I guess you're pretty used to seeing aliens in the future?
Well, yeah, but... this? Right now? This... this is the golden age of exploration. And you guys get to actually live it. I mean,... I'm jealous.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
Run me through it again.
Respectfully, sir, there is nothing to run through. Given a longer time frame, I might be able to brute force a solution, but as of now, there is no way to track the Orions.
Uh, I know how to track the Orions.
Didn't we talk about that?
Yes, uh, using future knowledge, yes I know I shouldn't, but um, what if I could use it, and you guys just, um... don't look?
[laughs] That's ridiculous. We can't just not look... can we?
[cut to Boimler making adjustments underneath a bridge console while the entire bridge crew stands with their backs to him]
We sure this is wise?
No, but I'm going with it.
[to Beckett Mariner, having sampled her Orion hurricane] I like you. You're a good bad influence.
I'm a Lanthanite. I've lived for thousands of years. Most heroes I've seen are just pretending half the time. Mm. There's this one guy I remember. He said to me, "I always pretended to be someone I wanted to be until finally I became that someone... or he became me".
When I first arrived, I brought expectations of each of you from the future. And not only was that dangerous, it denied the reality of who you are right now. So I'd like to apologize to you all with a limerick
OR you can just get to the point!
I don't have to do the limerick.
I can't believe all this time, we have been walking over a piece of history. I'm a huge fan of Travis Mayweather. First pilot of the NX-01. My middle school gym was named after him.
Hoshi Sato was on that ship, too. You know she spoke 86 languages? I wrote three papers on her at the Academy.
[realizing] Are we sounding like...?
[referring to Boimler and Mariner] Them?
Indeed. It is exhausting.
MDr. "Buck" Martinez
Whatever you need, we probably don't have it. But ask anyway. I'll run it up the flagpole and see if it quacks.
The Federation believes everyone deserves a second chance.
What about justice? What about the victims? Doesn't everyone deserve to pay for their actions?
So who decides, hmm? Who pays and who gets redemption? Where's the line?
You're right, Chris. We've known each other for a very long time, see eye to eye on most things. But you haven't lived my life. You have the privilege of believing in what's best in people. Me? I happen to know there are some things in this world that don't deserve forgiveness.
You have an energy.
What?! I'm just waiting for our visitor to arrive so I can run a security clearance on him.
I'm aware. But you came in here hot. On fire. It's making me sweat.
Imagine an area of space where quantum uncertainties collapse so rapidly and randomly that new realities are created. In one such reality, people sing uncontrollably.
A musical reality.
Indeed.
So, what's next? More improbability? Or will we just suddenly poof into bunnies?
I would prefer not to be a bunny, either.
Okay, I need to just say this before it comes out in the form of a 17th-century sea shanty. I know you. I mean not you you. We ... Well, I know you now, but I mean before. In a different time, I met another you.
JKJim Kirk
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't love rules, but I'm pretty sure you're about to break a big one.
The other you, He saw the real me. Beyond my name, beyond all that name stands for. He'd never even heard it before. And I liked it. I liked the way he looked at me. Because through his eyes, I could finally see the person I had the potential to be. And it was someone who wasn't burdened by tragedy and darkness. Someone who could find hope and live in that hope. Someone free. Free to feel and take chances and and make connections. But then, he was gone. And with him, that version of myself was gone, too. And that's ... That was what I wanted to say.
JKJim Kirk
Am I anything like the other me?
No. And yes. I like how you look at me, too.
JKJim Kirk
In what way?
Like you really see me.
[The Gorn] do not appear to notice the shuttle.
Because they look like space garbage. Old zombie movie trick.
"Zombie" movie?
Yeah. Dress up like you're dead so the zombies don't notice you. You never seen one?
A zombie, no. A movie, yes. But I will add some to my research.
I would never tell you not to hope. I want Chapel to be alive, too.
Things did not end well between us. We were in a fight. All things that seem trivial in the face of death. I wish to apologize to her.
Sometimes hope is a choice.
Yeah, you've told me that one before.
Maybe I'm saying it 'cause I need to hear it.
MSMontgomery Scott
Oh, sorry. Where are my manners, eh? Montgomery Scott, at your service. Lieutenant junior grade.
Captain Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise. This is Lieutenant Noonien-Singh, Dr. M'Benga, Lieutenant Ortegas and Lieutenant Kirk.
MSMontgomery Scott
That's a lot of lieutenants.
There'll be a quiz.
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