"The Trouble With Tribbles" Line-by-Line

[Brenny Reindeer]

SPOCK: Remarkable.

 

[May 20]

KIRK: Hold on a minute. I thought you said tribbles liked everybody.

 

[mattman8907]

JONES: They do. I can't understand it. The last time I saw one act this way was at the bar.

 

[retroenzo]

KIRK: What was in the bar?

 

[mattman8907]

JONES: Klingons. Him, for one. (points at Korax)
(Kirk takes two tribbles from the guards and brings them near Korax. They shriek.)

 

[Brenny Reindeer]

KIRK: You're right, Mister Jones. They don't like Klingons. (McCoy enters) But they do like Vulcans. I didn't know you had it in you.

 

[May 20]

SPOCK: Obviously tribbles are very perceptive creatures, Captain.

 

[Brenny Reindeer]

KIRK: Obviously. Mister Baris, they like you. Well, there's no accounting for taste. (and back to Darvin) They don't like you, Mister Darvin. I wonder why. Bones?

 

[May 20]

MCCOY: (scanning him) Heartbeat is all wrong. His body temperature is. Jim, this man is a Klingon.

 

[Athena28]

BARIS: A Klingon?

 

[May 20]

KIRK: I wonder what Starfleet Command will say about that. What about the grain, Bones?

 

[mattman8907]

MCCOY: Oh, yes. It was poisoned.

 

[Brenny Reindeer]

BARIS: Poisoned?

 

[mattman8907]

MCCOY: Yes. It's been impregnated with a virus. The virus turns into an inert material in the bloodstream. The more the organism eats, the more inert matter is built up. So after two or three days, they reached a point where they couldn't take in enough nourishment to survive.

 

[May 20]

KIRK: They starved to death. In a storage compartment full of grain, they starved to death.

 

[retroenzo]

MCCOY: That is essentially it.

 

[mattman8907]

KIRK: Mister Darvin, are you going to talk?

 

[retroenzo]

DARVIN: I have nothing to say. (Kirk thrusts the tribbles into his face) All right, I poisoned the grain! Take them away.

 

[May 20]

KIRK: And the tribbles had nothing to do with it?

 

[Brenny Reindeer]

DARVIN: I don't know! I never saw one before in my life, and I hope I never see one of those fuzzy miserable things again!