"Space Seed" Line-by-Line!

[LeadHead]

Captains Log, Supplemental: Alongside the SS Botany Bay for 10 hours now. A boarding party of engineering and medical specialists are now completing their examination of the mysterious vessel. Attempts to revive the other sleepers our success or failure with the casualty already beamed over. Doctor McCoy is frankly amazed at his physical and recuperative power.

On the Bridge...

Kirk: Kirk to Boarding Party.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SCOTTY (over comm): Scott here.

 

[ClawsThatCatch]

( ^^you mean "boarding party")

KIRK: Scottie, any records? Log books of any kind?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

KIRK: Scotty, any records, log books of any kind?

 

[LeadHead]

On the Botany Bay...

Scotty: Negative, Captain. It appears they were in suspended animation when the ship took off.

 

[Enterprise1981]

[Bridge]

KIRK: How many alive?

 

[Ziz]

Scotty: Twelve units have malfunctioned, leaving seventy two still operating. Thirty of those are women.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: Kirk out. Seventy two alive. A group of people dating back to the 1990s. A discovery of some importance, Mister Spock. There are a great many unanswered questions about those years.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: A strange, violent period in your history. I find no record whatsoever of an SS Botany Bay. Captain the DY-100 class vessel was designed for interplanetary travel. With simple nuclear-powered engines, star travel was considered impractical at that time. It was 10,000 to 1 against their making it to another star system. And why no record of the trip?

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: Botany Bay. That was the name of a penal colony on shores of Australia, wasn't it? If they took that name for their vessel...

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: If you're suggesting this was a penal deportation vessel, you've arrived at a highly illogical conclusion.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

KIRK: Oh?

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Your Earth was on the verge of a dark ages. Whole populations were being bombed out of existence. A group of criminals could have been dealt with far more efficiently than wasting one of their most advanced spaceships.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: Yes. So much for my theory. I'm still waiting to hear yours.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SPOCK: Even a theory requires some facts, Captain. So far I have none.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: And that irritates you, Mister Spock.

 

[Leandar]

Spock: Irritation?

 

[Vanyel]

Kirk: Yes.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: I am not capable of that emotion.

 

[Vanyel]

Kirk: My apologies, Mr. Spock. You suspect some danger in them?