"I, Mudd" Line-by-Line!

[Athena28]

MUDD: Yes, well, I organized a technical information service bringing modern industrial techniques to backward planets, making available certain valuable patents to struggling young civilizations throughout the galaxy.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Did you pay royalties to the owners of those patents?

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: Well ... actually, Kirk, as a defender of the free-enterprise system, I found myself in a ...in a rather ambiguous conflict as a matter of principle.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: He did not pay royalties.

 

[Orac]

Mudd: Knowledge, sir, should be free to all.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Who caught you?

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: That, sir, is an outrageous assumption.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Yes, who caught you?

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: I, uh ... I sold the Denebians all the rights to a Vulcan fuel synthesizer.

 

[Orac]

Kirk: And the Denebians contacted the Vulcans.

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: How'd you know?

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: That's what I would have done.

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: It's typical police mentality. No sense of humor. They arrested me.

 

[Enterprise1981]

MCCOY: Oh, I find that shocking.

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: Worse than that. Do know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb Five?

 

[LeadHead]

Of course Spock knows this!

Spock: The guilty party has his choice; Death by electrocution, Death by gas, Death by Phaser, Death by hanging...

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was ... d-death. Barbarians. Well, of course, I left.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: He broke jail.

 

[Athena28]

MUDD: I borrowed transportation.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: He stole a spaceship.