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Vina : When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating. You even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit, living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought record.
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Vina : A person's strongest dreams are about what he *can't* do.
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Captain Christopher Pike : Why are you here?
Vina : To please you.
Captain Christopher Pike : Are you real?
Vina : As real as you wish.
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Vina : You see why I can't go with you?
The Keeper : This is the female's true appearance.
Vina : They found me in the wreckage dying, a lump of flesh. They rebuilt me. Everything works, but they had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together.
The Keeper : It was necessary to convince you her desire to stay is an honest one.
Captain Christopher Pike : You'll give her back her illusion of beauty?
The Keeper : And more.
[a double of Pike appears and leaves with Vina]
The Keeper : She has an illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant.
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Vina : I'm a woman, as real and as human as you are. We're like... Adam and Eve.
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Captain Christopher Pike : Why would an illusion be frightened?
Vina : Because that's the way you imagined me.
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[Number One and Colt have "joined" Pike and Vina in the cage]
Vina : [to Colt] He doesn't need you. He's already picked me.
Yeoman J.M. Colt : Picked her? For what? I don't understand.
Vina : [sarcastic] Now, there is a fine choice for intelligent offspring!
Yeoman J.M. Colt : Offspring? As in children?
Number One : Offspring as in, he's Adam. Is that it?
Vina : [to Number One] You're no better choice. They'd have more luck crossing him with a computer.
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[Vina's true, asymmetrical, misshapen form is revealed]
Vina : They found me in the wreckage, dying. Lump of flesh. They rebuilt me. Everything works. But they had never seen a Human. They had no guide for putting me back together.
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Vina : He doesn't need you. He's already picked me.
Yeoman J.M. Colt : Picked her? For what? I don't understand.
Vina : [Dripping with a mixture of indignation and sarcasm] Now there's a fine choice for intelligent offspring!
Yeoman J.M. Colt : [Puzzled] Offspring, as in children?
Number One : Offspring, as in... he's 'Adam'. Is that it?
Vina : [Sarcastic] You're no better choice. They'd have more luck... crossing him with a COMPUTER.
Number One : [Unfazed and analytical] Well, shall we do a little time computation? There was a Vina listed on that expedition as an adult crewman. Now adding eighteen years to your age then...
[Number One is interrupted by the entrance of the Talosian Keeper]
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Vina : Don't you have a... a dream, something you've always wanted very badly?
Captain Christopher Pike : Or do they do more than just watch me? Do they... feel with me, too?
Vina : You can have whatever dream you want. I can become anything, any woman you've ever imagined. You can have anything you want in the whole universe. Let me... please you.
Captain Christopher Pike : Yes, yes, you can please me. You can tell me about them. Is there any way I can keep them from probing my mind, from using my thoughts against me? Does that frighten you? Does that mean there is a way?
Vina : You're a fool!
Captain Christopher Pike : And since you're not real, there's not much point in continuing this conversation, is there?
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Captain Christopher Pike : How far can they control my mind?
Vina : If I tell you, then will you pick some dream you've had and let me live it with you?
Captain Christopher Pike : Perhaps.
Vina : They... they can't actually make you do anything you don't want to...
Captain Christopher Pike : But they try to trick me with their illusions.
Vina : And, uh, they can punish you when you're not cooperative. You'll find out about that.
Captain Christopher Pike : Did they ever live on the surface of this planet?
[she nods]
Captain Christopher Pike : Why did they go underground?
Vina : War, thousands of centuries ago.
Captain Christopher Pike : That's why it's so barren up there?
Vina : The planet's only now becoming able to support life again.
Captain Christopher Pike : So the Talosians who came underground found life limited here and they concentrated on developing their mental power.
Vina : But they found it's a trap, like a narcotic.
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Captain Christopher Pike : Back in my cage, it seemed for a couple of minutes that our keeper couldn't read my thoughts. Do emotions like hate, keeping hate in your mind, does that block off our mind from them?
Captain Christopher Pike : Yes. They can't read through primitive emotions. But you can't keep it up for long enough. I've tried. They keep at you and at you, year after year, tricking and punishing. And they won. They own me. I know you must hate me for that.
Captain Christopher Pike : Oh, no, I don't hate you. I can guess what it was like.
Vina : But that's not enough. Don't you see? They read my thoughts, my feelings, my dreams of what would be a perfect man. And that's why they picked you. I can't help but love you, and they expect you to feel the same way.
Captain Christopher Pike : If they can read my mind, then they know I'm attracted to you. I was from the very first moment I saw you in the survivors' camp.
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The Keeper : We had not believed this possible. The customs and history of your race show a unique hatred of captivity. Even when it's pleasant and benevolent, you prefer death. This makes you too violent and dangerous a species for our needs.
Vina : He means that they can't use you. You're free to go back to the ship.
Captain Christopher Pike : And that's it? No apologies? You captured one of us, threatened all of us.
First Talosian : Your unsuitability has condemned the Talosian race to eventual death. Is this not sufficient?
The Keeper : No other specimen has shown your adaptability. You were our last hope.
Captain Christopher Pike : But wouldn't some form of trade, mutual cooperation...
The Keeper : Your race would learn our power of illusion and destroy itself, too.
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Vina : [the Keeper has threatened to destroy the Enterprise] He's not bluffing, Captain. With illusion, they can make your crew work the wrong controls or push any button it takes to destroy your ship.
Captain Christopher Pike : I'm gonna gamble you're too intelligent to kill for no reason at all.
[letting him go, he tries to fire the hand phasers at the transparent cage window]
Captain Christopher Pike : On the other hand, I've got a reason. I'm willing to bet you've created an illusion this laser is empty. I think it just blasted a hole in that window, and you're keeping us from seeing it. You want me to test my theory out on your head?
[a large burned hole appears in the window]
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Captain Christopher Pike : [capturing the Talosian Keeper] Now, you hold still, or I'll break your...
Vina : Don't hurt him! They don't mean to be evil.
Captain Christopher Pike : I've had some samples of how good they are.
[the Keeper turns himself into a large, carnivorous creature]
Captain Christopher Pike : You stop this illusion, or I'll twist your head off!
[he does]
Captain Christopher Pike : All right. Now, you try one more illusion, you try anything at all, and I'll break your neck.
The Keeper : Your ship. Release me, or we'll destroy it.
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Vina : Perhaps they made me out of dreams you've forgotten.
Captain Christopher Pike : But dressed you in the same metal fabric they wear?
Vina : Well, I have to wear something.
[pauses, then, suggestively]
Vina : Don't I?
