#like they manage to capture and imprison him and lenore and have to actually decide what to do with these monsters

[anghraine]

Some exchanges from "The Conscience of the King" that I didn't have a reason to include fully in my long discussion of the episode in the previous post, but really love:

MCCOY: Tetralubisol is a milky substance. Someone could have gotten careless, made a mistake. SPOCK: I don't believe that and neither do you. I want the captain to see that report. MCCOY: When I've finished logging it. SPOCK: Now.

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KIRK: You're an actor now. What were you twenty years ago? KARIDIAN: Younger, captain. Much younger. KIRK: So was I. But I remember.

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KIRK: Those beautiful words, well acted, change nothing. KARIDIAN: I suppose not. They're merely tools, like this ship of yours. KIRK: There are no previous records to Anton Karidian prior to twenty years ago. KARIDIAN: Blood thins. The body fails. One is finally grateful for a failing memory. I no longer treasure life, not even my own. I am tired! And the past is a blank. Did you get everything you wanted, Captain Kirk? KIRK: If I had gotten everything I wanted, you might not walk out of this room alive.

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LENORE: Too late, Captain. You are like your ship, powerful, and not human. There is no mercy in you. KIRK: If he is Kodos, then I've shown him more mercy than he deserves. And if he isn't, then we'll let you off at Benecia, and no harm done. LENORE: Captain Kirk, who are you to say what harm was done? KIRK: Who do I have to be?