Star Trek (TV Series)
The Man Trap (1966)
William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk
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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.
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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?
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Captain James T. Kirk : It's a mystery. And I don't like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I got a beauty right now.
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Professor Robert Crater : It's the... last one. The buffalo. There is no difference.
Captain James T. Kirk : There's one, Professor. Your creature is killing my people!
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Professor Robert Crater : I loved Nancy very much. Few women like my Nancy. She lives in my dreams, she walks and sings in my dreams.
Captain James T. Kirk : And it becomes Nancy for you.
Professor Robert Crater : Not because of tricks, it doesn't trick me. It needs love, as much as it needs salt. When it killed Nancy, I almost destroyed it, but... it isn't just a beast. It is intelligent, and the last of its kind.
Captain James T. Kirk : You bleed too much, Crater. You're too pure and noble. You saving the last of its kind or has this become Crater's private heaven, here on this planet? This thing becomes wife, lover, best friend, wise man, fool, idol, slave. Isn't a bad life to have everyone in the universe at your beck and call, and you win all the arguments.
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Mr. Spock : Something wrong, Captain?
Captain James T. Kirk : I was thinking about the buffalo, Mr. Spock.
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Captain James T. Kirk : You could learn something from Mr. Spock, Doctor. Stop thinking with your glands.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Remember my instructions, Lieutenant: keep a tight fix on us. If we let out a yell, I want an armed party down there before the echo dies.
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Uhura : Message, Captain. Starship base on Corinth IV requesting explanation of our delay here, sir. Space Commander Dominguez says we have supplies he urgently needs.
Captain James T. Kirk : Tell José he'll get his chili peppers when we get there. Tell him they're prime Mexican reds, I hand-picked them myself. But he won't die if he goes a few more days without 'em.
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[first lines]
Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's log, stardate 1513.1. Our position, orbiting planet M-113. On board the Enterprise, Mr. Spock, temporarily in command. On the planet, the ruins of an ancient and long-dead civilization. Ship's surgeon McCoy and myself are now beaming down to the planet's surface. Our mission: routine medical examination of archeologist Robert Crater and his wife Nancy. Routine but for the fact that Nancy Crater is that one woman in Dr. McCoy's past.
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Captain James T. Kirk : What's the matter, can't you sleep?
Dr. McCoy : Nope.
Captain James T. Kirk : Try taking one of those red pills you gave me last week. You'll sleep.
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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.
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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.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Shall we pick some flowers, Doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend, she usually expects something like that.
Dr. McCoy : Is that how you get girls to like you - by bribing them?
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Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's log, additional. Armed and able-bodied crewmen are not attacked and slaughtered this easily. Apparently the killer can immobilize them as it approaches, perhaps with some hypnotic or paralyzing power. The answer lies with Professor Crater.
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Captain James T. Kirk : There's a body down there. Sturgeon.
Transporter Operator : We'll bring him home, sir.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Professor Crater, I'm Captain Kirk. This is...
Professor Robert Crater : The heroic captain and the intrepid doctor cross interstellar space to preserve our health. Oh, your sense of duty is overwhelming. Now, will you please go back where you came from and tell whoever issues your orders to leave me and my wife alone? We need additional salt against the heat. Aside from that, we're doing very well, thank you.
Dr. McCoy : I'm pleased to hear you're doing well, but I'm required to confirm that fact.
Professor Robert Crater : Doubtless, the good surgeon will enjoy prodding and poking us with his arcane machinery. Go away. We don't want you.
Dr. McCoy : What you want is unimportant right now. What you will get is what is required by the book.
Captain James T. Kirk : Quote, all research personnel on alien planets are required to have their health certified by a starship surgeon at one-year intervals. Like it or not, Professor, as commander of the starship, I'm required...
Professor Robert Crater : To show your gold braid to everyone. You love it, don't you?
Captain James T. Kirk : He's all yours, Plum; Dr. McCoy.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Something we don't understand killed one of my men. It could prove to be a danger to you and Mrs. Crater, too.
Professor Robert Crater : We've been here for almost five years. If there were anything hostile here, we would know about it, wouldn't we?
Captain James T. Kirk : Bones, tell the professor what the autopsy revealed.
Dr. McCoy : Our crewman died of salt depletion. Sudden total loss of it. Medically impossible by any standards.
Captain James T. Kirk : And by coincidence, you and Mrs. Crater requested salt tablets.
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Captain James T. Kirk : One of the missions of the Enterprise is to protect human life in places like this. I'm gonna have to ask you and Mrs. Crater to stay aboard my ship until we find out what killed that crewman.
Professor Robert Crater : But you can't do that.
Captain James T. Kirk : But I can, Professor.
Professor Robert Crater : You mustn't do it. It'll interfere with our work.
Captain James T. Kirk : How? You've been here five years. Will a couple of days make a difference?
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Dr. McCoy : I swear, Jim, when I first saw her, she looked just as I'd known her ten years ago. Granted, the moment I may have been looking at her through a romantic haze.
Captain James T. Kirk : How your lost love affects your vision, Doctor, doesn't interest me. I've lost a man. I want to know what killed him.
Dr. McCoy : [taken aback] Yes, sir.
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Dr. McCoy : What's going on here, Jim?
Captain James T. Kirk : She's not Nancy, Bones.
Dr. McCoy : Are you insane?
Captain James T. Kirk : It killed four crewmen. Now Crater.
Dr. McCoy : It?
Captain James T. Kirk : The creature. It kills. It needs salt to live. Bones, move aside.
Dr. McCoy : No!
Captain James T. Kirk : My guess is she needs more.
[offering some]
Captain James T. Kirk : You want it, Nancy? Come and get it.
Dr. McCoy : You're frightening her, Jim.
Captain James T. Kirk : Not fright, hunger. Look at her.
Nancy Crater : Leonard, if you love me, make him go away.
Captain James T. Kirk : Come on. You want this, Nancy? Come on, Nancy. Come and get it.
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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.
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[Kirk has just dismissed a crewman from the Craters' home]
Captain James T. Kirk : Maybe I'll step outside, too.
Nancy Crater : [referring to McCoy] What? And let Plum examine me all alone?
Captain James T. Kirk : "Plum"?
Dr. McCoy : Plum.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Space, the final frontier.
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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.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's log, stardate 1513.8. I am now certain that the violent death of my crewman was caused by some strange life form.
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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.
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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.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's log, stardate 1513.4. In orbit around planet M-113. One crewman, member of the landing party, dead by violence. Cause unknown. We are certain the cause of death was not poison.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Crater, we don't know who or what we're looking for. We need your help, and now.
Professor Robert Crater : I demanded. I even begged that you get off my planet.
Captain James T. Kirk : Can you recognize this thing when you see it?
[Crater doesn't respond]
Captain James T. Kirk : Professor, I'll forego charges up to this point. But this creature's aboard my ship, and I'll have it or I'll have your skin or both. Now, where is it?
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Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's log, continuing. The Enterprise has been invaded by a creature capable of assuming any form, with a capacity to paralyze and draw the life from any one of us.
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Nancy Crater : Leonard.
Dr. McCoy : Nancy.
Nancy Crater : Hello.
Dr. McCoy : It's good to see you.
Nancy Crater : Let me look at you.
Dr. McCoy : You haven't aged a day.
[she glances at Kirk]
Dr. McCoy : Oh, this is Captain Jim Kirk of the Enterprise.
Captain James T. Kirk : Mrs. Crater. I've heard a great deal about you.
Nancy Crater : All good, I hope.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's log, additional entry. Since our mission was routine, we had beamed down to the planet without suspicion. We were totally unaware that each member of the landing party was seeing a different woman, a different Nancy Crater.
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[Crater has shot at Kirk and Spock]
Captain James T. Kirk : He's not trying to kill us, he's trying to frighten us. And he's doing a pretty good job.
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Captain James T. Kirk : ...for the fact that Nancy Crater is that one woman in Dr. McCoy's past.
Captain James T. Kirk : Shall we pick some flowers, Doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend she usually expects something like that.
Dr. McCoy : Is that how you get girls to like you - by bribing them?
