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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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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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Charlie Evans : That captain... Kirk?
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Yeah.
Charlie Evans : Why does he call me Mr. Evans?
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : 'Cause that's your name.
Charlie Evans : He's not... well, he isn't like Captain Ramart.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Well, no. Captain Kirk is one of a kind, Charlie.
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Charlie Evans : Do you like me?
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Why not?
Charlie Evans : Some... the other ship, they didn't like me. I tried. I'm trying to make people like me. I want them to like me.
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D. : Most 17-year-olds do.
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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.