The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry Line-by-Line
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BURNHAM: Stay back. Keep still. (to the Tardigrade) I brought you something I think you might like. If you don't, well, they can blame whatever happens on my curiosity. Computer, open containment pen.
(Burnham places the container inside the pen and opens it. The Tardigrade snuffles at the spores, then Burnham.)
BURNHAM: Hello.
(Burnham places the container inside the pen and opens it. The Tardigrade snuffles at the spores, then Burnham.)
BURNHAM: Hello.
[Later in Engineering]
Burnham (Continued): These are Tilly's tricorder images from our mission on the Glenn. Look. The doors to the Engineering room were blown outward. The shatter pattern of the reaction cube, the destruction, like something inside was going crazy. A very big something. Then there's excess shielding surrounding the room. It's as if the crew was trying to keep something in.
Stamets: What's your hypothesis? That Straal was holding that thing in his lab?
Burnham (Continued): These are Tilly's tricorder images from our mission on the Glenn. Look. The doors to the Engineering room were blown outward. The shatter pattern of the reaction cube, the destruction, like something inside was going crazy. A very big something. Then there's excess shielding surrounding the room. It's as if the crew was trying to keep something in.
Stamets: What's your hypothesis? That Straal was holding that thing in his lab?
BURNHAM: Captain's log said they found the creature in their lower decks. I remember you chided Straal about not growing his own like you do. You were talking about mushrooms. They didn't have a forest on the Glenn like Discovery has. If they stored their mushrooms dry, it would have to be in tremendous quantities in their lower stores, right there, where the creature first appeared.
BURNHAM: Their spores, actually. This ship's spore drive travels on a network of mycelium that's spread across the entire galaxy. We just can't control where we go. But maybe the Tardigrade can. Straal said he found a way to solve the navigation problem. You said his modifications needed a supercomputer, right? What if its name is Ripper?
[Fungi forest]
The phaser will only piss him off.
[Fungi forest]
The phaser will only piss him off.
STAMETS: Think of it as a placebo for my skepticism. Energize.
(The Tardigrade is beamed in and starts cavorting amongst the plants.)
STAMETS: My God, you're right. Look how it interacts with the spores. It's as if they're communicating.
(The Tardigrade is beamed in and starts cavorting amongst the plants.)
STAMETS: My God, you're right. Look how it interacts with the spores. It's as if they're communicating.
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