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S1 E15Unfinished Business

Curious. What Chief Vanderberg said about the Horta is exactly what the Mother Horta said to me. She found humanoid appearance revolting... but she thought she could get used to it.

Oh, she did, did she? Now tell me, did she happen to make any comment about those ears?

Not specifically, but I did get the distinct impression she found them the most attractive human characteristic of all. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that only I have—

She really liked those ears?

Captain, the Horta is a remarkably intelligent and sensitive creature with impeccable taste.

Because she approved of you.

Really, Captain, my modesty—

...Does not bear close examination, Mr. Spock. I suspect you're becoming more and more human all the time.

Captain, I see no reason to stand here and be insulted.

Well there it is - war. We didn't want it, but we've got it.

It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

Captain, our information on these people and their culture was not correct. This is not a primitive society making progress toward mechanization. They are totally stagnant. There is no evidence of any progress as far back as my tricorder can register.

That doesn't seem likely.

Nevertheless, it is true. For tens of thousands of years, there's been absolutely no advancement, no significant change in their physical environment. This is a laboratory specimen of an arrested culture.

Gentlemen, I have no great love for you, your planet, your culture. Despite that, Mr. Spock and I are gonna go out there, and quite probably die - in an attempt to show you that there are some things worth dying for.

What would you say the odds are on our getting out of here?

Difficult to be precise, Captain. I should say approximately seven thousand eight hundred twenty four point seven to one.

Difficult to be precise? Seven thousand eight hundred and twenty four to one?

Seven thousand eight hundred twenty four point seven to one.

That's a pretty close approximation.

I endeavor to be accurate.

You do quite well.

I'm embarrassed. I was furious with the Organians for stopping a war I didn't want. We think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe. It's unsettling to discover that we're wrong.

Captain. It took millions of years for the Organians to evolve into what they are. Even the gods did not spring into being overnight. You and I have no reason to be embarrassed. We did, after all, beat the odds.

Oh, no, no, no, Mr. Spock, we didn't beat the odds; we didn't have a chance. The Organians raided the game.

Jim, madness has no purpose, or reason, but it may have a goal. He must be stopped, held, destroyed if necessary.

Like Lazarus. Identical, yet both Lazarus. Except one is matter and the other antimatter. If they meet...

Annihilation Jim. Total, complete, absolute annihilation.

LLazarus

He'll kill us all if we don't kill him first! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!

He's in a lot of pain!

Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure. I'm sure you know that, Doctor!

So you're the terrible thing? The murdering monster? The creature?

ALAnti-Lazarus

Yes, Captain. Or he is. It depends on your point of view, doesn't it?

My friend is obviously Chinese. I see you've noticed the ears. They're actually easy to explain.

Perhaps the unfortunate accident I had as a child.

...The unfortunate accident he had as a child. He caught his head in a mechanical... rice picker.

One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom... energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in... in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and to cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for.

I think that one day they're going to take all the money that they spend now on war and death...

And make them spend it on life.

You know as well as I do how out of place you two are around here.

Interesting. Where would you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler?

[to Spock] You? At his side. As if you've always been there and always will. [to Kirk] And you... you belong... in another place. I don't know where or how... I'll figure it out eventually.

I'll finish with the furnace.

'..., Captain.' Even when he doesn't say it, he does.

I am endeavoring, Madam, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bear skins.

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