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Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : What's going on here? Spock calls me to the bridge and then goes into some kind of poetry!
Captain James T. Kirk : [referring to the wounded Uhura] See to her, Doctor.
Mr. Spock : Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered, weak and weary.
Charlie Evans : Very nice, Mr. Ears.
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Capt. Kirk : [after losing contact with the Antares] Sweep the area of the Antares transmission with our probe scanners, Mr. Spock.
Mr. Spock : Affirmative, Captain.
Capt. Kirk : You think something happened to the Antares, Charlie?
Charlie Evans : I don't know.
Mr. Spock : Picking up some debris on our scanners, Captain.
Capt. Kirk : What about the Antares?
Mr. Spock : The debris is what's left of the Antares.
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Charlie Evans : [using his powers on Spock] Oh, I can make him do anything; whirl around, laugh, anything.
Capt. Kirk : That's enough, Charlie.
Charlie Evans : Well, don't you think he's funny? I think he's funny.
Capt. Kirk : [firmly] Leave my crew alone.
Mr. Spock : [Charlie leaves] Jim, he'll soon reach a point where he won't back down.
Capt. Kirk : I know.
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Charlie Evans : [vanishing Janice after she slaps him] Why did she do that? I loved her, but she wasn't nice at all. What you did wasn't nice, either, but I still need you, Captain. The Enterprise isn't quite like the Antares. Running the Antares was easy. You have to be nice. All right?
Capt. Kirk : [temporarily in pain from Charlie's powers] Mr. Spock?
Mr. Spock : My legs... they're broken.
Capt. Kirk : Let him go, too, Charlie.
Charlie Evans : Why?
Capt. Kirk : Because I'm telling you to. Because you need me to run the ship, and I need him.
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Capt. Kirk : Are you responsible for what happened to the Antares, Charlie?
Charlie Evans : Why?
Capt. Kirk : Answer me.
Charlie Evans : Yes. There was a warped baffle plate on the shied of their energy pile. I... I made it go away. It would've blown up anyway. Well, they weren't nice to me! They wanted to get rid of me. They don't now.
Capt. Kirk : What about us, Charlie?
Charlie Evans : I don't know.
Mr. Spock : [Charlie is escorted out] We're in the hands of an adolescent.
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Mr. Spock : Thasians have been referred to in our records as having the power to transmute objects or render substances invisible. It has generally been regarded as legend, but Charlie does seem to possess this same power.
Capt. Kirk : What chance is it that Charlie isn't an Earth being, that he's a Thasian?
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : No, I don't think so. Not unless they're exactly like Earthlings. The development of his fingers and toes exactly matches the present development of man's on Earth.
Mr. Spock : Agreed.
Capt. Kirk : Well, whatever he is, we have some idea of the power he has. I know what I saw him do in the gymnasium.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Considering the effect a normal adolescent has on a home, Charlie, with the power he has...
Capt. Kirk : Short-tempered, because he doesn't understand. He needs, he wants. Nothing happens fast enough.
Mr. Spock : The probability is he's responsible for the destruction of the Antares, which would indicate a total disregard for human life.
Capt. Kirk : He doesn't understand what life is. He's a boy.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Well, what do we do with this boy, Jim? How do we keep him caged up?
Capt. Kirk : It goes even further than that, Doctor. We can't take him with us to Earth colony 5. Can you imagine what he'd do in an open, normal environment? Talk to him, listen to him. He's a boy in a man's body trying to be an adult with the adolescent in him getting in the way.
Mr. Spock : And with a weapon in him, which could destroy you or anyone, anywhere on this ship.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Well, for the moment he's stopped. You're an authority he respects, Jim.
Mr. Spock : Agreed. The struggle must remain between you and him. Should any of us interfere...
[Charlie is escorted in by security]
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Mr. Spock : Doctor, didn't the boy make any reference at all to Thasians?
Capt. Kirk : Do you believe the legend, Mr. Spock, that Thasians still exist on that planet in some form?
Mr. Spock : Charlie's very existence proves, in fact, there must be some intelligent form of life on Thasus. He could not possibly have survived alone. The ship's food concentrates would have been exhausted in a year or so.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : By which time he would have been eating fruits, vegetables.
Mr. Spock : Probes of Thasus indicate very little edible life.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : And probes have been known to be wrong, Mr. Spock.
Mr. Spock : Doctor, are you speaking scientifically or emotionally?
Capt. Kirk : Gentlemen, the fact is the boy is here and he's alive and he needs our help.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : And he needs a guide and he needs a father image, Jim.
Capt. Kirk : Hmm. I'll depend on your astute abilities to supply him with that... or find him one.
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Capt. Kirk : I've waited long enough. I'm gonna take him on.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : You don't have any special immunity. Not anymore. Push far enough, he'd send you off to oblivion, too.
Capt. Kirk : Mr. Spock?
Mr. Spock : Out of the question.
Capt. Kirk : Wait a minute. Does Charlie... now, wait... Spock, has he done away with anybody since he took over?
Mr. Spock : Not so far as we know.
Capt. Kirk : Then maybe he can't. Could be he's overreached himself. It's a big ship. He's taken full control. If we could tax his power... turn on every device on the ship, every circuit, every light, all of it... and while he's fighting that, if I could distract him, maybe you could tranquilize him, keep him under, until we reach colony 5.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Risky, Jim.
Capt. Kirk : If we don't try, Doctor, he'll get rid of us anyway. There's no choice, gentlemen, none at all.
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Mr. Spock : [playing 3-D chess with Kirk] Your mind is not on the game, Captain. Check. The Antares?
Capt. Kirk : A survey ship with 20 men aboard, lost. No reason. Obviously, Captain Ramart was not aware of any trouble. I can't figure it.
Mr. Spock : My own concern is more immediate; the boy.
Capt. Kirk : I can usually follow you, Mr. Spock, but this time...
Mr. Spock : He seemed to know what happened to the Antares before we did.
Capt. Kirk : [as Charlie enters behind them] I'd call that a pretty long reach for evidence, Mr. Spock. Come in, Charlie.
[he moves a piece, as does Spock]
Mr. Spock : And again. Check.
Capt. Kirk : [moving his next piece] Checkmate.
Mr. Spock : Your illogical approach to chess does have its advantages on occasion, Captain.
Capt. Kirk : I prefer to call it inspired.
Mr. Spock : As you wish. At any rate, the game is yours.
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Navigator : Captain, I can't feed any course coordinates into the panel, sir. It rejects the course change.
Helmsman : Helm doesn't respond, either, sir.
Capt. Kirk : [unaware that Charlie gets off the turbolift] Mr. Spock, you getting any readings on your instruments?
Mr. Spock : Yes, sir. There's a...
[affected by Charlie's powers]
Mr. Spock : Tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forest of the night.
Capt. Kirk : Mr. Spock.
Mr. Spock : I'm trying to...
[affected by Charlie's powers again]
Mr. Spock : Saturn rings around my head, down a road that's Martian red.
Charlie Evans : You're trying to change course, Captain. You can't do that. I want to get to colony 5 as soon as we can.
Capt. Kirk : Release the transmitter.
Charlie Evans : You don't need all that subspace chatter.
