The Slaver Weapon Line-by-Line

[CaptVader]

Sulu: Well, here, look at it. All these settings. We don't know a common Slaver soldier couldn't handle them, but as a weapon, only the laser is effective. The others aren't necessary for the line soldier's one purpose, to destroy the enemy.

 

[Orac]

Spock: Assuming it's a spy weapon then, the Slavers would have wanted to keep it a secret weapon. If so, it is logical to assume it has a self-destruct setting too.

 

[May 20]

SULU: But we've seen all the phases.

 

[Orac]

Spock: Perhaps not. There is the null setting. It seems to do nothing. But why should it be there? It does not correspond to a safety lock.

 

[May 20]

(He pushes the toggle back up to the top, and it turns into a globe with a handle)

SULU: It may be the key to another setting.

(The Kzinti ship takes off through the ice)

 

[Orac]

[Kzinti ship]

Chuft-Captain: This is the Traitor's Claw calling Mister Sulu.

[Planet surface]

Chuft-Captain [OC]: We have the female prisoner. Will you bargain, or must we take harsh action? It will not be pleasant for her. I repeat. We have the female prisoner as hostage. You have something we want. We will trade her life for the Slaver weapon.

 

[CaptVader]

Spock: Answer him, Lieutenant.

 

[May 20]

SULU: Lieutenant Sulu here. What about Mister Spock?

 

[Orac]

Chuft-Captain [OC]: He must surrender. I will offer him single combat.

 

[CaptVader]

Sulu: Not interested.

 

[Orac]

[Kzinti ship]

Chuft-Captain: I am as the Vulcan left me, with two ribs broken. I have not set them nor bandaged myself. He may conceivably kill me.

 

[Poltargyst]

SPOCK: Kzinti ribs have some vertical bracing. But I kicked him over one heart. I compute the odds of my defeating Chuft-Captain in combat at sixteen to one against.

 

[Athena28]

SULU: Offer refused.

 

[Poltargyst]

CHUFT-CAPTAIN: They think very little of you.

 

[CaptVader]

Uhura: Wrong. They don't think much of you.

 

[Orac]

[Planet surface]

(Sulu turns the globe, and it becomes more weapon-like)

Spock: A self-destruct mechanism would not have a gun sight.

 

[CaptVader]

Sulu: No. Let's see what this does do. (He points it at the horizon, and there is a massive explosion) We can't give them that!

 

[May 20]

SPOCK: Fascinating. No world in the Federation has produced anything so powerful. Almost beyond theoretical limits. Total conversion of matter to energy at a distance.

 

[Orac]

Sulu: If the Kzinti had that, the whole galaxy would be their dinner table.

(The eruption caused by his firing of the weapon is continuing)

Sulu: Hit the dirt!

(The wind from the blast hits them, knocking them over. Sulu drops the weapon, and it turns back into a globe)

 

[Poltargyst]

(Spock, Sulu and Uhura are on the police web while Chuft-Captain plays with the globe. It forms another new shape)
CHUFT-CAPTAIN: What would this be?