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

[mattman8907]

(As the enormous cat advances on the cowering snake, Kirk manages to jab in the hypo before being thrown back by the electric charge. Then the cat settles down to groom itself)
MCCOY: Did you inject that beast or yourself?

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Kirk: I'm fine, Bones. The cat's last power jolt clipped me.

 

[mattman8907]

BEAR: It's just like a big kitten.

 

[Admiral Shran]

(Another animal is rubbing around Scott's legs.)

SCOTT: What's this? My, aren't you the friendly little darling.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Kirk: Kukulkan, I think we've earned the right to be heard.

 

[mattman8907]

KUKULKAN: You continue to take advantage of me, but I agree. Speak.

 

[Athena28]

KIRK: You think of us as being small creatures like this one. Are we really that inferior to you?

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Kukulkan: No. But the violence of your kind surpasses even that of the power-cat.

 

[Athena28]

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.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Kirk: Because we have minds, we can't be what you wanted us to be. If we fail or succeed, it has to be our own doing. Intelligent life is too precious a thing to be led by the nose.

 

[Athena28]

KUKULKAN: But you are my children. I hoped I could teach you, help you.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Kirk: You did, long ago, when it was needed most. Our people were children then. Kukulkan, we've grown up now. We don't need you anymore.

 

[Admiral Shran]

KUKULKAN: I will let you go your own way. I have already done what I can.

 

[mattman8907]

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Interesting, Captain. The creature was the Mayan god from the ancient legends.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Kirk: And the Toltec's Quetzalcoatl, the Chinese dragon and all the rest. But not quite a god. Just an old, lonely being who wanted to help others.

 

[Admiral Shran]

MCCOY: Spock, I wouldn't suppose that Vulcan has legends like those?

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Spock: Not legends, Doctor. Fact. Vulcan was visited by alien beings. They left much wiser.

 

[Admiral Shran]

AREX: The other ship is getting underway, sir. Heading away from Earth.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Kirk: It's sad. Think what we could have done with his knowledge. But the price was just too high.

 

[Admiral Shran]

MCCOY: I think I know how he felt, Jim. There's a line from Shakespeare.