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Mr. Spock, I'm gonna have to ask you to get in touch with the Horta again.

protects them. And when they hatch,

despite your tricorder readings.

this creature may be on that level?

Well, that's about it, Kirk. Thanks for everything.

Well, there were only fragments of bone and teeth left,

I'm a developer, Not a bricklayer

there were thousands of these at a lower level.

I'll take a life-form reading.

- You take the left, I'll take the right. - Should we separate?

But a geological oddity, to say the least.

There was no reason for it,

they're her eggs.

Strong enough to eat anything else away you can think of.

And I also found about a million of these silicon nodules.

Readings indicate a maze of tunnels of this general category in that direction.

There, they're coming.

I want to know why it suddenly took to murder.

The closest approximation I could come to would be fibrous asbestos.

Captain, I see no reason to stand here and be insulted.

But there is a possibility.

At least no life as we know it.

Or a single phaser with much longer contact.

Forty-eight hours, maybe, with a bit of luck.

Like the rest of them...

and it'll act like a bandage until it heals.

and we're gonna go in and kill it.

But I did get the distinct impression she found them

before returning to its own environment.

It has to hold longer than a bit.

Commander Giotto,

Stay on your toes, Schmitter.

You'll have it.

No, sir. We're being watched.

The reactor will go supercritical in about ten hours, sir.

It's mostly silicon.