Heh. After that episode aired, it was still a few years before I was old enough to fully comprehended that line about “givers of pain and delight”.
KARA: You will have him back and we will be destroyed.
KIRK: No. You won’t be destroyed. You’ll be without your Controller for the first time, but you’ll be much better off, I think.
KARA: We will die.
KIRK: No, you’ll live and develop as you should have. All this shouldn’t have been done for you. Now the women here below and the men here above will control together.
KARA: They will not help us without the pain.
KIRK: There are other ways. You’ll discover them. You must move to the surface, you understand.