,757 --> 00:37:52,351
The altar of tomorrow!

666
00:37:56,931 --> 00:37:58,228
[Spock]
Murderers!

667
00:38:00,935 --> 00:38:02,197
Stop them!

668
00:38:03,604 --> 00:38:05,697
Kill!

669
00:38:05,773 --> 00:38:07,468
Strike back!

670
00:38:09,544 --> 00:38:11,444
Monsters!

671
00:38:17,552 --> 00:38:19,577
What in the name of...

672
00:38:30,731 --> 00:38:32,164
What is Spock doing?

673
00:38:32,233 --> 00:38:34,667
It's wounded--badly.
You've got to help it.

674
00:38:34,735 --> 00:38:36,168
Help that?

675
00:38:36,237 --> 00:38:37,670
Go take a look.

676
00:38:46,581 --> 00:38:48,674
[Spock]
The end of life...

677
00:38:51,419 --> 00:38:53,011
Murderers.

678
00:39:10,371 --> 00:39:12,305
You can't be serious.

679
00:39:12,373 --> 00:39:14,841
That thing is virtually
made out of stone!

680
00:39:14,909 --> 00:39:16,968
Help it. Treat it.

681
00:39:17,044 --> 00:39:19,137
I'm a doctor,
not a bricklayer.

682
00:39:19,213 --> 00:39:21,147
You're a healer.
There's a patient.

683
00:39:21,215 --> 00:39:22,648
That's an order.

684
00:39:32,059 --> 00:39:33,321
Mr. Spock...

685
00:39:35,863 --> 00:39:38,297
Tell it we're
trying to help.

686
00:39:42,737 --> 00:39:43,999
The mechanism.

687
00:39:46,073 --> 00:39:47,665
Understood.

688
00:39:52,413 --> 00:39:54,677
Is the end of life...

689
00:39:57,084 --> 00:40:00,019
Eternity stops...

690
00:40:03,925 --> 00:40:05,290
Go out...

691
00:40:05,359 --> 00:40:08,021
into the tunnel.

692
00:40:12,266 --> 00:40:16,134
To the chamber...
of the ages.

693
00:40:23,110 --> 00:40:25,874
Cry...

694
00:40:25,947 --> 00:40:27,710
for the children.

695
00:40:30,952 --> 00:40:34,217
Walk...carefully...

696
00:40:36,123 --> 00:40:38,887
in the vault
of tomorrow.

697
00:40:42,129 --> 00:40:44,723
[Sobbing]

698
00:40:44,799 --> 00:40:51,068
Sorrow...for
the murdered children.

699
00:41:06,821 --> 00:41:08,948
The thing you
search for is there.

700
00:41:10,925 --> 00:41:12,859
Go.

701
00:41:12,927 --> 00:41:14,690
Go.

702
00:41:18,366 --> 00:41:19,856
Sadness.

703
00:41:22,103 --> 00:41:24,970
Sadness...

704
00:41:25,039 --> 00:41:27,473
for the end of things.

705
00:41:30,711 --> 00:41:32,474
Go...

706
00:41:32,546 --> 00:41:33,808
into the tunnel.

707
00:41:35,883 --> 00:41:39,375
There is a passage way.

708
00:41:39,453 --> 00:41:40,886
Quickly, quickly.

709
00:41:49,363 --> 00:41:51,729
The captain said for you
to wait here,

710
00:41:51,799 --> 00:41:53,630
and here is where
you'll wait.

711
00:41:53,701 --> 00:41:55,293
That murdering
monster's in there.

712
00:41:55,369 --> 00:41:56,802
We're going to kill it.

713
00:41:56,871 --> 00:41:58,133
You're going
to stay here.

714
00:42:42,550 --> 00:42:43,983
That's right,
Lieutenant.

715
00:42:44,051 --> 00:42:46,485
Just beam it down
to me immediately,

716
00:42:46,554 --> 00:42:48,988
and never mind
what I want it for.

717
00:42:49,056 --> 00:42:50,489
I just want it!

718
00:42:50,558 --> 00:42:51,490
Now move!

719
00:42:53,060 --> 00:42:55,893
It is time...

720
00:42:55,963 --> 00:42:57,260
to sleep.

721
00:42:59,767 --> 00:43:01,200
It is over.

722
00:43:03,104 --> 00:43:04,264
Failure.

723
00:43:07,241 --> 00:43:09,903
The murderers...

724
00:43:09,977 --> 00:43:13,037
have won.

725
00:43:13,114 --> 00:43:15,514
Death is welcome.

726
00:43:18,185 --> 00:43:20,881
Let it end...

727
00:43:20,955 --> 00:43:21,887
here.

728
00:43:21,956 --> 00:43:22,888
Mr. Spock...

729
00:43:25,860 --> 00:43:26,792
Mr. Spock...

730
00:43:26,861 --> 00:43:29,329
Spock...

731
00:43:29,396 --> 00:43:30,522
Spock...

732
00:43:30,598 --> 00:43:32,031
Come out of it.

733
00:43:44,879 --> 00:43:47,313
I found the unit
in there.

734
00:43:47,381 --> 00:43:49,315
It's in pretty good shape.

735
00:43:49,383 --> 00:43:52,318
I also found about
a million of these...

736
00:43:52,386 --> 00:43:54,320
silicon nodules.

737
00:43:54,388 --> 00:43:55,821
They're eggs,
aren't they?

738
00:43:55,890 --> 00:43:57,323
Yes, Captain, eggs...

739
00:43:57,391 --> 00:43:58,824
and about to hatch.

740
00:43:58,893 --> 00:44:02,761
Miners must have broken
into the hatchery.

741
00:44:02,830 --> 00:44:06,960
Their operations
destroyed thousands.

742
00:44:07,034 --> 00:44:07,932
No wonder.

743
00:44:08,002 --> 00:44:09,867
There. They're coming.

744
00:44:12,940 --> 00:44:16,273
All right!
All right, let's go!

745
00:44:16,343 --> 00:44:17,503
Come on.

746
00:44:18,746 --> 00:44:21,544
How are you doing, Doc?

747
00:44:21,615 --> 00:44:24,015
I'll let you know.

748
00:44:24,084 --> 00:44:26,279
[Running Footsteps]

749
00:44:26,353 --> 00:44:28,287
All right,
let's get them!

750
00:44:28,355 --> 00:44:29,413
Don't fire.

751
00:44:29,490 --> 00:44:31,788
First man that fires
is dead.

752
00:44:31,859 --> 00:44:35,226
That thing has killed
50 of my men.

753
00:44:35,296 --> 00:44:37,560
You've killed thousands
of her children.

754
00:44:37,631 --> 00:44:38,598
What?

755
00:44:38,666 --> 00:44:41,032
Those round silicon
nodules you've been

756
00:44:41,101 --> 00:44:42,534
collecting
and destroying?

757
00:44:42,603 --> 00:44:45,128
They're her eggs.

758
00:44:48,142 --> 00:44:49,575
Tell them, Mr. Spock.

759
00:44:49,643 --> 00:44:52,578
There have been many generations
of Horta on this planet.

760
00:44:52,646 --> 00:44:55,376
Every 50,000 years,
the entire race dies,

761
00:44:55,449 --> 00:44:57,883
all but one,
like this one,

762
00:44:57,952 --> 00:44:59,385
but the eggs live.

763
00:44:59,453 --> 00:45:01,921
She cares for them...

764
00:45:01,989 --> 00:45:03,286
protects them.

765
00:45:03,357 --> 00:45:04,790
And when they hatch,

766
00:45:04,859 --> 00:45:07,726
she is the mother to them,
thousands of them.

767
00:45:07,795 --> 00:45:10,730
This creature here is
the mother of her race.

768
00:45:10,798 --> 00:45:15,929
The Horta is intelligent...
peaceful...

769
00:45:16,003 --> 00:45:17,231
mild.

770
00:45:17,304 --> 00:45:19,898
She had no objection to sharing
this planet with you,

771
00:45:19,974 --> 00:45:22,408
till you broke
into her nursery

772
00:45:22,476 --> 00:45:24,410
and started
destroying her eggs.

773
00:45:24,478 --> 00:45:27,413
Then she fought back
the only way she knew how,

774
00:45:27,481 --> 00:45:31,315
as any mother would
when her children are in danger.

775
00:45:31,385 --> 00:45:32,818
We didn't know.

776
00:45:32,887 --> 00:45:34,115
How could we?

777
00:45:34,188 --> 00:45:36,122
You mean,
if these eggs hatch,

778
00:45:36,190 --> 00:45:37,452
thousands
of those things

779
00:45:37,524 --> 00:45:39,822
will be crawling
around down here?

780
00:45:39,894 --> 00:45:41,828
This is where they live.

781
00:45:41,896 --> 00:45:44,194
They digest rock.
They tunnel for nourishment.

782
00:45:44,265 --> 00:45:46,699
And they are the most inoffensive
of creatures.

783
00:45:46,767 --> 00:45:48,701
They harbor no ill will.

784
00:45:48,769 --> 00:45:51,499
Look, we have
pergium to deliver.

785
00:45:51,572 --> 00:45:53,062
Yes, I know.

786
00:45:55,209 --> 00:45:57,575
Here's your
circulating pump.

787
00:45:58,712 --> 00:46:00,646
You've complained
this planet is

788
00:46:00,714 --> 00:46:02,147
a mineralogical
treasure house

789
00:46:02,216 --> 00:46:05,151
if you had the equipment
to get at it.

790
00:46:05,219 --> 00:46:07,153
The Horta moves
through rock

791
00:46:07,221 --> 00:46:10,622
the way we move through
air, leaving tunnels.

792
00:46:10,691 --> 00:46:12,989
The greatest natural miners
in the universe.

793
00:46:13,060 --> 00:46:16,894
It seems to me we could
make an agreement,

794
00:46:16,964 --> 00:46:18,761
reach a modus vivendi.

795
00:46:20,467 --> 00:46:23,459
They tunnel.
You collect and process,

796
00:46:23,537 --> 00:46:24,970
and your process operation

797
00:46:25,039 --> 00:46:28,167
would be a thousand times
more profitable.

798
00:46:33,981 --> 00:46:36,415
It sounds all right
if it will work.

799
00:46:36,483 --> 00:46:37,916
Except for one thing.

800
00:46:37,985 --> 00:46:40,215
The Horta is
badly wounded.

801
00:46:40,287 --> 00:46:41,720
It may die.

802
00:46:41,789 --> 00:46:43,222
It won't die!

803
00:46:43,290 --> 00:46:46,521
I'm beginning to think
I can cure a rainy day.

804
00:46:46,593 --> 00:46:48,026
Can you help it?

805
00:46:48,095 --> 00:46:50,029
Help it? I cured it.

806
00:46:50,097 --> 00:46:51,029
How?

807
00:46:51,098 --> 00:46:53,532
I had the ship beam down

808
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,534
100 pounds of that
thermal concrete

809
00:46:55,602 --> 00:46:57,593
we use to build
emergency shelters.

810
00:46:57,671 --> 00:46:59,400
It's mostly silicon.

811
00:46:59,473 --> 00:47:01,907
I just troweled it
into the wound.

812
00:47:01,976 --> 00:47:04,410
It'll act like a bandage
until it heals.

813
00:47:04,478 --> 00:47:05,911
Take a look.

814
00:47:05,980 --> 00:47:07,845
It's as good as new.

815
00:47:07,915 --> 00:47:10,850
You'll have to get in touch
with the Horta again.

816
00:47:10,918 --> 00:47:12,351
Tell her our proposition.

817
00:47:12,419 --> 00:47:14,979
She and her children
can tunnel.

818
00:47:15,055 --> 00:47:16,989
Our people will
remove the minerals.

819
00:47:17,057 --> 00:47:19,457
Each side leaves
the other alone.

820
00:47:19,526 --> 00:47:20,788
Think she'll go for it?

821
00:47:20,861 --> 00:47:22,294
It seems logical,
Captain.

822
00:47:22,363 --> 00:47:25,264
The Horta has
a very logical mind.

823
00:47:25,332 --> 00:47:27,766
And after close association
with humans,

824
00:47:27,835 --> 00:47:29,632
I find that
curiously refreshing.

825
00:47:43,017 --> 00:47:45,611
Ship ready to leave orbit, Captain.
Course laid in.

826
00:47:45,686 --> 00:47:46,948
Very good,
Mr. Spock.

827
00:47:47,021 --> 00:47:49,455
Chief Engineer Vanderberg
standing by on channel 1.

828
00:47:49,523 --> 00:47:50,455
Fine.

829
00:47:50,524 --> 00:47:52,048
Yes, Chief.
Kirk here.

830
00:47:52,126 --> 00:47:55,095
Just wanted to tell you
the eggs are hatching.

831
00:47:55,162 --> 00:47:58,325
First thing the little devils do
is start to tunnel.

832
00:47:58,399 --> 00:48:00,959
We've already hit
huge new pergium deposits.

833
00:48:01,035 --> 00:48:03,629
I'm afraid to tell you
how much gold, platinum,

834
00:48:03,704 --> 00:48:05,672
and rare ores
we've uncovered.

835
00:48:05,739 --> 00:48:07,570
I'm delighted
to hear that, Chief.

836
00:48:07,641 --> 00:48:10,075
Once Mother Horta tells her kids
what to look for,

837
00:48:10,144 --> 00:48:11,805
you'll all be
embarrassingly rich.

838
00:48:11,879 --> 00:48:15,007
The Horta aren't so bad once
you're used to their appearance.

839
00:48:15,082 --> 00:48:17,550
That's about it, Kirk.
Thanks for everything.

840
00:48:17,618 --> 00:48:19,552
Our pleasure, Chief.
Kirk out.

841
00:48:19,620 --> 00:48:22,418
Curious. What Chief Vanderberg
said about the Horta

842
00:48:22,489 --> 00:48:25,947
is exactly what
the Mother Horta said to me.

843
00:48:26,026 --> 00:48:27,960
She found humanoid
appearance revolting,

844
00:48:28,028 --> 00:48:31,464
but she thought
she could get used to it.

845
00:48:31,532 --> 00:48:33,261
Oh, she did,
did she?

846
00:48:33,333 --> 00:48:36,791
Did she happen to make any comment
about those ears?

847
00:48:36,870 --> 00:48:37,837
Not specifically.

848
00:48:37,905 --> 00:48:40,430
But I did get
the distinct impression

849
00:48:40,507 --> 00:48:44,500
she found them the most attractive
human characteristic of all.

850
00:48:44,578 --> 00:48:47,445
I couldn't bear to tell
her that only I have--

851
00:48:47,514 --> 00:48:49,948
She really liked
those ears?

852
00:48:50,017 --> 00:48:54,818
Captain, the Horta is a remarkably
intelligent and sensitive creature

853
00:48:54,888 --> 00:48:56,321
with impeccable taste.

854
00:48:56,390 --> 00:48:58,381
Because she approved
of you.

855
00:48:58,459 --> 00:49:00,222
Really, Captain,
my modesty...

856
00:49:00,294 --> 00:49:02,728
Does not bear close
examination, Mr. Spock.

857
00:49:02,796 --> 00:49:06,459
I suspect you're becoming
more and more human all the time.

858
00:49:06,533 --> 00:49:07,397
You...

859
00:49:09,136 --> 00:49:13,334
Captain, I see no reason
to stand here and be insulted.

860
00:49:15,742 --> 00:49:17,573
Ahead, warp factor 2.

861
00:49:18,305 --> 00:50:18,263
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