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Capt. Kirk : There are a million things in this universe you can have and a million things you can't have. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are.
Charlie Evans : Then what am I going to do?
Capt. Kirk : Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Be gentle. It's not a one-way street, you know. How you feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels, too.
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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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Charlie Evans : Is that a girl?
Captain James T. Kirk : That's a girl.
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Captain James T. Kirk : I'd like you to give him the necessary medical orientation on the problems of... eh, adolescence.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Don't you think it would be better for a strong father image, like you? He already looks up to you.
Captain James T. Kirk : The job is yours, Bones, flattery will get you nowhere.
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Captain James T. Kirk : There's nothing wrong with you that hasn't gone wrong with every other human male since the model first came out.
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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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Charlie Evans : I'm supposed to ask you something. Why shouldn't I... I don't know how to explain it.
Capt. Kirk : Well, say it right out, Charlie. That usually works.
Charlie Evans : Well, in the corridor, I saw... when Janice... when Yeoman Rand was...
[swatting Kirk on the butt like he did to Janice]
Charlie Evans : Well, I did that to her. She didn't like it. She said you'd explain it to me.
Capt. Kirk : Me? I see. Well, um... uh, there are things you can do with a lady, uh, Charlie, that you... uh, well, there's n-no right way to hit a woman. I mean, man to man is... is one thing, but, um, man and woman, uh, it's, uh... is, uh... well, it's, uh, another thing. Do you understand?
Charlie Evans : I don't know.
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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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Lt. Nyota Uhura : Captain Kirk, my instruments show we're receiving a message on subspace frequency 3, ship-to-ship. I can't hear it, sir.
Capt. Kirk : You're creating that message, Charlie, or you're blocking one that's coming in.
Charlie Evans : It's my game, Captain. You have to find out. Like you said, that's how the game's played.
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Charlie Evans : How many humans like me on this ship?
Captain Ramart : Like a whole city in space, Charlie. Over 400 in the crew of a starship, aren't there, Captain?
Capt. Kirk : 428, to be exact. Is there anything we can do for you, Captain? Medical supplies, provisions?
Charlie Evans : Hundreds! All human, like me. That's exciting. Is that the right word?
Tom Nellis : That's perfect. It's the exact word.
Captain Ramart : You see, we'd like to keep Charlie with us. But with his closest living relatives on colony 5 and your vessel going that way...
Charlie Evans : I'd like to see your ship now. All of it, the people and everything.
Capt. Kirk : You keep interrupting, Mr. Evans. That's considered wrong.
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Capt. Kirk : We have a large supply of entertainment tapes, gentlemen. Uh...
Captain Ramart : No, we've a tight schedule to make, Captain. Just 20 of us, we're making out fine.
Capt. Kirk : This must be a space first. A transport ship that doesn't need anything?
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Capt. Kirk : Get out of my chair, Charlie, and get out of it now.
Charlie Evans : I've got your ship, Captain.
Capt. Kirk : Maybe, Charlie. But I don't think you can handle any more.
[at his cue, Spock and Bones begin turning on instruments and lights]
Capt. Kirk : I think you've reached your limit and can't take on one more thing. But you're gonna have to.
Charlie Evans : I could've sent you away before, but I didn't.
Capt. Kirk : You're gonna have to take me on.
Charlie Evans : Don't make me do it now!
Capt. Kirk : You've got my ship, and I want it back. I want my crew back whole, if I have to break your neck to do it!
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Charlie Evans : I only want to be nice to you. I can give you anything. Just... just tell me.
Yeoman Janice Rand : [surreptitiously turning on the intercom to the bridge] I want you to get out.
Charlie Evans : I only want to be nice to you.
Yeoman Janice Rand : Get out, Charlie.
Capt. Kirk : [heading to the turbolift] Spock.
Yeoman Janice Rand : I can't make it any plainer than that.
Charlie Evans : I love you.
Yeoman Janice Rand : You don't know what the word means.
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Capt. Kirk : Captain's log, stardate 1535.8. USFA Headquarters notified of the mysterious loss of science probe vessel Antares.
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Capt. Kirk : On Earth today, it's Thanksgiving. If the crew has to eat synthetic meat loaf, I want it to look like turkey.
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Capt. Kirk : Captain's log, stardate 1533.7. We have taken aboard an unusual passenger for transport to colony Alpha 5; Charles Evans, the sole survivor of a transport crash 14 years ago. The child, alone from age 3, has not only survived, but has grown to intelligent, healthy adolescence.
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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.
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[first lines]
Capt. Kirk : Captain's log: Stardate 1553.6. Now maneuvering to come alongside cargo vessel Antares. Its captain and first officer are beaming over to us with an unusual passenger.
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[last lines]
Capt. Kirk : It's all right, yeoman. It's all over now.
