"The Trouble With Tribbles" Line-by-Line

[May 20]

BARIS: I'm certain that can be arranged, Darvin. Guards? If you'll excuse me, Captain.
(Baris leaves with the security guards and Darvin.)

 

[retroenzo]

KIRK: Captain Koloth. About that apology.

 

[Brennyren]

KOLOTH: Yes?

 

[May 20]

KIRK: You have six hours to get your ship out of Federation territory.
(The tribbles shriek, Koloth makes a hasty bow and practically runs out of the room with Korax.)

 

[retroenzo]

KIRK: You know, I think I could learn to like tribbles.

 

[May 20]

[K7 Bar]

(The face of an unhappy barman peers out from a pile of tribbles.)
JONES: Well, Captain, I suppose I'm free to go now.

 

[Athena28]

KIRK: No, you're not. There's something I want to show you. You know what the penalty is for transporting an animal proven harmful to human life?

 

[May 20]

JONES: Captain, one little tribble isn't harmful. Captain, you wouldn't do a thing like that to me, now would you? Would you?

 

[Brennyren]

SPOCK: The penalty is twenty years in a rehabilitation colony.

 

[mattman8907]

JONES: Captain Kirk. Friend. Friend Kirk. Surely we can come to some sort of mutual understanding. After all, my tribbles did put you wise to the poisoned grain, and they did help you to find the Klingon agent. You saved a lot of lives that way.

 

[Brennyren]

KIRK: There is one thing you can do.

 

[mattman8907]

JONES: Yes?

 

[Brennyren]

KIRK: Pick up every tribble on the space station. If you do that, I'll speak to Mister Lurry about returning your spaceship.

 

[May 20]

JONES: It would take years.

 

[Athena28]

SPOCK: 17.9, to be exact.

 

[mattman8907]

JONES: Seventeen point nine years.

 

[May 20]

KIRK: Consider it Job security.

 

[Brennyren]

JONES: Captain, you're a hard man. All right! All right!

 

[mattman8907]

KIRK: You'll do it?

 

[Brennyren]

SPOCK: He'll do it.