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Yeoman Rand : Miri... she really loved you, you know?
Capt. Kirk : Yes.
[pause]
Capt. Kirk : I never get involved with older women, Yeoman.
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Capt. Kirk : Listen to me! You've got our communicators, the boxes we talk into. We need them to talk to the ship.
Redheaded Boy : Blah, blah, blah!
the other children : Blah, blah, blah!
Capt. Kirk : No "blah, blah, blah!"
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Dr. McCoy : It's dead. It's incredible.
Capt. Kirk : What is?
Dr. McCoy : It's metabolic rate. It's impossibly high, as if it burning itself up. Almost as if it aged a century in just the past few minutes.
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Capt. Kirk : Bones.
Dr. McCoy : Hmm?
Capt. Kirk : Why do you think the symptoms haven't appeared on Mr. Spock?
Dr. McCoy : I don't know. Probably the little bugs or whatever they are have no appetite for green blood.
Mr. Spock : Hmm. Being a red-blooded human obviously has its disadvantages.
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Capt. Kirk : This is the vaccine?
Dr. McCoy : That's what the computers will tell us.
Mr. Spock : Without them, it could be a beaker full of death.
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Capt. Kirk : Just children. 300 years old and more. I've already contacted Space Central. They'll send teachers, advisors...
Dr. McCoy : And truant officers, I presume.
Capt. Kirk : They'll be all right.
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Capt. Kirk : What'd you find?
Dr. McCoy : The disease, Captain! The one they created three hundred years ago.
Yeoman Rand : There's a chance!
Dr. McCoy : There's a chance. At least it's a race now, and we just wasted a minute.
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Capt. Kirk : You two will have to recreate their thinking. If you can isolate that virus, you'll be able to develop a vaccine.
Dr. McCoy : [Spock and McCoy trade incredulous looks] Is that all, Captain? We have five days, you know.
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Capt. Kirk : Listen to me!
Jahn : No yelling in the classroom. Look at him - a very bad citizen!
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Capt. Kirk : [temperamental after several days of no results and just getting more sick and no way to contact the ship] Haven't you found anything yet?
Dr. McCoy : [irritated] Would you like to take a crack at it?
[storms off]
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Capt. Kirk : Don't you know why you don't like to play games anymore, why you don't see your friends the way you used to? It's because you're becoming a young woman; and, the moment you become a young woman you get the disease - ALL of you.
Miri : It's not true. It just happens sometimes.
Capt. Kirk : ALL THE TIME, Miri! It's happening to you RIGHT NOW!
[Kirk exposes her diseased arm]
Capt. Kirk : Look at it! Look at it, Miri! It's in YOU!
Miri : No. No! NOOOOO! NOOooo!
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[first lines]
Capt. Kirk : Earth style distress signal. SOS.
Farrell : I've answered it on all frequencies, sir. They don't reply.
