Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series)

The Slaver Weapon (1973)

Leonard Nimoy: Mister Spock

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• Mr. Spock : First Officer's Log: Stardate 4187.3. The Enterprise shuttlecraft Copernicus is en route to Starbase 25 with an important cargo, a Slaver stasis box discovered by archaeologists on the planet Kzin. These stasis boxes are the most remarkable thing the Slavers ever produced - time stands still inside a stasis box. A billion years means nothing in there.

• Sulu : Mr. Spock, if it takes a stasis box to find another stasis box, how did anyone ever find the first one?

  Mr. Spock : As with a number of discoveries, purely by accident, Lieutenant.

• Mr. Spock : Lieutenant Uhura, this may be crucial. In the presence of the Kzinti, do not say anything. Do not do anything startling. Try to look harmless.

  Lt. Uhura : Any special reason?

  Mr. Spock : Are you forgetting Kzinti females are dumb animals? In an emergency, the Kzinti may forget a human female is an intelligent creature.

  Lt. Uhura : Thanks. Thanks a lot.

  Mr. Spock : Lieutenant, I value your intelligence, but we may be able to seize an opportunity to escape if the Kzinti believe you have none.

• Mr. Spock : First Officer's Log: Supplemental. The Kzinti now possess a weapon potentially deadly to the entire galaxy. The extent of its power remains to be seen.

• Mr. Spock : I have the weapon.

  Sulu : They've got Uhura and subspace radio. They can call for help from the Kzin planet if they think the weapon's worth it.

  Mr. Spock : No, they cannot, or rather will not.

  Sulu : Why?

  Mr. Spock : Because I kicked Chuft Captain. Consider: Chuft Captain has been attacked by an herbivorous pacifist, an eater of leaves and roots, one who traditionally does not fight. And the ultimate insult: I left him alive. Chuft Captain's honor is at stake. He must seek personal revenge before he can call for help.

• Lt. Uhura : We can't let them have that weapon.

  Mr. Spock : They are not about to get it, Lieutenant.

  Lt. Uhura : Why not?

  Mr. Spock : Assume you are a Slaver war computer. You've been turned off. You do not know for how long, but when you were turned off, there was a war on. Now you are awakened by aliens you never saw before. They do not know any of the military passwords. They ask you so many questions, it is obvious they know little about you. Your owner is nowhere about. What would you think?

  Lt. Uhura : I'd think I'd been captured by the enemy, or AN enemy, at least.

  Sulu : And when they ask you how to find your most powerful weapon setting, what would you give them?