SpockTake care, young ladies, and value your wine; Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime; Deeply they'll swallow from your finest kegs; Then swiftly be gone; Leaving bitter dregs; Ah, ah, bitter dregs. With smiling words and tender touch; Man offers little and asks for so much; He loves in the breathless excitement of night; Then leaves with your treasure in cold morning light; Ah, ah... in cold morning light.
[Maiden Wine, also known as Bitter Dregs]
[Forced to kiss Spock] "For so long I've wanted to be close to you. Now all I want to do is crawl away and die!"
Spock
Captain, your analysis of the situation was flawless, anticipating that she would deny you admittance. However, the logic by which you arrived at your conclusion escapes me.
Mr. Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in this galaxy that can make that claim.
They were humanitarians and statesmen, and they had a dream-- a dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars. A dream that made Mr. Spock and I brothers.
GIGarth of Izar
Mr. Spock, you consider Captain Kirk and yourself brothers?
Spock
Captain Kirk speaks somewhat figuratively and with undue emotion. However, what he says is logical, and I do, in fact, agree with it.
Spock
What maneuver did we use to defeat the Romulan vessel near Tau Ceti?
KOKirk or Garth as Kirk
Very good, Spock. The Cochrane deceleration.
OKOther Kirk or Garth as Kirk
Spock. The Cochrane deceleration is a classic battle maneuver. Every Starship captain knows that.
Spock
Correct, Captain. [to both] Captains.
Why was it so impossible to tell us [Garth and Kirk] apart?
Spock
It was not impossible, Captain. Our presence here is proof of that.
Yes, and... congratulations. What took you so long?
Spock
The interval of uncertainly was actually fairly brief, Captain. It only seemed long to you. I was waiting for a victor in the hand-to-hand struggle, which I assumed would be Captain Garth. [Hastily explains] Because of your depleted condition. Failing a resolution to the struggle, I was forced to use other means to make my determination.
I see. Mr. Spock, letting yourself be hit on the head—and I presume you let yourself be hit on the head—is not exactly a method King Solomon would have approved. [Spock opens his mouth to reply, stops in confusion] Mr. Scott, ready to beam up.
You may control the ship... but mine is the final command. From 0 to 5 no force in the universe can stop the destruct sequence. This is Captain Kirk. Destruct sequence 1, code 1-1A.
Spock
This is Science Officer Spock: Destruct sequence 2, code 1-1A-2B.
SScott
This is Lieutenant Commander Scott: Destruct sequence 3, code 1B-2B-3.
CComputer
Destruct sequence completed and engaged. Awaiting final code for 30 second countdown.
Begin thirty second countdown. Code zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero.
CComputer
Destruct sequence is activated. 30 seconds... 29... 28... 27... 25 seconds... 20 seconds... 15 seconds... 10... 9... 8... 7... 6..."
Code 1-2-3-continuity, abort destruct order.
Spock
Change is the essential process of all existence.
I once heard that on some of your planets, people believe they are descended from apes.
Spock
The actual theory is that all lifeforms evolved from the lower levels to the more advanced stages.
[After Bele hears he will not retain Loki without Due Process.]
Yes, he will delay, evade, and escape again. And in the process put thousands of innocent beings at each others throats, getting them to kill and maim, for a cause which they have no stake in. But, which he will force them to violently espouse by twisting their minds with his lies, his loathsome accusations, and his foul threats.
What do you do? Carry justice on your tongues? You will beg for it, but you won't fight or die for it!"
After so many years of leading the fight, you seem very much alive.
Spock
I doubt that the same can be said for many of his followers.
You're finished, Lokai! Oh, we've got your kind penned in on Cheron into little districts, and it's not going to change! You've combed the galaxy, and come up with nothing but monocolored trash, do-gooders, and bleeding hearts. You're DEAD, you half-white!
LLoki
You useless pieces of bland flesh… I'll take you WITH me, you half-black!
I do not make deals for control of this ship, sir.
Spock
Several very large cities. All uninhabited. Extensive traffic systems barren of traffic. Vegetation and lower animals encroaching on the cities. No sapient life forms registering at all. No evidence of Natural disaster but vast amounts of unburied corpses.
You mean all the people are dead?
Spock
Yes, Captain—all dead. They have annihilated each other—totally.
Spock
Yes, Commissioner. All of them.
Spock
None at all, sir.
[turns on Lokai] Your band of murderers did this!
LLokai
[turns on Bele] Your genocidal maniacs did this!
Stop it! What's the matter with you two? Didn't you hear Spock? Your planet is dead! There's nobody alive on Cheron because of hate. The cause you fought about no longer exists. Give yourselves time to breathe. Give up your hate. You're welcome to live with us. Listen to me. You both must end up dead if you don't stop hating.
LLokai
You're an idealistic dreamer! [flees toward the Transporter]
Bele, the chase is finished.
Spock
Where can he go?
[Bele glances at the devastated planet Cheron and purses Lokai.]
Shall I alert Security Sir?
No Lt where can they run?
[Loki and Bele chase each other through the ship, knocking over crewmen, whilst imagining the buildings burning on their home planet.]
Spock
Captain, I have located them on ship's sensors. Bele is chasing Lokai on deck three. Bele is passing recreation room three, approaching the crewmen's lounge. Lokai is running past the crewmen's lounge. Lokai has just arrived on deck five. Passing recreation room three.
[Lokai beams down to the planet.]
Captain, someone has activated the transporter mechanism.
Spock, anyone in the transporter room?
Spock
Negative, Captain. Transporter room is clear. However, there is a life-form materialising on the planet. It is Lokai. He is back on Cheron.
There's nobody there to try him. His judges are all dead.
Captain, the transporter mechanism has been activated again.
Spock
It is Bele, Captain. And another life-form has appeared on Cheron.
It doesn't make any sense.
Spock
To expect sense from two mentalities of such extreme viewpoints is not logical.
But their planet's dead. Does it matter now which one's right?
Spock
Not to Lokai and Bele. All that matters to them is their hate.
Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?
No, but that's all they have left. Warp factor two, Mister Sulu. Set course for Starbase Four.
Spock
Lieutenant Uhura, has Starfleet honored our request with a reply?
There has been no response as yet, sir.
Spock
Did you advise them the Captain's life is at stake?
Yes, sir. They insist the matter must be referred to the Federation.
Spock
What department?
The Bureau of Planetary Treaties.
Spock
Contact them directly.
I did, Mr. Spock. They insist that we must go through Starfleet channels.
Spock
Mr. Scott, you have accomplished your task.
You might at least say thank you.
Spock
For what purpose Mr. Scott? What is it in you humans...
Spock
...which requires an overwhelming display of emotion in situations such as this? Two men pursue the only reasonable course of action indicated, and yet you feel... that something else is necessary.
They really believe that (the planet) Eden exists?
Spock
Many myths are based on truth, Captain. And they are not unintelligent. Their leader, Dr. Sevrin, is a man --
[surprised] Dr. Sevrin is their leader?
Spock
Yes. A brilliant research engineer in the fields of acoustics, communications and electronics on Tiberon. He was dismissed from his post when he started this movement. Tong Rad inherits his father's extraordinary abilities in the field of space studies.
But... they've rejected all that, and all that this technology provides. And they seek the primitive.
Spock
There are many who are... uncomfortable with what we have created. It is almost a biological rebellion. A profound revulsion against the planned communities. The programming. The sterilized, artfully balanced atmospheres. They hunger for an Eden... where spring comes.
We all do. The cave is deep in our memory.
Spock
Yes, that is true, Captain.
But we don't steal space cruisers and act like irresponsible children. What makes you so sympathetic toward them?
Spock
It is not "sympathy" so much as curiosity, Captain. A wish to understand. They regard themselves as aliens in their own worlds. A condition with which I am somewhat familiar.
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