"The Devil in the Dark'' Line-by-Line

[HarryM]

KIRK: The Horta is intelligent, peaceful, mild. She had no objection to sharing this planet with you, till you broke into her nursery and started destroying her eggs. Then she fought back in the only way she knew how, as any mother would fight when her children are in danger.

 

[Enterprise1981]

Van der Berg: We didn't know. How could we? You mean if these eggs hatch, there'll be thousands of those things crawling around down here?

 

[Zameaze]

KIRK: This is where they live. They digest rock, they tunnel for nourishment.

 

[HarryM]

SPOCK: And they are the most inoffensive of creatures. They harbor ill will towards no one.

 

[Athena28]

APPEL: Now look, we have pergium to deliver.

 

[Zameaze]

KIRK: Yes, I know. Here's your circulating pump. You've complained this planet is a mineralogical treasure house if you had the equipment to get at it. Gentlemen, the Horta moves through rock the way we move through air, and it leaves tunnels. The greatest natural miners in the universe. It seems to me we could make an agreement, reach a modus vivendi. They tunnel. You collect and process, and your process operation would be a thousand times more profitable.

 

[Rojan]

VANDERBERG: Sounds all right, if it will work.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

SPOCK: Except for one thing: the Horta is badly wounded. It may die.

 

[Enterprise1981]

MCCOY: It won't die. By golly, Jim, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day.

 

[Athena28]

KIRK: Can you help it?

 

[Enterprise1981]

MCCOY: Help it? I cured it.

 

[HarryM]

KIRK: How?

 

[Enterprise1981]

MCCOY: Well, I had the ship beam down a hundred pounds of that thermo-concrete. You know, the kind we use to build emergency shelters out of. It's mostly silicone. So I just troweled it into the wound, and it'll act like a bandage until it heals. Take a look. It's as good as new.

 

[mach7]

Kirk: Well Mr. Spock, I'm going to have to ask you to get in touch with the Horta again. Tell her our proposition. She and her children can do all the tunneling they want, our people will remove the minerals, and each side will leave the other alone. Do you think she'll go for it?

 

[HarryM]

SPOCK: It seems logical, Captain. The Horta has a very logical mind. And after close association with humans, I find that curiously refreshing.

 

[Enterprise1981]

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Ship ready to leave orbit, Captain. Course laid in.

 

[Zameaze]

KIRK: Very good, Mister Spock.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: Chief Engineer Van der Berg standing by on channel one.

 

[Zameaze]

KIRK: Fine. Yes, Chief. Kirk here.

 

[mach7]

Vanderberg: Just wanted to tell you the eggs have started to hatch Captain.

Off camera

Vanderberg: the first thing the little devils do is start to tunnel

On camera

Vanderberg: We've already hit huge new pergium deposits, I'm afraid to tell you how much gold and platinum and rare earths we've uncovered.