Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Line-by-Line

Sulu: Tractor beams activated. We have it, sir.

 

KIRK: Prepare to bring it aboard the hangar deck.

 

Sulu: Aye, sir.

 

UHURA: Aye, sir.

 

Kirk: Mister Spock, come with me. Scotty.

{Scotty takes the conn.}

 

KIRK: Kirk here.

 

Sulu {OC}: Hangar doors closed, and hangar deck is pressurizing.

 

KIRK: Acknowledged.
(As the shuttlecraft turns around, NCC 1701/7 is clearly emblazoned on it. Careless special effects.)

 

[Outside hangar deck]

KIRK: (to security men) We'll enter as soon as the doors open. Go on my command.
(The doors open, and a man falls to the floor. He is white on the right side, and black on the left.)

Let's not be too harsh, they were plagued by a diminishing budget at this time and had to use a lot of stock footage. Hence, the "invisible" ship later in the episode!

 

[Later in Sickbay]

{Bones gives the patient an injection.}

Spock: You are certain, Doctor, that this pigmentation is the natural condition of this individual?

 

KIRK: Do we have any knowledge of a planet that could have produced such a race of beings?

 

Spock: Negative, Captain.

 

MCCOY: Well, I can't give you any specific circumstance that will explain him.

 

KIRK: And judging by looking at him, we know at the very least he is the result of a very dramatic conflict. Spock?

 

Spock: There is no theory, Captain, from the basic work of Mendel to recent nucleotide studies, which would explain our captive. All gradations of colour from black to brown, to yellow to white are genetically predictable. We must therefore conclude that this alien is that often unaccountable rarity, a mutation, one of a kind.

 

MCCOY: Yes, I would agree. That's the case here.