Did you pay royalties to the owners of those patents?
Well, actually, Kirk, as a defender of the free enterprise system, I found myself in a rather ambiguous conflict as a matter of principle.
He did not pay royalties.
Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!
Who caught you?
That, sir, is an outrageous assumption.
Yes. Who caught you?
I sold the Denebians all the rights to a Vulcan fuel synthesiser.
And the Denebians contacted the Vulcans.
How'd you know?
That's what I would have done.
It's typical police mentality. They've got no sense of humour. They arrested me.
Oh, I find that shocking.
Harry Mudd (mistaking sarcasm for sympathy): Worse than that! Do you know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb V?
The guilty party has his choice: death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging...
The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was..."death". Barbarians! Well, of course, I...left.
He broke jail.
I, er, I borrowed transportation -
He stole a spaceship.
The patrol reacted in a hostile manner -
They fired at him.
They've got no respect for private property, they damaged the bloody spaceship!
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