(It is vast, obviously constructed with ceiling lights and a power plant in the background. In the foreground is a transparent dome with three yellow brains in it.)
KIRK: The power source. Shielded by solid rock.
ONE [OC]: (a brain pulsates red) We are one thousand of your metres beneath the surface.
KIRK: Primary mental evolution. Incredible.
TWO [OC]: (pulsing green) That is not true, Captain. Once we had humanoid form, but we evolved beyond it.
THREE [OC]: (yellow) Through eons of devoting ourselves exclusively to intellectual pursuits, we became the physically simple, mentally superior creatures you see before you.
KIRK: A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior, mentally or otherwise.
ONE [OC]: The thralls are necessary to the games. We have found athletic competitions our only challenge, the only thing which furnishes us with purpose.
KIRK: It's an unproductive purpose, unworthy of your intellect.
ONE [OC]: We use only inferior beings.
THREE [OC]: A hundred quatloos on the newcomers.
ONE [OC]: Four hundred quatloos against the newcomers.
TWO [OC]: Two hundred quatloos against!
THREE [OC]: Five hundred for the newcomers. Contest by multiple elimination.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23870462
Scientists have grown a miniature "human brain" the size of a pea, in a feat they hope will transform the study of neurological disorders.
The structures have reached the same level of development as that of a nine-week-old foetus, but are incapable of thought.
The team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have already used the technique to study certain developmental defects, and say they hope to be able to use it to research disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.