Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Baudilio Eliason
On Vulcan, Kirk surveys his crew and they all vote "Aye, sir." Kirk states then to them "Let the record show that the commander and the crew of the late starship Enterprise have voted unanimously to return to Earth, to face the consequences for their actions in the rescue of their comrade, Captain Spock." Scott tells Kirk that it'll take him one more day to get their Klingon ship, named by McCoy as the HMS Bounty, ready to go; saying that while damage control is easy, reading Klingon is hard. McCoy laments that Starfleet could have at least sent a ship to pick them up as it's bad enough to know they will be court-martialed and likely imprisoned but the worst is going home in the "Klingon flea trap." Kirk says the "Klingon flea trap" has a cloaking device "which cost [them] a lot." McCoy comments that he wishes they could cloak the stench. Kirk looks up and sees Spock standing at a cliff looking down at them and the ship. Spock then walks off and goes back in a room and resumes computer testing of his mental faculties. While the tests show Spock has regained full control of his faculties once again, he is confused when the computer asks him how he feels.
The crew of the Starship Enterprise is still marooned on a faraway planet with the Klingon starship they commandeered in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock." They vote to return home aboard the alien vessel, but on the way they encounter a strange deep-space probe. It is sending out signals in an unknown language which, when deciphered, turns out to be the song of the humpback whale.
Amazing! I've been a star trek fan since I was 9 or 10 (26 now) starting with TNG and moved into TOS and then DS9 and VOY and finally this year I've been watching all of the trek since it's on Paramount now and i just wanted to share some appreciation for this movie and just all of trek in general. Just a couple things that come to mind are Spock not understanding how or when to use "colourful language", Scotty trying to talk to the 80s computer, Checkov of all people looking for the nuclear v(w)essels in the 80s. Anyway to anyone who took the time to read this: thank you and I'd love to hear any other things you might like about this one or just any trek in general
Captain's log, stardate 8031 in the twenty-third century. As commanding officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise, I look back on our most recent adventure and realise I could not have asked for a more dependable ship or dedicated crew. Chekov, Doctor McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu, and our late comrade, Spock, whose heroic sacrifice in our last mission is now deeply felt. Our ship and our lives have been endangered by an experimental project called Genesis designed to bring new life to barren moons. We sent Spock's body there to rest in peace. (scenes from "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.")[Kirk's apartment]SAREK: Why did you leave him on Genesis! Spock trusted you. You denied him his future!
KIRK: I saw no future.
[Electronic center]SAREK: Only his body was in death, Kirk. ...bring him to us ...and bring that which he gave you ...his living spirit.
[Starfleet officer's lounge]KIRK: ...if there's a chance that Spock has an eternal soul ...then it's my responsibility. ...Give me back the Enterprise!
MORROW: Out of the question, my friend!
SULU: The word, sir?
KIRK: The word ...is no I am therefore going anyway.
[Spacedock cafeteria]FIRST OFFICER (on intercom): Sir, someone is stealing the Enterprise!
STARFLEET VOICE: All stations, Yellow Alert!
[Enterprise bridge]CHEKOV: Sir. Commander, Starfleet on emergency channel. He orders you to surrender this vessel.
KIRK: No reply, Chekov.
SULU: One minute to space doors.
[Excelsior bridge]STYLES: Kirk! If you do this, you'll never sit in the Captain's chair again.
[Enterprise bridge]KIRK: Warp speed.
SULU: ...Warp speed.
KIRK: Best speed to Genesis.
Captain's log. (continued) Unfortunately we were not the first to arrive.
[Enterprise bridge]SULU: Klingon Bird of Prey, sir! She's arming torpedoes!
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]KIRK (on viewscreen): ...your presence here is an act of war.
KRUGE: Fire!
Captain's log. (continued) Quickly overpowered, we had no choice but to allow the Klingons aboard, which meant the only way to defeat them was to destroy the Enterprise.
[Enterprise bridge]TORG: ...The ship appears to be deserted.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]KRUGE: ...They're hiding!
Captain's log. (continued) Leaving our ship for the last time we fled to Genesis.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]COMPUTER VOICE: ...five,...
KRUGE: Get out! Get out...
[Genesis planet - Kirk's landing]KIRK: ...What have I done?
McCOY: What you had to do...
Captain's log. (continued) Just as the planet began to self-destruct we found Spock, and he was alive. His body had been regenerated but his mind was blank. Escaping Genesis we used the captured Klingon vessel to transport us to Vulcan where a mysterious ceremony was performed by Spock's people in an attempt to restore his memory.
[Vulcan temple area - sunrise]SPOCK: ...You came back for me.
KIRK: You would have done the same for me.
SPOCK: Why would you do this?
KIRK: Because the needs of the one ...outweigh the needs of the many.
Captain's log. (continued) Meanwhile, back on Earth, the punishment for our disobedience awaited us.
"The cast and crew of Star Trek wish to dedicate this film to the men and women of the spaceship Challenger whose courageous spirit shall live to the twenty-third century and beyond...."
OPENING CREDITS
[Saratoga bridge]SARATOGA CAPTAIN (OC): What do you make of it?
SARATOGA HELMSMAN: It appears to be a probe, Captain, from an intelligence unknown to us.
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: Continue transmitting, universal 'Peace' and 'Hello' in all known languages. ...Get me Starfleet Command.
SARATOGA HELMSMAN: Ready, Captain.
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: Starfleet Command, this is U.S.S. Saratoga patrolling Sector Five, Neutral Zone. We are tracking a probe of unknown origin on apparent trajectory to the Terran solar system. Attempts to communicate with the probe have been negative on all known frequencies.
STARFLEET VOICE (on intercom): Continue tracking, Saratoga. We will analyse transmissions and advise.
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: Roger, Starfleet, Saratoga out.
[Federation council chamber]COMPUTER VOICE (on viewscreen): ...six, ...five, ...four, ...three, ...two, ...one...
(on the viewscreen the Enterprise self-destructs)
KLINGON AMBASSADOR: Hold the image. Hold! ...Behold! The quintessential devil in these matters! James T. Kirk, renegade and terrorist! Not only is he responsible for the murder of a Klingon crew, the theft of a Klingon vessel. See now the real plot and intentions, Even as this Federation was negotiating a peace treaty with us, Kirk was secretly developing the Genesis torpedo, conceived by Kirk's son and test detonated by the Admiral himself! The result of this awesome energy was euphemistically called 'The Genesis Planet' ...A secret base from which to launch the annihilation of the Klingon people! We demand the extradition of Kirk! We demand justice!
SAREK: Klingon justice is a unique point of view, Mister President. ...Genesis was perfectly named. The creation of life not death. The Klingons shed the first blood while attempting to possess its secrets.
KLINGON AMBASSADOR: Vulcans are well known as the intellectual puppets of this Federation!
SAREK: Your vessel did destroy U.S.S. Grissom. Your men did kill Kirk's son. Do you deny these events?
KLINGON AMBASSADOR: We deny nothing! We have the right to preserve our race!
SAREK: Do you have the right to commit murder?
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: Silence! Silence! There will be no further outbursts from the floor.
SAREK: Mister President, I have come to speak on behalf of the accused.
KLINGON AMBASSADOR: Personal bias! His son was saved by Kirk!
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: Mister Ambassador, with all respect, the Council's deliberations are over.
KLINGON AMBASSADOR: Then Kirk goes unpunished?
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: Admiral Kirk has been charged with nine violations of Starfleet regulations.
KLINGON AMBASSADOR: Starfleet regulations? That's outrageous! Remember this well. There shall be no peace as long as Kirk lives!
Captain's log, stardate 8390. We are in the third month of our Vulcan exile. And it was Doctor McCoy with a fine sense of historical irony, who decided on a name for our captured Klingon vessel.
('HMS BOUNTY' is roughly painted in large red capital letters along the side of the Bird-of-Prey)Captain's log. (continued) ...And like those mutineers of five hundred years ago, we too have a hard choice to make.
[Vulcan - Bird-of-Prey on landing pad]KIRK: Doctor McCoy?
McCOY: Aye sir.
KIRK: Mister Scott?
SCOTT: Aye sir.
KIRK: Uhura?
UHURA: Aye sir.
KIRK: Chekov?
CHEKOV: Aye sir.
KIRK: Sulu?
SULU: Aye sir.
KIRK: Let the record show that the commander and the crew of the late Starship Enterprise have voted unanimously to return to Earth to face the consequences of their actions in the rescue of their comrade, Captain Spock. ...Thank you all. ...Repair stations, please.
KIRK: Mister Scott!
SCOTT: Aye sir?
KIRK: How soon can we be underway?
SCOTT: Give me one more day, sir. Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon, That's hard.
McCOY: You'd think they could at least send a ship. It's bad enough to be court marshalled and spend the rest of our lives mining borite, ...but to go home in this Klingon flea trap...
KIRK: We could learn a thing or two from this flea trap. It's got a cloaking device that cost us a lot.
McCOY: I just wish we could cloak the stench.
[Spock's Test Chamber]SPOCK: Computer. Resume testing. ...T'plana-Hath, matron of Vulcan philosophy
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: What is the molecular formula of aluminum sulfide crystal?
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: ...White Queen to section five, grid six. Queen takes Knight. Rook takes Queen. White pawn to section five, grid seven, pawn takes rook. Checkmate.
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: ...Correct. What significant contribution to bioengineering was made on the Loonkerian outpost on Klendth?
SPOCK: The universal atmospheric element compensator.
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: Evaluate and conclude. A starship's sensors indicate it is being pursued so closely that it occupies the same space as its pursuer.
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: ...Correct. Identify object and it's cultural significance.
SPOCK: Klingon mummification glyph.
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: What was the principle historical event on the planet Earth in the year nineteen eighty-seven?
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: ...Correct. What is Kiri-kin-tha's first law of metaphysics?
SPOCK: Nothing unreal exists.
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: ...Correct. Adjust the sine wave of this magnetic envelope so that anti-neutrons can pass through it but anti-gravitons cannot.
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: ...Correct. What is the electronic configuration of gadolinium?
TEST COMPUTER VOICE: ...Correct. How do you feel? ...How do you feel?
SPOCK: I do not understand the question.
AMANDA: What is it, Spock?
SPOCK: I do not understand the question, Mother.
AMANDA: You're half human. The computer knows that.
SPOCK: The question is irrelevant.
AMANDA: Spock, ...the retraining of your mind has been in the Vulcan way, so you may not understand feelings. But as my son, you have them. They will surface.
SPOCK: As you wish, since you deem them of value. But I cannot wait here to find them.
AMANDA: Where must you go?
SPOCK: I must go to Earth. To offer testimony.
AMANDA: You do this ...for friendship?
SPOCK: I do it because I was there,
AMANDA: Spock. Does the good of the many outweigh the good of the one?
SPOCK: I would accept that as an axiom.
AMANDA: Then you stand here alive because of a mistake ...made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one, ...you, ...was more important to them.
SPOCK: Humans make illogical decisions.
AMANDA: They do, indeed.
[Saratoga bridge]SARATOGA HELMSMAN: Here it comes now.
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: What's causing that?
SARATOGA SCIENCE OFFICER: Their call is being carried on an amplification wave of enormous power!
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: Can you isolate the wave?
SARATOGA SCIENCE OFFICER: Negative. It's impacting on all our systems!
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: Yellow Alert! Shields up. Helm, reduce closing speed!
SARATOGA HELMSMAN: Thruster controls have been neutralised!
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: Emergency Thrusters!
SARATOGA HELMSMAN: No response, Captain!
SARATOGA CAPTAIN (OC): Emergency lights! ...Damage report!
SARATOGA SCIENCE OFFICER: All systems have failed. ...We are functioning on reserve power only.
SARATOGA CAPTAIN: Starfleet Command, this is Saratoga. Can you hear me? Come in, please. ...Come in, please.
[Starfleet Command]STARFLEET AIDE: Thank you, sir.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: Status report, Admiral!
CARTWRIGHT: Mister President, the Probe is headed directly for us, The signal is damaging everything in its path. The Klingons have lost two vessels. Two starships and three smaller vessels have been neutralised.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: Neutralised? How?
CARTWRIGHT: We don't know. Get me the Yorktown.
YORKTOWN CAPTAIN: (on viewscreen) Emergency channel zero one three zero. Code red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien Probe. All attempts at regaining power have failed.
CARTWRIGHT: It's using forms of energy we do not understand.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: Can you protect us?
CARTWRIGHT: We are launching everything we have.
YORKTOWN CAPTAIN: (on viewscreen) Our systems engineers are trying to deploy a makeshift solar-sail. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]KIRK: Systems report. Communications?
UHURA: Communications systems all ready, sir. Communications officer is as ready as she'll ever be.
KIRK: Mister Sulu?
SULU: Guidance is functional. Onboard computer will interface with Federation memory bank.
KIRK: Weapons systems?
CHEKOV: Operational, Admiral. Cloaking device now available on all flight modes.
KIRK: I'm impressed, A lot of effort for a short voyage.
CHEKOV: We are in an enemy wessel, sir. I didn't wish to be shot down on the way to our own funeral.
KIRK: Most prudent. ...Engine room. Report, Mister Scott.
[Bird-of-Prey engineering]SCOTT: We're ready, sir. I've converted the dilithium sequencer into something a little less primitive. And Admiral, ...I have replaced the Klingon food packs. They was givin' me sour stomach.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]KIRK: Oh, is that what it was? ...Prepare for departure. Everybody not going to Earth had better get off. Saavik, ...this is goodbye.
SAAVIK: Yes sir.
KIRK: Thank you.
SAAVIK: Sir. I have not had the opportunity to tell you about your son. David died most bravely. He saved Spock. He saved us all. ...I thought you should know. ...Good day, Captain Spock. ...May your journey be free of incident.
SPOCK: Live long and prosper, Lieutenant. ...Permission to come aboard.
KIRK: Permission granted.
SPOCK: Thank you, Admiral.
KIRK: Jim, Spock! Jim! Don't you remember?
SPOCK: It would not be proper to refer to you as Jim while you are in command, Admiral. ...Also, I must apologise for my attire. ...I seem to have misplaced my uniform.
KIRK: Station.
McCOY: Are you sure this is such a bright idea?
KIRK: What do you mean?
McCOY: Him? I mean him, back at his post, like nothing happened. I don't know if you've got the whole picture but he isn't exactly working on all thrusters.
KIRK: It'll come back to him.
McCOY: Are you sure? ...That's what I thought.
KIRK: Mister Sulu, ...take us home.
SULU: Thrusters functional. ...One-quarter impulse power
[Spacedock]STARFLEET VOICE: (on intercom) Spacedock, this is Starfleet Command. Launch all vessels. Launch all vessels.
CONTROLLER #2: Sir! Spacedock doors are inoperative! All emergency systems are non-functional.
CONTROLLER #1: Engage reserve power.
CONTROLLER #2: Aye sir.
CONTROLLER #1: Starfleet Command, this is Spacedock on emergency channel. We have lost all internal power.
(the Probe over Earth is disturbing the oceans and the weather)[Bird-of-Prey bridge]SULU: Estimating Planet Earth, one point six hours present speed.
KIRK: Continue on course. Chekov, any signs of Federation escort?
CHEKOV: No sir. And no Federation wessels on assigned patrol stations.
KIRK: That's odd. Uhura, what's on the com channels?
UHURA: Very active, sir. Multi-phasic transmissions, overlapping. It's almost a gibberish. I will see if I can sort it out.
McCOY: Hi. ...Busy?
SPOCK: Uhura is busy. I am monitoring.
McCOY: Umm. Well, I just wanted to say it sure is nice to have your katra back in your head, not mine. What I mean is I may have carried your soul, but I sure couldn't fill your shoes.
SPOCK: My shoes.
McCOY: Forget it! ...Perhaps we could cover a little philosophical ground? Life, Death, Life. Things of that nature?
SPOCK: I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines.
McCOY: Come on Spock, it's me, McCoy! You really have gone where no man has gone before. Can't you tell me what it felt like?
SPOCK: It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame of reference.
McCOY: You're joking!
SPOCK: A joke is a story with a humorous climax.
McCOY: You mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?
SPOCK: Forgive me, Doctor, I am receiving a number of distress calls.
McCOY: I don't doubt it!
[Starfleet Command](the Probe is affecting Earth's oceans and weather more violently)
STARFLEET COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: Juneau, Alaska, clouds increasing to ninety-five percent!
STARFLEET DISPLAY OFFICER: Tokyo, total cloud coverage. All power is from reserve banks. Leningrad has lost all electrical power. Cloud cover one hundred percent. Temperatures decreasing rapidly.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: What is the estimated cloud cover of the Planet exactly?
COMPUTER VOICE: Seventy-eight point six percent.
CARTWRIGHT: Notify all stations. Starfleet Emergency, RED ALERT. Switch power immediately to planetary reserves. ...Mister President, even with planetary reserves we cannot survive without the sun.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT: I am well aware of that, Admiral. Ambassador Sarek, I'm afraid you're trapped her with us. There seems to be no way we can answer this Probe.
SAREK: It is difficult to answer when one does not understand the question. ...Mister President, perhaps you should transmit a planet distress signal, ...while we still have time.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]UHURA: Admiral?
KIRK: What is it?
UHURA: Overlapping distress calls, and now a message coming in from the Federation.
KIRK: On screen!
FEDERATION PRESIDENT (on viewscreen): This is the President of the United Federation of Planets. Do not approach Earth!
FEDERATION PRESIDENT (OC): The transmissions of an orbiting Probe are causing critical damage to this planet.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT (on viewscreen): It has almost totally ionised our atmosphere.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT (OC): All power sources have failed. All orbiting starships are powerless. The Probe is vaporising our oceans.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT (on viewscreen): We cannot survive unless a way can be found to respond to the Probe. Further communications may not be possible
FEDERATION PRESIDENT (OC): Save your energy, Save yourselves.
FEDERATION PRESIDENT (on viewscreen): Avoid the Planet Earth at all costs. ...Farewell.
KIRK: Uhura, let's hear the Probe's transmissions.
UHURA: Yes sir. ...On speakers.
KIRK: Spock? What do you make of that?
SPOCK: Most unusual. An unknown form of energy of great power and intelligence. Evidently unaware that its transmissions are disruptive. I find it illogical that its intentions could be hostile.
McCOY: Well, dammit? You think this is its way of saying 'Hi there' to the people of the Earth?
SPOCK: There are other forms on intelligence on Earth, Doctor. Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man.
KIRK: You're suggesting the transmission is meant for lifeform other than man?
SPOCK: It is a possibility, Admiral. The President did say that it was directed at Earth's oceans
KIRK: Uhura, ...can you modify the Probe's signals accounting for density and temperature and salinity factors?
UHURA: I'll try, sir. ...I think I have it.
KIRK: And this is what it would sound like underwater?
UHURA: Yes sir.
SPOCK: Fascinating. If my suspicion is correct, there can be no response to this message.
KIRK: Where are you going?
SPOCK: To test my theory.
KIRK: Bones, you stay here.
McCOY: No way, ...somebody's gotta keep an eye on him!
[Bird-of-Prey computer room]KIRK: Spock?
SPOCK: As suspected, the Probe's transmissions are the songs sung by whales.
KIRK: Whales?
SPOCK: Specifically, humpback whales.
McCOY: That's crazy! Who would send a Probe hundreds of light years to talk to a whale?
KIRK: It's possible. Whales have been on Earth far earlier than man.
SPOCK: Ten million years earlier. And humpbacks were heavily hunted by man. They've been extinct since the twenty-first century. It is possible that an alien intelligence sent the Probe to determine why they lost contact.
McCOY: My God!
KIRK: Spock, could the humpback's answer to this call be simulated?
SPOCK: The sounds, but not the language. We would be responding in gibberish.
KIRK: Does the species exist on any other planet?
SPOCK: Negative. Humpbacks were indigenous to Earth. Earth of the past.
KIRK: Then we have no choice. We must destroy the Probe before it destroys Earth.
SPOCK: To attempt to do so would be futile, Admiral. The Probe could render us neutral easily.
KIRK: But we can't turn away! ...There must be an alternative?
SPOCK: There is one possibility, but I cannot guarantee its success. We could attempt to find some humpback whales.
McCOY: You just said there aren't any, except on Earth of the past.
SPOCK: Yes Doctor, that's exactly what I said.
McCOY: Well, in that case... Now wait just a damn minute!
KIRK: Spock, start your computations for time warp. ...Bones, you come with me.
[Starfleet Command]COMPUTER VOICE: RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT!
STARFLEET COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: Admiral, we need that power to keep the medical and emergency systems functioning.
STARFLEET COMMUNICATIONS ENSIGN: All underground storage systems have been shut down.
COMPUTER VOICE: RED ALERT! RED ALERT! ...RED ALERT! RED ALERT!
(the chaotic scene continues as engineers try to reinforce a large window)
[Bird-of-Prey cargo bay]KIRK: Scotty, how long is this bay?
SCOTT: About sixty feet, Admiral.
KIRK: Can you enclose it to hold water?
SCOTT: I suppose I could. Are you planning to take a swim?
McCOY: Off the deep end, Mister Scott.
KIRK: Scotty, we've got to find some humpbacks.
SCOTT: Humpbacked ...people?
KIRK: Whales, Mister Scott, whales! Forty-five to fifty feet long, about forty tons each.
[Bird-of-Prey corridor]McCOY: Are you really going to try this time travel in this rust bucket?
KIRK: We've done it before.
McCOY: Sure, slingshot around the sun. If you pick up enough speed you're in time warp. If you don't, you fry.
KIRK: Would you prefer to do nothing?
McCOY: I'd prefer a dose of common sense. You are proposing to head backwards in time, find humpback whales, then bring them forward in time, drop them off, and hope to hell they tell this Probe what to do with itself!
KIRK: That's the general idea.
McCOY: That's crazy!
KIRK: You have a better idea, now's the time.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]KIRK: The computations, Mister Spock?
SPOCK: In progress, Admiral.
KIRK: Uhura. Get me through to Starfleet Command.
[Starfleet Command]COMPUTER VOICE: RED ALERT!
STARFLEET COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: I'm picking up a faint transmission, ...I think it's Admiral Kirk calling!
CARTWRIGHT: On screen!
KIRK (on viewscreen): Starfleet Command. This is Admiral James T. Kirk. ...We have intercepted and analysed the call of the Probe.
CARTWRIGHT: Go to reserve power. ...Now!
KIRK (on viewscreen): It is our opinion that humpback whales can give a proper response to the Probe.
CARTWRIGHT: Stabilise! Emergency reserve!
STARFLEET COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (OC): Emergency reserve.
KIRK (on viewscreen): We are going to attempt time-travel. We are computing our trajectory at this time.
CARTWRIGHT: Get him back! Get him back!
(the large window starts to collapse)
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]SPOCK: Ready to engage computer, Admiral.
KIRK: What is our target in time?
SPOCK: Late twentieth century.
KIRK: Surely you can be more specific.
SPOCK: Not with this equipment. I have had to programme some of the variables from memory.
KIRK: What are some of the variables?
SPOCK: Availability of fuel components, mass of the vessel through a time continuum, and the probable location of humpback whales, in this case, the Pacific basin.
KIRK: You've programmed that from memory?
SPOCK: I have.
McCOY: Angels and ministers of grace, defend us.
SPOCK: Hamlet, Act one scene four.
KIRK: No doubts about your memory. Engage computer. Prepare for warp speed. ...Shields, Mister Chekov.
CHEKOV: Shields, aye.
KIRK: May fortune favour the foolish? ...Warp speed, Mister Sulu!
SULU: Warp two, ...warp three.
KIRK: Steady as she goes.
SULU: Warp four, ... warp five, ...warp six, ...warp seven, warp eight.
CHEKOV: Heat shields at maximum.
SULU: Warp nine! ...Nine point two, ...nine point three.
KIRK: We need breakaway speed!
SULU: Nine point five, nine point six, nine point seven, nine point eight.
KIRK: Now, Mister Sulu!
(after the slingshot around the sun, ethereal voices)
UHURA: I should never have left him.
McCOY: Jim, where are we?
KIRK: You're talking about the end of everybody on Earth.
(the crew awake from the time-travel)
KIRK: Mister Sulu? ...Mister Sulu! ...Mister Sulu.
SULU: Aye sir?
KIRK: What is our condition?
SULU: Sir, ...the braking thrusters have fired.
KIRK: Picture, please. ...Earth. ...But when? ...Spock?
SPOCK: Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the latter half of the twentieth century.
KIRK: Well done, Spock.
SPOCK: Admiral, if I may, we're probably already visible to the tracking devices of the time.
KIRK: Quite right, Mister Spock. Engage cloaking device, Mister Chekov.
SULU: We are crossing the terminator into night.
SPOCK: Homing in on the west coast of North America.
UHURA: Admiral, I am receiving whale song.
KIRK: Put them on speakers.
UHURA: Admiral, this is strange. The song is directly ahead. It's coming from San Francisco.
KIRK: From the city? That doesn't make sense.
[Bird-of-Prey engineering]SCOTT: Admiral, we have a serious problem. Would you please come down? It's these Klingon crystals, Admiral. The time-travel drained them. They're giving out. De-crystallising.
KIRK: Give me a round figure, Mister Scott.
SCOTT: Oh, twenty-four hours, give or take, staying cloaked. After that, Admiral, we're visible, ...and dead in the water. In any case, we won't have enough to break out of Earth's gravity, to say nothing of getting back home.
KIRK: I can't believe we've come this far only to be stopped by this! Is there no way to re-crystallise dilithium?
SCOTT: Sorry, sir. We can't even do that in the twenty-third century.
SPOCK: Admiral, there may be a twentieth century possibility.
KIRK: Explain.
SPOCK: If memory serves, there was a dubious flirtation with nuclear fission reactors resulting in toxic side effects. By the beginning of the fusion era, these reactors had been replaced, but at this time, we may be able to find some.
KIRK: I thought you said they were toxic.
SPOCK: We could construct a device to collect their high-energy photons safely. These photons could then be injected into the dilithium chamber, causing crystalline restructure. ...Theoretically.
KIRK: Where would we find these reactors, ...theoretically?
SPOCK: Nuclear power was widely used in naval vessels.
[Bird-of-Prey bridge]SULU: San Francisco. I was born there.
McCOY: It doesn't look all that different.
KIRK: Set us down in Golden Gate Park.
SULU: Aye sir. Descending.
KIRK: We'll divide into teams. Uhura and Chekov are assigned to the uranium problem.
CHEKOV: Yes sir.
KIRK: Doctor McCoy, you, Mister Scott and Commander Sulu will convert us a whale tank.
McCOY: Oh, joy.
KIRK: While Captain Spock and I will attempt to trace these whale songs to their source.
UHURA: I'll have bearing and distance for you, sir.
KIRK: I want you all to be very careful. This is terra incognita. Many of their customs will doubtless take us by surprise. It's a forgone conclusion that none of these people have ever seen an extra-terrestrial before.
(Spock tears off part of his robe and ties it round his forehead and over his ears)
KIRK: This is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture. Mister Chekov will issue a phaser and communicator to each team. We'll maintain radio silence except in emergencies. Those of you in uniform, remove y