"I, Mudd" Line-by-Line!

Norman: Yes Captain, and we shall serve them and you will be happy, and controlled.

 

Later the crew and Mudd are in the living area.

Kirk: So far, this thing has had its amusing aspects, but that threat the androids made to take over all of the humans in the galaxy is not very funny.

 

Spock: Indeed, it is not. They may quite possibly be able to accomplish it.

 

Mudd: Take my word for it, they can.

 

Spock: Whatever method we use to stop them, we must make haste. They have only to install some cybernetic devices aboard the Enterprise and they'll be able to leave orbit.

 

McCoy: How do you know so much?

 

Spock: I asked them.

 

McCoy: Oh.

 

Kirk: Why shouldn't they answer our questions? They don't think we can do anything to stop them.

 

Mudd: You're so smart, Kirk. You and this pointy-eared thinking machine of yours. Well, you'd better do something because I'm as anxious to get off this ruddy rock as you are.

 

McCoy: I seem to recall that you wanted to leave us on this ruddy rock and leave by yourself!

 

Mudd: Oh, yes.

 

KIRK: All right, what have we got to work with?

 

Scott: Well, Captain, androids and robots, they're just not capable of independent, creative thought.

 

SPOCK: Yet the device that Norman claims to be their central control is totally inadequate to the task of directing more than 200,000 of them.

 

Kirk: I agree. What, in your opinion, does direct them?

 

SPOCK: There are a large number of Alices, Trudies, Maisies, Annabels. And, according to my research, a Herman series, an Oscar series, a whole plethora of series in fact, but only one Norman.

 

KIRK: Norman. When I told one of the Alices that the Enterprise was a lovely lady and we loved her, she said, Norman, coordinate. Why Norman? Unless...

 

Spock: To function as they do, each android mind must be one component of a mass brain linked through a central locus.

 

Kirk: Named Norman. Forming one gigantic, highly intelligent mind. And the glowing badges, they indicate the mind in operation