"The Changeling" Line-by-Line

[Alienesse]

SPOCK: I've correlated all the available information on the Nomad probe, and I'm convinced that this object is indeed that probe.

 

[BlueStuff]

MCCOY: Ridiculous. Earth science couldn't begin to build anything with those capabilities that long ago.

 

[Alienesse]

SPOCK: True.

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRK: Nomad was destroyed.

 

[Alienesse]

SPOCK: Presumed destroyed by a meteor collision. I submit that it was badly damaged and somehow managed to repair itself.

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRK: I heard some lectures at the Academy on the Nomad probe. Its mission was essentially peaceful.

 

[Alienesse]

[Auxiliary control]

(Nomad is quietly ticking to itself, then suddenly a light comes on at its apex.)
SINGH: Did I disturb you? Did you wish anything?

 

[BlueStuff]

UHURA [OC]: Bridge to auxiliary control room. Check in, please.

 

[Alienesse]

SINGH: Lieutenant Singh here.

[Bridge]

SINGH [OC]: All systems are normal except warp power indicators.

 

[BlueStuff]

UHURA: Mister Scott's engineers are working on them now. Report to him when your indicators are registering properly.

[Auxiliary control]

UHURA [OC]: Anything else?

 

[Alienesse]

SINGH: One moment, Lieutenant.

 

[BlueStuff]

UHURA [OC]: Holding. (singing while Singh checks some boards) Where my heart is, Where my heart is. Somewhere beyond the stars. Beyond Antares.
(Nomad leaves the room)

 

[Alienesse]

[Briefing room]

SPOCK: This is the creator of Nomad, perhaps the most brilliant though erratic scientist of his time. His dream was to build a perfect thinking machine, capable of independent logic. You recall his name.

 

[BlueStuff]

MCCOY: Of course. Jackson Roykirk.

 

[Alienesse]

KIRK: Jackson Roykirk. Captain James Kirk.

 

[BlueStuff]

SPOCK: Yes. Similar. Captain, I believe that Nomad thinks you are Roykirk. That may well be why the attack was broken off. It responded to your name as well as its damaged memory banks permitted.

 

[Alienesse]

KIRK: What do we have on Nomad itself, Spock?

 

[BlueStuff]

MCCOY: (looking at the schematic on the monitor) That's not the same.

 

[Alienesse]

SPOCK: Essentially it is, Doctor. I believe that more happened to it than just damage in the meteor collision. It mentioned the other. The unanswered question is, the other what?
Nomad was a thinking machine, the best that could be engineered. It was a prototype.

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRK: Its purpose was certainly altered. Its directive, to seek out and destroy biological infestations, could not have been programmed into it.