"The Changeling" Line-by-Line

SPOCK: I beg your pardon?

 

KIRK: An ancient Earth legend, Mister Spock. A changeling was a fairy child that was left in place of a human baby. The changeling assumed the identity of the human child. So, it is to sterilise, and for sterilise read kill.

 

SPOCK And it has the power and sophistication to do it.

 

KIRK: Yes, it's powerful, it's sophisticated, but it's not infallible. It's space-happy. It thinks I'm its mother.

 

SPOCK: And that is the only thing that has saved us until now.
Yes.
(They leave. Nomad flies through the forcefield. The two guards fire their phasers at it but it's screens are back up. Nomad zaps them into oblivion.)

 

[Engineering]

(Nomad floats in.)
SCOTT: Notify the captain. What are you doing here? Watch your panels, everyone. Watch that polymass. Roger, help with the interfactor. Leave that alone.

 

NOMAD: This primitive matter-antimatter propulsion system is the main drive?

 

SCOTT: Aye.

 

NOMAD: Inefficiency exists in the antimatter input valve. I will effect repair.
(The indicator board goes crazy.)

 

SCOTT: How are you doing that?

 

NOMAD: The energy release controls are also most inefficient. I shall effect repair.

 

ENGINEER: Warp eight, Mister Scott, and increasing.

 

SCOTT: Throw your dampers.

 

ENGINEER: Warp nine.

 

SCOTT: Cut your circuits, all of them.

 

ENGINEER: Warp 10, Mister Scott.

 

SCOTT: Impossible. It can't go that fast.

 

ENGINEER: It just won't stop, Mister Scott. Warp eleven!

 

KIRK: Nomad, stop what you're doing. Scotty?

 

NOMAD: Is there a problem, Creator? I have increased engine efficiency fifty seven percent.