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.
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..."
BeleI AGREE!!!
Code 1-2-3-continuity, abort destruct order.
Change is the essential process of all existence.
Bele
I once heard that on some of your planets, people believe they are descended from apes.
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.]
Bele
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.
Bele
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.
I doubt that the same can be said for many of his followers.
Bele
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.
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?
Yes, Captain—all dead. They have annihilated each other—totally.
Bele
My people... all dead?
Yes, Commissioner. All of them.
Bele
[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.
Bele
He must not escape me!
[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.]
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?
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.
It is Bele, Captain. And another life-form has appeared on Cheron.
It doesn't make any sense.
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?
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.
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