KUKULKAN: It is as I thought. You have forgotten me and strayed from the path I set for you.
"How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth" Line-by-Line
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KUKULKAN: If you do not know me, then it is my task to teach you.
SCOTT: What the devil is this place?
KUKULKAN: Please feel free to examine any of my specimens.
KUKULKAN: But all of these lead a peaceful life, one that is safe and contented.
KUKULKAN: What you cannot see is that each of them, mentally, is in its own natural environment. They eat, breathe and live in worlds created by my machinery, worlds only they can see. They do not know they are in cages.
KIRK: Even so, I would hardly call your city our natural environment.
KIRK: But no one being, not even you, has the right to interfere with other cultures.
Kukulkan: I have been alone all my life. Destruction fell on my race before your kind had discovered fire. Creatures like these have been my only companions. I have seen you on many worlds. Savage, war-like, filled with self-hate, destroying yourselves in the end. At last I decided to help. As an experiment, I visited your Earth and tried to teach peaceful ways. I left, intending to return when I was summoned, but you never sent for me. Finally, I sent a probe. And what did I find? Warriors.
BEAR: But we work only to create peace.
KUKULKAN: Nothing you have done so far makes me believe that is true. My creatures here have little intelligence. They alone live peacefully in the worlds I have to give. Even this creature, one of the fiercest and most untamable ever created, lives in peace in the world that I create for him.
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