"Errand of Mercy" Line-by-Line

[Athena28]

KIRK: Even if you have some power that we don't understand, you have no right to dictate to our Federation.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KOR: Or our Empire!

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: ...how to handle their interstellar relations! We have the right-

 

[Athena28]

AYELBORNE: To wage war, Captain? To kill millions of innocent people? To destroy life on a planetary scale? Is that what you're defending?

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

KIRK: Well, no one wants war. But there are proper channels. People have a right to handle their own affairs. Eventually, we would have ...

 

[Athena28]

AYELBORNE: Eventually you will have peace, but only after millions of people have died. It is true that in the future, you and the Klingons will become fast friends. You will work together.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

KOR: Never!

 

[LeadHead]

Claymare: Your emotions are most discordant. We do not wish to seem inhospitable, but gentlemen, you must leave.

 

[Orac]

Ayelborne: Yes, please leave us. The mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: What do you mean "beings like yourselves?"

 

[Orac]

Ayelborne: Millions of years ago, Captain, we were humanoid like yourselves, but we have developed beyond the need of physical bodies. That of us which you see is mere appearance for your sake.

 

[LeadHead]

Kor: Captain, it's a trick. We can handle them, I have an army!

Ayelborne and Claymare transform into bright, pulsing lights. The light is so intense that Kirk, Spock and Kor have to cover their eyes. After a moment, the Organians vanish.

 

[Orac]

Spock: Fascinating. Pure energy. Pure thought. Totally incorporeal. Not life as we know it at all.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

KIRK: But what about this planet? The fields, the buildings, this citadel?

 

[Leandar]

Spock: Conventionalizations, I should say. Useless to the Organians. Created so that visitors such as ourselves, could have conventional points of reference.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

KOR: But is all this possible?

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: We have seen it with our own eyes. I should say the Organians are as far above us on the evolutionary scale as we are above the amoeba.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

KIRK: Well, Commander, I guess that takes care of the war. Obviously, the Organians aren't going to let us fight.

 

[Orac]

Kor: A shame, Captain. It would have been glorious.

 

[Enterprise1981]

[Bridge]

SPOCK: You've been most restrained since we left Organia.