"The thing that bothers me, Bones," Kirk said as he sat in the doctor's office in sickbay, "was that if the Organians were really as powerful as they demonstrated, why didn't they intervene the moment the Klingons stepped on the planet? Or hell, even when we came on the planet?"
"Didn't you say they had some version of the Prime Directive that we have, Jim?" Dr. McCoy asked.
"Well, I suppose they did say that, didn't they," the captain mused. "Still, I would have liked to have known that they had those powers all along."
Bones chuckled despite himself. "Maybe you should give 'em a break. Us and the Klingons were probably the most interesting thing to happen on their planet in a few hundred years."
"Spock said that perhaps they were waiting to see if we could solve the problem peacefully. And we failed in that respect, I guess."
"I dunno. I think I'd rather be flesh and bone rather than whatever the hell the Organians were, if you ask me."
Kirk smiled a little, his frustration ebbing away in the presence of his friend. "I'd have to say I agree with you there, Bones."