"The Trouble With Tribbles" Line-by-Line

[mattman8907]

KIRK: Mister Lurry, there's a Klingon warship hanging one hundred kilometres off your station.

 

[May 20]

LURRY [on viewscreen]: I don't think the Klingons are planning to attack us.

 

[mattman8907]

KIRK: Why not?

 

[May 20]

LURRY [on viewscreen]: Because at this moment the captain of the Klingon ship is sitting right here in my office.

 

[Brennyren]

KIRK: Cancel Red Alert. We'll beam right down.

 

[May 20]

UHURA: Security, cancel Red Alert.

 

[Brennyren]

Captain's log, stardate 4524.2. A Klingon warship is hovering only a hundred kilometres from Deep Space Station K7 while its captain waits in the station manager's office. Their intentions are unknown.

 

[Athena28]

[Lurry's office]

KOLOTH: Ah, my dear Captain Kirk.

 

[May 20]

KIRK: My dear Captain Koloth.

 

[Brennyren]

KOLOTH: Let me assure you that my intentions are peaceful. As I've already told Mister Lurry, the purpose of my presence is to invoke shore leave rights.

 

[May 20]

KIRK: Shore leave?

 

[Brennyren]

KOLOTH: Captain, we Klingons are not as luxury-minded as you Earthers. We do not equip our ships with, how shall I say it, non-essentials. (makes an hour-glass gesture with his hands)

 

[May 20]

KORAX: We have been in space for five months. What we choose as recreation is our own business.

 

[retroenzo]

KOLOTH: I might also add that under terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, you cannot refuse us.

 

[May 20]

KIRK: Yes, well, I don't make those decisions. Mister Lurry is in charge of those matters.

 

[Brennyren]

LURRY: Captain, may I speak to you a minute? (takes him aside) Look, I don't want them here, but I don't have the authority to refuse.

 

[Poltargyst]

(makes an hour-glass gesture with his hands)

Wow, I never caught that. He's referring to women?

 

[Brennyren]

Wow, I never caught that. He's referring to women?

Yep, although it's not very clear from the angle of the shot. David Gerrold pointed it out in his The Trouble With Tribbles book.

 

[mattman8907]

KIRK: Well, I have the authority to act, and I'm going to use it. My dear Captain Koloth, you may indeed bring your men down on shore leave, but only twelve at a time. And I assure you, for every man you bring down here, I shall have one security guard. There will be no trouble.

 

[May 20]

KOLOTH: Captain Kirk, there's been no formal declaration of hostilities between our two respective governments. So, naturally, our relationship will be a peaceful one.