SCOTT: Mister Spock, the word disgusting describes exactly what I feel about those two.
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KIRK: That's enough for today. Those two are beginning to affect you.
[Rec room]
(Crew are sitting at tables, not playing chess, while Lokai expounds his case. Spock and we are listening from outside.)
LOKAI: And I know from my actions you must all think me a volcanic hothead, erupting lava from my nostrils at danger signals that are only figments of my imagination. But believe me, my friends, there can be no moment when I can have my guard down where such as Bele is present. So what happens? I act the madman out of the anger and frustration he forces upon me, and thereby prove his point that I am a madman.
(Crew are sitting at tables, not playing chess, while Lokai expounds his case. Spock and we are listening from outside.)
LOKAI: And I know from my actions you must all think me a volcanic hothead, erupting lava from my nostrils at danger signals that are only figments of my imagination. But believe me, my friends, there can be no moment when I can have my guard down where such as Bele is present. So what happens? I act the madman out of the anger and frustration he forces upon me, and thereby prove his point that I am a madman.
LOKAI: Ah, Mister Chekov, therein lies my lack of ability to alert you and your captain to the real threat of someone like Bele. You see, you are from the planet Earth. There is no persecution on your planet. How can you understand my fear, my apprehension, my degradation, my suffering?
CHEKOV: There was persecution on Earth once. I remember reading about it in my history class.
LOKAI: You have read about it in history, I see. How can I make your flesh know how it feels to see all those who are like you, and only because they are like you, despised, slaughtered, and even worse, denied the simplest bit of decency that is a living being's right? Do you know what it would be like to be dragged out of your hovel into a war on another planet? A battle that will serve your oppressor and bring death to you and your brothers?
KIRK: I expect the answer is already on its way.
(Okay folks, I can't take this seriously any more, so I have to ask:
If Lokai and Bele's people could ever manage to put the hatchet away and interbreed:
Would the children come out as Gray skinned, or all Checkerboardy?)
(Okay folks, I can't take this seriously any more, so I have to ask:
If Lokai and Bele's people could ever manage to put the hatchet away and interbreed:
Would the children come out as Gray skinned, or all Checkerboardy?)
Since you're somewhat new, I am going to let this slide. But please don't derail the game any further. This is not a discussion thread.
Moving on.
BELE: Well, then, let us drink to their wise solution to our problem.
SPOCK: Commissioner, Starfleet Command may not arrive at the solution you anticipate. There is the matter of the shuttlecraft which Lokai appropriated. The interrogation of that matter may be of paramount importance to Starfleet.
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