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It's a silicon nodule.

Spock, onboard?

Walk carefully...

The creature will be killed on sight, and that's the end of it.

You make the proper adjustments.

You mean, it's impossible to kill.

You're creating fantasies, Mr. Spock.

to kill it would be a crime against science.

An extremely active corrosive.

This creature here is the mother of her race.

for the operation of the reactor.

just prior to the first appearance of the creature.

There have been many generations of Horta on this planet.

Quickly. Quickly.

And they are the most inoffensive of creatures.

Well, sir, it's a plumber's nightmare, but it'll hold for a bit.

- Do you think she'll go for it? - It seems logical, captain.

You must re-establish communications with it.

It would seem so.

It's possible that our phasers might not affect it.

A chemical corrosion,

You don't dare take the chance, captain.

This tunnel goes back as far as the eye can see.

Mr. Vanderberg, I'll need a complete subsurface chart

Well, gentlemen, the Horta moves through rock

that your roof chose that particular moment to collapse.

The same indications shown at the door, captain,

other than the accountable human residents of this colony

It's your relief, Sam.

Mr. Vanderberg, may I ask at which level

in great pain, of course, because of its wound,

Within range of our sensors, there is no life,

I want your people to stay on the top level,

It simply has not yet been discovered.

- It may die. - It won't die.

it will be necessary to touch it.

You did not, sir.

It could poison half the planet. We can't shut it down.

...into the tunnel.

and each side will leave the other alone.

I'm concerned with my people right here, Kirk.

- Fascinating. - A good, clean shot.

but the plant's physician agrees with me.