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Those round silicon nodules
The end of life.
- I beg your pardon, sir? - You heard me.
We must get production going again.
Mr. Spock, you are second-in-command.
They're all through here, all over the place.
Tell her our proposition.
it would have to have some form of natural armour plating.
Ahead, warp factor 2.
It merely seems a pity.
This is Ed Appel, chief processing engineer.
Death is welcome.
Not only pergium, whatever you want:
captured, if possible.
I found the unit in there. It's in pretty good shape.
No, none. It's outdated. But we've never had any trouble with it.
I'm a doctor, not a savior
Are you certain? Sure. Are you certain? Sure.
Retard mechanism Lmoa
We must have that pergium.
Not all of them, captain.
Mr. Spock, have Lieutenant Commander Giotto
Come on.
our people will remove the minerals,
- Hundreds of them. - Indeed.
at a considerable distance,
Far too many to be cut by the one creature in an ordinary lifetime.
Sensors gave us an unusually rich pergium reading.
A Horta.
What is that, a plea for us not to kill it?
Like this thing. Like this thing.
He's a healer, let him heal.
Mr. Spock and I will control the operation
- Can you help it? - Helped it? I cured it.
It is vitally important that we get this installation back into production.
Strong enough to eat machinery?
Get together what you need and beam down here with it.
- Can you fix it again? - Negative, captain. It's gone for good.
almost as if he'd been thrown into a vat of extremely corrosive acid.
The Horta has a very logical mind.
Capture it? I don't recall giving any such order.
Mr. Spock, we need that retardation mechanism.
Starship, phaser banks...
Commander...
Mr. Spock,
They digest rock. They tunnel for nourishment.
Captain, if we could force another appearance of this creature...
you're aware of the Vulcan technique of the joining of two minds.
The creature must still be around.
Look at that.
How much longer, Scotty?
of all the drifts, galleries, tunnels.
Lewis, Vinci, take your men out.
especially since the colonists are armed only with phaser one.
Please proceed with extreme caution.
They're eggs, aren't they?