- Scott: Ship's Log, Stardate 5710.5, Lieutenant Commander Scott reporting. While exploring an outer quadrant of the galaxy, the Enterprise received distress calls from an apparently uninhabited, incredibly beautiful city on the planet of Scalos. Captain Kirk and a landing party have beamed down to investigate.
- Captain James T. Kirk: But there is an insect life...
- Dr. McCoy: My tricorder doesn't register it.
- Captain James T. Kirk: It registers in my ears.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Spock. My compliments to your repair work and yourself.
- Mr. Spock: Thank you, Captain. I found it an accelerating experience.
- Captain James T. Kirk: It is my belief that they are turning the Enterprise into a gigantic deep freeze for purposes only the Scalosians know.
- Deela: Quite correct.
- Scott: Captain Kirk! Where the blazes did you come from?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Out of the nowhere, into the here.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's log, stardate 5710.9. Mr. Spock has remained in accelerated time so that he might effect repairs to the ship more rapidly.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Am I behaving incorrectly?
- Deela: No. I liked you better before - stubborn and irritating and independent, like Rael.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Those are undesirable qualities.
- Deela: Maybe that's why I liked you so much. Because you were like him.
- Deela: Do I displease you so much?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Oh, no. I can think of nothing I'd rather do than stay with you - except staying alive.
- Deela: Your quarters are quite like you, Captain - austere and efficient, and in their own way, handsome.
- Captain James T. Kirk: A room should reflect its occupant.
- Deela: absolutely.
- Deela: I'm glad we're both innocent. I despise devious people, don't you?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Oh, I believe in honest relationships myself.
- Deela: It was quite delightful kissing you when you couldn't see me. But now...
- Captain James T. Kirk: But now...
- Captain James T. Kirk: No sign of present life?
- Mr. Spock: Instrument readings indicate life form but of a highly unusual and intermittent nature. They have no discernible form or location. A most puzzling phenomenon, Captain.
- Uhura: Malfunction, sir.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Sulu, I would like...
- Uhura: Captain, it corrected itself.
- Sulu: Captain, there's some trouble on the hanger deck. The controls are frozen.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, could something be making me hallucinate?
- Dr. McCoy: Whadda you mean?
- Captain James T. Kirk: I mean that twice before something touched me and there was nothing there, and it just happened again. Could I be imagining it?
- Dr. McCoy: Well, physically, there's nothing wrong with you.
- Captain James T. Kirk: But am I hallucinating?
- Dr. McCoy: I'd say no.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Then we did beam something aboard. Something HAS invaded the ship.
- Dr. McCoy: There's no questions about it, Spock. I want you to take a look at this. The same substance is in the captain's coffee as in the Scalosian water and there's no trace of it in any of the other cups.
- Deela: What have you done to the transporter, Captain.
- Captain James T. Kirk: It was working before. Try it again.
- Deela: I don't care what your feelings are; I don't want to know that aspect of it. What I do is necessary, and you have no right to question it. Allow me the dignity of liking the man I select.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Have your readings been fed into the computer?
- Mr. Spock: Affirmative
- Captain James T. Kirk: Read out.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Yeoman, is that coffee available or have those circuits been damaged as well?