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Captain, I see no reason to stand here and be insulted.

there were thousands of these at a lower level.

And I also found about a million of these silicon nodules.

There, they're coming.

despite your tricorder readings.

protects them. And when they hatch,

It has to hold longer than a bit.

Commander Giotto,

But there is a possibility.

and we're gonna go in and kill it.

The closest approximation I could come to would be fibrous asbestos.

Or a single phaser with much longer contact.

The reactor will go supercritical in about ten hours, sir.

Forty-eight hours, maybe, with a bit of luck.

Mr. Spock, I'm gonna have to ask you to get in touch with the Horta again.

But a geological oddity, to say the least.

Stay on your toes, Schmitter.

Well, there were only fragments of bone and teeth left,

There was no reason for it,

I'm a developer, Not a bricklayer

and it'll act like a bandage until it heals.

At least no life as we know it.

Readings indicate a maze of tunnels of this general category in that direction.

You'll have it.

I want to know why it suddenly took to murder.

It's mostly silicon.

they're her eggs.

I'll take a life-form reading.

No, sir. We're being watched.

Well, that's about it, Kirk. Thanks for everything.

Like the rest of them...

- You take the left, I'll take the right. - Should we separate?

this creature may be on that level?

But I did get the distinct impression she found them

before returning to its own environment.

Strong enough to eat anything else away you can think of.