"Balance of Terror" Line-by-Line!

[Admiral Shran]

HANSEN [OC]: Negative. It seems to have disappeared somehow. I have you on my screen now. Switching to visual.

 

[Leandar]

Kirk: Tie us in.

 

[HarryM]

UHURA: Tied in, sir.

(The viewscreen shows a man in a wrecked room, surrounded by fires)

 

[Leandar]

Hansen: Enterprise, can you see it? My command post here. We're a mile deep on an asteroid, almost solid iron. And even through our deflectors it did this. Can you see?

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Affirmative. You're visual Hansen. What do you have on the intruder?

 

[Leandar]

Hansen: No identification, no answer to our challenge. Only glimpse of... Then it fired something at us, some kind of high energy plasma. Fantastic power... and then the whole vessel disappeared. But it's out there somewhere, our sensors show that much. Enterprise, something coming at our viewing screen, coming at us fast!

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Lock us onto your screen.

 

[HarryM]

HANSEN [on viewscreen]: Switching. Can you see it, Enterprise? Can you see it? It's becoming visible in the centre of my screen.

(A ship appears from nowhere on the screen)

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: Do you have phaser capacity? We're still out of range.

 

[Orac]

Hansen: Negative. Phasers gone. Weapons crew dead.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: Make a challenge. Warn that ship off.

 

[Orac]

Uhura: Trying to sir, they don't acknowledge.

 

[Enterprise1981]

(The alien ship fires a big red plasma ball, and the viewscreen switches to Hansen as the outpost is hit, then just bright light. Back to the attacking ship, which then vanishes.)

SPOCK: Outpost four disintegrated, Captain.

 

[Captain Robert April]

KIRK: Position of the intruder, Mister Spock.

Always good when I get a Kirk line.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: Disappeared. Interesting how they became visible for just a moment.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: Disappeared. Interesting how they became visible for just a moment.

 

[HarryM]

KIRK: When they opened fire. Perhaps necessary when they use their weapon.

 

[BlueStuff]

SPOCK: I have a blip on the motion sensor. Could be the intruder.

 

[Vanyel]

Kirk: Go to full magnification.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SULU: Screen is on full mag, sir.