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"The Trouble with Tribbles" Line-by-Line

Actually it's...


JONES: I'll do it.
(He starts stuffing tribbles into his many pockets.)

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Captain, Starfleet was able to divert that freighter.
 
KIRK: Good. That means Sherman's Planet will get its quadrotriticale only a few weeks late. I don't see any tribbles around here.
 
Actually it's...


JONES: I'll do it.
(He starts stuffing tribbles into his many pockets.)

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Captain, Starfleet was able to divert that freighter.

I know that's what the script says, but if you watch the actual episode, Nimoy says, "He'll do it." Might have been an ad-lib, but it's definitely there.


Anyway, as we were...

KIRK: Bones! how did you do it?
 
^ Funny, I was watching the whole episode just the other day. I'll have to go back and check.

MCCOY: I cannot take credit for another man's work. Scotty did it.
 
Spock: Based on computer analysis, of course, taking into account the possibilities of-
 
KIRK: Gentlemen, I don't want to interrupt this mutual admiration society, but I'd like to know where the tribbles are.
 
Kirk: Where did you transport them?

Kirk looks around at his staff who say nothing.

Scott, you didn't transport them into space, did you?
 
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