"The Changeling" Line-by-Line

SCOTT: What's your source of power?

 

NOMAD: It has changed since the point of origin. There was much taken from the other. I am perpetual now. I am Nomad.

 

KIRK: Wasn't there a probe called Nomad launched in the early 2000s?

 

SPOCK: Yes. It was reported destroyed. There were no more in the series. But if this is that probe...

 

NOMAD: I will scan your star charts.

 

KIRK: I will bring them.

 

NOMAD: I have the capability of movement within your ship.

 

KIRK: This way. (Nomad glides along slowly, in mid-air) Now, Scotty, get our warp power up to full capacity.

 

SCOTT: Aye, sir.

 

KIRK: Spock, Bones, come with us.

 

[Auxiliary control]

(A bemused young Indian officer watches the performance.)
SPOCK: Chart 14A, sir?

 

Kirk: 14A. (a diagram of our solar system comes up on a screen) Nomad, can you scan that?

 

NOMAD: Yes.

 

KIRK: This is our point of origin, the star we know as Sol.

 

NOMAD: You are from the third planet?

 

KIRK: Yes.

 

NOMAD: A planet with one large natural satellite?

 

KIRK: Yes.

 

NOMAD: You are the creator, the Kirk. The sterilization procedure against your ship was unnecessary.

 

KIRK: What sterilisation procedure?