The Slaver Weapon Line-by-Line

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Sulu: Stealing must be a habit with you. This ship, two stasis boxes.

 

[Poltargyst]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: Kzinti archaeologists found both boxes, but the one we managed to keep was empty. It served us well as bait to draw you here, but the Slavers had weapons that could devastate a galaxy. There could be one in that box.

 

[mattman8907]

SULU: The Kzinti fought four wars with humankind and lost all of them. The last one was two hundred years ago, and you haven't learned a thing since.

 

[CaptVader]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: Guard your speech. None of my crew has yet tasted human meat as our ancestors did. We would welcome the opportunity. Always you have had superior equipment. We seek a weapon that will defeat you at last.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Sulu: Then you're really working for the Kzinti government.

 

[CaptVader]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: The records will show the Traitor's Claw is a stolen police ship. If we are captured, the Highest of Kzin will repudiate us. But if we succeed, you are meat for our tables.

(They fire a beam at the stasis box, then open it. Chuft removes a picture of a one-eyed green crocodile standing on it's hind legs)

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Sulu: Could that be a picture of a Slaver?

 

[CaptVader]

Spock: If so, it is the first ever discovered. An important historical find.

(There are other things in the box)

 

[Athena28]

UHURA: It looks like fresh meat. Over a billion years in that box, and it looks fresh.

 

[Poltargyst]

(Then, a green pistol-shaped thing)
CHUFT-CAPTAIN: Nothing like this has ever been found. We are the only ones who have it. Look at it, human. This weapon may well mean the end of mankind.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Spock: First Officer's log, supplemental. The Kzinti now possess a weapon potentially deadly to the entire galaxy. The extent of its power remains to be seen.

 

[CaptVader]

[Kzinti ship]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: Have the humans moved to the surface and be sure they're secured in the police web. We will use them to test the weapon.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Flyer: Yes, Chuft-Captain.

 

[CaptVader]

Chuft-Captain: You have observed the aliens. Can you read their minds?

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Telepath: I can read Sulu with difficulty, Chuft-Captain. The other human is only a female. The third is a pacifistic herbivore. Surely you would not force me to delve such minds?

 

[May 20]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: If it is necessary. I realize the time you need to recover from each effort.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

[Planet surface]

Kzin 5 [OC]: Chuft-Captain, we have finished testing the meat that was in the stasis box. It is protoplasmic and poisonous.

 

[May 20]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: What of the picture?

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Telepath: The human, Sulu, believes it to be a Slaver.

 

[May 20]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: So do I. It would have made a worthy enemy.
(He tries the weapon, but nothing happens)