Star Trek (TV Series)

The Man Trap (1966)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Mr. Spock : Miss Uhura, your last sub-space log contained an error in the frequencies column.

  Uhura : Mr. Spock, sometimes I think if I hear that word 'frequency' once more, I'll cry.

  Mr. Spock : Cry?

  Uhura : I was just trying to start a conversation.

  Mr. Spock : Well, since it is illogical for a communications officer to resent the word 'frequency'... I have no answer.

  Uhura : No, you have an answer. I'm an illogical woman, who's beginning to feel too much a part of that communications console. Why don't you tell me I'm an attractive young lady, or ask me if I've ever been in love? Tell me how your planet Vulcan looks on a lazy evening when the moon is full.

  Mr. Spock : Vulcan has no moon, Miss Uhura.

  Uhura : I'm not surprised, Mr. Spock.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Your wife, Professor, where is she?

  Professor Robert Crater : She... was the last of her kind.

  Captain James T. Kirk : The last of her kind?

  Professor Robert Crater : The last of its kind. Earth history, remember? Like the passenger pigeon, or... the buffalo.

  [...] 

  Mr. Spock : The Earth buffalo. What about it?

  Professor Robert Crater : Once there were millions of them - prairies black with them. One herd covered three whole states, and when they moved, they were like thunder.

  Mr. Spock : And now they're gone. Is that what you mean?

  Professor Robert Crater : [nods]  Like the creatures here. Once there were millions of them. Now there's one left. Nancy understood.

  Mr. Spock : Always in the past tense.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Where is your wife? Where is she now?

  Professor Robert Crater : Dead. Buried up on a hill. It killed her.

  Captain James T. Kirk : When?

  Professor Robert Crater : Oh, a year... or was it two?

• Mr. Spock : [on why he survived the creature's attack]  Fortunately, my ancestors spawned in another ocean than yours did. My blood cells are quite different.

• Mr. Spock : Something wrong, Captain?

  Captain James T. Kirk : I was thinking about the buffalo, Mr. Spock.

• Mr. Spock : Borgia plant listed in library record tapes as carbon group three vegetation, similar to Earth nightshade family. Alkaloid poison. Chemical structure common to most Class-M planets. About the strange mottling on his facial skin surface, there is no reference to this symptom.

  Dr. McCoy : Hmm. Well, then this man wasn't poisoned.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Stand by, Mr. Spock.

  [turning the monitor off] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : She said she saw him eat the plant.

  Dr. McCoy : Well, she's mistaken. I know alkaloid poison and what to look for. There's not a trace of it in his body.

  Captain James T. Kirk : There were bits of the plant in his mouth.

  Dr. McCoy : Jim, don't tell me my business. He could not have swallowed any. My instruments would've picked up any trace of it whatsoever.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Then what kills a healthy man...

  Dr. McCoy : Ah, I'll tell you something else. This man shouldn't be dead. I can't find anything wrong with him. According to all the tests, he should get up and just walk away from here. I don't know. I'll have the tests double-checked. My eyes may be tricking me.

• Uhura : I've checked every face on this vessel. It was not a crewman I saw.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yeoman Rand, how long was this "Green" with you?

  Yeoman Janice Rand : As long as he... it thought it could get to the salt in my tray, sir.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Mr. Spock?

  Mr. Spock : Supplies of salt have been set out as bait at all decks and engineering levels, Captain. However, no one or nothing has approached them as yet.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Dr. McCoy?

  Dr. McCoy : Yes?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Medical department report, Doctor.

  Dr. McCoy : Oh. Well, we could offer it salt without tricks. There's no reason for it to attack us.

  Mr. Spock : Your attitude is laudable, Doctor, but your reasoning is reckless.

  Professor Robert Crater : The creature is not dangerous when fed.

  Dr. McCoy : No, it's simply trying to survive by using its natural ability to take other forms.

  Professor Robert Crater : The way the chameleon uses its protective coloring, an ability retained no doubt from its primitive state, the way we have retained our incisor teeth. They were once fangs. Certain of our muscles were designed for chase. It uses its ability the way we would use our muscles and teeth if necessary to stay alive.

  Dr. McCoy : And like us, it's an intelligent animal. It's, uh... there's no need to hunt it down.

  Mr. Spock : A very interesting hypothesis, Doctor.

• Uhura : [after a death in the landing party is reported]  I don't believe it.

  Mr. Spock : Explain.

  Uhura : You explain. That means that somebody is dead, and you just... sit there. It could be Captain Kirk. He's the closest thing you have to a friend.

  Mr. Spock : Lieutenant, my demonstration of concern will not change what has happened. The transporter room is very well manned, and they will call me if they need my assistance.

• Mr. Spock : It's killing the captain. Shoot it, Doctor. Quickly.

  Dr. McCoy : No!

  [Spock tries to wrest his phaser from him] 

  Dr. McCoy : No!

  Mr. Spock : [pulling the creature off Kirk]  It's killing the captain. Shoot, quick.

  Dr. McCoy : I won't shoot Nancy.

  Mr. Spock : This is not Nancy.

  [throwing punches at her] 

  Mr. Spock : If she were Nancy, could she take this?

  Dr. McCoy : Stop it! Stop it, Spock! Stop it!

  Mr. Spock : [getting knocked backward]  Is that Nancy, Doctor?

• Mr. Spock : [searching for Mr. and Mrs. Crater]  The simple fact is unless there's something seriously wrong with the ship's equipment, there's only one person within a hundred-mile circle.

  Captain James T. Kirk : All right. We'll triangulate on 'em. We'll let Professor Crater explain what happened to his wife.

• Sulu : Casualty, Captain. Barnhart was found dead on deck nine, same symptoms.

  Mr. Spock : Spock cutting in, Captain. Something here, through the arches to your left.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Stand by, Mr. Sulu. Spock has something.

  Mr. Spock : [Kirk approaches his position]  Green.

  Captain James T. Kirk : He beamed up to the ship with us.

  Mr. Spock : Or something did.

  Captain James T. Kirk : [opening his communicator]  Enterprise, from Kirk.

  Sulu : Bridge, Sulu.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You have an intruder aboard. Could be masquerading as Crewman Green. General quarters, security condition three.

• Mr. Spock : Fascinating.

  Dr. McCoy : So improbable, we almost didn't check it.

  Captain James T. Kirk : What?

  Mr. Spock : Sodium chloride. Not a trace of it.

  Dr. McCoy : This man has no salt in his body at all.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Can you explain that, Doctor?

  Dr. McCoy : I can't, except what we normally carry in our bodies is gone from his.

  Mr. Spock : He would die almost instantly.

  Captain James T. Kirk : How? There's no mark on his body.

  Dr. McCoy : Except the red rings on his face.

  Captain James T. Kirk : You called that skin mottling.

  Dr. McCoy : I thought it was, sir. Another error on my part.

  Captain James T. Kirk : I'm not counting them, Bones. Are you, uh, in the mood for an apology?

  Dr. McCoy : Ah, forget it. I probably was mooning over her. I should've been thinking about my job.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Perhaps you were. Both Nancy and Crater went out of their way to mention one item they needed.

  Dr. McCoy : Salt tablets.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Mr. Spock, outfit a landing party. We're beaming down with some questions.

• Mr. Spock : No mistake in our record tapes. Borgia plant, sole deadly property is alkaloid poison.

  Captain James T. Kirk : And Professor Crater and wife?

  Mr. Spock : Checked out perfectly. They arrived here nearly five years ago, visited by various vessels, uh, made fairly heavy shipments out of artifacts and reports. However, there has been a marked drop in shipments during the last year.