INT. KELINDA’S QUARTERS

(Kirk gives Kalinda a full-on kiss with embrace.)

KELINDA: Is there some significance to this action?

KIRK: Well, among humans, it’s meant to express warmth and love.

KELINDA: Oh. You are trying to seduce me. I have been studying you.

KIRK: Me?

KELINDA: All humans. This business of love. You have devoted much literature to it. Why do you build such a mystique around a simple biological function?

KIRK: We enjoy it.

KELINDA: The literature?

KIRK: Kelinda, I’m sorry I brought up the whole subject.

KELINDA: Do you really regard this touching of the lips as pleasurable?

KIRK: I did.

KELINDA: Curious. Let me try.

(She kisses him, and Rojan enters.)

ROJAN: Is there some problem, Captain?

KIRK: Not when I came in.

(Kirk leaves)

ROJAN: What did he want here?

KELINDA: He came to apologize for hitting me. Apparently it involves some peculiar touching contact.

ROJAN: In what manner? (she kisses him) Very odd creatures, these humans.

———SPLICE HERE———

INT. REC ROOM

KIRK: You had something to say?

KELINDA: Yes. This cultural mystique surrounding the biological function.

KIRK: Yes?

KELINDA: You realise humans are overly preoccupied with the subject.

KIRK: Yes. We do think a great deal about it.

KELINDA: I’ve done some supplemental reading on it, and, er

KIRK: You have a question?

KELINDA: Yes. I was wondering, would you please apologize to me again?

(Kirk smiles broadly.)

———SPLICE HERE———

INT. REC ROOM

(There’s a whole lot of smooching going on.)

KELINDA: (coming up for air) Rojan has forbidden me to see you.

KIRK: Yes, that’s too bad. Why do you defy him?

KELINDA: It’s not a question of defiance. We were told to find out everything we could about you.

KIRK: Huh. And how’s the research going?

KELINDA: I need some more experiments.

(She’s getting the hang of kissing.)