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This creature here is the mother of her race.

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

- Fascinating. - A good, clean shot.

It's your relief, Sam.

You make the proper adjustments.

...into the tunnel.

and each side will leave the other alone.

An extremely active corrosive.

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

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

And they are the most inoffensive of creatures.

It would seem so.

Well, gentlemen, the Horta moves through rock

just prior to the first appearance of the creature.

You must re-establish communications with it.

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

other than the accountable human residents of this colony

to kill it would be a crime against science.

Within range of our sensors, there is no life,

You did not, sir.

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

it will be necessary to touch it.

A chemical corrosion,

Walk carefully...

I want your people to stay on the top level,

but the plant's physician agrees with me.

There have been many generations of Horta on this planet.

You're creating fantasies, Mr. Spock.

It simply has not yet been discovered.

for the operation of the reactor.

that your roof chose that particular moment to collapse.

It's a silicon nodule.

The same indications shown at the door, captain,

You mean, it's impossible to kill.

Quickly. Quickly.

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

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

Mr. Vanderberg, may I ask at which level

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

Spock, onboard?

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

You don't dare take the chance, captain.

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