"Errand of Mercy" Line-by-Line
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KIRK: You think I'm going to sit here and just talk with the enemy?
KOR: You'll talk. Either here, now, voluntarily, or under our mind-scanner. The fact is, Captain, I have a great admiration for your Starfleet. A remarkable instrument. And I must confess to a certain admiration for you. I know, of course, that it was you who destroyed our supplies last night.
KOR: Hardly. They were quite important to us, but they can be replaced. You of the Federation, you are much like us.
KOR: Come now. I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers, and it is precisely that which makes us great. And there is a universe to be taken.
KIRK: It's a very large universe, Commander, full of people who don't like the Klingons.
KOR: Excellent. Then it shall be a matter of testing each other's wills. Of power. Survival must be earned, Captain. Tell me about the dispersal of your Starfleet.
Kor: I can get what I want through our mind-scanner, but there would be very little of your mind left, Captain. I have no desire to see you become a vege tibble. This friend of yours, the Vulcan. He seems to have the ability to block our scanner. I think perhaps I will find out why. I will have him dissected. Your friend killed. You, a mental vege tibble. Not a pleasant prospect, Captain, but it lies ahead for you unless you tell me everything I want to know. 12 hours, Captain.
KIRK: It will take a lot longer than that, Commander.
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