"How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth" Line-by-Line

[mattman8907]

MCCOY: We're being observed, watched.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: Is there any way Spock could get through to us?

 

[mattman8907]

SCOTT: I don't think so, sir. Our sensors couldn't penetrate this ship.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KUKULKAN [offscreen]: Now I will show you the seeds that I have sown before. Learn from them. Find their purpose if you can. Only then will I appear before you.

(The room turns into a jungle, then a city with a South American pyramid at its center.)

 

[mattman8907]

SCOTT: I've never seen anything so beautiful.

 

[Admiral Shran]

MCCOY: Where did it come from?

 

[mattman8907]

KIRK: Let's find out.

 

[Athena28]

[Bridge]
UHURA: Mr. Spock, shouldn't we be trying to find out what became of the Captain and the others?

 

[Orac]

Spock: Lieutenant Uhura, you are supposed to be monitoring the alien vessel. Our first priority is to free the Enterprise and ourselves. Return to your duties.

 

[Athena28]

[City]

KIRK: They look like the obelisks built by the ancient Egyptians.

 

[Orac]

Bear: With one difference, sir. Look at these carvings. (of a winged serpent) That's not Egyptian. This gateway. I can't pin down what culture it represents.

 

[mattman8907]

KIRK: But it's still a clue. This city is one gigantic riddle. Keep alert.

 

[Admiral Shran]

MCCOY: Now that we're here, what do we do?

 

[Orac]

Kirk: Opinion, Mister Walking Bear.

 

[Admiral Shran]

WALKING BEAR: Before he left, Kukulkan gave the Mayas a remarkably accurate calendar. He told them to build a city according to its cycles. On the date the city was finished, Kukulkan was supposed to return. The Mayas built their city and waited. Kukulkan never appeared.

 

[Athena28]

KIRK: Kukulkan must have visited several ancient peoples on Earth. But each one used only parts of his knowledge to build their cultures.

 

[Orac]

McCoy: Does that mean they all tried to build something like this?

 

[mattman8907]

BEAR: Yes, sir. But they all failed.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: If no one on Earth built this city exactly right, then that's why Kukulkan never came back. The entire city is our key.

 

[mattman8907]

BEAR: Kukulkan said he would appear only when we learned its purpose.