Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Line-by-Line

[Spock .]

BELE: You bear precious cargo, Lokai. He has taken refuge aboard this ship. I am here to claim him.

 

[Athena28]

KIRK: All personnel aboard this vessel are subject to my command. No one claims anyone without due process.

 

[May 20]

BELE: My apologies, Captain. I overstepped my powers. Claim is undoubtedly an unfortunate word.

 

[Spock .]

KIRK: What is your authorization? From what source?

 

[May 20]

BELE: I am chief officer of the Commission on Political Traitors. Lokai was tried and convicted of treason, but had escaped. May I see him, please?

 

[Orac]

Kirk: He's in Sickbay. Remember, since you're aboard the Enterprise, you're bound by its regulations.

 

[May 20]

BELE: With your permission, Captain.

 

[Spock .]

KIRK: Mister Spock.

 

[Kertrats47]

[Sickbay]

BELE: Well, Lokai, it's a pleasure to see you again. This time I'm sure our joining will be of a more permanent nature. Captain, you are to be congratulated. Never before has Lokai been rendered so quiescent.

 

[May 20]

LOKAI: I will not return to Cheron with him, to a land of murdering oppressors!

 

[Orac]

Kirk: I told you where you were going. I allowed your fellow countryman here simply as a courtesy.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

BELE: And you see how this killer repays you, as he repays all his benefactors.

(I loved how Gorshin played Bele - barely suppressed fury that might explode at any moment. A far cry from the Riddler!)

 

[May 20]

LOKAI: Benefactors? He's a liar. He raided our homes, tore us from our families, herded us together like cattle and then sold us as slaves!

 

[Spock .]

BELE: They were savages, Captain. We took them into our hearts, our homes. We educated them.

 

[May 20]

LOKAI: Yes, just education enough to serve the master race.

 

[Spock .]

BELE: You were the product of our love! And you repaid us with murder.

 

[Orac]

Lokai: Why should a slave show mercy to the enslaver?

 

[May 20]

BELE: Slaves? That was changed thousands of years ago. You were freed.

 

[Orac]

Lokai: Freed? Were we free to be men? Free to be husbands and fathers? Free to live our lives in equality and dignity?

 

[May 20]

BELE: Yes, you were free, if you knew how to use your freedom. You were free enough to slaughter and to burn all the things that had been built!