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30 CONTINUED: 30

SCOTTY
We can hide awhile, Captain.
But we may have to leave orbit
to keep it up long.

Kirk nods, crosses to his command position, hits the
intercom button on the panel.

KIRK
Captain to Sickbay.

McCOY'S VOICE
(filtered; firm,
not nasty)
Sickbay, McCoy. I'll call you
. as soon as I know anything.
Sickbay out.

31 EMPHASIZING SCOTTY 31

As Kirk looks, forces himself to forget Spock's peril,
concentrate on the present. He crosses INTO CAMERA
EMPHASIZES with Scott, as:

KIRK
So, they're breaking the treaty.

SCOTT
Not necessarily, Captain. They've
as much right to scientific missions
here as we have.

KIRK
Research is hardly the Klingon
method.

SCOTT
True, Captain. But since it's
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a hands off' planet, there's
no way you can prove they re ·
I
doing otherwise.
KIRK
When I left seventeen years
ago, the villagers down there
had barely learned to forge
iron into crude plows. But
Spock was shot by a flintlock
rifle. How many centuries between
those two developments?

(CONTINUED}