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 It's outdated.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