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

[Admiral Shran]

MCCOY: They hate captivity. You try to put more than one hand on them and they throw off a charge of two thousand volts. How did you ever capture it?

 

[mattman8907]

KUKULKAN: It was an infant and easily controlled, as you were when I visited Earth. You still are children to me, to be led and shown how to live.

 

[Orac]

Kirk: But if children are made totally dependent on their teachers, they will never be anything but children.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KUKULKAN: Enough! This is useless. Despite what I have shown you, you still cling to your disobedient ways. My dream is ending and all of you are to blame.

 

[Orac]

[Bridge]

Spock: Of course. The elasticity of the force field can respond in only one direction at a time. All hands to battle stations. Full impulse power, helmsman. Tractor beam on, full power. Warp engines on standby. Mister Arex, prepare to compensate for warp catapult effect. When we break free, we will be thrown approximately five point six nine eight light years.

 

[Admiral Shran]

AREX: Compensation factors laid in, sir. But how are you going to break free?

 

[Orac]

Spock: The force globe is flexible in only one direction per unit of time. We shall both push and pull on it simultaneously. It should become rigid enough for a burst of warp power to shatter it.

 

[Admiral Shran]

AREX: Force field contact in three seconds, sir.

 

[Orac]

Spock: Full warp power on my order. Now.

(It works. The globe goes bang! and Enterprise goes Whoosh!)

Spock: Reverse engines and come about. Lay in spiral evasive course for Kukulkan's ship.

 

[mattman8907]

[Laboratory]

(Kukulkan is swooping and diving on the men, and they are dodging behind the display cases)
KUKULKAN: Something is wrong. Escaped? But how? I will smash it this time.
(He creates a sort of viewscreen)

 

[Athena28]

MCCOY: Jim, the Enterprise broke free.

 

[Orac]

Kirk: Then we've got to distract him and give Spock some time. Bones, what would happen if we pulled the cables on some of these cages.

 

[Admiral Shran]

MCCOY: Most of the animals would just lay there. Jim, the Capellan power-cat!

 

[mattman8907]

MCCOY: We'd be fools if we didn't know that. But we also have been using our minds and trying to learn to live in peace.

 

[Orac]

Kirk: Come on, Bones.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KUKULKAN: No! Stop!

(They succeed in pulling out the cable, the cat wakes up, generates a charge and blows the glass case apart. Then it goes rampaging around, smashing the other cases and freeing the animals.)

KUKULKAN: Irrational savages. See what you have done.

(The Enterprise fires on Kukulkan's ship.)

 

[Orac]

Kirk: Kukulkan, can't you control one of your own creatures?

 

[Admiral Shran]

KUKULKAN: I cannot. Your ship has disabled my central power source.

 

[mattman8907]

MCCOY: Jim, if that's true, we're all in trouble. Jim, do something.

 

[Orac]

Kirk: Quick, your hypo. Full tranquilliser setting.