And The Children Shall Lead Line-by-Line

[May 20]

[Planet surface]

SPOCK: Are you all right, Captain?

 

[CaptVader]

KIRK: Yes, I'm fine. I'm fine. Just some sympathetic vibration with what happened here. Let's get back to the ship. I want to check out those tapes from Professor Starnes' tricorder. And I am going to question those children.

 

[May 20]

[Rec room]

CHAPEL: All right, children. Each card is a different flavor. You take your pick, and the computer will mix your favorite combination. Now, what would you like? Call out your favorites.

 

[CaptVader]

ALL: Vanilla! Chocolate! Cherry! Banana!

(The kids grab cards and dash to the food dispensers.)

 

[May 20]

CHAPEL: Well, would you like a surprise, Stevie?

 

[CaptVader]

STEVE: (he gets his ice cream) It's coconut and vanilla. They're both white.

 

[Athena28]

CHAPEL: There, there now, Stevie. There are unpleasant surprises as well as pleasant ones. That was your unpleasant surprise. Now, what would you like for your pleasant surprise?

 

[CaptVader]

STEVE: Chocolate wobble and pistachio.

 

[May 20]

CHAPEL: Well, coming right up.

 

[Gore-ac]

Steve: And peach.

 

[CaptVader]

CHAPEL: All right. It's going to be a wonderful surprise.

 

[May 20]

[Corridor]

MCCOY: The tests show no evidence of tensions due to lying. They behave as though nothing had gone wrong. They check out sound physically. There are no signs of any foreign biochemical substances to account for their present state. I have no answers, Jim.

 

[CaptVader]

KIRK: There has to be an answer.

 

[May 20]

MCCOY: Well, can't it wait till we get to a Starbase hospital so they can be checked out by child specialists?

 

[Athena28]

KIRK: We're not leaving here until we find out what went on or what's going on.

 

[CaptVader]

MCCOY: Well, I won't prevent you questioning them, but it could harm the children if you do.

 

[Gore-ac]

Kirk: It could be far worse for them if I don't, and for us too.

 

[May 20]

MCCOY: Be careful.

 

[Athena28]

[Rec room]

CHAPEL: After this, we can all play games.

 

[CaptVader]

KIDS: Yeah.