"Star Trek" Quotes Part 07: "STVI:TUC" Sulu: "Stardate 9521.6. Captain's Log, U.S.S. Excelsior, Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Beta Quadrant. We are heading home under full impulse power. I am pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Sulu: "My...God!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Sulu: "An 'incident'?!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Rand: "Do we report this, sir?" Sulu: "Are you kidding?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "What are we doing here?" McCoy: "Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party." Scott: "That suits me, I just bought a boat." Uhura: "This had better be good. I'm supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy." Chekov: "Captain, isn't this just for top brass?" McCoy: "If we're all here, where's Sulu?" Kirk: "*Captain* Sulu. On assignment. Where's Spock?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 C-In-C: "The Klingon Empire has roughly fifty years of life left to it." --, "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Cartwright: "I must protest. To offer the Klingons safe haven within Federation space is *suicide*." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Cartwright: "The opportunity here is to bring them to their knees. Then we'll be in a far better position to dictate terms." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "The Klingons have never been trustworthy. I'm forced to agree with Admiral Cartwright. This is a *terrifying* idea." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 C-In-C: "You, Captain Kirk, are to be our first olive branch." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Spock: "We have volunteered to rendevous with the Klingon vessel which is bringing Gorkon to Earth, and to escort him safely through Federation space." Kirk: "Me?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Spock: "I have personally vouched for you in this matter, Captain." Kirk: "You...have personally...vouched..." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 C-In-C: "If there is no further business, I wish you and your crew godspeed." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Cartwright: "I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim." McCoy: "I wouldn't." --"STVI"TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "We volunteered?!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Spock: "There is an old Vulcan proverb, 'Only Nixon could go to China.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "How could you vouch for me? That's an arrogant presumption." Spock: "My father requested that I open nego--" Kirk: "I know your father is the Vulcan Ambassador for heaven's sake, but you know how I feel about them." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "They're animals!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Spock: "Jim, there's an historic opportunity here." Kirk: "Don't believe them! Don't trust them!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Spock: "They are dying." Kirk: "Let them die!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "Has it occured to you, that this crew is due to stand down in three months? We've done our bid for king and country. You should've trusted me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Spock: "Lieutenant, it is agreeable to see you again." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Spock: "The lieutenant was the first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class at the Academy." Kirk: "You must be very proud." Valeris: "I don't believe so, sir." McCoy: "She's a Vulcan all right." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "Did you find the Engine Room?" Scott: "Right where I left it, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Valeris: "Aft thrusters." Kirk: "Thank you, Lieuteant, one-quarter impulse power." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Valeris: "Captain, may I remind you that regulations specify thrusters only while in Spacedock?" Uhura: ["Tsk, tsk."] Spock: [Clears throat] McCoy: "Jim..." Kirk: "You heard the order, Lieutenant." Valeris: "Aye, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 9522.6 I've never trusted Klingons...and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me that our mission to escort the Chancellor of the...Klingon High Council to a *peace mission*...is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion. Now, I'd like to believe him...but how on Earth can history get past people like me?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kirk: "You piloted well out of Spacedock, Lieutenant." Valeris: "I've always wanted to try that, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Spock: "You've done well, Valeris. As your sponsor at the Academny, I have followed your career with satisfaction. And as a Vulcan, you have exceeded my expectations." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Valeris: "I do not understand this representation." Spock: "It is a depiction from ancient Earth mythology. The expulsion from Paradise." Valeris: "Why keep it in your quarters?" Spock: "It is a reminder to me that all things end." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Valeris: "It is of endings that I wish to speak. Sir, I address you as a kindred intellect. Do you not recognize that a turning point has been reached in the affairs of the Federation?" Spock: "Hmm. History is replete with turning points, Lieutenant. You must have faith." Valeris: "'Faith'?" Spock: "That the universe will unfold as this ship." Valeris: "But if that is logical, surely we must--" Spock: "Logic, logic, logic... Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Spock: "This will be my final voyage on board this vessel as a member of her crew. Nature abhors a vacuum. I intend you to replace me." Valeris: "I can only succeed you, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Chekov: "Shall we raise our shields, Captain?" Kirk: "Never been this close." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kirk: "This is the Starship Enterprise, Captain James T. Kirk commanding." Gorkon: "This is Kronos One. I am Chancellor Gorkon." Kirk: "Chancellor, we've been ordered to escort you through Federation space to your meeting on Earth." Gorkon: "Thank you, Captain." Kirk: "Would you and your party care to dine this evening aboard the Enterprise with my officers...as guests of the United Federation of Planets?" Gorkon: "We would be delighted to accept your gracious invitation." Kirk: "We'll make arrangements to have you beamed aboard at nineteen-hundred hours." Gorkon: "I shall look forward to that." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kirk: "I hope you're happy." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Valeris: "Captain, there is a supply of Romulan ale aboard. It might make the evening pass more...smoothly?" Kirk: "Officer thinking, Lieutenant." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Chekov: "Guess who's coming to dinner?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kirk: "My I present Captain Spock, whom I believe you know." Gorkon: "Captain, face to face at last. You have my thanks." Spock: "Chancellor." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Chang: "I have so wanted to meet you, Captain." Kirk: "I'm not sure how to take that." Kerla: "Sincere admiration, Kirk." Chang: "From one warrior to another?" Kirk: "Right." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Burke: "They all look alike." Samno: "What about that smell? You know only top-of-the-line models can even talk--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Valeris: "You men have work." Burke and Samno: "Yes, ma'am." Valeris: "Then snap to it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Gorkon: "I offer a toast. 'The undiscovered country'. The future." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Spock: "Hamlet, Act III, Scene I." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Gorkon: "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read it in the original Klingon." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kerla: "Captain Kirk, I thought Romulan ale was illegal?" Kirk: "One of the advantages of being a thousand light years from Federation Headquarters." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 McCoy: "To you, Chancellor Gorkon. One of the architects of our future." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Scott: "Perhaps we are looking at something of that future...here?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Chang: "Tell me, Captain Kirk, will you be willing...to give up Starfleet?" Spock: [Clears throat] "I believe the captain feels that Starfleet's mission has always been one of peace." Chang: "Ah." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kirk: "Far be it for me to dispute my first officer, but Starfleet has always been--" Chang: "Come now, Captain, there's no need to mince words. In space, all warriors are cold warriors." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Uhura: "Uh, General, are you fond of...Shake...speare?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Chekov: "We do believe that all planets have a sovereign claim to inalienable human rights." Azetbur: "'Inalien'. If only you could hear yourselves. 'Human rights'. Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a Homo-sapians-only club." Chang: "Present company excepted, of course." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kerla: "In any case, we know where this is leading. The annihilation of our culture." McCoy: "That's not true." Kerla: "No?!" McCoy: "No!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Chang: "'To be or not to be?' That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room." Kirk: "Earth, Hitler, 1938." Chang: "I beg your pardon?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Gorkon: "Well...I see we have a long way to go." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kirk: "We must do this again sometime." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Gorkon: "You don't trust me, do you?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Gorkon: "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Chang: "Well, most kind. 'Parting is such sweet sorrow', hmm?" [Laughs] "Captain? Have we not heard 'the chimes at midnight'?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Scott: "Thank God." Uhura: "Did you see the way they *ate*?" Chekov: "Horrible table manners." Spock: "I doubt that our behavior will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy." Kirk: "I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight?" McCoy: "I'm going to find a pot of black coffee." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 9523.8 The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and company to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. A note to the Galley, Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Valeris, do you know anything about a radiation surge?" Valeris: "Sir?" Kirk: "Mister Chekov?" Chekov: "Only the size of my head." Kirk: "I know what you mean." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "What's happened?" Spock: "We have fired on the chancellor's ship." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Klingon: "We are betrayed!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Have you not a shred a decency...in you, Kirk? We come in peace, and you *blatantly* defile that peace! And for that, I shall blow you out of the stars!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "We haven't fired." Spock: "Captain...according to our databanks we have...twice." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "Shields up, Captain?" Valeris: "Captain, our shields!" Chekov: "Shields up, Captain?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Signal our surrender." Uhura: "Captain?" Kirk: "We surrender!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Are we firing torpedoes?" Kirk: "I wish I knew." McCoy: "It sure looks like it." --"STVI:TUC", Starate 9523.8 Kirk: "I'm going aboard. Spock, you have the Conn." Spock: "I am responsible for involving you in this, I will go." Kirk: "No, I'll go. You will be responsible for getting me out of this." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "We will not be the instigators of interstellar war on the eve of universal peace." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kerla: "Have you lost your mind?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "My god, what has happened here?" Chang: "You dare to feign ignorance?" Kirk: "What happened?" Chang: "With a direct torpedo hit, you crippled our entire gravitational field! And two of your...Starfleet crew beamed aboard wearing magnetic boots...and did this." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Aren't you carrying a surgeon?" Chang: "We were until this disgrace!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Oh, sweet Jesus!" Kirk: "Can you help him?" McCoy: "Jim, I don't even know his anatomy!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Gorkon: "Don't let it end this way." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Under Article Number 184 of your...Interstellar Law, I am placing you under arrest, for the charge of assassinating...the Chancellor of the High Council." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "We tried to save him." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "They've been arrested." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "We will be able to follow the captain's movements." Valeris: "How did you achieve this, sir?" Spock: "Time is precious, Lieutenant." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "We must endeavour to piece together what happened tonight. According to our databank, this ship fired those torpedoes." Scott: "No way!" Spock: "I sympathize, Mister Scott. But we need evidence. Please accompany me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "And if we cannot peice together what happened? What then, sir?" Spock: "In that case, Mister Chekov, it resides in the purview of the diplomats." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Klingon Ambassador: "The Chancellor of the High Council is *dead*! The result of an *unprovoked* attack, while he travelled to see *you* on a flag* of *truce* on a mission of *peace*! Captain Kirk was legally arrested for the crime. May I remind you that he and *Doctor McCoy* boarded Kronos One of their own free will? None of these facts are in dispute, Mister President." UFP President: "I have ordered a full-scale investigation. In the meantime..." Klingon Ambassador: "'In the meantime', we expect the Federation to abdige by the Articles of *Interstellar Law* which you claim to cherish! Kirk and Doctor McCoy will stand trial for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 UFP President: "Ambassador Sarek, there must be some way to extradite these men." Sarek: "Mister President, I share a matter of personal responsibility in this matter. But I am obliged to confirm my esteemed colleague's legal interpretation." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 UFP President: "What is the position of the Romulan government, Ambassador Nanclus?" Nanclus: "I must concur with my colleagues." UFP President: "But you can't possibly believe that James Kirk assassinated the Chancellor of the High Council!" Nanclus: "Mister President, I don't know what to believe." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Klingon Ambassador: "I'm waiting for your answer, sir." UFP President: "This president is not above the law." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Nanclus: "There will never be a better time." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "Four-hundred years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes, called 'sabot', into the machines to stop them." Uhura and Chekov: [Look at each other dumbfoundedly] Valeris: "Hence the word...'sabotage'." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "We are experiencing technical malfunction. All backup systems inoperative." Chekov: "Excellent...I, I, I mean...too bad." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Azetbur: "We will not extradite the prisoners, and you will make no attempt to rescue them in a military operation. We would consider...any such attempt... an act of war." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Klingon: "Better to live on our feet than to die at our knees!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Azetbur: "War is obsolete...as we are in danger of becoming." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Your father was killed for what he wanted." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Azetbur: "The peace process will go forward. Kirk...Kirk will pay for my father's death." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 C-In-C: "It's a damned show trial!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "The Enterprise fired on Kronos One without provocation, the chancellor and his advisors, having been lulled into a false sense of security, by an invitation to a state dinner aboard Captain Kirk's vessel, at precisely nineteen-hundred and thirty hours that same evening." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Klingon: "After the first shot we lost our gravitational field. I found myself weightless and unable to function. Then two Starfleet crewmen came walking towards me." Worf: "But perhaps they merely wore Starfleet uniforms." Chang: "That remark is purely speculative, I move that it be stricken." Judge: "Colonel Worf, we are interested in facts, not theories!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Worf: "If the gravitational field was not functioning, how could these men be walking?" Klingon: "They appeared to be wearing magnetic boots." Spock: "Gravity boots." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Doctor McCoy, would you be so good as to tell me...what is your current medical status?" McCoy: "Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "And you have a singular wit, Doctor." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "For twenty-seven years, I've been the ship's surgeon aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. In three months I stand down." Chang: "Ahh. You know, I believe that you consumed rather a generous amount of ...Romulan ale in the Officer's Mess on the night in question. Am I right, Doctor?" Worf: "Objection!" Judge: "Sustained." McCoy: "We all did! All of us! That doesn't mean--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Was Chancellor Gorkon...alive when you first examined him?" McCoy: "Barely." Chang: "Now be careful, Doctor, have you ever, in your past, saved...patients as 'barely' alive as he?" McCoy: "I didn't have the medical knowledge I needed for Klingon anatomy." Chang: "I see." McCoy: "You were there!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "You say you are due for retirement! May I ask, do your hands shake?" Worf: "Objection!" McCoy: "I was nervous!" Chang: "No. You were incompetant. You were incompetant! Whether deliberately or as a result of age combined with drink! The court will have to determine." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "My God, man! I tried to save him! I tried to save him! I was desperate to save him! He was the last best hope in the universe for peace." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "There we have it, citizens. We have finally established the particulars of the crime. And now, we come to the architect of this tragic event...James ...*Tiberius*...Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "What would your favorite author say, 'Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.' Tell us your sad story, Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Tell us that you planned to take revenge for the death of your son." Kirk: "That's not true." Worf: "Objection! Captain Kirk has not been identified as the assassin!" Judge: "Sustained." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "I offer into the record this exerpt from the captain's personal log." Kirk: "I have never trusted Klingons...and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them...for the death of my boy." Chang: "AGAIN! AGAIN!" Kirk: "I have never trusted Klingons...and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them...for the death of my boy." Chang: "Were those your words?" Kirk: "Those words were spoken by me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Worf: "Objection! My client's political views on *not* on trial!" Chang: "On the contrary! Captain Kirk's views and motives are indeed...at the very *heart* of the matter! This officer's record shows him to be an insubordinate, unprincipled, career-minded *opportunist*, with a history of violating the chain of command whenever it suited him!" Judge: "Continue." Chang: "Indeed, the record shows, that Captain Kirk once held the rank of admiral! And that Admiral Kirk was demoted for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of the regulations of the law! Do you deny the motives of these charges?! Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!" Kirk: "I cannot deny it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "You were demoted?" Kirk: "Yes." Chang: "For insubordiation?" Kirk: "On occasion, I have disobeyed orders." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "And were you obeying or disobeying orders...when you arranged the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon?" Kirk: "I didn't know about the assassination until we boarded the ship." Chang: "Do you still deny that you did not fire on Kronos One?" Worf: "Your Honors, *please*!" Chang: "And do you still deny your men beamed aboard and shot the chancellor?" Worf: "Objection!" Kirk: "I cannot confirm or deny actions I did not witness." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Captain Kirk, are you aware, that as the captain of a starship, you are required to be responsible for the actions of your crew?" Kirk: "I am." Chang: "And if it should be proved that members of your crew *did* in fact carry out such an assassination..." McCoy: "Jim, they're setting us up! Your Honors--" Worf: "Do not answer!" Judge: "Captain Kirk, you will answer the question!" Kirk: "As captain...I am responsible for the conduct of the crew under my command." Chang: "Your Honors, the State rests." --STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Sulu: "Send to commander, Enterprise...'We stand ready to assist you. Captain Sulu, U.S.S. Excelsior.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Judge: "It is the determination of this court that the prisoners are...*guilty* as charged." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Worf: "I wish to note for the record that the evidence against my clients is entirely circumstantial. I *beg* the court to consider this, when pronouncing its sentence." Judge: "So noted." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Judge: "Captain James T. Kirk, Doctor Leonard McCoy, in the interests of... fostering amity, for the forthcoming peace talks, the sentence of death is... commuted. It is the judgement of this court, that without possibility of repreive or parole, you be taken from this place, to the dilithium mines of the penal asteroid of Rura Penthe, there to spend the rest of your natural lives!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "Rura Penthe." Chekov: "Known throughout the galaxy as 'The Aliens' Graveyard'." Scott: "Better to kill them now and get it over with." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "A Bird of Prey?" Spock: "A Bird of Prey." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Scott: "A Bird of Prey cannot fire when she's cloaked." Spock: "All things being equal, Mister Scott, I would agree. However, things are not equal. This one can." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "We must inform Starfleet Command." Scott: "Inform them of what? A new weapon, that is invisible? 'Raving lunatics', that's what they'll call us. They'll say that we're so desperate to exornerate the captain, that we'll say anything." Spock: "And they would be correct. We have no evidence. Only a theory, which happens to fit the facts." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "I do not understand. If there was a ship underneath us, surely the assassins beamed aboard from that wessel, not Enterprise." Spock: "You're forgetting something, Mister Chekov. According to our databanks, this ship fired those torpedoes. If we did, the killers are here. If we did not, whoever altered the databanks is here. In either case, what we are looking for, is here." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "What are we looking for, sir?" Spock: "Lieutenant..." Valeris: "Two pairs of gravity boots." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Commandant: "This is the gulag Rura Penthe! There is no stockade, no guard tower, no electronic frontier! Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming! Punishment means exile from the prison to the surface! On the surface, nothing can survive! Work *well*, and you will be treated *well*. Work *badly*, and you will die." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Oh my god." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Uh, the uh, Universal Translator was confiscated." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "He's definately on about something, Jim." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "If this is your spot, we'll move on." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "He wants your obediance to the Brotherhood of Aliens." Kirk: "He's got it!" Martia: "And your coat." Kirk: "I'm afraid not. Besides, it wouldn't fit him." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Thanks." Martia: "This will help keep you warm." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "I'm Martia. You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume?" Kirk: "How did you know that?" Martia: "We don't get many presidential assassins." Kirk: "We didn't kill Gorkon!" Martia: "Of course not." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "But there is a reward for your death." McCoy: "It figures." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "We've been set up all along." Martia: "Somebody up there wants you out of the way." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "Why not simply waperize them?" Valeris: "Like this? At ease. As you know, Commander Chekov, no one can fire an unauthorized phaser aboard a starship." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "Suppose when they returned, they threw the boots into the refuse?" Spock: "I'm having the refuse searched. If my surmise is correct, those boots will cling to the killers' necks like a pair of Tiberian bats." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "Did someone fire off a phaser?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "Ah, it's nothing, it's nothing." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Scott: "Who fired that--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "Ahh, Mister Scott, I understand you're having difficulty with the warp drive. How much time do you require for repair?" Scott: "There's nothing wrong with the bloody things." Spock: "Mister Scott, if we return to Spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating footwear. And we will never see the captain or Doctor McCoy alive again." Scott: "Could take weeks, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "A lie?" Spock: "An error." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "You understand, we have lost all contact with the captain and Doctor McCoy." Spock: "Yes, at the moment, they're surrounded by a magnetic shield. However, if I know the captain, at this time, he is deep into planning his escape." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "You've got him where you want him!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "They'll respect you now." Kirk: "That's a comfort." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "I was lucky that thing had knees." Martia: "That was not his knee." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Bones, why don't you see what you can do for him. Let him know we're not holding a grudge." McCoy: "Suppose he's holding a grudge?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Three months before retirement. What a way to finish." Kirk: "We're not finished." McCoy: "Huh? Speak for yourself. One day, one night, Kobayashi Maru." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Bones, are you afraid of the future?" McCoy: "I believe that was the general idea that I was trying to convey." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "I don't mean this future." McCoy: "What is this? Multiple choice?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Some people are afraid...of what might happen. I was terrified." McCoy: "What terrified you, specifically?" Kirk: "No more Neutral Zone. I was used to hating Klingons. It never even occurred for me to take Gorkon at his word. Spock was right." McCoy: "Try not to be too hard on yourself, we all felt exactly the same." Kirk: "No. Somebody felt a lot worse. I'm beginning to understand why." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Well, you've got any bright ideas, now's the time." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Time's the problem. You and I are nothing. But you heard the judge, the peace conference is on again. Whoever killed Gorkon is bound to attempt another assassination. Unless we can get out of here--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "Kirk, it's me, Martia. Listen, no one has ever escaped from Rura Penthe." Kirk: "Except us." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "It is possible. I know how to get outside the shield." Kirk: "How do we fit in?" Martia: "Getting outside the shield is easy. But after that it's up to you to get us off the surface before we freeze. Can you?" Kirk: "It's possible." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "I can't make it alone. And you're the likeliest candidate to come in this hell-hole for months." Kirk: "Candidate for what?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "Don't disappoint me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "What is it with you anyway?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Think we're finished?" McCoy: "More than ever." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Officer: "Sorry to wake you, sir." Sulu: "What is it?" Officer: "Starfleet urgently requests any data we have on the whereabouts of Enterprise." Sulu: "What?" Officer: "Apparently, they're refusing to acknowledge signal to return to Spacedock." Sulu: "Signal Starfleet that...we have no idea location, Enterprise." Officer: "Sir?" Sulu: "You having hearing problems, Mister?" Officer: "No, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "Now we go to Starfleet!" Spock: "Now we expand our search to include uniforms." Chekov: "All uniforms?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "I think we've been had." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "They don't take girls." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "You are Crewman Dax?" Dax: "Yes, Commander, what is the problem?" Chekov: "Perhaps you know...Russian epic of Cinderella. If shoe fits, wear it." Spock: "Uh, Mister Chekov..." [Points down] --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "What kind of creature is this? Last night, you two were--" Kirk: "Don't remind me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "Come on, we don't have a lot of time!" --"STVI"TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "Mister Scott, start your engines." Scott: "Aye-Aye, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "Mister Chekov, set course for Rura Penthe." Chekov: "Mister Spock, Rura Penthe is deep inside the Klingon frontier. If we're discovered..." Spock: "Quite correct, Mister Chekov. What is required now is a feat of linguistic legerdomain and a degree of intrepidity, before the captain and Doctor McCoy freeze to death." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Leave me! I'm finished!" Kirk: "No! Bones, I'm wearing a viridium patch on my back! Spock slapped it there just before we went on Gorkon's ship!" McCoy: "Why that cunning little Vulcan!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Now that we're outside the shield, they'll be able to locate us from two sectors away!" McCoy: "If they're even looking for us." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "We am thy freighter...Ursva, six weeks out of Kronos. Over." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "We is condemning food...things and...supplies." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Klingon: "Don't catch any bugs." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Would you mind explaining that little...trick you do?" Martia: "I'm a Chameloid." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "I've heard about you. Shape-shifters. I thought you were mythical." Martia: "Give a girl a chance, Captain. It takes a lot of effort." McCoy: "I don't doubt it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "Stop me if I'm wrong, but do we have any way of knowing whether this is the real you?" Martia: "I thought I would assume a pleasing shape." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Martia: "We're outside the shield. Now it's your turn, Captain." Kirk: "If you say so." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Ask her what she's getting." Martia: "A full pardon...which doesn't cover this." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "An accident wouldn't have been good enough. Come on, Spock." Martia: "Good enough for one. Two would have looked suspicous. Killed while..." "Kirk": "...attempting escape. Now that's convincing for both!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 "Kirk": "Surprise!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 "Kirk": "Your friends are late." Kirk: "They'll be along." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "I can't believe I kissed you." "Kirk": "Must have been your lifelong ambition!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Isn't it about time you became something else?" "Kirk": "I like it here." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "What took you so long?" "Kirk": "Kill him, he's the one!" Kirk: "Not me, you idiot! HIM!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Commandant: "No witnesses." Kirk: "Killed while trying to escape." McCoy: "Damn clever, if you ask me." Kirk: "It's a classic." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Commandant: "That's what he wanted." Kirk: "Who? Who wanted us killed?" Commandant: "Since you're all going to die anyway, why not tell you. His name is--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it all to hell! Out of all the... Son of a..." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Couldn't you have waited two seconds? Spock: "Captain?" Kirk: "He was about to explain the whole thing!" Chekov: "You want to go back?" McCoy: "Absolutely not!" Kirk: "It's cold!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "'Escaped'." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "First rule of assassination, kill the assassins." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Scott: "Now we're back to square one." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "It's possible." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "You have to shoot. If you are logical, you have to shoot." Valeris: "I do not want to." Spock: "What you want is irrelevant, what you've chosen is at hand!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "I'd just assumed you didn't." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "The operation is over." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "I did not fire. You cannot prove anything." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "I tried to tell you but you would not listen." Spock: "Neither of us was hearing very well that night, Lieutenant. There were things I tried to tell you, about having faith." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "You have betrayed the Federation...all of you!" McCoy: "And what do you think you've been doing?" Valeris: "Saving Starfleet!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Valeris: "'Klingons cannot be trusted.' You said so yourself, they killed your son. Did you not wish Gorkon dead? 'Let them die', you said. Did I misinterpret you? And you were right. They conspired with us to assassinate their own chancellor. How trustworthy can they be?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Names, Lieutenant." Valeris: "I do not remember." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "A lie?" Valeris: "A choice." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Spock..." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "She does not know." Chekov: "Then we're dead." Spock: "I've been dead before." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Sulu: "Standing by, Captain Kirk." Kirk: "Sulu! You realize that by even talking to us, you're violating the regulations." Sulu: "I'm sorry, Captain, your message is breaking up." Kirk: "Bless you, Sulu." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Where is the peace conference? They're going to attempt another assassination." Sulu: "The conference is at Camp Khitomer, near the Romulan border." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Thank you, Captain." Sulu: "Don't mention it, Captain Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "I prefer it dark." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Dining on ashes. You all right?" Spock: "It was an arrogant presumption on my part that got us into this situation. You and the doctor might have been killed." Kirk: "The night is young." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We're both at extremes. Reality is probably somewhere in between." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "I couldn't get past the death of my son." Spock: "I was prejudiced by her accomplishments as a Vulcan." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Gorkon had to die before I understood how prejudiced I was." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "Is it possible...that we too, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible, that we have outlived our usefulness? Would that constitute a joke?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Don't crucify yourself, it wasn't your fault." Spock: "I was responsible." Kirk: "For no actions but your own." Spock: "That is not what you said at your trial." Kirk: "That was as captain of the ship. Human beings--" Spock: "But, Captain, we both know that I am not human." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Spock, you want to know something? Everybody's human." Spock: "I find that remark...insulting." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Come on, I need you." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 UFP President: "Madame Chancellor, members of the diplomatic corps, honored guests...the United Federation Of Planets welcomes you to Camp Khitomer." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "He's out there, somewhere." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "But if he's cloaked..." Kirk: "Then all we have is a neutron radiation surge, and by the time we're close enough to record it, we're ashes." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Go to impulse power for Khitomer orbit." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 UFP President: "Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we *can* do a thing, it does not necessarily follow that we *must*." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "I can see you, Kirk." Kirk: "Chang!" Chang: "Can you see me?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Oh, now be honest, Captain. Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. 'Once more onto the breach, dear friends.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Reverse thrusters, full astern, one-half impulse power! Back off, back off!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "What's he doing?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "Incoming!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Azetbur: "We are a proud race. And we ... intend to go on being proud." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "'Tickle us do we not laugh, prick us do we not bleed, wrong us...shall we not revenge.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "Gas. Gas, Captain. Under impulse power she expends fuel like any other vessel. We call it 'plasma'. But whatever the Klingon designation is it is merely ionized gas." Uhura: "Well what about all that equipment we're carrying to catalog gaseous anomalies? Well the thing's got to have a tailpipe." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?" McCoy: "'Fascinating.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Scott: "She's packing quite a wallop! Shields weakening!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Sulu: "Shield's up. All right, now let's give them something else to shoot at." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Ahh, 'the game's afoot', hmm?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "Our battles now are ended, Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "'Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Bones, where's my torpedo?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chang: "'I'm as constant as the Northern Star!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "I'd give real money if he'd shut up!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "We've got a heartbeat!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "She's ready, Jim! Lock and load!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Fire!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Sulu: "Target the center of that explosion and fire." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Mister President! Mister President!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Kirk, Enterprise." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Cartwright: "Arrest those men." Spock: "Arrest yourself!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "We've got a full confession." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Sulu: "Cartwright. Just a minute." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Azetbur: "What's happened? What's the meaning of this?" Kirk: "It's about the future, Madame Chancellor. Some people think the future means the end of history. They're wrong. We haven't run out of history quite yet." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Your father called the future, 'the undiscovered country'." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "People can be very frightened of change." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Azetbur: "You've restored my father's faith." Kirk: "And you've restored my son's." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "The good news is they're not going to prosecute." Uhura: "They might as well have prosecuted me. I felt like Lieutenant Valeris." McCoy: "Well, they don't arrest people for having feelings." Chekov: "It's a good thing too. If they did, we'd all have to turn ourselves in." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Sulu: "Captain Kirk." Kirk: "Captain Sulu, as much to the crew of the Enterprise, I owe you my thanks." Sulu: "Nice to see you back one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 McCoy: "My God, that's a big ship." Scott: "Not so big as her captain, I think." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "So, this is goodbye." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Uhura: "I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to put back to Spacedock immediately...to be decommisioned." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Spock: "If I were human, I believe my response would be, 'Go to hell!'...If I were human." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Chekov: "Course heading, Captain?" Kirk: "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of a new generation. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man...where no one, has gone before." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9529.1 -- Jeff "Koganuts" Koga ||"You're not the man I knew ten years ago." AKA "Indiana" Koga ||"It's not the years, honey. 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