"The Devil in the Dark'' Line-by-Line

[Reactor room]

KIRK: Can you rig one up? It's vital.

 

[Bridge]

Scotty: Well sir, I can put together some odds and ends, but it won't hold for long.

 

[Reactor room]

KIRK: How long?

 

SCOTT [OC]: Forty-eight hours maybe, with a bit of luck.

 

KIRK: 48 hours is better than nothing. Gather what you need and beam down here with it.

 

[Enterprise Bridge]

KIRK [OC]: Top priority.

 

SCOTT: Aye, Captain.

 

^^Finishing:

Scotty (cont.): I'll be right down. Scott out.

Vanderberg: What happens when it breaks down?

 

KIRK: Hopefully we'll have found the missing part by then.

 

VANDERBERG: Hopefully. Small chance.

 

KIRK: We'll have to, Chief. The alternative is to evacuate all you people up to the Enterprise. A dozen planets depend on you for pergium for their reactor. They're already screaming. Reactors closing down, life support systems

 

VANDERBERG: I'm concerned with my people right here, Kirk, they're being murdered. You find that monster and kill it.

 

[Vanderberg's office]

SPOCK: The missing pump wasn't taken by accident. It was the one piece of equipment absolutely essential for the operation of the reactor.

 

KIRK: Do you think the creature is trying to push the colonists off the planet?

 

SPOCK: It would seem so.

 

KIRK: But why now, Mister Spock? These production facilities have been in operation for over fifty years.

 

SPOCK: I don't know. But there is a possibility.

 

(Spock goes over to the silicon nodule on the desk, and contemplates it.)

KIRK: What's that?

 

SPOCK: Life as we know it is universally based on some combination of carbon compounds; but what if life exists based on another element? For instance, silicon.

 

MCCOY: (bemused) You're creating fantasies, Mister Spock.