Star Trek (TV Series)

A Private Little War (1968)

Majel Barrett: Nurse Chapel

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• Dr. M'Benga : Don't let these low panel readings bother you. I've seen this before in Vulcans. It's their way of concentrating all their strength, blood and antibodies onto the injured organs - a form of self-induced hypnosis.

  Nurse Chapel : You mean he's conscious?

  Dr. M'Benga : Well, in a sense. He knows we're here and what we're saying, but he can't afford to take his mind from the tissue he's fighting to heal. I suppose he even knows you were holding his hand.

  Nurse Chapel : [embarrassed]  A good nurse always treats her patients that way. It proves she's interested.

• Mr. Spock : [wheezing]  Nurse.

  Nurse Chapel : Yes?

  Mr. Spock : Hit me. The pain will help me to regain consciousness. Hit me.

  Nurse Chapel : Hit you? No! I can't...

  Mr. Spock : I ask you, strike me. If I don't regain consciousness soon, it may be too late. Hit me!

  [unsure, she slaps him] 

  Mr. Spock : Harder!

  [she begins slapping him harder] 

  Mr. Spock : Again! Continue, the pain will help me to consciousness.

  Scott : [Scott enters Sickbay and sees Nurse Chapel slapping the unconscious Mr. Spock]  What are you doing, woman?

  Nurse Chapel : [pulled away by Scott]  Leave me alone!

  Scott : Have you gone daft?

  Nurse Chapel : Mr. Spock needs me! Let go!

  [Dr. M'Benga runs past and starts slapping Spock] 

  Mr. Spock : [Grabs Dr. M'Begna's wrist]  That will be quite enough. Thank you, Doctor.

  Dr. M'Benga : [to Mr. Scott]  Please, release her.

  Scott : What's this all about?

  Mr. Spock : She was doing as I requested, Mr. Scott, a Vulcan form of self-healing.

  Dr. M'Benga : As you saw, they must wait until the last possible moment, then fight their way back to consciousness.

  Nurse Chapel : Here, let me help you, Mr. Spock.

  [goes to Spock] 

  Mr. Spock : Thank you, nurse. I'm quite fully recovered.

  Nurse Chapel : Yes, I see you are.