- Capt. Kirk: Mr. Spock, ask Scotty how long it would take him to reproduce 100 flintlocks.
- Scott: I didn't get that exactly, Captain. 100 what?
- Capt. Kirk: 100... serpents. Serpents for the Garden of Eden.
- Dr. McCoy: I don't have a solution, but furnishing them firearms is certainly not the answer!
- Capt. Kirk: Bones, do you remember the twentieth century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt that they could pull out?
- Dr. McCoy: Yes, I remember. It went on bloody year after bloody year!
- Capt. Kirk: But what would you have suggested? That one side arm its friends with an overpowering weapon? Mankind would never have lived to travel space if they had. No, the only solution is what happened back then: balance of power.
- Dr. McCoy: And if the Klingons give their side even more?
- Capt. Kirk: Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power - the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all, but the only one that preserves both sides!
- 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.
- Apella: I thought my people would grow tired of killing, but you were right. They see that it is easier than trading and it has pleasures.
- Nona: You would let him die when you have weapons to make him powerful and safe? Then he has the wrong friends, and I have the wrong husband.
- 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.
- Nona: I am a Kahn-ut-tu woman. In all this land, how many are there? Men seek us because through us they become great leaders.
- Tyree: I took you because you cast a spell upon me.
- Nona: And I have spells that help me keep you. Remember this leaf? The night we camped by the water?
- Tyree: Mmm. The night of madness.
- Capt. Kirk: Tomorrow... in the palm of her hands.
- Dr. McCoy: Well, you got what you wanted.
- Capt. Kirk: Not what I wanted, Bones. What had to be.
- Nona: You are here because I wished you here.
- Capt. Kirk: Oh? I thought it was my idea.
- Nona: [laughs] Yes. They always believe they come of free will. Tyree even thought the same when I cast my first spell on him.
- Scott: [Kirk and McCoy are holding Spock when they transport up] What happened, Captain?
- Capt. Kirk: Lead projectile. Primitive firearm.
- Dr. M'Benga: [They put Spock on the bed] Vitalizer 'B.'
- [Gives Spock an injection]
- Dr. McCoy: Pressure backing.
- [Nurse hands pressure backing to McCoy]
- Dr. McCoy: Lucky his heart is where his liver should be or he'd be dead now.
- Dr. M'Benga: Not good, sir.
- Dr. McCoy: Coranalin!
- Capt. Kirk: [Whistle from ship; Alarm goes off] Bones, can you save him?
- Uhura: [Uhura talks through the speaker/intercom] All decks, Red Alert! Battle Stations! Battle Stations! Go to Red Alert!
- Capt. Kirk: [Kirk walks to intercom] Kirk here.
- Uhura: Uhura, sir. We have a Klingon vessel on our screen.
- Capt. Kirk: On my way. Scotty?
- [Kirk and Scott walk to door / door opens]
- Capt. Kirk: Bones?
- Dr. McCoy: I don't know yet, Jim.
- [Kirk and Scott leave transporter room]