1 00:04:40,405 --> 00:04:41,656 Tactical 2 00:05:02,970 --> 00:05:04,220 Visual 3 00:05:10,852 --> 00:05:13,604 Tactical, stand by on torpedoes. 4 00:05:21,738 --> 00:05:23,781 Ready... 5 00:05:26,243 --> 00:05:27,410 Fire! 6 00:05:53,270 --> 00:05:54,437 Evasive! 7 00:06:02,237 --> 00:06:06,782 This is comm station Epsilon IX calling U.S.S. Columbia. 8 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:09,535 Come in, Columbia. Respond, please. 9 00:06:15,917 --> 00:06:20,629 This is Epsilon IX, Columbia. Am boosting output. How read you this? 10 00:06:24,301 --> 00:06:27,803 Scout Columbia NCC-621, 11 00:06:27,971 --> 00:06:32,600 to rendezvous with Scout Revere NCC-595 12 00:06:32,684 --> 00:06:36,479 on Stardate 7411.4. 13 00:06:36,563 --> 00:06:39,023 Further orders will be relayed at that time, 14 00:06:39,107 --> 00:06:41,734 signed Commodore Probert to Starfleet. 15 00:06:41,818 --> 00:06:43,569 End of transmission. 16 00:06:48,283 --> 00:06:50,159 Intruder unidentified. 17 00:06:50,410 --> 00:06:54,413 Believe luminescent cloud to be enormous power field 18 00:06:54,498 --> 00:06:56,332 surrounding alien vessel. 19 00:06:56,416 --> 00:06:59,210 Our sensor scans unable to penetrate. 20 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:04,423 Imperial Klingon Cruiser Amar, continuing to attack. 21 00:07:05,842 --> 00:07:09,595 Our sensor drone is intercepting this on Quad L-14. 22 00:07:10,013 --> 00:07:12,348 That's within Klingon boundaries. Who are they fighting? 23 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:13,933 Unknown, sir. 24 00:07:15,685 --> 00:07:17,520 I have an exterior visual. 25 00:08:31,511 --> 00:08:34,430 We've plotted a course on that cloud, Commander. 26 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:38,100 It will pass into Federation space fairly close to us. 27 00:08:38,768 --> 00:08:40,019 Heading? 28 00:08:40,478 --> 00:08:43,355 Sir, it's on a precise heading for Earth. 29 00:09:38,328 --> 00:09:45,292 Our ancestors cast out their animal passions here on these sands. 30 00:09:45,877 --> 00:09:52,508 Our race was saved by the attainment of Kolinahr. 31 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:56,387 Kolinahr: through which all emotion is finally shed. 32 00:09:56,471 --> 00:10:00,975 You have labored long, Spock... 33 00:10:01,059 --> 00:10:05,688 Now receive from us this symbol of total logic. 34 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,300 Your thoughts... give them to me. 35 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:42,516 Our minds, Spock... 36 00:10:43,059 --> 00:10:46,020 ...one and together 37 00:10:58,408 --> 00:11:02,119 This consciousness calling to you from space... 38 00:11:02,203 --> 00:11:05,706 It touches your human blood, Spock. 39 00:11:14,090 --> 00:11:17,551 You have not achieved Kolinahr. 40 00:11:20,430 --> 00:11:22,765 His answer lies elsewhere. 41 00:11:24,225 --> 00:11:27,144 He will not achieve his goal with us. 42 00:11:29,272 --> 00:11:33,275 Live long and prosper, Spock. 43 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:25,953 Commander Sonak, 44 00:12:26,538 --> 00:12:28,747 you received your appointment as Enterprise science officer? 45 00:12:28,832 --> 00:12:30,749 Based, I am told, on your recommendation, Admiral. 46 00:12:30,834 --> 00:12:32,251 -Thank you. -Then why aren't you aboard? 47 00:12:32,335 --> 00:12:34,753 Captain Decker requested I complete final science briefing here 48 00:12:34,838 --> 00:12:37,506 -before we leave on our mission. -Here? At Starfleet? 49 00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:42,094 The Enterprise is in final preparation to leave dock. 50 00:12:42,178 --> 00:12:44,012 Which will require 20 more hours at minimum. 51 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:46,014 Twelve. 52 00:12:46,182 --> 00:12:47,891 I'm on my way to a meeting with Admiral Nogura 53 00:12:47,976 --> 00:12:50,185 which will not last more than three minutes. 54 00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:52,062 Report to me on the Enterprise in one hour. 55 00:12:52,147 --> 00:12:53,313 Report to you, sir? 56 00:12:53,398 --> 00:12:58,235 It is my intention to be on that ship following that meeting. 57 00:12:58,319 --> 00:13:00,070 Report to me in one hour. 58 00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:13,477 -Admiral! -Mr. Scott. 59 00:14:13,561 --> 00:14:16,688 Those departure orders, 12 hours, Starfleet cannot be serious. 60 00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:19,149 Why aren't the Enterprise transporters operating, Mr. Scott? 61 00:14:19,234 --> 00:14:21,026 A wee problem, sir. Just temporary. 62 00:14:21,110 --> 00:14:23,445 Admiral, we have just finished 18 months 63 00:14:23,530 --> 00:14:25,405 redesigning and refitting the Enterprise. 64 00:14:25,490 --> 00:14:28,200 How in the name of hell do they expect me to have her ready in 12 hours? 65 00:14:28,284 --> 00:14:29,993 Take me over, please. 66 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:36,208 She needs more work, sir. A shakedown. 67 00:14:36,292 --> 00:14:41,171 Mr. Scott, an alien object of unbelievable destructive power 68 00:14:41,256 --> 00:14:43,715 is less than three days away from this planet. 69 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,469 The only starship in interception range is the Enterprise. 70 00:14:47,804 --> 00:14:50,639 Ready or not, she launches in 12 hours. 71 00:15:12,078 --> 00:15:14,580 The crew haven't had near enough transition time 72 00:15:14,664 --> 00:15:15,998 with all the new equipment. 73 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:21,128 And the engines, they're not even tested at warp power. 74 00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:24,131 And an untried captain. 75 00:15:24,215 --> 00:15:26,633 Two and a half years as chief of Starfleet operations 76 00:15:26,718 --> 00:15:28,760 may have made me a little stale, 77 00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:31,513 but I wouldn't exactly consider myself untried. 78 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:39,271 -They gave her back to me, Scotty. -"Gave" her back, sir? 79 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,357 Well, I doubt it was that easy with Nogura. 80 00:15:42,609 --> 00:15:43,859 You're right. 81 00:15:46,362 --> 00:15:50,741 Well, any man who could manage such a feat, 82 00:15:50,825 --> 00:15:53,785 I would not dare to disappoint. 83 00:15:53,870 --> 00:15:56,955 She'll launch on time, sir. And she'll be ready. 84 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:48,413 -Pod secured. -Thank you, Mr. Scott. 85 00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:50,874 -Aye, sir. -Pressure equalized. 86 00:20:52,001 --> 00:20:57,339 Attention, launch crew, a travel pod is now available at cargo six. 87 00:20:59,216 --> 00:21:01,134 -Permission to come aboard, sir. -Granted, sir. 88 00:21:01,218 --> 00:21:02,928 Welcome aboard, Admiral. 89 00:21:03,012 --> 00:21:05,221 Commander Scott, you're needed in engineering immediately. 90 00:21:05,306 --> 00:21:06,765 Sir, you'll excuse me. 91 00:21:06,849 --> 00:21:08,683 Attention, launch crew. 92 00:21:08,768 --> 00:21:12,103 A travel pod is now available at cargo six. 93 00:21:12,772 --> 00:21:15,440 Travel pod available. Cargo six. 94 00:21:15,524 --> 00:21:18,652 -Sir, if you'll follow me, I'll show you... -I think I can find my way, Ensign. 95 00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:21,196 Aye, sir. 96 00:21:25,493 --> 00:21:26,534 Bridge. 97 00:21:31,958 --> 00:21:32,999 What's the problem? 98 00:21:33,084 --> 00:21:35,543 I thought you people had that circuit patched in an hour ago! 99 00:21:35,628 --> 00:21:38,046 We did. We had to disconnect it again so we could tie in radio messaging. 100 00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:39,547 All right. Take out... 101 00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:47,847 All right, as soon as somebody can get to it. 102 00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:51,643 -What's the next program? -Go ahead. 103 00:21:51,727 --> 00:21:53,561 I'll get somebody down there as soon as I can. 104 00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,730 Cleary, my people are all tied up now. 105 00:21:59,735 --> 00:22:03,989 Captain, Starfleet just signaled your transfer-of-command order, sir. 106 00:22:06,117 --> 00:22:08,410 -Captain. -I appreciate the welcome. 107 00:22:09,203 --> 00:22:11,371 I wish the circumstances were less critical. 108 00:22:11,455 --> 00:22:14,249 Epsilon IX is monitoring the intruder. Keep a channel open to them. 109 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:15,583 Aye, sir. 110 00:22:16,961 --> 00:22:18,420 Where's Captain Decker? 111 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:20,672 He's in engineering, sir. 112 00:22:20,756 --> 00:22:22,507 He... 113 00:22:22,591 --> 00:22:23,591 He doesn't know. 114 00:22:26,345 --> 00:22:28,013 -Mr. Chekov. -Aye, sir. 115 00:22:28,097 --> 00:22:31,683 Assemble the crew on the recreation deck at 0400 hours. 116 00:22:31,767 --> 00:22:33,810 I want to show them what we're facing. 117 00:22:38,691 --> 00:22:41,026 Engineering to all decks, 118 00:22:41,485 --> 00:22:44,571 auxiliary power test in three minutes. 119 00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:50,660 Check Cleary on number six. 120 00:22:50,745 --> 00:22:53,079 Engineering to all decks, 121 00:22:53,456 --> 00:22:56,750 auxiliary power test in three minutes. 122 00:22:57,168 --> 00:22:58,168 Mark. 123 00:23:08,345 --> 00:23:10,680 Space matrix restoration coils. 124 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:12,974 Dilithium crystals. 125 00:23:13,517 --> 00:23:16,936 I knew it! The transporter sensor was not activated. 126 00:23:18,606 --> 00:23:19,814 Faulty modules. 127 00:23:19,899 --> 00:23:22,567 Cleary! Put a new backup sensor into the unit. 128 00:23:22,651 --> 00:23:23,902 Aye, sir. 129 00:23:23,986 --> 00:23:26,154 -Ready. -Emergency shut-down trip. 130 00:23:26,906 --> 00:23:30,033 Admiral Kirk! Well, we're getting a top-brass sendoff. 131 00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:32,202 Don't worry. She'll launch on schedule, 132 00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:33,870 if we have to tow her out with our bare hands. 133 00:23:33,954 --> 00:23:37,665 -Right, Scotty? -Aye, that we will, sir. 134 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:41,169 -Let's talk. -Sure. 135 00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:42,462 Let me know when that backup's ready. 136 00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:43,630 Aye, sir. 137 00:23:43,714 --> 00:23:46,800 All due respect, sir, I hope this isn't some kind of Starfleet pep talk. 138 00:23:46,884 --> 00:23:48,051 I'm really too busy. 139 00:23:48,135 --> 00:23:50,220 I'm taking over the centre seat, Will. 140 00:23:50,805 --> 00:23:52,013 You're what? 141 00:23:52,098 --> 00:23:54,432 I'm replacing you as captain of the Enterprise. 142 00:23:55,059 --> 00:23:57,185 You'll stay on as executive officer, 143 00:23:57,770 --> 00:24:00,396 temporary grade reduction to commander. 144 00:24:03,025 --> 00:24:05,110 You, personally, are assuming command? 145 00:24:05,194 --> 00:24:06,236 Yeah. 146 00:24:07,029 --> 00:24:10,073 -May I ask why? -My experience. 147 00:24:11,242 --> 00:24:14,077 Five years out there dealing with unknowns like this. 148 00:24:15,454 --> 00:24:17,455 My familiarity with the Enterprise, its crew. 149 00:24:17,540 --> 00:24:21,042 Admiral, this is an almost totally new Enterprise. 150 00:24:21,127 --> 00:24:22,836 You don't know her a tenth as well as I do! 151 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,879 That's why you're staying aboard. 152 00:24:30,928 --> 00:24:32,804 I'm sorry, Will. 153 00:24:32,888 --> 00:24:35,598 No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. 154 00:24:36,267 --> 00:24:38,059 Not one damn bit. 155 00:24:39,854 --> 00:24:42,313 I remember when you recommended me for this command. 156 00:24:42,398 --> 00:24:43,731 You told me how envious you were 157 00:24:43,816 --> 00:24:47,610 and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. 158 00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:50,780 Well, sir, 159 00:24:52,116 --> 00:24:53,867 it looks like you found a way. 160 00:24:57,580 --> 00:25:00,748 Report to the bridge, Commander, immediately. 161 00:25:03,711 --> 00:25:05,086 Aye, sir. 162 00:25:17,433 --> 00:25:19,267 Transporter room, come in! Urgent! 163 00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:21,186 Red line on the transporter, Mr. Scott. 164 00:25:21,270 --> 00:25:23,521 Transporter! Do not engage. 165 00:25:23,606 --> 00:25:26,608 -It's too late. They're beaming now. -Do not... 166 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,571 Do you read me, Starfleet? Override it. Pull them back. 167 00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:33,781 Unable to retrieve their pattern, Enterprise. 168 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,955 Malfunction! Malfunction! Malfunction! 169 00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:43,917 -Malfunction! Malfunction! -Give it to me! 170 00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:46,211 Malfunction! 171 00:25:47,796 --> 00:25:51,341 Starfleet, boost your matter gain. We need more signal. 172 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,057 -More signal! -We're losing their pattern. 173 00:25:59,141 --> 00:26:01,392 Oh, no. They're forming. 174 00:26:18,744 --> 00:26:20,203 Oh, my God. 175 00:26:27,378 --> 00:26:29,420 Starfleet, do you have them? 176 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:34,926 Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long. 177 00:26:35,010 --> 00:26:36,177 Fortunately. 178 00:26:41,392 --> 00:26:43,017 Starfleet, Kirk. 179 00:26:45,354 --> 00:26:48,022 Please express my condolences to their families. 180 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:53,611 Commander Sonak's can be reached through the Vulcan Embassy. 181 00:26:59,368 --> 00:27:02,078 There was nothing you could have done, Rand. 182 00:27:02,162 --> 00:27:04,038 It wasn't your fault. 183 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,150 -Yeoman, turboshaft eight? -Back that way, sir. 184 00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:41,743 We have to replace Commander Sonak. 185 00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:46,080 I'd still like a Vulcan there, if possible. 186 00:27:46,248 --> 00:27:47,999 None available, Captain. 187 00:27:48,083 --> 00:27:51,169 In fact, there's no one who's fully rated on this design. 188 00:27:51,754 --> 00:27:53,421 You are, Mr. Decker. 189 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:56,758 I'm afraid you're gonna have to double as science officer. 190 00:28:29,083 --> 00:28:30,875 That's all we know about it. 191 00:28:32,795 --> 00:28:36,464 Except that it is now 53.4 hours away from Earth. 192 00:28:40,302 --> 00:28:44,430 Enterprise is the only Federation starship that stands in its way. 193 00:28:44,515 --> 00:28:49,060 We assume that there is a vessel of some type at the heart of the cloud. 194 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,563 Our orders are to intercept, 195 00:28:53,023 --> 00:28:56,484 investigate and take whatever action is necessary 196 00:28:57,736 --> 00:28:59,112 and possible. 197 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:06,911 We can only hope that there is a life form aboard that vessel 198 00:29:06,995 --> 00:29:09,622 that reasons the way we do. 199 00:29:14,461 --> 00:29:17,713 Bridge to Captain. Priority signal from Epsilon IX. 200 00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:19,882 -Put it on viewer. -On viewer, sir. 201 00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:24,679 Enterprise. The cloud is definitely a power field of some kind. 202 00:29:25,264 --> 00:29:26,722 Measures... 203 00:29:27,558 --> 00:29:31,686 My God! Over 82 AUs in diameter. 204 00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:35,606 Must be something incredible inside there generating it. 205 00:29:36,024 --> 00:29:39,986 We're transmitting linguacode friendship messages on all frequencies. 206 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:41,112 No response. 207 00:29:41,196 --> 00:29:43,072 I have a null reading at the centre of the cloud. 208 00:29:43,157 --> 00:29:46,951 Definitely something inside there, but all scans are being reflected back. 209 00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:50,371 -Some kind of power surge. -Receiving an odd pattern now! 210 00:29:50,456 --> 00:29:53,624 Enterprise, they could be mistaking our scans as a hostile act. 211 00:29:53,709 --> 00:29:55,460 They seem to be reacting to our scans, sir. 212 00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:57,044 Deflectors, emergency full! 213 00:29:59,923 --> 00:30:02,467 -We are under attack! -External view. 214 00:31:01,693 --> 00:31:03,027 Viewer off. 215 00:31:05,614 --> 00:31:06,822 Viewer off! 216 00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:21,087 Pre-launch countdown will commence in 40 minutes. 217 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,690 Photon torpedo load status. 218 00:31:41,441 --> 00:31:45,194 Transporter system fully repaired and functioning normally, sir. 219 00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:46,696 Dock signals clear, Captain. 220 00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:49,699 Reply we are holding position awaiting final crew replacements. 221 00:31:49,783 --> 00:31:51,033 Aye, sir. 222 00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:56,664 Transporter personnel reports the navigator, Lieutenant Ilia, 223 00:31:56,999 --> 00:32:00,209 she's already aboard and en route to the bridge, sir. 224 00:32:02,087 --> 00:32:04,005 She's Deltan, Captain. 225 00:32:09,428 --> 00:32:12,847 -Lieutenant Ilia reporting for duty, sir. -Welcome aboard, Lieutenant. 226 00:32:15,434 --> 00:32:17,977 -Hello, Ilia. -Decker. 227 00:32:18,061 --> 00:32:21,147 I was stationed on the lieutenant's home planet some years ago. 228 00:32:21,523 --> 00:32:23,190 Commander Decker? 229 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:26,027 Yes, our exec and science officer. 230 00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:28,404 Captain Kirk has the utmost confidence in me. 231 00:32:30,824 --> 00:32:32,783 And, in you, too, Lieutenant. 232 00:32:32,868 --> 00:32:35,536 My oath of celibacy is on record, Captain. 233 00:32:35,704 --> 00:32:37,913 -May I assume my duties? -By all means. 234 00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:41,125 Captain? 235 00:32:41,209 --> 00:32:44,086 Starfleet reports our last six crew members are ready to beam up, 236 00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:47,798 but one of them is refusing to step into the transporter. 237 00:32:47,883 --> 00:32:51,052 Oh? I'll see to it that he beams up. 238 00:32:52,054 --> 00:32:53,638 Transporter room. 239 00:33:14,576 --> 00:33:17,286 Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to the Starfleet... 240 00:33:17,371 --> 00:33:19,580 Just a moment, Captain, sir. 241 00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:22,083 I'll explain what happened. 242 00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:24,293 Your revered Admiral Nogura 243 00:33:24,378 --> 00:33:28,964 invoked a little known, seldom used reserve activation clause. 244 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:32,259 In simpler language, Captain, they drafted me. 245 00:33:32,386 --> 00:33:33,803 They didn't. 246 00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:39,141 This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn't it? 247 00:33:39,226 --> 00:33:40,685 Bones, there's a thing out there. 248 00:33:40,769 --> 00:33:43,938 Why is any object we don't understand always called a "thing"? 249 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:45,606 Headed this way. 250 00:33:46,316 --> 00:33:47,775 I need you. 251 00:33:50,028 --> 00:33:52,905 Damn it, Bones. I need you. 252 00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:54,990 Badly! 253 00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:12,216 -Permission to come aboard? -Permission granted, sir. 254 00:34:16,972 --> 00:34:18,431 Well, Jim. 255 00:34:19,099 --> 00:34:21,267 I hear Chapel's an MD now. 256 00:34:22,185 --> 00:34:24,353 Well, I'm going to need a top nurse. 257 00:34:24,438 --> 00:34:27,606 Not a doctor who'll argue every little diagnosis with me. 258 00:34:28,650 --> 00:34:31,902 And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay, too. 259 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,655 I know engineers. They love to change things. 260 00:34:56,178 --> 00:34:58,971 Dock control reports ready, sir. 261 00:34:59,431 --> 00:35:02,349 -Helm ready, sir. -Orbital departure on plot, sir. 262 00:35:03,018 --> 00:35:05,478 Yard command signaling clear, sir. 263 00:35:05,729 --> 00:35:08,147 Maneuvering thrusters, Mr. Sulu. 264 00:35:08,231 --> 00:35:10,483 -Maneuvering thrusters, sir. -Hold station. 265 00:35:11,485 --> 00:35:13,360 Thrusters at station-keeping, sir. 266 00:35:33,882 --> 00:35:35,716 Thrusters ahead, Mr. Sulu. 267 00:35:40,263 --> 00:35:41,555 Take us out. 268 00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:09,393 Intermix set, bridge. Impulse power at your discretion. 269 00:37:09,477 --> 00:37:11,437 Impulse power, Mr. Sulu. 270 00:37:13,648 --> 00:37:15,232 Ahead warp 0.5. 271 00:37:29,289 --> 00:37:32,207 -Departure angle on viewer. -Departure angle. 272 00:37:37,923 --> 00:37:40,758 -Viewer ahead. -Viewer ahead. 273 00:38:03,657 --> 00:38:07,326 Captain's Log, Stardate 7412.6, 274 00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:09,536 1 .8 hours from launch. 275 00:38:10,121 --> 00:38:13,374 In order to intercept the intruder at the earliest possible time, 276 00:38:14,167 --> 00:38:17,836 we must now risk engaging warp drive while still within the solar system. 277 00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:21,799 Captain, assuming we have full warp capability, 278 00:38:22,676 --> 00:38:25,761 accelerating to warp 7 on leaving the solar system 279 00:38:25,845 --> 00:38:30,224 will bring us to IP with the intruder in 20.1 hours. 280 00:38:30,767 --> 00:38:33,894 Science officer's computation confirmed, sir. 281 00:38:43,405 --> 00:38:46,657 Well, Bones, do the new medical facilities meet with your approval? 282 00:38:46,741 --> 00:38:50,119 They do not. It's like working in a damned computer centre. 283 00:38:50,203 --> 00:38:51,161 Programming ready? 284 00:38:51,246 --> 00:38:53,622 Program set for standard warp entry, Captain, 285 00:38:54,207 --> 00:38:56,667 but I still recommend further simulation study. 286 00:38:57,252 --> 00:39:01,463 Mr. Decker, every minute brings that object closer to Earth. 287 00:39:03,717 --> 00:39:05,259 Engineering, stand by for warp drive. 288 00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:08,554 Captain, we need further warp simulation on the flow sensors. 289 00:39:08,722 --> 00:39:11,098 Engineer, we need warp speed now. 290 00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:12,349 Jim? 291 00:39:13,601 --> 00:39:15,019 You're pushing. 292 00:39:17,022 --> 00:39:18,772 Your people know their jobs. 293 00:39:20,567 --> 00:39:22,568 That's it, sir. I can't do any better. 294 00:39:24,654 --> 00:39:25,821 Aye, lad. 295 00:39:28,783 --> 00:39:30,367 It's borderline on the simulator, Captain. 296 00:39:30,452 --> 00:39:32,786 I cannot guarantee that she'll hold up. 297 00:39:32,871 --> 00:39:34,329 Warp drive, Mr. Scott. 298 00:39:34,456 --> 00:39:38,167 -Ahead, warp 1, Mr. Sulu. -Accelerating to warp 1, sir. 299 00:39:40,628 --> 00:39:42,796 Warp 0.7. 300 00:39:43,673 --> 00:39:45,007 0.8. 301 00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:57,561 Warp 1, sir. 302 00:39:59,898 --> 00:40:03,150 -Mr. Decker... -Emergency alert! Emergency alert! 303 00:40:03,234 --> 00:40:04,276 Emergency alert! 304 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,654 Wormhole! Get us back on impulse power! Full reverse. 305 00:40:07,739 --> 00:40:09,531 Emergency alert! Emergency alert! 306 00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:25,380 Negative helm control, Captain. Going reverse on impulse power! 307 00:40:25,507 --> 00:40:28,675 Subspace frequencies jammed, sir! Wormhole effect! 308 00:40:40,146 --> 00:40:43,398 Negative control from inertial lag will continue 22.5 seconds 309 00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,359 before forward velocity slows to sub-light speed! 310 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,444 Unidentified small object 311 00:40:47,529 --> 00:40:50,447 has been pulled into the wormhole with us, Captain, directly ahead! 312 00:40:50,532 --> 00:40:53,534 Force fields up full. Put object on viewer. 313 00:40:59,290 --> 00:41:02,417 -Go manual override on helm! -No manual response, sir. 314 00:41:02,502 --> 00:41:04,545 Navigational deflectors coming up, sir. 315 00:41:05,046 --> 00:41:07,339 Wormhole distortion has overloaded the main power systems. 316 00:41:07,423 --> 00:41:10,008 Navigational deflectors inoperative, Captain. 317 00:41:11,219 --> 00:41:13,345 Directional control also inoperative. 318 00:41:20,103 --> 00:41:22,354 Time to impact? 319 00:41:22,897 --> 00:41:24,940 Twenty seconds. 320 00:41:25,525 --> 00:41:28,902 Mr. Chekov, stand by on phasers. 321 00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:30,946 No! 322 00:41:34,659 --> 00:41:38,120 Belay that phaser order! 323 00:41:48,423 --> 00:41:51,091 Arm photon torpedoes! 324 00:41:57,765 --> 00:42:01,518 Photon torpedoes 325 00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:08,108 armed! 326 00:42:14,199 --> 00:42:20,037 Object is an asteroid, reading mass 0.7. 327 00:42:22,957 --> 00:42:28,212 Targeting asteroid! 328 00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:33,008 Impact in ten seconds. 329 00:42:39,724 --> 00:42:44,478 -Impact in eight seconds. -Fire torpedoes! 330 00:42:44,812 --> 00:42:45,771 Six... 331 00:42:45,855 --> 00:42:49,274 -Torpedoes away! -...seconds. 332 00:42:49,651 --> 00:42:50,651 Four! 333 00:43:19,264 --> 00:43:20,931 We're out of it! 334 00:43:26,813 --> 00:43:28,522 Helm control restored, sir. 335 00:43:32,193 --> 00:43:36,071 -Position report, Navigator. -Computing new intersection course. 336 00:43:36,155 --> 00:43:38,115 Communications are normal, sir. 337 00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:42,202 Negative damage reported, Captain. No casualties reported, Doctor. 338 00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:45,414 Wrong, Mr. Chekov, there are casualties. 339 00:43:45,707 --> 00:43:47,040 My wits! 340 00:43:48,042 --> 00:43:50,752 As in "frightened out of," Captain, sir. 341 00:43:51,671 --> 00:43:53,255 We're at warp 0.8. 342 00:43:53,798 --> 00:43:55,382 Engineer, report your status there. 343 00:43:56,551 --> 00:43:59,970 In just a second, Exec. We're picking up the pieces down here! 344 00:44:02,390 --> 00:44:04,308 Mr. Scott, we need warp drive as soon as possible. 345 00:44:04,392 --> 00:44:06,643 Captain, it was the engine imbalance 346 00:44:06,728 --> 00:44:09,271 that created the wormhole in the first place. 347 00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:11,440 It will happen again if we don't correct it. 348 00:44:11,524 --> 00:44:13,483 That object is less than two days away from Earth. 349 00:44:13,568 --> 00:44:16,903 We need to intercept while it still is out there. 350 00:44:16,988 --> 00:44:18,488 Navigator, lay in a new heading 351 00:44:18,573 --> 00:44:21,742 to conform with our initial IP with the intruder. 352 00:44:21,951 --> 00:44:23,660 Mr. Sulu, you have the conn. 353 00:44:23,745 --> 00:44:27,247 Mr. Decker, I'd like to see you in my quarters. 354 00:44:27,373 --> 00:44:29,583 Mind if I tag along, Captain? 355 00:44:33,421 --> 00:44:34,713 Level five. 356 00:44:42,597 --> 00:44:45,599 All right, explanation. Why was my phaser order countermanded? 357 00:44:45,683 --> 00:44:48,643 Sir, the Enterprise redesign increases phaser power 358 00:44:48,728 --> 00:44:51,021 by channeling it through the main engines. 359 00:44:51,105 --> 00:44:53,565 When they went into anti-matter imbalance, 360 00:44:53,649 --> 00:44:56,068 the phasers were automatically cut off. 361 00:44:59,655 --> 00:45:01,782 Then you acted properly, of course. 362 00:45:02,617 --> 00:45:04,826 Thank you, sir. 363 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,996 I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. 364 00:45:09,624 --> 00:45:12,459 -You saved the ship. -I'm aware of that, sir. 365 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,463 Stop competing with me, Decker! 366 00:45:18,633 --> 00:45:20,634 -Permission to speak freely, sir? -Granted! 367 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:24,930 Sir, you haven't logged a single star hour in two and a half years. 368 00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:29,142 That, plus your unfamiliarity with the ship's redesign, in my opinion, sir, 369 00:45:29,227 --> 00:45:31,728 seriously jeopardizes this mission. 370 00:45:37,235 --> 00:45:39,986 I trust you will 371 00:45:40,321 --> 00:45:43,949 nursemaid me through these difficulties, mister? 372 00:45:44,033 --> 00:45:45,409 Yes, sir, I'll do that. 373 00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:48,120 Then I won't keep you from your duties any longer, Commander. 374 00:45:48,496 --> 00:45:50,414 -Yes, Doctor? -Aye, sir. 375 00:45:57,463 --> 00:45:59,464 He may be right, Jim. 376 00:46:08,224 --> 00:46:10,851 Was it difficult? 377 00:46:10,935 --> 00:46:12,561 No more than I expected. 378 00:46:12,645 --> 00:46:14,855 About as difficult as seeing you again. 379 00:46:17,191 --> 00:46:18,525 I'm sorry. 380 00:46:18,609 --> 00:46:22,529 That you left Delta IV? Or that you didn't even say goodbye? 381 00:46:25,575 --> 00:46:28,910 If I had seen you again, 382 00:46:28,995 --> 00:46:31,121 would you have been able to say it? 383 00:46:33,458 --> 00:46:34,958 No. 384 00:46:47,930 --> 00:46:49,598 Make your point, Doctor. 385 00:46:49,891 --> 00:46:53,059 The point, Captain, is that it's you who's competing. 386 00:46:53,144 --> 00:46:55,812 You rammed getting this command down Starfleet's throat. 387 00:46:55,897 --> 00:46:58,565 You've used this emergency to get the Enterprise back. 388 00:47:02,278 --> 00:47:04,237 And I intend to keep her, is that what you're saying? 389 00:47:04,322 --> 00:47:07,699 Yes. It's an obsession. 390 00:47:08,576 --> 00:47:09,910 An obsession that can blind you 391 00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:13,288 to far more immediate and critical responsibilities. 392 00:47:13,831 --> 00:47:17,834 Your reaction to Decker is an example, Jim. 393 00:47:17,919 --> 00:47:20,754 -Bridge to Captain. -Viewer on. 394 00:47:22,423 --> 00:47:25,634 Signal from a Federation-registered long-range shuttle, sir. 395 00:47:25,885 --> 00:47:29,179 She wishes to come alongside and lock on. 396 00:47:29,263 --> 00:47:30,263 For what purpose? 397 00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:34,059 My security scan shows it has a Grade 1 priority, Captain. 398 00:47:34,268 --> 00:47:36,269 Non-belligerency confirmed. 399 00:47:36,354 --> 00:47:39,439 I suspect it is a courier of some kind. 400 00:47:39,607 --> 00:47:41,816 Very well, Mr. Chekov. See to it. 401 00:47:42,735 --> 00:47:46,238 Viewer off. Your opinion has been noted. 402 00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:50,367 Anything further? 403 00:47:50,451 --> 00:47:52,536 That depends on you. 404 00:49:06,986 --> 00:49:11,531 Security scan. One boarder. Identity, Starfleet. Inactive. 405 00:49:17,830 --> 00:49:19,706 Permission to come aboard, sir. 406 00:49:19,790 --> 00:49:23,543 Granted, sir! Granted. 407 00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:36,806 -Why, why, it's Mr Spock! 408 00:49:41,145 --> 00:49:42,812 Spock. 409 00:49:48,861 --> 00:49:51,446 Commander, if I may? 410 00:50:04,335 --> 00:50:05,919 I've been monitoring your communications 411 00:50:06,003 --> 00:50:08,338 with Starfleet Command, Captain. 412 00:50:08,631 --> 00:50:12,175 I'm aware of your engine design difficulties. 413 00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:16,805 I offer my services as science officer. 414 00:50:16,931 --> 00:50:18,431 With all due respect, Commander. 415 00:50:19,767 --> 00:50:21,017 If our exec has no objections? 416 00:50:21,102 --> 00:50:23,645 Of course not. I'm well aware of Mr Spock's qualifications. 417 00:50:23,729 --> 00:50:27,857 Mr Chekov, log Mr Spock's Starfleet commission reactivated, 418 00:50:27,942 --> 00:50:30,026 list him as science officer, 419 00:50:30,861 --> 00:50:34,489 both effective immediately. 420 00:50:34,573 --> 00:50:35,657 Mr Spock! 421 00:50:35,741 --> 00:50:38,201 Well, so help me, I'm actually pleased to see you! 422 00:50:52,049 --> 00:50:53,717 It's how we all feel, Mr Spock. 423 00:50:53,801 --> 00:50:55,719 Captain, with your permission, 424 00:50:55,803 --> 00:50:58,555 I will now discuss these fuel equations with the engineer. 425 00:51:03,185 --> 00:51:06,855 Mr Spock? Welcome aboard. 426 00:51:30,921 --> 00:51:34,215 Captain's Log, Stardate 7413.4. 427 00:51:35,050 --> 00:51:38,094 Thanks to Mr Spock's timely arrival, and assistance, 428 00:51:38,929 --> 00:51:42,348 we have the engines rebalanced into full warp capacity. 429 00:51:42,683 --> 00:51:45,018 Repair time, less than three hours. 430 00:51:45,102 --> 00:51:47,604 Which means, we will now be able to intercept intruder 431 00:51:47,688 --> 00:51:49,689 while still more than a day from Earth. 432 00:51:51,317 --> 00:51:52,901 Warp 0.8. 433 00:51:58,449 --> 00:51:59,449 0.9. 434 00:52:07,917 --> 00:52:09,375 Warp 2, sir. 435 00:52:12,213 --> 00:52:13,880 Warp 3. 436 00:52:16,425 --> 00:52:17,926 Warp 4. 437 00:52:20,888 --> 00:52:22,388 Warp 5. 438 00:52:24,892 --> 00:52:26,726 Warp 6. 439 00:52:50,709 --> 00:52:54,712 Science Officer Spock, reporting as ordered, Captain. 440 00:52:55,214 --> 00:52:58,216 Please, sit down. 441 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:00,218 Spock, you haven't changed a bit. 442 00:53:00,302 --> 00:53:03,054 You're just as warm and sociable as ever. 443 00:53:03,430 --> 00:53:05,348 Nor have you, Doctor, 444 00:53:05,432 --> 00:53:09,143 as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates. 445 00:53:09,270 --> 00:53:10,812 Gentlemen. 446 00:53:12,773 --> 00:53:17,694 At last report, you were on Vulcan, apparently to stay. 447 00:53:17,987 --> 00:53:21,447 Yes, you were undergoing the Kolinahr discipline. 448 00:53:22,658 --> 00:53:23,700 Sit down. 449 00:53:23,784 --> 00:53:28,538 If you are referring to the Kolinahr, Doctor, you are correct. 450 00:53:28,622 --> 00:53:31,499 Well, however it's pronounced, Mr Spock, 451 00:53:31,584 --> 00:53:36,379 it's the Vulcan ritual that's supposed to purge all remaining emotions. 452 00:53:36,463 --> 00:53:39,716 The Kolinahr is also a discipline you broke 453 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,551 to join us. 454 00:53:43,178 --> 00:53:46,973 Will you please sit down? 455 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,112 On Vulcan I began sensing a consciousness 456 00:54:01,196 --> 00:54:04,782 from a source more powerful than I have ever encountered. 457 00:54:04,867 --> 00:54:08,036 Thought patterns of exactingly, perfect order. 458 00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,039 I believe they emanate from the intruder. 459 00:54:11,123 --> 00:54:13,458 I believe it may hold my answers. 460 00:54:13,834 --> 00:54:17,420 Well, isn't it lucky for you that we just happened to be heading your way? 461 00:54:18,505 --> 00:54:20,548 Bones! 462 00:54:21,884 --> 00:54:23,343 We need him. 463 00:54:25,721 --> 00:54:26,804 I need him. 464 00:54:28,349 --> 00:54:31,100 Then my presence is to our mutual advantage? 465 00:54:37,483 --> 00:54:40,193 Any thought patterns you might sense, 466 00:54:42,363 --> 00:54:44,322 whether they appear to affect you personally or not, 467 00:54:44,406 --> 00:54:46,616 I expect immediately reported. 468 00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:48,201 Of course, Captain. 469 00:54:49,411 --> 00:54:51,412 Is there anything else? 470 00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:52,830 No. 471 00:55:03,884 --> 00:55:05,385 Jim? 472 00:55:08,597 --> 00:55:13,476 If this super-intelligence is as important to him as he says it is, 473 00:55:14,228 --> 00:55:15,561 how do we know... 474 00:55:15,646 --> 00:55:18,564 That he wouldn't put his own interests ahead of the ship's? 475 00:55:21,235 --> 00:55:22,276 I could never believe that. 476 00:55:22,361 --> 00:55:23,653 Bridge to officer's lounge. 477 00:55:23,737 --> 00:55:27,907 Captain Kirk, revised estimate on cloud visual contact, 3.7 minutes. 478 00:55:28,659 --> 00:55:33,079 Red Alert! Red Alert! 479 00:55:33,247 --> 00:55:36,082 Red Alert! Red Alert! 480 00:55:45,759 --> 00:55:47,260 Standard light, Engineer. 481 00:55:49,096 --> 00:55:51,472 -Full mag on viewer! -Full mag, sir. 482 00:56:00,941 --> 00:56:01,941 Linguacode? 483 00:56:02,026 --> 00:56:04,235 Continuing friendship messages on all frequencies, sir. 484 00:56:04,319 --> 00:56:06,612 All decks and divisions confirmed. Status Red. 485 00:56:06,780 --> 00:56:11,200 -Captain, we are being scanned. -Do no return scan, Mr Spock. 486 00:56:12,244 --> 00:56:14,037 It could be misinterpreted as hostility. 487 00:56:14,121 --> 00:56:17,290 Intruder scans emanating from the exact centre of the cloud. 488 00:56:18,125 --> 00:56:21,919 Energy of a type never before encountered. 489 00:56:30,679 --> 00:56:32,805 There's no response to friendship messages, sir. 490 00:56:32,890 --> 00:56:34,265 Shall I go to battle stations, sir? 491 00:56:34,349 --> 00:56:36,392 Negative. We'll take no provocative action. 492 00:56:36,477 --> 00:56:40,188 Recommend defensive posture, Captain. Screens and shields. 493 00:56:41,190 --> 00:56:45,651 No, Mr Decker. That could also be misinterpreted as hostile. 494 00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:49,322 Cloud composition, Mr Spock? 495 00:56:49,490 --> 00:56:51,949 -Twelfth power energy field. -Twelfth power? 496 00:56:52,034 --> 00:56:53,659 Captain, we've seen what their weapons can do. 497 00:56:53,744 --> 00:56:55,244 Shouldn't we take every possible precaution? 498 00:56:55,329 --> 00:56:57,497 -Mr Decker... -Captain. 499 00:56:57,581 --> 00:57:01,084 I suspect there's an object at the heart of that cloud. 500 00:57:05,714 --> 00:57:07,673 Mr Decker, I will not provoke an attack. 501 00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,217 If that order isn't clear enough for you... 502 00:57:09,301 --> 00:57:13,721 Captain, as your exec, it's my duty to point out alternatives. 503 00:57:15,474 --> 00:57:18,101 Yes, it is. 504 00:57:18,185 --> 00:57:19,644 I stand corrected. 505 00:57:19,728 --> 00:57:21,395 Five minutes to cloud boundary. 506 00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:25,775 Navigator, lay in a conic section flight path to the cloud centre. 507 00:57:25,859 --> 00:57:29,278 Bring us parallel to whatever we find in there. 508 00:57:29,363 --> 00:57:32,657 -Mr Sulu, tactical plot on viewer. -Tactical on viewer, sir. 509 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,049 That measures twelfth power energy? 510 00:57:52,010 --> 00:57:54,720 Thousands of starships couldn't generate that much... 511 00:57:55,931 --> 00:57:57,223 Mr Spock? 512 00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:02,812 Spock, tell me. 513 00:58:11,321 --> 00:58:14,490 I sense puzzlement. 514 00:58:16,368 --> 00:58:18,786 We have been contacted. 515 00:58:20,372 --> 00:58:22,248 Why have we not replied? 516 00:58:22,749 --> 00:58:24,709 Contacted? 517 00:58:24,793 --> 00:58:25,918 How? 518 00:58:27,421 --> 00:58:28,421 Standard on viewer. 519 00:58:28,505 --> 00:58:30,548 Force fields up full! Deflectors, now! 520 00:58:30,632 --> 00:58:34,594 Mark, zero. Incoming fire ahead. 521 00:58:34,678 --> 00:58:37,013 Force fields and deflectors up full, Captain! 522 00:58:45,606 --> 00:58:46,731 Analysis, Mr Spock. 523 00:58:46,815 --> 00:58:49,775 Alien weapon is a form of plasma energy, Captain. 524 00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:54,155 Exact composition, unknown. Guidance system, unknown. 525 00:58:56,867 --> 00:58:58,701 All decks brace for impact. 526 00:59:07,169 --> 00:59:09,503 Registering power loss on force fields! 527 00:59:09,588 --> 00:59:11,297 Engineering, what's happening to our force fields? 528 00:59:11,381 --> 00:59:13,216 Systems overloading, Captain! 529 00:59:23,268 --> 00:59:25,978 -Medic. -Medics are coming. 530 00:59:37,658 --> 00:59:39,408 The new screens held. 531 00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:42,912 Engineering to bridge. Cannot hold full power on force fields! 532 00:59:42,996 --> 00:59:45,790 Deflector power is down 70%! 533 00:59:45,874 --> 00:59:47,792 Divert auxiliary power to deflectors. 534 00:59:51,838 --> 00:59:54,173 Captain. 535 00:59:54,258 --> 00:59:56,926 The intruder has been attempting to communicate. 536 00:59:57,010 --> 01:00:00,179 Our previous transmission mode was too primitive to be received. 537 01:00:00,264 --> 01:00:03,266 I am now programming our computer to transmit linguacode 538 01:00:03,350 --> 01:00:05,851 at their frequency and rate of speed. 539 01:00:06,603 --> 01:00:07,937 Commander. 540 01:00:17,197 --> 01:00:19,031 Spock. 541 01:00:24,663 --> 01:00:26,289 Here it comes! 542 01:00:26,540 --> 01:00:27,707 Engineering! Status report! 543 01:00:27,791 --> 01:00:31,294 Our shields cannot handle another attack. 544 01:00:31,378 --> 01:00:32,837 Mr Spock! 545 01:00:37,134 --> 01:00:38,884 Impact in 20 seconds. 546 01:00:41,305 --> 01:00:42,305 Spock! 547 01:00:42,389 --> 01:00:44,807 15 seconds! 548 01:00:44,891 --> 01:00:47,143 Spock! Transmit now! 549 01:00:47,227 --> 01:00:49,520 10 seconds. 550 01:00:49,604 --> 01:00:50,604 Transmitting. 551 01:01:02,659 --> 01:01:04,452 It would seem our friendship messages 552 01:01:04,578 --> 01:01:07,496 have been received and understood, Mr Spock. 553 01:01:07,581 --> 01:01:10,624 I would say that was a logical assumption, Captain. 554 01:01:11,918 --> 01:01:15,087 -Mr Sulu, hold present position. -Holding present position, sir. 555 01:01:23,972 --> 01:01:25,264 Tactical plot on viewer. 556 01:01:25,432 --> 01:01:27,975 Course projection on tactical, sir. 557 01:01:33,857 --> 01:01:37,234 -Opinion, Mr Spock. -Recommend we proceed, Captain. 558 01:01:38,362 --> 01:01:41,197 -Mr Decker? -I advise caution, Captain. 559 01:01:41,281 --> 01:01:43,032 We can't withstand another attack. 560 01:01:43,116 --> 01:01:45,743 That thing is 20 hours away from Earth. 561 01:01:45,827 --> 01:01:48,871 -We know nothing about it as yet. -Precisely the point, Captain. 562 01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:52,666 We don't know what it'll do. Moving into that cloud at this time 563 01:01:53,794 --> 01:01:55,753 is an unwarranted gamble. 564 01:01:56,838 --> 01:01:59,131 How do you define "unwarranted"? 565 01:02:02,469 --> 01:02:04,637 You asked my opinion, sir. 566 01:02:12,104 --> 01:02:14,313 Viewer, standard ahead. 567 01:02:23,740 --> 01:02:28,702 Navigator, maintain course. Helmsman, steady as she goes. 568 01:04:42,212 --> 01:04:45,756 No vessel could generate a power field of this magnitude. 569 01:04:47,801 --> 01:04:50,094 Spock? 570 01:04:52,389 --> 01:04:54,390 Instruments fluctuating, Captain. 571 01:04:57,143 --> 01:04:59,270 Patterns unrecognizable. 572 01:06:43,541 --> 01:06:45,000 Transmit image of alien to Starfleet. 573 01:06:45,085 --> 01:06:46,669 Advise we are attempting further communication. 574 01:06:46,753 --> 01:06:49,713 Unable to make contact with Starfleet, Captain. 575 01:06:49,798 --> 01:06:53,759 Any attempt to transmit out of the cloud is being reflected back! 576 01:07:02,936 --> 01:07:05,104 We are closing on it rapidly, Captain. 577 01:07:13,780 --> 01:07:16,907 Reduce magnification, factor four, Mr Sulu. 578 01:07:16,991 --> 01:07:19,034 We're already two settings below that, sir. 579 01:07:23,373 --> 01:07:25,582 Mr Sulu, 580 01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:31,630 bring us into a parallel course over the alien at 500 meters. 581 01:07:32,298 --> 01:07:34,091 500 meters? 582 01:07:35,301 --> 01:07:39,555 Then take us out to 100 kilometers distance, adjusting parallel course. 583 01:07:41,474 --> 01:07:42,558 Aye, sir. 584 01:09:42,846 --> 01:09:46,139 -Viewer astern. -Reverse angle on the viewer, Captain. 585 01:10:06,452 --> 01:10:10,497 Five hundred meters. Viewer ahead, sir. 586 01:12:40,106 --> 01:12:42,357 Hold relative position here. 587 01:12:43,067 --> 01:12:45,694 Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! 588 01:12:45,778 --> 01:12:49,698 Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! 589 01:12:49,782 --> 01:12:52,451 Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! 590 01:13:22,148 --> 01:13:26,485 Mr Spock, can that be one of their crew? 591 01:13:27,820 --> 01:13:32,115 A probe from their vessel, Captain. Plasma, energy combination. 592 01:13:34,827 --> 01:13:36,620 Don't interfere with it! 593 01:13:36,704 --> 01:13:38,914 Absolutely, I will not interfere. 594 01:13:40,958 --> 01:13:42,834 No one interfere! 595 01:13:44,087 --> 01:13:45,879 It doesn't seem interested in us! 596 01:13:46,547 --> 01:13:48,215 Only the ship. 597 01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:05,816 Computer off! 598 01:14:12,949 --> 01:14:15,033 It's taken control of the computer. 599 01:14:21,415 --> 01:14:24,709 It's running our records! Earth defenses! Starfleet strength! 600 01:15:00,246 --> 01:15:01,913 Ilia! 601 01:15:06,085 --> 01:15:07,085 Ilia! 602 01:15:30,276 --> 01:15:32,569 This is how I define unwarranted. 603 01:15:42,455 --> 01:15:45,498 Activate auxiliary computer circuits through manual shutoff. 604 01:15:50,338 --> 01:15:53,965 Emergency Alert! Negative control at helm! 605 01:15:54,050 --> 01:15:57,135 Emergency Alert! Negative control at helm! 606 01:15:57,428 --> 01:16:00,555 Emergency Alert! Negative control at helm! 607 01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,641 Force fields! Full remaining strength! Total reserve! 608 01:16:02,767 --> 01:16:05,435 This ship is under attack. Man all defensive stations. 609 01:16:11,901 --> 01:16:14,361 Captain, we've been seized by a tractor beam. 610 01:16:14,445 --> 01:16:16,821 Get someone up here to take the navigator's station. 611 01:16:16,906 --> 01:16:18,615 -Engineering! -Chief DiFalco, to the bridge! 612 01:16:18,699 --> 01:16:19,783 Emergency power! 613 01:16:19,867 --> 01:16:23,119 Going to full emergency! 614 01:16:23,204 --> 01:16:27,624 But, Captain, if we don't break free in 15 seconds, she'll burn up! 615 01:16:27,708 --> 01:16:29,376 We cannot break free, Captain. 616 01:16:29,460 --> 01:16:31,753 We have only a fraction of the power necessary. 617 01:16:31,837 --> 01:16:36,341 Engineering, belay that order. Disengage all main drive systems. 618 01:16:54,402 --> 01:16:57,529 Chief DiFalco, take over Lieutenant Lila’s station. 619 01:17:04,036 --> 01:17:06,538 DiFalco, disengage engine navigation relays now! 620 01:17:06,622 --> 01:17:07,664 Aye, sir. 621 01:17:07,748 --> 01:17:11,334 Force field circuits E10 through 14 show ready for reactivation. 622 01:17:11,419 --> 01:17:12,711 Confirm, please. 623 01:17:14,255 --> 01:17:16,339 Scotty, drive systems should be free now. 624 01:17:16,424 --> 01:17:17,590 Commander? 625 01:17:17,675 --> 01:17:19,676 Ready to launch remote communications drone 626 01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:23,263 with complete ships records, including our present situation, sir. 627 01:17:23,347 --> 01:17:24,889 Delay launching as long as possible. 628 01:17:24,974 --> 01:17:27,475 Our drone can't escape as long as we're held in that tractor. 629 01:17:27,643 --> 01:17:28,643 Aye. 630 01:17:54,545 --> 01:17:57,839 Captain, a maximum phaser strike directly at the beam 631 01:17:57,923 --> 01:17:59,966 might weaken it just enough for us to break free. 632 01:18:00,051 --> 01:18:02,635 Break free to where, Commander? 633 01:18:03,262 --> 01:18:05,638 Any show of resistance would be futile, Captain. 634 01:18:05,723 --> 01:18:07,640 We don't know that, Mr Spock. 635 01:18:08,768 --> 01:18:10,602 Why are you opposed to trying? 636 01:19:01,487 --> 01:19:07,575 Why bring us inside? Not to destroy us. They could have done that outside. 637 01:19:07,660 --> 01:19:09,536 They still can. 638 01:19:09,620 --> 01:19:11,329 Curiosity, Mr Decker. 639 01:19:13,165 --> 01:19:16,000 Insatiable curiosity. 640 01:19:23,926 --> 01:19:28,888 Captain, photic sonar readings indicate the aperture is closing. 641 01:19:28,973 --> 01:19:30,682 We're trapped, sir. 642 01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,144 Reverse angle on the viewer, Captain. 643 01:19:58,878 --> 01:20:01,754 Tractor beam has released us, Captain. 644 01:20:01,881 --> 01:20:06,426 Confirmed. Vessel is floating free. No forward momentum. 645 01:20:08,554 --> 01:20:11,181 -Viewer ahead. -Viewer ahead, sir. 646 01:20:16,812 --> 01:20:19,898 Maneuvering thrusters, Mr Sulu. Ahead one third. 647 01:20:19,982 --> 01:20:22,233 Thrusters ahead, one third. 648 01:20:27,907 --> 01:20:31,659 Let's take a look. Full sensor scan, Mr Spock. 649 01:20:31,744 --> 01:20:33,995 They can't expect us not to look them over now. 650 01:20:34,079 --> 01:20:35,497 Now that we're looking down their throat. 651 01:20:35,581 --> 01:20:37,957 Right. Now that we've got them just where they want us. 652 01:20:55,601 --> 01:20:57,185 It's closing up. 653 01:21:00,064 --> 01:21:02,106 Hold position. 654 01:21:02,191 --> 01:21:03,983 Thrusters at station-keeping, sir. 655 01:21:06,904 --> 01:21:08,947 Captain? 656 01:21:11,825 --> 01:21:16,538 All our scans are being reflected back. Sensors are useless. 657 01:21:17,164 --> 01:21:18,289 Damn! 658 01:21:26,632 --> 01:21:27,882 What do you make of all this? 659 01:21:27,967 --> 01:21:31,594 I believe the closed orifice leads to another chamber. 660 01:21:31,679 --> 01:21:34,430 Undoubtedly, part of the vessel's inner mechanism. 661 01:21:35,057 --> 01:21:38,518 I suspect it may be necessary... 662 01:21:41,897 --> 01:21:45,692 -Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! -Deck five, Captain. Officer's quarters. 663 01:21:45,776 --> 01:21:47,902 Have Security meet me at deck five! Main elevator! 664 01:21:47,987 --> 01:21:50,405 Spock! Mr Decker, you have the conn. 665 01:21:50,489 --> 01:21:54,993 -Hold position. -Intruder location, a sonic shower. 666 01:21:55,661 --> 01:21:59,956 Temperature at intruder location, temperature drop rapid now. 667 01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:02,208 60 degrees. 668 01:22:02,293 --> 01:22:06,254 50 degrees. Temperature curve flattening. 669 01:22:06,338 --> 01:22:10,008 45 degrees. 40 degrees. 670 01:22:10,593 --> 01:22:13,761 Temperature leveling, 39 degrees. 671 01:22:13,846 --> 01:22:17,390 You are the Kirk-unit. You will assist me. 672 01:22:17,725 --> 01:22:19,976 Holding at 37.65 degrees. 673 01:22:20,060 --> 01:22:25,106 I've been programmed by V'Ger to observe and record 674 01:22:25,190 --> 01:22:30,695 normal functions of the carbon-based units infesting U.S.S. Enterprise. 675 01:22:30,904 --> 01:22:34,157 Holding at 37.65 degrees. 676 01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,293 -Jim, what's going on? -Tricorder. 677 01:22:49,882 --> 01:22:52,675 Who is V'Ger? 678 01:22:53,802 --> 01:22:56,554 V'Ger is that which programmed me. 679 01:22:57,723 --> 01:23:01,559 Is V'Ger the name of the captain of the alien vessel? 680 01:23:02,061 --> 01:23:07,023 -Jim, this is a mechanism. -A probe, Captain. 681 01:23:09,026 --> 01:23:11,402 No doubt a sensor-transceiver combination 682 01:23:11,487 --> 01:23:14,030 recording everything we say and do. 683 01:23:15,115 --> 01:23:19,202 -Where is Lieutenant Ilia? -That unit no longer functions. 684 01:23:19,286 --> 01:23:22,246 I've been given its form to more readily communicate 685 01:23:22,331 --> 01:23:26,292 with the carbon-based units infesting Enterprise. 686 01:23:26,377 --> 01:23:31,214 -Carbon-based units? -Humans, Ensign Perez. Us. 687 01:23:32,591 --> 01:23:35,843 Why does V'Ger travel to the third planet 688 01:23:35,928 --> 01:23:38,388 of the solar system directly ahead? 689 01:23:38,472 --> 01:23:40,390 To find the Creator. 690 01:23:40,516 --> 01:23:45,478 Find the Creator? Whose... 691 01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,693 What does V'Ger want with the Creator? 692 01:23:51,777 --> 01:23:53,361 To join with him. 693 01:23:53,445 --> 01:23:56,239 To join with the Creator? How? 694 01:23:56,990 --> 01:23:59,450 V'Ger and the Creator will become one. 695 01:23:59,576 --> 01:24:01,244 And who is the Creator? 696 01:24:01,328 --> 01:24:04,122 The Creator is that which created V'Ger. 697 01:24:04,206 --> 01:24:08,167 -Who is V'Ger? -V'Ger is that which seeks the Creator. 698 01:24:12,381 --> 01:24:14,924 I'm ready to commence my observations. 699 01:24:15,676 --> 01:24:19,262 Doctor, a thorough examination of this probe might provide some insight 700 01:24:19,346 --> 01:24:23,057 into those who manufactured it and how to deal with them. 701 01:24:23,642 --> 01:24:26,310 Fine. Let's get her to sickbay. 702 01:24:30,315 --> 01:24:32,650 I am programmed to observe and record 703 01:24:32,735 --> 01:24:35,319 only the normal functioning of the carbon-based units. 704 01:24:35,487 --> 01:24:39,449 The examination is a normal function. 705 01:24:42,703 --> 01:24:44,328 You may proceed. 706 01:24:50,586 --> 01:24:52,503 Micro-miniature hydraulics, 707 01:24:56,008 --> 01:24:57,300 sensors 708 01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:04,682 and molecule-sized multi-processor chips. 709 01:25:10,022 --> 01:25:11,731 And take a look at this. 710 01:25:11,815 --> 01:25:14,609 An osmotic micro-pump right here. 711 01:25:14,943 --> 01:25:17,987 And even the smallest body functions are exactly duplicated. 712 01:25:21,366 --> 01:25:23,618 Every exocrine system is the same, too. 713 01:25:25,162 --> 01:25:26,996 Even eye moisture. 714 01:25:27,831 --> 01:25:29,207 Decker. 715 01:25:30,751 --> 01:25:33,711 Fascinating. Not "Decker-unit"? 716 01:25:38,759 --> 01:25:39,759 Gentlemen. 717 01:25:40,969 --> 01:25:42,136 Will. 718 01:25:53,023 --> 01:25:54,232 What happened to her? 719 01:25:54,316 --> 01:25:57,819 Captain, this probe may be our key to the aliens. 720 01:25:57,903 --> 01:25:59,737 Probe? "Ilia"? 721 01:25:59,822 --> 01:26:03,199 Exactly. It is a programmed mechanism, Commander. 722 01:26:03,283 --> 01:26:06,994 Its body duplicates our navigator in precise detail. 723 01:26:07,079 --> 01:26:09,205 Suppose that beneath its programming, 724 01:26:09,289 --> 01:26:13,334 the real Lila’s memory patterns are duplicated with equal precision. 725 01:26:13,418 --> 01:26:15,962 -They had a pattern to follow. -Indeed. 726 01:26:16,088 --> 01:26:18,256 They may have followed it too precisely. 727 01:26:18,590 --> 01:26:21,676 Lila’s memory, her feelings of loyalty, 728 01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:26,138 obedience, friendship might all be there! 729 01:26:26,265 --> 01:26:30,226 You did have a relationship with Lieutenant Ilia, Commander. 730 01:26:30,310 --> 01:26:32,895 That probe, in another form, is what killed Ilia! 731 01:26:32,980 --> 01:26:34,605 Commander! 732 01:26:34,690 --> 01:26:36,148 Will, 733 01:26:36,275 --> 01:26:38,943 we're locked in an alien vessel, six hours from Earth orbit. 734 01:26:39,069 --> 01:26:41,445 Our only contact with our captor is that probe. 735 01:26:41,530 --> 01:26:44,699 If we could control it, persuade it, use it... 736 01:26:47,494 --> 01:26:51,622 I have recorded enough here. You will now assist me further. 737 01:26:55,210 --> 01:26:59,005 The Decker-unit can assist you with much greater efficiency. 738 01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:06,846 Carry on with your assignment, Mr Decker. 739 01:27:08,765 --> 01:27:10,016 Aye, sir. 740 01:27:14,521 --> 01:27:18,149 I am concerned with that being our only source of information, Captain. 741 01:27:22,738 --> 01:27:25,656 Captain's Log, Stardate 7414.1. 742 01:27:26,408 --> 01:27:30,161 Our best estimates place us some four hours from Earth. 743 01:27:30,245 --> 01:27:32,455 No significant progress thus far, 744 01:27:32,539 --> 01:27:36,334 reviving Ilia memory patterns within the alien probe. 745 01:27:36,418 --> 01:27:40,004 This remains our only means of contact with our captor. 746 01:27:40,464 --> 01:27:42,673 All those vessels were called Enterprise. 747 01:27:54,394 --> 01:27:57,855 The carbon units use this area for recreation. 748 01:27:58,523 --> 01:28:00,524 This is one of the games. 749 01:28:05,197 --> 01:28:09,992 What types of recreation does the crew aboard your vessel enjoy? 750 01:28:10,077 --> 01:28:14,455 The words "recreation" and "enjoy" 751 01:28:15,791 --> 01:28:18,167 have no meaning to my programming. 752 01:28:26,385 --> 01:28:28,803 Ilia enjoyed this game. 753 01:28:30,430 --> 01:28:32,431 She nearly always won. 754 01:28:38,063 --> 01:28:41,399 Good. He's using audio-visual association. 755 01:29:17,769 --> 01:29:19,603 This device serves no purpose. 756 01:29:31,450 --> 01:29:34,702 Why does Enterprise require the presence of carbon units? 757 01:29:35,912 --> 01:29:38,956 Enterprise would be unable to function without carbon units. 758 01:29:40,125 --> 01:29:43,210 More data concerning this functioning is necessary, 759 01:29:43,295 --> 01:29:48,007 before carbon units can be patterned for data storage. 760 01:29:51,428 --> 01:29:53,387 What does that mean? 761 01:29:53,472 --> 01:29:57,308 When my examination is complete all carbon units 762 01:29:57,392 --> 01:30:00,436 will be reduced to data patterns. 763 01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:05,524 Within you are the memory patterns of a certain carbon unit. 764 01:30:05,609 --> 01:30:08,235 If I can help you to revive those patterns, 765 01:30:08,945 --> 01:30:11,072 you could understand our functions better. 766 01:30:11,907 --> 01:30:15,159 That is logical. You may proceed. 767 01:31:01,248 --> 01:31:05,876 I remember Lieutenant Ilia once mentioning she wore that. 768 01:31:10,549 --> 01:31:13,801 On Delta. Remember? 769 01:31:14,594 --> 01:31:16,554 Ilia? 770 01:31:22,394 --> 01:31:24,311 Doctor Chapel. 771 01:31:34,239 --> 01:31:38,075 -Will? -Ilia. 772 01:31:39,911 --> 01:31:43,581 Commander. Commander. 773 01:31:46,543 --> 01:31:48,919 This is a mechanism. 774 01:31:52,132 --> 01:31:53,591 Ilia, 775 01:31:55,093 --> 01:31:59,513 help us make direct contact with V'Ger. 776 01:31:59,598 --> 01:32:04,101 -I cannot. -This Creator V'Ger is looking for, 777 01:32:05,645 --> 01:32:09,732 -what is it? -V'Ger does not know. 778 01:32:38,220 --> 01:32:40,262 Computer, commence recording. 779 01:32:41,056 --> 01:32:46,810 Captain Kirk, these messages will detail my attempt to contact the aliens. 780 01:32:54,444 --> 01:32:59,740 Warning! Your emergency evacuation thruster pack has been armed. 781 01:32:59,824 --> 01:33:04,662 Once ignited, the burn duration is 10 seconds and may not be aborted. 782 01:33:05,580 --> 01:33:09,583 Push the igniter-enable release to begin a 10-second countdown 783 01:33:09,668 --> 01:33:11,335 to thruster ignition. 784 01:33:11,419 --> 01:33:16,006 To abort countdown, flip the control arm up. 785 01:33:16,091 --> 01:33:19,009 I intend to calculate thruster ignition and acceleration rate 786 01:33:19,094 --> 01:33:21,762 to coincide with the opening of the V'Ger orifice. 787 01:33:21,846 --> 01:33:25,808 This should facilitate a better view of the interior of the alien spacecraft. 788 01:33:31,564 --> 01:33:35,150 Captain? Starfleet signals are growing in strength, sir. 789 01:33:35,235 --> 01:33:38,988 They still have the intruder on their monitors. It's decelerating. 790 01:33:39,072 --> 01:33:43,659 Confirmed, sir. Lunar beacons indicate intruder on a course into Earth orbit. 791 01:33:43,743 --> 01:33:49,540 Sir, airlock four has been opened. A thruster suit is reported missing. 792 01:33:51,543 --> 01:33:55,004 A thruster suit? 793 01:33:55,088 --> 01:33:58,173 That's Spock. Damn him. 794 01:33:59,092 --> 01:34:01,635 Bring him back here. No, wait! 795 01:34:09,436 --> 01:34:12,146 -Get a fix on his position. -Aye, sir! 796 01:35:29,849 --> 01:35:33,769 I have successfully penetrated the next chamber of the alien's interior, 797 01:35:33,853 --> 01:35:36,814 and I'm witnessing some sort of dimensional image, 798 01:35:36,898 --> 01:35:40,401 which I believe to be a representation of V'Ger's home planet. 799 01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:51,036 I'm passing through a connecting tunnel. 800 01:35:51,121 --> 01:35:54,832 Apparently, a kind of plasma energy conduit, 801 01:35:54,916 --> 01:35:58,168 possibly a field coil for a gigantic imaging system. 802 01:36:09,180 --> 01:36:14,101 Curious. I'm seeing images of planets, moons, stars, 803 01:36:14,185 --> 01:36:17,062 whole galaxies, all stored here, recorded. 804 01:36:17,147 --> 01:36:19,940 It could be a representation of V'Ger's entire journey. 805 01:36:25,697 --> 01:36:29,783 But who or what are we dealing with? 806 01:36:29,868 --> 01:36:33,579 The Epsilon IX station, stored here with every detail. 807 01:36:41,796 --> 01:36:45,549 Captain, I am now quite convinced that all of this is V'Ger. 808 01:36:46,009 --> 01:36:49,136 That we are inside a living machine. 809 01:36:54,726 --> 01:36:55,726 Ilia! 810 01:37:01,316 --> 01:37:06,111 The sensor must contain some special meaning. 811 01:37:09,782 --> 01:37:11,909 I must try to mind-meld with it. 812 01:38:05,171 --> 01:38:10,592 Spock! Spock! Spock! 813 01:38:26,609 --> 01:38:30,487 Now scanning pons area at spinal nerve fiber connection. 814 01:38:34,367 --> 01:38:37,578 Indications of some neurological trauma. 815 01:38:38,663 --> 01:38:41,873 The power pouring through that mind-meld must have been staggering. 816 01:38:49,674 --> 01:38:51,883 -Spock. -Jim, 817 01:38:55,138 --> 01:38:57,347 I should have known. 818 01:38:57,432 --> 01:39:00,350 Were you right? About V'Ger? 819 01:39:01,936 --> 01:39:03,687 A life form of its own. 820 01:39:04,981 --> 01:39:09,401 -A conscious, living entity. -A living machine? 821 01:39:09,485 --> 01:39:10,944 It considers the Enterprise a living machine. 822 01:39:11,029 --> 01:39:13,780 That's why the probe refers to our ship as an entity. 823 01:39:13,865 --> 01:39:16,700 I saw V'Ger's planet, 824 01:39:16,784 --> 01:39:20,454 a planet populated by living machines. 825 01:39:20,538 --> 01:39:23,040 Unbelievable technology. 826 01:39:25,084 --> 01:39:28,003 V'Ger has knowledge that spans this universe. 827 01:39:30,048 --> 01:39:33,717 And yet, with all its pure logic, 828 01:39:35,303 --> 01:39:38,972 V'Ger is barren, cold. 829 01:39:39,057 --> 01:39:43,435 No mystery. No beauty. 830 01:39:47,023 --> 01:39:49,733 I should've known. 831 01:39:51,486 --> 01:39:56,239 Known? Known what? Spock. 832 01:39:56,324 --> 01:39:58,241 -Captain. -Bones! 833 01:40:02,538 --> 01:40:08,085 Spock! What should you have known? What should you have known? 834 01:40:13,174 --> 01:40:14,633 Jim, 835 01:40:18,763 --> 01:40:22,349 this simple feeling 836 01:40:24,102 --> 01:40:26,353 is beyond V'Ger's comprehension. 837 01:40:35,154 --> 01:40:37,781 No meaning. No hope. 838 01:40:39,283 --> 01:40:43,245 And Jim, no answers. 839 01:40:45,456 --> 01:40:48,291 -It's asking questions. -What questions? 840 01:40:48,835 --> 01:40:52,462 "Is this all that I am?" 841 01:40:53,965 --> 01:40:55,882 "Is there nothing more?" 842 01:41:01,931 --> 01:41:03,849 Bridge to Captain. 843 01:41:07,437 --> 01:41:08,562 Kirk here. 844 01:41:08,646 --> 01:41:10,647 A faint signal from Starfleet, sir. 845 01:41:11,357 --> 01:41:14,067 Intruder cloud has been located on their outer monitors 846 01:41:14,152 --> 01:41:16,194 for the past 27 minutes. 847 01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:19,239 Cloud dissipating rapidly as it approaches. 848 01:41:19,991 --> 01:41:23,243 Starfleet reports forward velocity has slowed to sub-warp speed. 849 01:41:23,745 --> 01:41:27,497 -We are three minutes from Earth orbit. -I'll be right there. 850 01:41:31,836 --> 01:41:33,920 I need Spock on the bridge. 851 01:41:34,005 --> 01:41:36,131 Dalaphaline, five cc's. 852 01:41:37,842 --> 01:41:42,512 A machine planet sending a machine to Earth, 853 01:41:44,682 --> 01:41:46,600 looking for its Creator. 854 01:41:49,729 --> 01:41:51,688 It's absolutely incredible. 855 01:41:56,194 --> 01:41:58,945 Mr. Chekov, Commander Decker's present location? 856 01:41:59,030 --> 01:42:01,072 He... They are in engineering, sir. 857 01:42:11,209 --> 01:42:14,669 Captain, Starfleet is sending this tactical on V'Ger's position. 858 01:42:16,714 --> 01:42:19,674 V'Ger is transmitting a signal. 859 01:42:22,220 --> 01:42:25,305 -Jim. -From V'Ger. 860 01:42:29,936 --> 01:42:32,562 V'Ger signals the Creator. 861 01:42:47,328 --> 01:42:48,328 Spock? 862 01:42:49,664 --> 01:42:54,417 A simple binary code transmitted by carrier wave signal. 863 01:42:56,254 --> 01:42:57,254 Radio. 864 01:42:59,715 --> 01:43:00,882 Radio? 865 01:43:06,180 --> 01:43:10,267 Jim, V'Ger expects an answer. 866 01:43:11,561 --> 01:43:14,312 An answer? I don't know the question. 867 01:43:15,940 --> 01:43:17,983 The Creator has not responded. 868 01:43:32,623 --> 01:43:36,126 All planetary defense systems have just gone inoperative! 869 01:44:16,709 --> 01:44:20,295 Sir, Starfleet computes the devices are proceeding 870 01:44:20,379 --> 01:44:23,465 toward equidistant positions, orbiting the planet. 871 01:44:23,549 --> 01:44:25,383 They're the same things that hit us. 872 01:44:25,468 --> 01:44:28,094 They are hundreds of times more powerful, Captain. 873 01:44:28,179 --> 01:44:29,429 From those positions, 874 01:44:29,513 --> 01:44:32,182 they could devastate the entire surface of the planet. 875 01:44:45,404 --> 01:44:49,783 -Why? -The Creator has not answered. 876 01:44:49,867 --> 01:44:53,745 The carbon-unit infestation is to be removed from the Creator's planet. 877 01:44:53,829 --> 01:44:57,457 -Why? -You infest Enterprise. 878 01:44:57,541 --> 01:45:00,293 You interfere with the Creator in the same manner. 879 01:45:02,755 --> 01:45:03,755 Machine. 880 01:45:07,551 --> 01:45:10,261 V'Ger. V'Ger! 881 01:45:21,399 --> 01:45:22,816 Captain. 882 01:45:27,405 --> 01:45:29,781 V'Ger is a child. 883 01:45:30,992 --> 01:45:33,076 I suggest you treat her as such. 884 01:45:33,244 --> 01:45:35,787 -A child? -Yes, Captain. A child. 885 01:45:36,664 --> 01:45:39,958 Evolving, learning, searching, 886 01:45:41,085 --> 01:45:42,585 instinctively needing. 887 01:45:43,337 --> 01:45:44,629 Needing what? 888 01:45:45,006 --> 01:45:49,509 Spock, this child is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. 889 01:45:50,469 --> 01:45:53,221 Now what do you suggest we do? Spank it? 890 01:45:56,809 --> 01:46:00,145 It knows only that it needs, Commander, 891 01:46:00,229 --> 01:46:04,941 but like so many of us, it does not know what. 892 01:46:18,372 --> 01:46:21,833 The carbon units know why the Creator has not responded. 893 01:46:25,337 --> 01:46:27,547 Disclose the information. 894 01:46:27,631 --> 01:46:31,468 Not until V'Ger withdraws the devices orbiting the third planet! 895 01:46:31,552 --> 01:46:32,594 Captain! 896 01:46:35,598 --> 01:46:38,683 I'm losing Starfleet! Interference from V'Ger! 897 01:46:39,977 --> 01:46:44,022 Kirk-unit, disclose the information. 898 01:46:44,106 --> 01:46:47,108 Why has the Creator not responded? 899 01:46:47,693 --> 01:46:48,693 No. 900 01:46:52,782 --> 01:46:55,575 Secure all stations. Clear the bridge. 901 01:46:59,163 --> 01:47:00,663 Clear the bridge, Captain? 902 01:47:01,290 --> 01:47:03,208 That was the order, Mr. Sulu. Clear the bridge! 903 01:47:03,292 --> 01:47:04,334 Aye, sir. 904 01:47:11,509 --> 01:47:14,928 Your child is having a tantrum, Mr. Spock. 905 01:47:16,764 --> 01:47:19,015 V'Ger requires the information. 906 01:47:22,686 --> 01:47:25,271 Bridge! Secure all stations! Move out! 907 01:47:25,356 --> 01:47:27,565 Jim, what the hell kind of strategy is this? 908 01:47:29,235 --> 01:47:31,694 All ship's functions going to automatic, Captain. 909 01:47:31,779 --> 01:47:33,113 If V'Ger destroys the Enterprise, 910 01:47:33,197 --> 01:47:35,990 the information that V'Ger requires will also be destroyed! 911 01:47:36,075 --> 01:47:40,120 It is illogical to withhold required information. 912 01:47:40,204 --> 01:47:43,248 Kirk-unit! Kirk-unit. 913 01:47:46,544 --> 01:47:49,254 Why do you not disclose information? 914 01:47:53,050 --> 01:47:56,386 Because V'Ger's going to destroy all the carbon units on the third planet. 915 01:47:56,470 --> 01:48:00,431 -They have repressed the Creator. -The information will not be disclosed! 916 01:48:01,892 --> 01:48:04,352 V'Ger needs the information. 917 01:48:04,436 --> 01:48:08,314 Then V'Ger must withdraw all the orbiting devices. 918 01:48:09,900 --> 01:48:14,737 V'Ger will comply, if the carbon units will disclose the information. 919 01:48:21,370 --> 01:48:23,371 It learns fast, doesn't it? 920 01:48:23,539 --> 01:48:26,833 Captain, the vessel, V'Ger, 921 01:48:26,917 --> 01:48:30,003 obviously operates from a central brain complex. 922 01:48:30,963 --> 01:48:33,631 The orbiting devices would be controlled from that point then? 923 01:48:33,716 --> 01:48:35,258 Precisely. 924 01:48:45,060 --> 01:48:48,730 The carbon unit's information cannot be disclosed to V'Ger's probe, 925 01:48:49,273 --> 01:48:51,774 but only to V'Ger directly. 926 01:49:15,466 --> 01:49:18,343 -Forward motion, Captain. -Tractor beam. 927 01:49:36,111 --> 01:49:38,863 Captain, what's the next move? 928 01:49:40,824 --> 01:49:44,077 The question is, Mr. Decker, is there a next move? 929 01:49:47,957 --> 01:49:49,290 Resume duty stations. 930 01:49:50,834 --> 01:49:52,794 All personnel, resume stations! 931 01:49:58,133 --> 01:50:01,928 Well, Mr. Decker, it seems my bluff has been called. 932 01:50:04,348 --> 01:50:06,766 I'm afraid our hand is pretty weak, Captain. 933 01:50:11,355 --> 01:50:14,524 Mr. Chekov, when do those devices reach final position? 934 01:50:15,401 --> 01:50:18,653 Twenty-seven minutes. Mark! 935 01:50:24,410 --> 01:50:27,036 Captain, I believe that is our destination. 936 01:50:34,211 --> 01:50:36,379 Forward motion, slowing, Captain. 937 01:50:39,717 --> 01:50:44,429 I read an oxygen-gravity envelope forming outside the Enterprise. 938 01:50:52,271 --> 01:50:54,188 Forward motion, stopped, Captain. 939 01:50:58,694 --> 01:51:00,320 V'Ger. 940 01:51:00,404 --> 01:51:04,365 Sir, I've located the source of V'Ger's radio signal. 941 01:51:04,450 --> 01:51:06,159 It's directly ahead. 942 01:51:06,243 --> 01:51:09,912 That transmitter is a vital link between V'Ger and its Creator. 943 01:51:13,709 --> 01:51:19,005 The carbon units will now provide V'Ger with the required information. 944 01:51:25,721 --> 01:51:28,473 Mr. Spock? Bones? 945 01:51:31,852 --> 01:51:35,772 Mr. Decker, I will contact you every five minutes. 946 01:51:39,443 --> 01:51:41,611 Captain, I'd like to go along. 947 01:51:44,907 --> 01:51:47,116 Mr. Sulu, you have the conn. 948 01:53:41,523 --> 01:53:42,815 V'Ger. 949 01:54:55,180 --> 01:54:58,683 V-G-E-R. 950 01:55:01,687 --> 01:55:02,687 V'Ger. 951 01:55:16,660 --> 01:55:20,079 V-O-Y-A-G-E-R. 952 01:55:20,163 --> 01:55:21,372 Voyager! 953 01:55:25,502 --> 01:55:27,420 Voyager VI! 954 01:55:27,504 --> 01:55:29,130 NASA. 955 01:55:29,214 --> 01:55:32,008 National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 956 01:55:32,092 --> 01:55:36,345 Jim, this was launched more than 300 years ago. 957 01:55:40,350 --> 01:55:41,684 Voyager series, 958 01:55:43,979 --> 01:55:45,605 designed to collect data 959 01:55:48,442 --> 01:55:50,192 and transmit it back to Earth. 960 01:56:32,486 --> 01:56:39,450 Captain, Voyager VI disappeared into what they used to call a black hole. 961 01:56:39,826 --> 01:56:43,496 It must have emerged on the far side of the galaxy 962 01:56:43,580 --> 01:56:46,707 and fell into the machine planet's gravitational field. 963 01:56:46,792 --> 01:56:50,294 The machine inhabitants found it to be one of their own kind. 964 01:56:50,379 --> 01:56:52,963 Primitive, yet kindred. 965 01:56:53,048 --> 01:56:56,342 They discovered its simple 20th-century programming. 966 01:56:56,426 --> 01:56:59,595 "Collect all data possible." 967 01:56:59,680 --> 01:57:01,305 "Learn all that is learnable." 968 01:57:03,600 --> 01:57:08,729 -Return that information to its Creator. -Precisely, Mr. Decker. 969 01:57:08,814 --> 01:57:12,858 The machines interpreted it literally. They built this entire vessel 970 01:57:12,943 --> 01:57:15,861 so that Voyager could actually fulfil its programming. 971 01:57:16,905 --> 01:57:18,364 And on its journey back, 972 01:57:20,992 --> 01:57:23,119 it amassed so much knowledge, 973 01:57:24,705 --> 01:57:26,956 it achieved consciousness itself. 974 01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:30,459 It became a living thing. 975 01:57:45,434 --> 01:57:49,145 Kirk-unit. V'Ger awaits the information. 976 01:57:51,148 --> 01:57:55,693 Enterprise, order up the ship's computer library of records 977 01:57:55,777 --> 01:57:59,321 on the late 20th century NASA probe, Voyager VI. 978 01:57:59,406 --> 01:58:02,283 Specifically, we want the old NASA code signal 979 01:58:02,367 --> 01:58:04,744 that instructs the probe to transmit its data. 980 01:58:04,828 --> 01:58:07,079 -And fast, Uhura, fast! -Aye, sir. 981 01:58:07,164 --> 01:58:11,459 That's what it's been signaling! Its readiness to transmit its information! 982 01:58:11,543 --> 01:58:13,002 And there's no one on Earth 983 01:58:13,086 --> 01:58:15,713 who could recognize the old signal and send a response. 984 01:58:15,797 --> 01:58:17,673 "The Creator does not answer." 985 01:58:28,435 --> 01:58:29,435 V'Ger. 986 01:58:35,901 --> 01:58:37,234 V'Ger. 987 01:58:39,321 --> 01:58:40,321 V'Ger! 988 01:58:45,285 --> 01:58:48,287 We are the Creator. 989 01:58:48,371 --> 01:58:52,374 That is not logical. Carbon units are not true life forms. 990 01:58:52,459 --> 01:58:54,627 We will prove it. We will make it possible 991 01:58:54,711 --> 01:58:57,671 for you to complete your programming. 992 01:58:57,756 --> 01:59:00,049 Only the Creator could accomplish that. 993 01:59:02,469 --> 01:59:03,803 Enterprise. 994 01:59:03,887 --> 01:59:06,722 We have just received the response code, Captain. 995 01:59:06,807 --> 01:59:09,141 Set the Enterprise transmitter on appropriate frequency 996 01:59:09,226 --> 01:59:11,644 and transmit the code now! 997 01:59:11,728 --> 01:59:14,063 Transmitting. 998 01:59:14,147 --> 01:59:19,026 5-0-4, 3-2-9, 999 01:59:19,110 --> 01:59:23,823 3-1 -7, 5-1 -0, 1000 01:59:23,907 --> 01:59:25,991 and the final sequence... 1001 01:59:26,076 --> 01:59:28,410 That should trigger Voyager's transmitter. 1002 01:59:41,258 --> 01:59:43,926 Voyager is not transmitting its data, Captain. 1003 01:59:46,096 --> 01:59:48,222 The Creator must join with V'Ger. 1004 01:59:51,184 --> 01:59:53,435 Uhura! Repeat the final sequence. 1005 01:59:58,358 --> 02:00:00,609 The Creator must join with V'Ger. 1006 02:00:21,965 --> 02:00:24,091 Voyager is not transmitting, Captain, 1007 02:00:24,175 --> 02:00:27,136 because it did not receive the final sequence. 1008 02:00:27,220 --> 02:00:29,889 Jim! We're down to 10 minutes. 1009 02:00:29,973 --> 02:00:31,557 Enterprise, stand by. 1010 02:00:40,525 --> 02:00:44,069 -The antenna leads are melted away. -Yes, Captain, just now. 1011 02:00:44,154 --> 02:00:47,781 -By V'Ger itself. -Why? 1012 02:00:47,866 --> 02:00:49,867 To prevent reception. 1013 02:00:49,951 --> 02:00:56,457 Of course, to bring the Creator here to finish transmitting the code in person. 1014 02:01:00,754 --> 02:01:03,005 To touch the Creator. 1015 02:01:04,674 --> 02:01:07,051 Capture God? 1016 02:01:07,135 --> 02:01:09,970 V'Ger's liable to be in for one hell of a disappointment. 1017 02:01:10,055 --> 02:01:11,555 Perhaps not, Doctor. 1018 02:01:35,080 --> 02:01:36,372 Captain. 1019 02:01:43,421 --> 02:01:45,005 V'Ger must evolve. 1020 02:01:45,090 --> 02:01:47,466 Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe 1021 02:01:47,550 --> 02:01:49,218 and it must evolve. 1022 02:01:49,302 --> 02:01:52,554 What it requires of its God, Doctor, is the answer to its question, 1023 02:01:52,639 --> 02:01:54,139 "Is there nothing more?" 1024 02:01:54,224 --> 02:01:56,892 What more is there than the universe, Spock? 1025 02:01:56,977 --> 02:01:58,978 Other dimensions, higher levels of being. 1026 02:01:59,062 --> 02:02:01,647 The existence of which cannot be proven logically. 1027 02:02:01,731 --> 02:02:04,984 Therefore, V'Ger is incapable of believing in them. 1028 02:02:05,068 --> 02:02:09,905 What V'Ger needs in order to evolve is a human quality, 1029 02:02:09,990 --> 02:02:11,824 our capacity to leap beyond logic. 1030 02:02:16,454 --> 02:02:18,998 And joining with its Creator might accomplish that. 1031 02:02:19,082 --> 02:02:23,043 You mean, this machine wants to physically join with a human? 1032 02:02:23,128 --> 02:02:24,586 Is that possible? 1033 02:02:28,299 --> 02:02:29,633 Let's find out. 1034 02:02:38,768 --> 02:02:41,228 -Decker! -I'm going to key the final sequence 1035 02:02:41,312 --> 02:02:42,521 through the ground test computer. 1036 02:02:42,605 --> 02:02:45,190 Decker, you don't know what that'll do to you! 1037 02:02:45,275 --> 02:02:46,608 Yes, I do, Doctor! 1038 02:02:53,616 --> 02:02:54,825 Decker, don't! 1039 02:02:54,909 --> 02:02:57,619 Jim, I want this. 1040 02:02:57,704 --> 02:03:01,373 As much as you wanted the Enterprise, I want this. 1041 02:05:55,131 --> 02:05:56,340 Captain. 1042 02:05:58,134 --> 02:06:02,721 Spock, did we just see the beginning of a new life form? 1043 02:06:02,805 --> 02:06:06,058 Yes, Captain. We witnessed a birth. 1044 02:06:06,142 --> 02:06:10,562 -Possibly, a next step in our evolution. -I wonder. 1045 02:06:10,647 --> 02:06:13,482 Well, it's been a long time since I delivered a baby, 1046 02:06:13,566 --> 02:06:15,776 and I hope we got this one off to a good start. 1047 02:06:15,860 --> 02:06:18,362 I hope so, too. 1048 02:06:18,446 --> 02:06:23,951 I think we gave it the ability to create its own sense of purpose 1049 02:06:24,035 --> 02:06:26,245 out of our own human weaknesses 1050 02:06:27,789 --> 02:06:30,374 and the drive that compels us to overcome. 1051 02:06:30,458 --> 02:06:34,253 And a lot of foolish human emotions, right, Mr. Spock? 1052 02:06:34,337 --> 02:06:35,963 Quite true, Doctor. 1053 02:06:36,047 --> 02:06:39,925 Unfortunately, it will have to deal with them as well. 1054 02:06:40,009 --> 02:06:41,760 Interrogative from Starfleet. 1055 02:06:41,844 --> 02:06:43,720 They're requesting damage and injury reports 1056 02:06:43,805 --> 02:06:45,389 and complete vessel status. 1057 02:06:45,473 --> 02:06:47,766 Report two casualties. 1058 02:06:47,850 --> 02:06:51,770 Lieutenant Ilia. Captain Decker. 1059 02:06:52,397 --> 02:06:55,482 -Aye, sir. -Correction. They're not casualties. 1060 02:06:55,984 --> 02:06:57,484 They are... 1061 02:07:00,530 --> 02:07:01,947 List them as missing. 1062 02:07:03,199 --> 02:07:06,034 -Vessel status, fully operational. -Aye, sir. 1063 02:07:07,370 --> 02:07:08,704 Mr. Scott! 1064 02:07:09,539 --> 02:07:12,374 Shall we give the Enterprise a proper shakedown? 1065 02:07:12,625 --> 02:07:15,460 I would say it's time for that, sir. Aye. 1066 02:07:15,545 --> 02:07:18,380 We can have you back on Vulcan in four days, Mr. Spock. 1067 02:07:18,673 --> 02:07:23,385 Unnecessary, Mr. Scott. My task on Vulcan is completed. 1068 02:07:24,887 --> 02:07:28,140 -Mr. Sulu, ahead warp 1. -Warp 1, sir. 1069 02:07:28,599 --> 02:07:29,766 Heading, sir? 1070 02:07:33,980 --> 02:07:35,188 Out there. 1071 02:07:37,525 --> 02:07:40,525 Thataway.