"The Menagerie" Line-by-Line

[JanewayRulz!]

(Meanwhile, back in Pike's cell. Pike searches the walls for a door, a hatch opens and a glass is placed on the floor)


KEEPER: The vial contains a nourishing protein complex.

 

[LeadHead]

Pike: Is the Keeper actually communicating with one of his animals?

 

[Leandar]

Keeper: If the form and the color is not appealing, it can appear as any food you wish to visualize.

 

[Captain Robert April]

And if I prefer --

 

[Ziz]

Keeper: -- to starve? You overlook the unpleasant alternative of punishment.
(Pike finds himself engulfed in a raging fire)
From a fable you once heard in childhood. You will now consume the nourishment.

 

[Leandar]

Pike: Why not just put irresistible hunger in my mind? But you can't, can you? You do have limitations, don't you?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

KEEPER: If you continue to disobey, from deeper in your mind, there are things even more unpleasant.

(he drinks the nourishment then launches himself at the glass wall. The Keeper steps back in surprise)

 

[Leandar]

Pike: That's very interesting.

 

[LeadHead]

Keeper: Now to the female.

 

[Orac]

Pike: You were startled. Weren't you reading my mind then?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

KEEPER: As you've conjectured, an Earth vessel did crash on our planet, but with only a single survivor.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Let's stay on the first subject. All I wanted for that moment was to get my hands around your neck.

 

[Orac]

Keeper: We repaired the survivors injuries and found the species interesting.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

PIKE: Do primitive thoughts put up a block you can't read through?

 

[Orac]

Keeper: It became necessary to attract a mate.

 

[Leandar]

Pike: All right, all right. Let's talk about the girl. You seem to be going out of your way to make her attractive, to make me feel protective.

 

[LeadHead]

Keeper: This is necessary in order to perpetuate the species.

 

[Orac]

Pike: It seems more important to you now that I begin to accept her, like her.

 

[LeadHead]

Keepers: We wish our specimens to be happy in their new life.

 

[Leandar]

Pike: Assuming that's a lie, why would you want me attracted to her? So I'll feel love in a husband-wife relationship? That would be necessary only if you intend to build a family group or perhaps a whole human community.