One of Our Planets is Missing Line-by-Line

SCOTT: Captain, you said that villi are antimatter. If we could get a piece of it, I could put it in the antimatter engine and it would regenerate. We'd have enough power for the engines and the shields to go on maximum again.

 

Kirk: We need both the matter and the antimatter engines regenerated.

 

SCOTT: Matter's no problem. We could beam aboard some of the planet chunks out there. And we can cut a piece of the antimatter villi with the tractor beams and transport it aboard like that.

 

Kirk: Bring it aboard? If the antimatter touches the inside of the ship or any of us, we'll be blown to bits.

 

SCOTT: I can rig a force field box that'll hold the villi suspended in the center. Then I can take it into the antimatter nacelle, put it into the regenerating chamber and release the force field by remote control.

 

Kirk: Scotty, we've got ten minutes left.

 

Scotty: The force field is holding. Let's go.

[Later in the Antimatter nacelle]

Things are spluttering due to lack of fuel

Scotty: Well, that gives us two minutes. All right, Gabler, open it.

They push the box in

Scotty: Close it.

The spluttering stops

 

Kirk: Scotty, you've just given the Enterprise and Mantilles a chance to live.

 

Scotty: Thank you, sir.

 

Kirk: Situation, Mister Spock?

 

Spock: The cloud is now only 42 minutes, 14 seconds from Mantilles, Captain. And we have ascertained an important fact. This being does have a brain.

 

Kirk: Intelligent?

 

Spock: Impossible to say at this moment, Captain. It has made only one action which might be interpreted as intelligent. It changed course from Alondra toward Mantilles. But that could have been an involuntary response to the sensing of food.

 

Kirk: Where is the brain located?

 

SPOCK: That irregularly shaped object at the top of the core emanates considerable electrical activity.

 

Bones: It's pretty certain to be the brain, Jim. The functioning of the brain is basically electric.

 

KIRK: If we can reach it before the cloud gets to Mantilles, we might be able to save the planet. We'll use the photon torpedoes to destroy the brain.

 

Spock: Captain, this is a living creature. Starfleet regulations..

 

KIRK: I know the regulations against the killing of intelligent life forms, Mister Spock. But we don't know this life form is intelligent. And we do know the people on Mantilles are doomed if we don't stop it. If I have to be a judge, I decide in favour of saving Mantilles.

Captain's log, stardate 5372.0. Spock and Uhura are using our sensors to prepare a detailed chart so we may determine targets for our photon torpedoes.

 

[Bridge]

^KIRK: Am I doing the right thing, Bones? Once, I said, man rose above primitiveness by vowing 'I will not kill today.'

MCCOY: But you can't let this thing destroy over 80,000,000 lives, either.