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

[Orac]

Kirk: Then there has to be some sort of signalling device here.

 

[Admiral Shran]

(Gazing up at a serpent head on a curved column...)

WALKING BEAR: That's odd. I've never seen a combination like this before.

 

[Orac]

Kirk: That pyramid seems to be the centre of everything. I'm going up there. The rest of you spread out and circle it.

(Kirk heads up the steep stone steps)

 

[Admiral Shran]

WALKING BEAR: Look, sir. Another tower. And there's another tower down there. There must be one at all four corners.

 

[Orac]

[Top of Temple]

Kirk: What's this?

(A table inlaid with a winged serpent, set at forty five degrees to the square of the tower making a diamond pattern)

 

[Admiral Shran]

[Tower]

(Walking Bear and Scott climb the tower or column.)

SCOTT: Looks like there's a seam here. I think the head can be turned. Come on, lad. Give me a hand.

(They turn the serpent head.)

 

[Orac]

[Top of Temple]

KIrk: The sun. That's it. Scotty, turn the head all the way around and aim it up here.

 

[P Tom]

[Tower]

SCOTT: Aye, sir.

 

[Orac]

[Top of Temple]

(The sun's rays get reflected in a focused beam up to the table)

Kirk: Turn the other heads this way! Bones, the serpent heads! Turn them to face the pyramid! I'm coming down.

 

[Athena28]

[Tower]

BEAR: This is the last one, sir.

 

[Orac]

[City]

Kirk: The whole things is an energy amplification system. This is Kukulkan's signalling device.

 

[Athena28]

KUKULKAN: After scores of centuries, my design has been fulfilled. Behold me as I am. Behold Kukulkan! Where are your weapons of destruction? Use them on me if you dare.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: We have no weapons. And if we did, we would use them only with reason.

 

[Orac]

Kukulkan: Where is your hate? You hate me, do you not? Why do you not speak to me of your hate?

 

[P Tom]

KIRK: But we don't hate you.

 

[Orac]

Kukulkan: You fired your weapons at me.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KIRK: We used them in self-defense. You fired on us.

 

[Orac]

Kukulkan: I am your master. I may do with you as I will.

 

[Admiral Shran]

MCCOY: Do you think we belong to you?

 

[Orac]

Kirk: Bones, Scotty, quiet.