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Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982

Kirk: Kirk to Enterprise.

Spock: Spock here.

Kirk: Captain Spock, damage report.

Spock: Admiral, if we go "by the book". like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days.

Kirk: I read you captain. Let's have it.

Spock: The situation is grave, Admiral. We won't have main power for six "days". Auxiliary power has temporarily failed. Restoration may be possible, in two "days". By the book, Admiral.

Kirk: Meaning you can't even beam us back?

Spock: Not at present.

Kirk: Captain Spock, if you don't hear from us within one hour, your orders are to restore what power you can, take the Enterprise to the nearest star base, and alert Starfleet Command as soon as you're out of jamming range.

Commander Nyota Uhura: Sir, we won't leave you behind!

Kirk: Uhura, if you don't hear from us, there won't be anybody behind. Kirk out.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Stardate: 8130.3

OPENING CREDITS

IN THE 23RD CENTURY...

[Bridge simulator room]

Captain's log, stardate 8130.3. Starship Enterprise on training mission to Gamma Hydra, Section fourteen, coordinates twenty-two eighty-seven four. Approaching Neutral Zone, all systems normal and functioning.

SULU: Leaving Section Fourteen for Section Fifteen. SAAVIK: Stand by. Project parabolic course to avoid entering Neutral Zone. SULU: Aye, Captain. ...Course change projected. UHURA: Captain, ...I'm getting something on the distress channel. SAAVIK: On speakers! KOBAYASHI MARU VOICE: Imperative! This is the Kobayashi Maru, ...nineteen periods out of Altair Six. We have struck a gravitic mine and have lost all power. ...Our hull is penetrated and we have sustained many casualties. UHURA: This is the Starship Enterprise. Your message is breaking up. Can you give your coordinates? Repeat. This is the Starship... KOBAYASHI MARU VOICE: Enterprise, our position is Gamma Hydra, Section Ten. SAAVIK: In the Neutral Zone. KOBAYASHI MARU VOICE: Hull penetrated, life support systems failing. Can you assist us, Enterprise? Can you assist us? SAAVIK: Data on Kobayashi Maru! COMPUTER VOICE: Subject vessel is third class neutronic fuel carrier, crew of eighty-one, three hundred passengers. SAAVIK: Damn. Mister Sulu, plot an intercept course. SULU: May I remind the Captain that if a starship enters the Zone. SAAVIK: I'm aware of my responsibilities, Mister SULU: Estimating two minutes to intercept. ...Now entering the Neutral Zone. COMPUTER VOICE: Warning. We have entered the Neutral Zone. ...Warning. SPOCK: We are now in violation of Treaty, Captain SAAVIK: Stand by transporter room, ready to beam survivors aboard. UHURA: Captain, I've lost their signal! COMPUTER VOICE: Alert! Sensors indicate three Klingon Cruisers, bearing three one six, mark four, closing fast. SAAVIK: Visual! ...Battle stations! Activate shields! SULU: Shields activated! SAAVIK: Inform the Klingons we are on a rescue mission. UHURA: They're jamming all the frequencies, Captain. COMPUTER VOICE: Klingons on attack course and closing. SAAVIK: We're in over our heads. Mister Sulu, get us out of here. SULU: I'll try, Captain. COMPUTER VOICE: Alert! Klingon torpedoes activated. SAAVIK: Evasive action! (an explosion rocks the bridge) SAAVIK: Engineering! Damage report! SCOTT (OC): Main energiser hit, Captain! SAAVIK: Engage auxiliary power. Prepare to return fire! (another explosion rocks the bridge) CADET: Shields collapsing, Captain! SAAVIK: Fire all phasers! SPOCK: No power to the weapons, Captain. (yet another explosion rocks the bridge) SCOTT (OC): Captain, it's no use. We're dead in space. SAAVIK: Activate escape pods. Send out the Log Buoy. ...All hands abandon ship. Repeat, ...all hands abandon ship. KIRK (OC): All right, open her up. SAAVIK: Any suggestions, Admiral? KIRK: Prayer, Mister Saavik. The Klingons don't take prisoners. Lights! TANNOY VOICE: Motors on! KIRK: Captain! SPOCK: Trainees ...to the briefing room. TANNOY VOICE: Maintenance Crew! Report to the bridge simulator. KIRK: Physician, heal thyself. McCOY: Is that's all you gotta to say? What about my performance? KIRK: I'm not a drama critic. ...Well, Mister Saavik, are you going to stay with the sinking ship? SAAVIK: Permission to speak candidly, sir? KIRK: Granted. SAAVIK: I don't believe this was a fair test of my command abilities. KIRK: And why not? SAAVIK: Because ...there was no way to win. KIRK: A no-win situation is a possibility every commander may face. Has that never occurred to you? SAAVIK: No sir. It has not. KIRK: How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say? SAAVIK: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me. KIRK: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on. McCOY: Admiral? Wouldn't it be easier to just put an experienced crew back on the ship? KIRK: Galloping about the cosmos is a game for the young, Doctor. UHURA: Now what is that supposed to mean?

[Corridor outside bridge simulator room]

KIRK: Aren't you dead? I assume you are loitering here to learn what efficiency rating I plan to give your cadets. SPOCK: I am understandably curious. KIRK: They destroyed the simulator room and you with it. SPOCK: The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc with students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique? KIRK: It had the virtue of never having been tried. Oh, by the way, ...thank you for this. SPOCK: I know of your fondness for antiques. KIRK: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' ...Message, Spock? SPOCK: None of that I'm conscious of ...except, of course, happy birthday, ...surely the best of times. TANNOY VOICE: Captain Spock, Captain Spock, space shuttle leaving in fifteen minutes. KIRK: Where are you off to, now? SPOCK: The Enterprise. I must check in before your inspection. And you? KIRK: Home.

[Kirk's apartment]

KIRK: Why! Bless me, Doctor! What beams you into this neck of the woods? McCOY: 'Beware Romulans bearing gifts.' Happy Birthday, Jim. KIRK: Romulan Ale! Why, Bones, you know this is illegal. McCOY: I only use it for medicinal purposes. I've got a border ship that brings me in a case every now and then across the Neutral Zone. Now don't be a prig. KIRK: Twenty-two, eighty-three. McCOY: Yeah well it takes this stuff a while to ferment. Here now, gimme. ...Now you open this one. KIRK: I'm almost afraid to. What is it? Klingon aphrodisiacs? McCOY: No. KIRK: Oh. ...Bones, this is ...charming. McCOY: For most patients of your age, I generally administer Retnax Five. KIRK: I'm allergic to Retnax Five. McCOY: Exactly. Cheers! KIRK: Cheers! ...Aahh! McCOY: Happy Birthday! KIRK: I don't know what to say. McCOY: Well you could say thank you. KIRK: Thank you. McCOY: Damn it, Jim, what the hell's the matter with you? Other people have birthdays. Why are we treating yours like a funeral? KIRK: Bones, I don't want to be lectured. McCOY: What the hell do you want? ...This is not about age, ...and you know it. This is about you flying a goddamn computer console when you wanna be out there hopping Galaxies. KIRK: Spare me your notions of poetry, please. We all have our assigned duties. McCOY: Bull. You're hiding ...hiding behind rules and regulations. KIRK: Who am I hiding from? McCOY: From yourself, Admiral! KIRK: Don't mince words, Bones, What do you really think? McCOY: Jim, I'm your doctor and I'm your friend. Get back your command. Get it back before you turn into part of this collection. Before you really do grow old.

Starship log, stardate 8130.4. Log entry by First Officer Pavel Chekov. Starship Reliant on orbital approach to Ceti Alpha VI, in connection with Project Genesis. We are continuing our search for a lifeless planet to satisfy the requirements of a test site for the Genesis Experiment. So far no success.

[Reliant bridge]

TERRELL: Standard orbit please. Mister Beach. Any change in the surface scan? BEACH: Negative. Limited atmosphere, dominated by craylon gas, sand and high velocity winds. It's incapable of supporting lifeforms. CHEKOV: Does it have to be completely lifeless? TERRELL: Don't tell me you've found something. CHEKOV: We've picked up a minor energy flux reading on one dynoscanner. TERRELL: Damn! Are you sure? Maybe the scanner's out of adjustment. CHEKOV: I suppose it could be a particle of preanimate matter caught in the matrix. TERRELL: All right, get on the Comm-pic to Doctor Marcus. KYLE: Aye sir. TERRELL: Maybe it's something we can transplant. CHEKOV: You know what she'll say.

[Regula I space laboratory]

CAROL (OC): Now let me get this straight. Something you can transplant? CHEKOV (OC): Yes, Doctor.

[Regula I lab]

CAROL: Something you can transplant? I don't know. TERRELL (on viewscreen): It might only be a particle of preanimate matter. CAROL: Then again it may not. You boys have to be clear on this. There can't be so much as a microbe or the show's off. Why don't you have a look? But if it is something that can be moved I want... TERRELL (on viewscreen): You bet, Doctor. We're on our way!

[Regula I corridor]

DAVID: Well, don't have kittens. Genesis is going to work. They'll remember you in one breath with Newton, Einstein, Surak. CAROL: Thanks a lot. No respect from my offspring. DAVID: Par for the course. Are you teaming up with me for bridge after dinner? CAROL: Maybe. ...What is it? DAVID: Every time we have dealings with Starfleet, I get nervous. ...We are dealing with something that could be perverted into a dreadful weapon. Remember that overgrown Boy Scout you used to hang around with? That's exactly the kind of man... CAROL: Listen, kiddo, Jim Kirk was many things, but he was never a Boy Scout!

[Reliant orbiting Ceti Alpha V]

RELIANT VOICE: Captain Terrell, stand by to beam down.

[Surface of Ceti Alpha V]

TERRELL: Chekov, are you sure these are the correct coordinates? CHEKOV: Captain, this is the garden spot of Ceti Alpha Six. TERRELL: I can barely see it. CHEKOV: There's nothing here. The tricorder must be broken. TERRELL: Chekov, over here. Those look like cargo carriers. Hey, give me a hand.

[Cargo bay]

TERRELL: What the hell happened? If they crashed, where's the rest of the ship? (looking at a tank with moving sand) TERRELL: What the hell is that? CHEKOV: Botany Bay. ...Botany Bay! ...Oh no! We've got to get out of here now! Damn! TERRELL: What about the... CHEKOV: Never mind! Hurry! Hurry! TERRELL: Chekov, what's the matter with you? ...Chekov! CHEKOV: Come on! Hurry!

(outside they are confronted by a group of hooded figures)

KYLE: Starship Reliant to Captain Terrell, ...this is Commander Kyle. Will you please respond, Captain? Captain Terrell, respond please. BEACH: Let's give them a little more time.

CHEKOV: Khan! KHAN: I don't know you. ...But you, ...I never forget a face, Mister ...Chekov. Isn't it? I never thought to see your face again. TERRELL: Chekov, who is this man? CHEKOV: A criminal, Captain, ...a product of late twentieth century genetic engineering. TERRELL: What do you want with us? Sir, I demand... KHAN: You are in a position to demand nothing, sir. I, on the other hand, am in a position to grant ...nothing. What you see is all that remains of the ship's company and crew of the Botany Bay, marooned here fifteen years ago by Captain James T. Kirk. TERRELL: Listen, you men and women, you have a... KHAN: Captain! Captain! Save your strength. These people have sworn to live and die at my command two hundred years before you were born. Do you mean he never told you the tale? To amuse your Captain? No? Never told you how the Enterprise picked up the Botany Bay, lost in space in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-six, myself and the ship's company in cryogenic freeze? TERRELL: I've never even met Admiral Kirk. KHAN: Admiral? Admiral! Admiral... Never told you how Admiral Kirk sent seventy of us into exile on this barren sand heap with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us? CHEKOV: You lie! On Ceti Alpha Five there was life, a fair chance. KHAN: This is Ceti Alpha Five. ...Ceti Alpha Six exploded six months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet and everything was laid waste. Admiral Kirk ...never bothered to check on our progress. It was only the fact of my genetically engineered intellect that enabled us to survive! On Earth, ...two hundred years ago, ...I was a prince, ...with power over millions. CHEKOV: Captain Kirk was your host! You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him. KHAN: You didn't expect to find me. You thought this was Ceti Alpha Six! Why are you here? ...Why are you here? ...Why? ...Allow me introduce you to Ceti Alpha Five's only remaining indigenous lifeform. ...What do you think? They've killed twenty of my people, including my beloved wife. ...Oh, not all at once, ...and not ...instantly, to be sure. ...You see, their young enter through the ears ...and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later, ...they grow, ...follows madness. ...And death. CHEKOV: Khan, listen to me! KHAN: These are pets, of course. Not quite domesticated. CHEKOV: Khan! Captain Kirk was only doing his duty! TERRELL: No! No! CHEKOV/TERRELL: (screams of pain) KHAN: That's better! Now tell me ...why you are here? ...And tell me where I may find James Kirk.

[Space shuttle]

ENTERPRISE VOICE: Enterprise to Admiral Kirk's shuttle. You're cleared for docking. Approach portside torpedo bay. SULU: Enterprise, this is Admiral Kirk's party on final approach. ENTERPRISE VOICE: Enterprise welcomes you. Prepare for docking. KIRK: I hate inspections. SULU: I'm delighted, any chance to go aboard the Enterprise. KIRK: Well, I for one am glad to have you at the helm for three weeks. I don't think these kids can steer.

[Enterprise docking bay]

(an ensign sounds a bo'sun's pipe) SPOCK: Open the Air Lock. KIRK: Permission to come aboard, Captain? SPOCK: Welcome, Admiral. I think you know my trainee crew. Certainly they have come to know you. KIRK: Yes, we've been through death and life together. KIRK: Mister Scott, you old space dog. You're well? SCOTT: I had me a wee bout, sir, but Doctor McCoy pulled me through. KIRK: Oh? A wee bout of what? McCOY: Shore leave, Admiral. KIRK: Ah. And who do we have here? PRESTON: Midshipman First Class Peter Preston, engineers mate, sir! KIRK: First training voyage, Mister Preston? PRESTON: Yes sir! KIRK: Well, ...shall we start with the Engine Room? SCOTT: We'll see you there, sir, and everything is in order. KIRK: That'll be a pleasant surprise, Mister Scott. SPOCK: I'll see you on the bridge, Admiral. Company dismissed! SAAVIK: (in Vulcan) He's never what I expect, sir. SPOCK: (in Vulcan) What surprises you, Lieutenant? SAAVIK: He's so ...human. SPOCK: (in Vulcan) Nobody's perfect, Saavik.

[Enterprise engineering]

KIRK: Well, Mister Scott, are your cadets capable of handling a minor training cruise? SCOTT: Give the word, Admiral! KIRK: Mister Scott, the word is given. SCOTT: Aye sir. McCOY: Admiral, what about the rest of the inspection? KIRK: Later.

[Enterprise bridge]

STARFLEET VOICE: This is Starfleet Operations. Enterprise is cleared for departure. SULU: Admiral on the bridge! SAAVIK (OC): Running lights on. SPOCK: Very well, Mister Saavik, you may clear all moorings. SAAVIK: Aye sir. ...All moorings are clear, Captain. SPOCK: Thank you. ...Lieutenant, have you ever piloted a starship out of Spacedock? SAAVIK: Never, sir. SPOCK: Take her out, Mister Saavik. SAAVIK: Aye sir. SPOCK: For everything there is a first time, Lieutenant. Don't you agree, Admiral? KIRK: Mmm. SAAVIK: Aft thrusters, Mister Sulu. SULU: Aft thrusters. McCOY: Would you like a tranquilliser? SAAVIK: Ahead one-quarter impulse power. SULU: Ahead one-quarter impulse power. (the Enterprise leaves Spacedock) SULU: We are clear and free to navigate. SAAVIK: Course heading, Captain? KIRK: Captain's discretion. SPOCK: Mister Sulu, you may ...indulge yourself. SULU: Aye sir.

DAVID: Does that about do it? CAROL: I don't think there's another piece of information we could squeeze into the memory banks. Next time, we'll design a bigger one. DAVID: Who'd wanna build it? JEDDA: Doctor Marcus, Comm-pic coming in on hyperchannel. ...It's the Starship Reliant. CAROL: On the screen, please, Jedda. CHEKOV (on viewscreen): Come in, please. This is Reliant calling Regula I. Repeat. This is U.S.S. Reliant. CAROL: Commander, we are receiving. This is Regula I. Go ahead. CHEKOV (on viewscreen): Ah! Doctor Marcus, ...good. We're en route to you and should be there in three days. CAROL: En route? Why? We weren't expecting you for another three months. Has something happened? CHEKOV (on viewscreen): Nothing has happened. Ceti Alpha Six has checked out. CAROL: Then I ...I don't understand why you're coming... CHEKOV (on viewscreen): We have received new orders. Upon our arrival at Regula I, all materials of Project Genesis will be transferred to this ship for immediate testing at Ceti Alpha Six. DAVID: (and others) Who the hell, do they think they are? CAROL: Will you please be quiet! Commander Chekov, this is completely irregular. CHEKOV (on viewscreen): I have my orders. DAVID: Pin him down, Mother. Who gave the order? CHEKOV (on viewscreen): The order comes from Admiral James T. Kirk. DAVID: I knew it! I knew it! All along the military has wanted to get their han... CAROL: This is completely improper, Commander Chekov. I have no intention of allowing Reliant or any other unauthorised personnel access to our work or materials. CHEKOV (on viewscreen): I'm sorry that you feel that way, Doctor. Admiral Kirk's orders are confirmed.

CHEKOV: Please prepare to deliver Genesis to us upon our arrival. Reliant out. KHAN: Well done, Commander. CHEKOV: You realise, sir, they will attempt to contact Admiral Kirk and confirm the order.

[Enterprise turbolift]

SAAVIK: Hold please! ...Thank you, sir. KIRK: Lieutenant, are you wearing your hair differently? SAAVIK: It is still regulation, Admiral. ...May I speak, sir? KIRK: Self-expression doesn't seem to be one of your problems. ...You're bothered by your performance on the Kobayashi Maru. SAAVIK: I failed to resolve the situation. KIRK: There is no correct resolution. It's a test of character. SAAVIK: May I ask how you dealt with the test? KIRK: You may ask. ...That's a little joke. SAAVIK: Humour. It is a difficult concept. ...It is not logical. KIRK: We learn by doing. McCOY: Who's been holding up the damn elevator? SAAVIK: Thank you, sir. McCOY: Did she change her hairstyle? KIRK: I hadn't noticed. McCOY: Wonderful stuff, that Romulan ale. UHURA (on intercom): Admiral Kirk. KIRK: Kirk here. UHURA (on intercom): I have an urgent Comm-pic from Space Lab Regula I for you, sir. Doctor Carol Marcus. KIRK: I'll take it in my quarters, Uhura. UHURA (on intercom): Aye sir. McCOY: It never rains but it pours. KIRK: As a physician you of all people should appreciate the danger of re-opening old wounds. McCOY: Sorry.

[Kirk's quarters]

CAROL (on viewscreen): Jim, can you read me? KIRK: I can hear you, Carol. What's wrong? What's the matter? CAROL (on viewscreen): Why are you taking Genesis away from us? KIRK: Taking Genesis? Who's taking Genesis? Who is taking Genesis? CAROL (on viewscreen): I can see you but can't hear. KIRK: Carol! CAROL (on viewscreen): Jim, did you give the order? KIRK: What order? Who's taking Genesis? CAROL (on viewscreen): Please help us. I will not let them have Genesis without proper authorisation! KIRK: Have Genesis? Who gav... CAROL (on viewscreen): On whose authority can they do this? KIRK: No one's authority. CAROL (on viewscreen): Please do something. KIRK: Uhura! What's happening? Damn it. UHURA (on intercom): Transmission jammed at the source, sir. KIRK: Alert Starfleet Headquarters. UHURA (on intercom): Aye sir. KIRK: I want to talk to Starfleet Command.

CAROL (OC): We must have order here. This has to be some sort of mistake. DAVID: Mistake? We're all alone here. They waited until everyone was on leave to do this. Reliant is supposed to be at our disposal, not vice-versa. MADISON: It seems clear that Starfleet never intended that. CAROL: I that know, but... DAVID: I've tried to tell you before. Scientists have always been pawns of the military. CAROL: Starfleet has kept the peace for a hundred. I cannot and will not subscribe to your interpretation of this event. JEDDA: You may be right, Doctor, but what about Reliant? She's on her way.

[Spock's quarters]

KIRK (OC): We've got a problem. Something may be wrong at Regula I. We've been ordered to investigate. SPOCK: If memory serves, Regula I is a scientific research laboratory. KIRK (OC): I told Starfleet all we had was a boatload of children but ...we're the only ship in the Quadrant. Spock, these cadets of yours, how good are they? How will they respond under real pressure? SPOCK: As with all living things, each according to his gifts. Of course, the ship is yours. KIRK: No, that won't be necessary, just get me to Regula I. SPOCK: As a teacher on a training mission, I am content to command the Enterprise. If we are to go on actual duty, it is clear that the senior officer on board must assume command. KIRK: It may be nothing, ...garbled communications. You take the ship. SPOCK: Jim, you proceed from a false assumption. I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise. KIRK (OC): You're about to remind me that logic alone dictates your actions. SPOCK: I would not remind you of that which you know so well. If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first best destiny. Anything else is a waste of material. KIRK: I would not presume to debate you. SPOCK: That is wise. In any case, were I to invoke logic, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. KIRK: Or the one. SPOCK: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.

KIRK: Stop energisers. SULU (OC): Stop energisers. KIRK: Prepare speakers. ...An emergency situation has arisen. By order of Starfleet Command, as of now, eighteen hundred hours, I am assuming command of this vessel. Duty officer so note in the ship's log. Plot a new course, for Space Laboratory Regula I. Engine room. Mister Scott! SCOTT (on intercom): Aye sir. KIRK: We'll be going to warp speed. SCOTT (on intercom): Aye sir. SULU: Course plotted for Regula I, Admiral. KIRK: Engage warp engines. SAAVIK: Prepare for warp speed. SULU: Ready, sir. KIRK: I know that none of you were expecting this. I'm sorry. I'm gonna have you to ask you to grow up a little sooner than you expected. Warp five. SULU: So much for the little training cruise.

KHAN'S NAVIGATOR (OC): Course to intercept Enterprise ready, sir. KHAN: Helmsman? JOACHIM: Sir. May I speak? ...We're all with you, sir, but consider this. We are free. We have a ship and the means to go where we will. We have escaped permanent exile on Ceti Alpha Five. You have proved your superior intellect, and defeated the plans of Admiral Kirk. You do not need to defeat him again. KHAN: He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him. I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up. ...Prepare to alter course.

UHURA: Space Station Regula I. Please come in. Doctor Marcus. Please respond. This is Enterprise call... It's no use, there's no response from Regula I. SPOCK: But no longer jammed? UHURA: No sir. No nothing! SPOCK: There are two possibilities. They are unable to respond. They are unwilling to respond. KIRK: How far? SPOCK: Twelve hours and forty-three minutes, present speed. KIRK: Give up Genesis, she said. What in God's name does that mean? Give it up to whom? SPOCK: It might help my analysis if I knew what Genesis was beyond the biblical reference. KIRK: Uhura, have Doctor McCoy to join us in my quarters. UHURA (OC): Aye sir. KIRK: Mister Saavik, you have the con.

McCOY: Well, I've got the sick bay ready. Now will someone please tell me what's going on? KIRK: Computer. Request security procedure and access to Project Genesis Summary. COMPUTER VOICE: Identify for retina scan. KIRK: Kirk, Admiral James T. COMPUTER VOICE: Security scan approved. KIRK: Summary, please. CAROL (on viewscreen): Project Genesis. A proposal to the Federation. SPOCK: Carol Marcus. KIRK: Yes. CAROL (on viewscreen): What exactly is Genesis? Well, put simply, Genesis is life from lifelessness. It is a process whereby molecular structure is reorganised at he subatomic level into life-generating matter of equal mass. Stage One of our experiments was conducted in the laboratory. Stage Two of the series will be attempted in a lifeless underground. Stage Three will involve the process on a planetary scale. It is our intention to introduce the Genesis device into the pre-selected area of a lifeless space body, such a moon or other dead form. The device is delivered, instantaneously causing what we call the Genesis Effect. Matter is reorganised with life-generating results. ...Instead of a dead moon, a living, breathing planet, capable of sustaining whatever lifeforms we see fit to deposit on it. SPOCK: Fascinating! CAROL: (on viewscreen) The reformed moon simulated here represents the merest fraction of the Genesis potential, should the Federation wish to fund these experiments to their logical conclusion. When we consider the cosmic problems of population and food supply, the usefulness of this process becomes clear. This concludes our proposal. Thank you for your attention. SPOCK: It literally is Genesis. KIRK: The power of creation. SPOCK: Have they proceeded with their experiment? KIRK: Well, the tape was made about a year ago. I can only assume they've reached Stage Two by now. McCOY: But, dear Lord, do you think we're intelligent enough to... Suppose, what if this thing were used where life already exists? SPOCK: It would destroy such life in favour of its new matrix. McCOY: It's new matrix? ...Do you have you any idea what you're saying? SPOCK: I was not attempting to evaluate its moral implications, Doctor. As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create. McCOY: Not anymore! Now we can do both at the same time! According to myth, the Earth was created in six days. Now, watch out! Here comes Genesis, we'll do it for you in six minutes. SPOCK: Really, Doctor McCoy, you must learn to govern your passions. They will be your undoing. Logic suggests... McCOY: Logic? My God! The man's talking about logic! We're talking about universal Armageddon, you green-blooded, inhuman... SAAVIK (on intercom): Bridge to Admiral Kirk. Admiral, sensors indicate a vessel in our area, closing fast. KIRK: What do you make of her? SAAVIK (on intercom): It's one of ours, Admiral. ...It's Reliant. KIRK: Reliant!

KIRK: Try the emergency channels. ...Picture, Mister Saavik.

KHAN: Slow to one-half impulse power. Let's be friends. HELMSMAN: Slowing to one-half impulse power.

SULU: Reliant in our section, this Quadrant, sir, and slowing. SAAVIK: Sir, may I quote General Order Twelve, 'On the approach of any vessel, when communications have not been established... SPOCK: Lieutenant, the Admiral is well aware of the Regulations. SAAVIK: Aye sir. KIRK (OC): Is it possible that their Comm system has failed? SPOCK (OC): It would explain a great many things.

JOACHIM: They're requesting communications, sir. KHAN: Let them eat static! JOACHIM (OC): They're still running with shields down. KHAN: Of course. We're one big happy fleet. Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us 'Revenge is a dish that is best served cold?' It is very cold ...in space.

KIRK: This is damned peculiar. ...Yellow Alert. SAAVIK: Energise defence fields. UHURA: I'm getting a voice message. They say their Chambers coil is overloading their Comm system. KIRK: Spock? SPOCK: Scanning. Their coil emissions are normal.

JOACHIM: They still haven't raised their shields. KHAN: Raise ours. JOACHIM: Their shields are going up KHAN: Lock phasers on target. JOACHIM: Locking phasers on target.

SPOCK: They're locking phasers! KIRK: Raise shields!

KHAN: Fire!

(explosions rips through the Enterprise)

KIRK: Sulu! Get Those shields up. SULU: Trying, sir! (scenes of chaos in engineering) SULU: I can't get power, sir! KIRK: Scotty! Uhura, turn off those damn channels! UHURA: Mister Scott on the screen, sir.

SCOTT: We're just hanging on, sir. The main energisers out. KIRK (on intercom): Try auxiliary power. SCOTT: Aye sir.

KIRK: Damage report. SPOCK: They knew exactly where to hit us. KIRK: Who? Who knew just where to hit us? And why? SPOCK: One thing is certain, we cannot escape on auxiliary power. KIRK: Visual! ...Sulu, divert all power to phasers. SPOCK (OC): Too late. KIRK: Hang on! (the Enterprise bridge is hit as the Reliant circles) KIRK: Scotty, ...what's left? SCOTT (on intercom): Just the batteries, sir. I can have auxiliary power in a few minutes. KIRK: We don't have a few minutes. ...Can you give me phaser power? SCOTT (on intercom): A few shots, sir. SPOCK: Not enough against their shields. KIRK: Who the hell are they? UHURA: Admiral! The commander Reliant is signalling. He wishes to discuss terms of our surrender. KIRK: Visual on screen. UHURA (OC): Admiral? KIRK: Do it, while we have time. UHURA (OC): On screen, sir. KIRK: Khan! KHAN (on viewscreen): You still remember, Admiral. I, of cannot help but be touched. Of course, I remember you. KIRK: What is the meaning of this attack? Where is the crew of the Reliant? KHAN (on viewscreen): Surely I have made my meaning plain. I mean to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I've deprived your ship of power and when I swing round I mean to deprive you of your life. But I wanted you to know first who it was who had beaten you. KIRK: Khan, ...if its me you want, I'll have myself beamed aboard. Spare my crew! KHAN (on viewscreen): I make you a counter-proposal, I will agree to your terms, ...if, ...if in addition to yourself, you hand over to me all data and material regarding the project called ...Genesis. KIRK: Genesis, what's that? KHAN (on viewscreen): Don't insult my intelligence, Kirk. KIRK: Give me some time to recall the data on our computers. KHAN (on viewscreen): I give you sixty seconds, Admiral. KIRK: Clear the bridge. SPOCK: At least we know he doesn't have Genesis. KIRK: Keep nodding as though I'm still giving orders. Mister Saavik, punch up the data charts of Reliant's command console. SAAVIK: Reliant's command... KIRK: Hurry! COUNTDOWN VOICE: Forty-five seconds. SPOCK: The prefix code? KIRK: It's all we've got. SAAVIK: The chart's up, sir. KHAN (on viewscreen): Admiral! KIRK: We're finding it. KHAN (on viewscreen): Admiral! KIRK: Please, please ... give us time, ...the bridge is smashed, computers inoperative. KHAN: Time is a luxury you don't have, Admiral. KIRK: Damn! KHAN (on viewscreen): Admiral! KIRK: It's coming through now, Khan. SPOCK: Reliant's prefix number is one six three zero nine. SAAVIK: I don't understand. KIRK: You have to learn why things work on a starship. SPOCK: Each ship has its combination code. KIRK: To prevent an enemy do what we're attempting. Using our console to order Reliant to lower her shields. SPOCK: Assuming he hasn't changed the combination. He's quite intelligent. COUNTDOWN VOICE: Fifteen seconds. KIRK: Khan, how do I know you'll keep your word? KHAN (on viewscreen): Oh, I've given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgment, you simply have no alternative. KIRK: I see your point. Stand by to receive our transmission. ...Mister Sulu, lock phasers on target and await my command. SULU: Phasers locked. KHAN (on viewscreen): Time's up, Admiral. KIRK: Here it comes. Now, Mister Spock.

JOACHIM: Sir! Our shields are dropping! KHAN: Raise them. JOACHIM: I can't! KHAN: Where's the over-ride? The over-ride?

KIRK: Fire! ...Fire!

KHAN: Fire! Fire! JOACHIM: We can't fire, sir! KHAN: Why can't you? JOACHIM: They've damaged the photon-control and the warp drive. We must withdraw. KHAN: No! No! JOACHIM: Sir, we must! ...The Enterprise can wait. She's not going anywhere.

SULU: Sir, you did it. KIRK: I did nothing ...except get caught with my britches down. I must be senile. Mister Saavik, you go right on quoting regulations! In the meantime, let's find out how badly we've been hurt. (Scotty stands in the turbolift doors holding the body of Midshipman Preston)

[Enterprise sickbay]

PRESTON: Is the word given, Admiral? KIRK: The word is given. Warp speed. PRESTON: Aye. SCOTT: He stayed at his post ...when the trainees ran. SPOCK (on intercom): Admiral, this is Spock. KIRK: Yes, Spock. SPOCK (on intercom): Engine room reports auxiliary power restored. We can proceed at impulse power. KIRK: Best speed to Regula I. Kirk out. McCOY: I'm sorry, Scotty.

[Regula I space laboratory - exterior]

SULU (OC): Approaching Regula and Space Lab Regula I. UHURA (OC): Space Station Regula I, this is Starship Enterprise. Please, come in.

UHURA (on viewscreen): Space Station Regula I. Do you read? ...Space Station Regula I, this is Enterprise. Please acknowledge.

UHURA (OC): This is Enterprise. Do you read me? ...Space Station Regula I, do you read? Please come in.

UHURA: No response, sir. KIRK: Sensors, Captain? SPOCK: Scanners and sensors still inoperative. There's no way to ascertain what's inside the station. KIRK: And no way of telling if Reliant is still in the area. SPOCK: Precisely. KIRK: What do you make of the planetoid beyond? SPOCK (OC): Regula is class 'D'. It consists of various unremarkable ores. Essentially, a great rock in space. KIRK: Reliant could be hiding behind that rock. SPOCK: A distinct possibility. KIRK: Engine room. SCOTT (on intercom): Aye sir. KIRK: Mister Scott, do we have enough power for the transporters? SCOTT (on intercom): Barely, sir. KIRK: I'm going down there. McCOY: Khan could be down there! KIRK: He's been there, hasn't found what he wants. Can you spare someone? There may be people hurt. McCOY: I can spare me. SAAVIK: Begging the Admiral's pardon, General Order Fifteen. 'No flag officer shall beam into a hazardous area without armed escort.' KIRK: There is no such regulation. ...All right, join the party. Mister Spock, the ship is yours. SPOCK: Jim, be careful! McCOY: We will!

SAAVIK: Indeterminate life signs. KIRK: Phasers on stun. ...Move out. (a rat startles Bones. When he turns back, he bumps into bodies hanging by their feet) McCOY: Jim! ...Well rigor hasn't set in. This couldn't have happened too long ago, Jim. KIRK: Carol?

UHURA: This is Enterprise calling Space Lab Regula I. Respond please.

SAAVIK: Admiral! Over here. UHURA (on intercom): Doctor Marcus, come in please. (Kirk opens a locker) KIRK: Oh, my God!

UHURA: Please acknowledge signal. Please... SAAVIK (on intercom): Commander Uhura, this is Lieutenant Saavik. We're all right. Please stand by. Out.

CHEKOV: Oh, sir! It was Khan! We found him on Ceti Alpha V. ...He... He ...put ...creatures in our bodies to control our minds,... McCOY: It's all right. You're safe now. CHEKOV: ...made us say lies, ...do things. ...But we beat him. ...He thought he controlled us, but he did not. The Captain was strong. KIRK: Captain. Where's Doctor Marcus? Where are the Genesis materials? TERRELL: He couldn't find them. Even the data banks were empty. KIRK: Erased? TERRELL: He tortured those people. But none of those people would tell him anything. He went wild. He slit their throats. He wanted to tear the place apart, but he was late. He had to get back to Reliant in time to blow you to bits. SAAVIK: Where is the Reliant crew? Dead? TERRELL: Marooned on Ceti Alpha Five. He's completely mad, Admiral. He blames you for the death of his wife. KIRK: I know what he blames me for. ...The escape pods are all in place. Where's the transporter room?

[Regula transporter room]

KIRK: Did he make it down here? CHEKOV: It was not my impression. He spent most of his time trying to wring information out of the people. SAAVIK: Anything? KIRK: The unit's been left on. Which means that nobody remained to turn it off. McCOY: Those people back there bought escape time for Genesis with their lives. SAAVIK: This is not logical. These coordinates are deep inside Regula, ...a planetoid we know to be lifeless. KIRK: If Stage Two was completed, it was going to be underground. ...It was going to be underground, she said. SAAVIK: Stage Two of what? KIRK: Kirk to Enterprise. SPOCK (on intercom): Spock here. KIRK: Captain Spock, damage report. SPOCK (on intercom): Admiral, if we go by the book, like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days. KIRK: I read you, Captain. Let's have it. SPOCK (on intercom): The situation is grave, Admiral. We won't have main power for six days. Auxiliary power has temporarily failed. Restoration may be possible in two days, ...by the book, Admiral KIRK: Meaning you can't even beam us back? SPOCK (on intercom): Not at present. KIRK: Captain Spock, if you don't hear from us within one hour, your orders are to restore what power you can, take the Enterprise to the nearest Starbase and alert Starfleet command as soon as you're out of jamming range. UHURA (on intercom: Sir, ...we won't leave you behind! KIRK: Uhura, if you don't hear from us, there won't be anybody behind. Kirk out. ...Well, gentleman can stay here, or... TERRELL: If it's all the same, Admiral, we'd like to share the risk. KIRK: Right! Let's go. ...Saavik. McCOY: Go? Where are we going? KIRK: Where they went. McCOY: Suppose they went nowhere. KIRK: Then this'll be your big chance to get away from it all.

[Regula I cavern]

SAAVIK: Admiral... McCOY: Genesis, I presume. JEDDA: Phasers down! DAVID: You! (Kirk and David fight) KIRK: Where's Doctor Marcus? DAVID: I'm Doctor Marcus! CAROL (OC): Jim! KIRK: Is that David? DAVID: Mother! He killed everybody we left behind. CAROL: Oh, of course he didn't. David, you're just making this harder. TERRELL: I'm afraid it's even harder than you think, Doctor. Please ...don't move. KIRK: Chekov! CHEKOV: I'm sorry, Admiral. TERRELL: Your excellency, have you been listening?

KHAN: I have indeed, Captain. You have done well. DAVID: I knew it! You son-of-a-bitch! (Terrell fires, vaporising Jedda) TERRELL: Don't move ...anybody!

KHAN: Captain, ...we're waiting. What's the delay?

TERRELL: All is well, sir. You have the coordinates to beam up Genesis.

KHAN: First things first, Captain. ...Kill Admiral Kirk.

TERRELL: Sir, that it is difficult. I ...try to obey, but...

KHAN: Kill him.

TERRELL: I... KHAN (on intercom): Kill him, Terrell, now! (Terrell vaporises himself. Chekov collapses) McCOY: God's sakes! What is it? (Kirk vaporises Chekov's Ceti eel) KIRK: Khan, you bloodsucker.

KIRK (on intercom): You're gonna have to do your own dirty work now. Do you hear me? Do you? KHAN: Kirk! Kirk, you are still alive... my old friend.

KIRK: Still, 'old friend'. You've managed to kill just about everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target.

KHAN: Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral.

DAVID: No! ...He can't take it! KIRK: Khan! Khan, you have Genesis, but you don't have me!

KIRK (on intercom): You were going to kill me, Khan. You're going to have to come down here! You're going to have to come down here! KHAN: I've done far worse than kill you, ...I've hurt you. And I wish to go on ...hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, ...buried alive. Buried alive!

KIRK: Khan! Khan!

SAAVIK: This is Lieutenant. Saavik, calling Enterprise. Can you read us? ...This is Lieutenant. Saavik, calling Enterprise. Can you read us? McCOY: He's coming around. KIRK: Pavel? SAAVIK: Can you read us? It's no use, Admiral, they're still jamming all channels. McCOY: If Enterprise followed orders she's long since gone. If she couldn't obey, she's finished. DAVID: So are we, it looks like. CAROL: I don't understand. Who's responsible for all this? ...Who is Khan? KIRK: Well, it's a long story. DAVID: We appear to have plenty of time. KIRK: Is there anything to eat? I don't know about anyone else, but I'm starved. McCOY: How can you think of food at a time like this? KIRK: First order of business, survival. CAROL: There is food in the Genesis cave, enough to last a lifetime, ...if necessary. McCOY: We thought this was Genesis. CAROL: This? It took the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ten months in space suits to tunnel out all this. What we did in there ...we did in a day. David, why don't you show Doctor McCoy and the Lieutenant our idea of food? DAVID: We can't just sit here! KIRK: Oh, yes we can. DAVID: This is just to give us something to do, isn't it? ...Come on. SAAVIK: Admiral? KIRK: As your teacher Mister Spock is fond of saying, 'I like to think there always are ...possibilities.' (Saavik leaves) KIRK: I did what you wanted. ...I stayed away. ...Why didn't you tell him? CAROL: How can you ask me that? Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father. ... Actually, he's a lot like you. In many ways. Please tell me what you're feeling. KIRK: There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me. You show me a son that'd be happy to help him. My son. ...My life that could have been, ...and wasn't. And what am I feeling? ...Old. ...Worn out. CAROL: Let me show you something ...that'll make you feel young as when the world was new.

JOACHIM: Impulse power restored. KHAN: Excellent! More than a match for poor Enterprise.

[Genesis cave]

KIRK: You did all this in a day? CAROL: The matrix formed in a day. The lifeforms grew later at a ...substantially accelerated rate. McCOY: Jim! This is incredible. Have you ever seen the like? CAROL: Can I cook or can't I?

KHAN: Where is she?

SAAVIK: Sir, may I ask you a question? KIRK: What's on your mind, Lieutenant? SAAVIK: The Kobayashi Maru, sir. KIRK: Are you asking me if we are playing out that scenario now? SAAVIK: On the test, sir, will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know. McCOY: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario. SAAVIK: How? KIRK: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship. SAAVIK: What? DAVID: He cheated! KIRK: I changed the conditions of the test. I got a commendation for original thinking. ...I don't like to lose. SAAVIK: Then you never faced that situation, ...faced death. KIRK: I don't believe in a no-win scenario. ...Kirk to Spock. It's two hours. Are you about ready? SPOCK (on intercom): Right on schedule, Admiral. Just give us your coordinates and we'll beam you aboard. KIRK: All right. I don't like to lose.

[Enterprise transporter room]

SAAVIK: But the damage report? ...We were immobilised. Captain Spock said it would be two days. KIRK: Come, come, Lieutenant, you of all people go by the book. Spock! You remember Doctor Marcus. SPOCK: Why, of course. CAROL: Hello, Mister Spock. McCOY: I'm taking this bunch to sickbay. SAAVIK: By the book? KIRK: By the book! Regulation forty-six A, 'If transmissions are being monitored during battle...' SAAVIK: '...no uncoded messages on an open channel.' ...You lied. SPOCK: I exaggerated. KIRK: Hours instead of days, Saavik, now we have minutes instead of hours.

[Enterprise corridors]

SPOCK: They're inoperative below C-deck. KIRK: What is working around here? SPOCK: Not much, Admiral. We have partial main power. KIRK: That's it? SPOCK: Best we could do in two hours.

SULU: Admiral on the bridge. KIRK: Battle stations. ...Tactical. ...Uh oh. SPOCK: She can out-run us and out-gun us. But there is the Mutara Nebula at one five three mark four. KIRK: Scotty, can we make it inside? SCOTT: The energiser's bypassed like a Christmas tree, ...so don't give me too many bumps. KIRK: No promises. On your way. SAAVIK: Trouble with the nebula, sir, is all that static discharge and gas clouds our tactical display. Visual won't function and shields will be useless. SPOCK: Sauce for the goose, Mister Saavik. The odds will be even. (the crew prepare the Enterprise for battle)

KHAN: There she is! There she is! ...Not so wounded as we were led to believe. So much the better.

SPOCK: Estimating nebula penetration in two point two minutes. Reliant is closing. KIRK: Steady as you go.

JOACHIM: If they go in there we'll lose them. KHAN: Explain it to them.

SAAVIK: That was close. KIRK: They just don't want us going in there. SPOCK: One minute to nebula perimeter.

KHAN: Why are we slowing? JOACHIM: We daren't follow them into the nebula, sir, ...our shields will be useless.

SPOCK: they are reducing speed. KIRK: Uhura, patch me in. UHURA (OC): Aye sir. ...You're on, Admiral.

KIRK (on intercom): This is Admiral Kirk. We tried it once your way, Khan. Are you game for a rematch? ...Khan! I'm laughing at the 'superior intellect'. KHAN: Full impulse power! JOACHIM: No sir! You have Genesis. ... You can have whatever you ... KHAN: Full power, damn you!

KIRK: I'll say this for him, he's consistent. SPOCK: We are now entering the Mutara Nebula. KIRK: Emergency lights.

KHAN: Tactical! JOACHIM: Inoperative. KHAN (OC): Raise the shields. JOACHIM: As I feared, sir. Not functional. I'm reducing speed. (Enterprise passes above the Reliant at right-angles and starts to turn downwards)

SULU: Target, sir? Phaser lock inoperative, sir. KIRK: Best guess, Mister Sulu. Fire when ready.

KHAN: Aft-torpedoes ...fire!

KIRK: Hold your course. ...Evasive starboard! (Enterprise takes phaser fire from Reliant)

KIRK: Fire! (Reliant suffers damage)

KIRK (on intercom): Damage, Mister Scott? SCOTT: Admiral, I've got to take the mains off the line. The radiation... McCOY: Scotty!

KHAN: Joachim! JOACHIM: Yours ...is ...the superior... KHAN: I shall avenge you.

CHEKOV: Could you use another hand, Admiral? KIRK: Man the weapons console, Mister Chekov. ...Spock? SPOCK: Sporadic energy readings port side, aft. Could be an impulse turn. KIRK: He won't break off now. He followed me this far, he'll be back. But from where? SPOCK: He's intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates ...two-dimensional thinking. KIRK: Full stop. SULU: Full stop, sir. KIRK: Zee minus ten thousand metres. Stand by photon torpedoes. (Enterprise again passes above Reliant and circles to come up behind her) CHEKOV: Torpedoes ready, sir. KIRK: Look sharp. ...Fire! ...Fire! (Reliant is hit and loses its port nacelle)

KIRK: Uhura, send to Commander, Reliant, 'Prepare to be boarded'. UHURA: Aye sir. ...Commander, Reliant, this is Enterprise...

UHURA (on intercom): ...Surrender and prepare to be boarded. Enterprise to Reliant, you are ordered to surrender your vessel. Respond. ...Reliant! Come in, Reliant. You are ordered to surrender your vessel.

UHURA: Enterprise to Reliant, you are ordered to surrender your vessel. Respond.

KHAN: No, Kirk. ...The game's not over. ...To the last I will grapple with thee! (Khan activates the Genesis device)

SPOCK: Admiral. Scanning an energy source on Reliant. A pattern I've never seen before. DAVID: It's the Genesis Wave! KIRK: What? DAVID: They're on a build up to detonation! KIRK: How soon. DAVID: We encoded four minutes. KIRK: We'll beam aboard and stop it. DAVID: You can't! KIRK: Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes or we're all dead! UHURA (on intercom): No response, Admiral. KIRK: Scotty! KIRK: Get us out of here, best speed possible! SULU: Aye sir. (Spock leaves the bridge)

(Spock arrives in engineering. Scott and an engineer are slumped on the floor) McCOY: Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there! SPOCK: But, as you are so fond of observing, Doctor, I'm not human. McCOY: You're not going in there! SPOCK: Perhaps you're right. What is Mister Scott's condition? McCOY: Well, I don't think that he... (Spock administers a Vulcan nerve pinch on McCoy) SPOCK: I'm sorry, Doctor. I have no time to discuss this logically. ...Remember! SCOTT: Spock! Get out of there! Spock!

[Enterprise reactor room]

SCOTT (OC): Spock! Get out of there!

KIRK: Time from my mark. SAAVIK: Two minutes, ten seconds. KIRK: Engine room! What's happening?

SCOTT: You dumb ninny! Get out of there! ...No, God, don't!

KIRK: Time? SAAVIK: Three minutes, thirty seconds. KIRK: Distance from Reliant. CHEKOV: Four thousand kilometres. SULU: We're not going to make it, are we?

KHAN: No! ...No! You can't get away. ...From Hell's heart, ...I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my last breath ...at thee.

CADET: Sir! The mains are back on line! KIRK: Bless you, Scotty. Go, Sulu! (Regula I explodes as Enterprise flees the radiating Genesis rings)

KIRK: My God, Carol. Look at it. ...Engine Room. Well done. Scotty? McCOY (on intercom): Jim, I think you'd better get down here. KIRK: Bones? McCOY (on intercom): Better hurry! KIRK: Saavik, take the con.

McCOY: No! You'll flood the whole compartment! KIRK: He'll die! SCOTT: Sir! He's dead already. McCOY: It's too late, Jim. KIRK: Spock! SPOCK: Ship ...out of danger? KIRK: Yes. SPOCK: Don't grieve, Admiral, ...it is logical. The needs of the many ...outweigh KIRK: ...the needs of the few. SPOCK: Or the one. ... I never took the Kobayashi Maru test ...until now. What do you think of my solution? KIRK: Spock! SPOCK: I have been ...and always shall be ...your friend. ...Live long ...and prosper. KIRK: No!

[Torpedo bay]

KIRK (OC): We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honoured dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world, a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel that sacrifice a vain or empty one... and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, ...his was the most ...human. SULU (OC): Honours, ...hup! (bagpipes play 'Amazing Grace' as the torpedo coffin is fired)

KIRK: Come. DAVID: I don't mean to intrude. KIRK: No, not at all. ...I should be on the bridge. DAVID: Can I talk to you for a minute? KIRK: I've poured myself a drink. Would you like it? DAVID: Lieutenant Saavik was right. You never have faced a death. KIRK: No, not like this. I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I tricked my way out of death ...and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. ...I know nothing. DAVID: You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life. KIRK: Just words. DAVID: But good words. That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them. I was wrong about you and I'm sorry. KIRK: Is that what you came here to say? DAVID: Mainly. ...And also that I'm ...proud, ...very proud ...to be your son.

Captain's log, stardate 8141.6. Starship Enterprise departing for Ceti Alpha Five to pick up the crew of the U.S.S. Reliant. All is well. And yet I can't help wondering about the friend I leave behind. 'There are always possibilities' Spock said. And if Genesis is indeed 'Life from death', I must return to this place again.

McCOY: He's really not dead. As long as we remember him. KIRK: 'It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. ...A far better resting place that I go to than I have ever known'. CAROL: Is that a poem? KIRK: No, no. Something Spock was trying to tell me. On my birthday. McCOY: You okay, Jim? How do you feel? KIRK: Young. I feel young.

(the torpedo coffin lays in a clearing in the new, verdant forest on the Genesis planet)

Spock's Voice: Space, the final frontier. ...These are the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise. ...Her ongoing mission, to explore strange new worlds, ...to seek out new lifeforms and new civilisations. ...To boldly go where no man has gone before.

END CREDITS

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Wednesday Oct 05, 2016

The Wrath of Khan Minute 65: Hours Seem Like Days

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• Montalban could not film along with the main cast because of his Fantasy Island commitment and this prevented a planned Khan/Kirk in person fight. Hence, the two only interacted via communications and ship to ship battles which actually created a far more realistic encounter.
• From this movie onward, everyone wears red uniforms. By virtue of everyone wearing a Red Shirt , that means the meta-possibility that Anyone Can Die . Sure enough...
• For Kirk's birthday, Spock gives him an antique book. Bones gives him reading glasses.
• Bones insists that Kirk needs to take command of a starship, lest he waste away behind a desk. Spock insists on handing over command of Enterprise to Kirk.
• Thanks to Star Trek (2009) , we now know why Spock never took the Kobayashi Maru test. He designed it.
• According to Decker, the ship's "new" design (ie, part of the Enterprise's recent refit) channeled phaser power through the warp core to increase firing power. However, the Reliant is a Miranda-class starship while the Enterprise is Constitution-class. Ships in the Star Trek universe have a service life of 30+ years so these vessels could have been developed at different times with unique features and capabilities.
• True, but when Enterprise received her refit, she received some very distinctive design features that she previously lacked, such as the warp nacelles lacking the glass domes of the original design. Reliant shares many of these features, suggesting that she shares many of Enterprise's engineering choices.
• A related parallel between Kirk and Khan. Kirk gains a son who has been estranged from him for his whole life. Khan loses a son-figure (Joachim) during his quest for vengeance.
• And, Khan was the leader, whose pod was set to revive him first. So he possibly spent more time outside his pod than the others in the group.
• In the semi-canon novel To Reign in Hell Khan's crew are indeed the offspring of Khan's original companions who all died in the years after settling Ceti Alpha V. Joachim is the son of Joaquin (Khan's faithful right-hand man in "Space Seed") and was adopted by Khan after his father was killed defending Khan from mutinous Augments.
• Kirk's Say My Name shout of "KHAAAAN!" has become the go-to example of what a Large Ham he was... but in this case, he was invoking it on purpose. His plan depended on convincing Khan that he'd won, so he plays into Khan's pettiness and vanity by giving the most over-the-top scream of despair and rage that he can. As soon as Khan is no longer listening in, he calms down completely.
• Before Terrell turns his phaser on himself, the last command that Khan gave him was, " Kill Him , Terrell! " neglecting to mention Kirk by name in that sentence. So Terrell made his final sacrificial act of defiance by still actually obeying Khan's command, except literally , as if Khan meant, "Kill him ( Terrell )."
• It's mentioned in several places around this Wiki that Bones's gift of reading glasses to Kirk, due to an allergy to the only medication that can treat his eyesight, is an example of Science Marches On made obsolete by the invention of Lasik surgery. However, Lasik (and other, earlier surgeries) treat refractive error in the eye. Age-related presbyopia, which is the most common cause of needing reading glasses as we get older, is caused by the eye's lens losing flexibility with age, preventing the eye from changing focus to different distances. That's something which could quite plausibly be treated with medication rather than surgery, and science hasn't marched on yet: although it's plausible that a flexible artificial lens could be invented, it hasn't been yet.
• Khan and his followers were exiled from Earth in suspended animation. The name is almost certainly deliberate, but not as a reference to Ceti Alpha V; rather, it was referring to their initial exile.
• At face value, it even sounds like Spock is describing Saavik as a rigidly inflexible officer who can't adapt to the problem, and that the original estimate given is their "cutting corners and rushing" estimate. The fact that Spock actually holds Saavik in high regard is something that Saavik and Kirk would know, but Khan could not. For her part, Saavik, while indeed quite fond of pointing out when Kirk is neglecting a regulation, is more than flexible enough to follow the lead of her seniors despite her concerns, even if it does occasionally lead to disaster, as with Kirk's failure to raise shields earlier.
• The warp core isn't in the nacelle, it's in the Engineering section in the main part of the ship. Warp nacelles are just big sets of field coils; they're powered by bursts of high-energy plasma delivered via conduits from the warp core, and when energized, they create the warp field that allows the ship to travel faster than light. The part we see in Engineering is where pulsed amounts of matter are mixed with similar amounts of antimatter (the vertical shaft), and the resulting plasma travels down the horizontal shaft towards the back of the ship, until it splits into two conduits that go up the pylons to be delivered to the nacelles. Thing is, that blue dome on top of the impulse engine that gets shot out in the first duel is actually the top of the matter/antimatter core, at least according to the old Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, and presuming Reliant is similar, that's why Joachim says they can't fire because the warp drive is damaged. As phaser power is (normally) channelled through the warp engine, they can only fire torpedoes. Scotty managed to give Kirk a few shots via the backup batteries but Khan never manages to get his phasers working again. The nacelle being shot off means Reliant can't go to warp (if it even could), but it would probably also cause a lot of internal damage from plasma and coolant conduits being ruptured too.
• Further, there's a common principle in The Laws and Customs of War about the proportionality of deadly force used, mainly that There Is No Kill Like Overkill does not necessarily apply to combat. Once the advantage was firmly in the Enterprise's favor, there was no reason to lay into Reliant beyond the point where she was combat ineffective. Once the weapons and warp engines are disabled, Reliant can't go anywhere nor cause any harm to anyone, so Enterprise hails her and demands her surrender. A similar situation happens in the 2009 film, and in both cases the defeated villain refuses to surrender or accept offers of aid.
• Khan seems pretty put out that Terrell didn't know about him, that Chekov didn't even think to tell stories of him to entertain his captain during their voyages. If Chekov didn't think to mention him, it's probably because Khan was, prior to this film, not a particularly memorable character by the standards of the Enterprise crew. The ship has met multiple sufficiently advanced aliens , including Apollo , of Greek mythology. Chekov was on the mission to intercept V'Ger, a sentient AI driving a mind-bogglingly massive starship, before it could destroy Earth. Khan, in comparison, is an unusually strong and clever human who one time failed to take control of the ship and absconded with one junior member of the crew twenty years ago . This of course is ultimately what makes him so dangerous: None of the Starfleet officers thought enough of him to expect him to ever become a threat again until it was too late .
• The Shaky P.O.V. Cam rapidly panning back and forth across the console serves to sell Khan's unfamiliarity with Starfleet ships. As he suddenly realizes that his carefully-concocted plan is coming apart unexpectedly, he panics and is unable to regain the initiative before Enterprise cripples Reliant and limps away to relative safety.
• More to the point within this film's narrative, the distress call being bait to lure the Enterprise into an ambush is also essentially Khan's plan.
• In the cavern on Regula, surrounded by the products of the Genesis experiment, what's Kirk munching on? An apple, of course!

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• They were being held hostage on Reliant when it was destroyed. Some of them may have even been coerced into helping run the ship—coercion that probably involved more Ceti eels.
• Option one is the actual scenario, as in the movie, Kirk's last log entry explicitly states that they're heading to Ceti Alpha V to pick up the crew of the Reliant . It doesn't seem like much more than a week or so passes (roughly according to the stardates in the movie), so it's not quite as bad as first thought for the Reliant crew.
• Captain Terrell explains this earlier in the film, when the landing party finds Terrell and Chekov at the Space Lab. Saavik: Where is the Reliant crew? Dead? Captain Terrell: Marooned on Ceti Alpha V.
• Arguably a bit of Fridge Brilliance , as this explains how Khan's crew knew how to bluff Enterprise by claiming their comms were out due to a Chambers Coil overload.
• It can certainly be poignant and a Tear Jerker , until it's compared to this later exchange in The Undiscovered Country ; Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody's human. Spock: I find that remark ... insulting.
• Technically, yes (and it's really something he should have known, since Spock had similar moments in some of the TV series episodes), but especially given his closeness with Kirk, Spock would probably have just put it down to him being a silly emotional human, and not taken it personally. (Also, by the time the movies come around, Spock has started to embrace his human side, so it's unclear how much of this objection is true offense and how much is just banter.)
• And of course, when Spock says, "I find that remark... insulting," he is likely just making a joke at Kirk's expense.
• Khan did say that those buggers grow inside their victims' heads.
• And this growth is what makes the victim susceptible to suggestion. Khan's mind control relies on dealing brain damage.
• The idea of unknown threats lurking in the darkness ready to strike out at the unsuspecting Federation or the heroes for perceived wrongs has come up more than a few times across the franchise, to include Beyond and Lower Decks .
• Carol and David Marcus fully expect Starfleet to try and and steal project Genesis. Think about what that says about Starfleet's sense of ethics that people expect them to steal a planet destroying superweapon.
• Except, also as above, there were references in the movie that the Reliant crew were on Ceti Alpha V.
• The Genesis Device and project serve as a relatively rare two-fer. When it comes to present-day nuclear weapons, the drawbacks to their use include the fact that they render the territory they strike uninhabitable for an indefinite period of time (so they cannot be used for territorial gain), the potential for the fallout to eventually harm the territory and population of the aggressor and the threat of mutually-assured destruction. Using Genesis as a weapon would exterminate all existing life on the target, but replace it with an unspoiled, life-supporting "blank slate" ripe for colonisation. Interplanetary (or inter-solar system) conflict means that its use would be unlikely to harm the aggressor's territory in any way, and the technology is so new that no other species, race or alliance has it (rendering mutually-assured destruction moot). The writers have turned what might have been a regular MacGuffin into the highest-octane Nightmare Fuel when applied to present-day thinking, and when David Marcus says their creation could be "perverted into a dreadful weapon" he is arguably significantly understating the case. Then we have the fact that Khan Noonien Singh is a ruthless despot who firmly believes in the racial superiority of his people, and unlike the most infamous example of that in recent history Khan is very skilled in military tactics and strategy. Not only that, but he almost certainly has the intelligence to reverse-engineer Genesis technology were he to get his hands on it. The potential consequences for every other living being in the galaxy would be horrific beyond description.
• Scotty bringing Peter to the bridge seems odd and even gratuitously manipulative. However, after Kirk and company beam up from the planetoid, Spock says the lifts are offline above a certain deck and they are seen climbing ladders. Scotty never meant to bring Peter to the bridge, the lift malfunctioned.

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The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

7. the inferior superior intellect.

KHAN: Admiral Kirk... never bothered to check on our progress. It is only the fact of my genetically engineered intellect that allowed us to survive.

Much is made of Khan’s intellect in the film, but he’s dumb as a box of rocks throughout.

Consider the following:

Khan wants Genesis, yet tortures and kills the uncooperative Genesis team instead of sticking eels in them (did he leave his "pets" behind?) or taking any of the team with him when he has to leave Regula One in order to blow Kirk to bits. (Yes, he’s mad, but c'mon.)

Next, Mr. Superior Intellect can’t spot the most in plain sight “code” ever. Spock says, “Hours would seem like days,” and then explains the ship’s status using days. Twelve-year-olds in the audience decoded that on the fly, so why can’t Khan or his crew of fellow superdupermen (or Saavik, for that matter)?

Yes, Khan has activated his Ahab-obsession powerup and he’s phaser-focused on harpooning his white whale: Kirk. And, granted, his monumental ego and sense of innate superiority clouds his judgment to the point where he’s easily duped and goaded into chasing Kirk into the nebula where he loses most of his advantage, but, like Kirk and Bones, he gets tossed the Idiot Ball and never once demonstrates any real smarts.

This was not always the case. In one of the scripts from which the final film screenplay was built—and before his beloved wife was “fridged”—there was dialoge that indicated Khan was indeed an extra special super genius:

KHAN: How are the control systems working? MCGIVERS: Very well. Command and remote functions are all tied through computer stations. How could you have designed it so quickly? KHAN: This is a sister ship of Enterprise. The Enterprise manuals I absorbed fourteen years ago are still fresh in my mind.

Not only would such dialog have demonstrated that Khan’s an actual smarty-pants ergo a real threat, it would have made clear how 14 übermenschen could run an entire starship, especially with 10 of them on the bridge (indeed, we see two in a corridor and two in the engine room when the Enterprise lays into the ship at the climax).

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• With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
• It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise--now a training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission when his nemesis Khan Noonien Singh--infamous conqueror from late 20th century Earth--appears after years of exile. Khan later revealed that the planet Ceti Alpha VI exploded, and shifted the orbit of the fifth planet as a Mars-like haven. He begins capturing Project Genesis, a top secret device holding the power of creation itself, and schemes the utter destruction of Kirk. — Gregory A. Sheets <[email protected]>
• It is the 23rd century. The Federation starship USS Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan Noonien Singh is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan--infamous conqueror from late 20th century Earth--has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk... with the threat of a universal Armageddon! — Robert Lynch <[email protected]>
• In the year 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's (Leonard Nimoy) trainees. In the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the star ship USS Enterprise on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru. When the Enterprise enters the Klingon Neutral Zone to reach the ship it is attacked by Klingon cruisers and critically damaged. The simulation is a no-win scenario designed to test the character of Starfleet officers. Later, Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) joins Kirk on his birthday; seeing Kirk in low spirits, the doctor advises Kirk to get a new command and not grow old behind a desk. Meanwhile, the USS Reliant is on a mission to search for a lifeless planet for testing of the Genesis Device, a technology designed to reorganize matter to create habitable worlds for colonization. Reliant officers Commander Pavel Chekov and Captain Clark Terrell beam down to the surface of a possible candidate planet, which they believe to be Ceti Alpha VI; once there, they are captured by genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán). The Enterprise discovered Khan's ship adrift in space 15 years previously; Kirk exiled Khan and his fellow supermen from 20th-century Earth to Ceti Alpha V after they attempted to take over the Enterprise. After they were marooned, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, shifting the orbit of Ceti Alpha V and destroying its ecosystem. Khan blames Kirk for the death of his wife and plans revenge. He implants Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Terrell (Paul Winfield) with indigenous creatures that enter the ears of their victims and render them susceptible to mind control and uses the officers to capture the Reliant. Learning of Genesis, Khan attacks space station Regula I where the device is being developed by Kirk's former lover, Dr. Carol Marcus, and their son, David. The Enterprise embarks on a three-week training voyage. Kirk assumes command after the ship receives a distress call from Regula I. En route, the Enterprise is ambushed and crippled by the Reliant, leading to the deaths and injuries of many trainees. Khan hails the Enterprise and offers to spare Kirk's crew if they relinquish all material related to Genesis. Kirk stalls for time and uses the Reliant's prefix code to remotely lower its shields, allowing the Enterprise to counterattack. Khan is forced to retreat and effect repairs, while the Enterprise limps to Regula I. Kirk, McCoy, and Saavik beam to the station and find Terrell and Chekov alive (who feign innocence and say that they did not help Khan. They also tell Kirk that Khan tortured the station crew but could not get hold of Genesis as Dr Marcus and David were nowhere to be found. The data banks were empty as well), along with slaughtered members of Marcus's team. They soon find Carol and David hiding deep inside the Planetoid of Regula. Khan, having used Terrell and Chekov as spies, orders them to kill Kirk; Terrell resists the eel's influence and kills himself while Chekov collapses as the eel leaves his body. Khan then transports Genesis aboard the Reliant. Though Khan believes his foe stranded on Regula I, Kirk and Spock use a coded message to arrange a rendezvous. Kirk directs the Enterprise into the nearby Mutara Nebula; static discharges inside the nebula render shields useless and compromise targeting systems, making the Enterprise and the Reliant evenly matched. Spock notes however that Khan's tactics are two-dimensional, indicating inexperience in space combat, which Kirk then exploits to critically disable the Reliant. Mortally wounded, Khan activates Genesis, which will reorganize all matter in the nebula, including the Enterprise. Though Kirk's crew detects the activation of Genesis and attempts to move out of range, they will not be able to escape the nebula in time due to the ship's damaged warp drive. Spock goes to the engine room to restore the warp drive. When McCoy tries to prevent Spock's entry, as exposure to the high levels of radiation would be fatal, Spock incapacitates the doctor with a Vulcan nerve pinch and performs a mind meld, telling him to "remember". Spock successfully restores power to the warp drive and the Enterprise escapes the explosion, though at the cost of his life. The explosion of Genesis causes the gas in the nebula to reform into a new planet, capable of sustaining life. After being alerted by McCoy, Kirk arrives in the engine room and discovers Spock dying of radiation poisoning. The two share a meaningful exchange in which Spock urges Kirk not to grieve, as his decision to sacrifice his own life to save those of the ship's crew is a logical one, before succumbing to his injuries. A space burial is held in the Enterprise's torpedo room and Spock's coffin is shot into orbit around the new planet. The crew leaves to pick up the Reliant's marooned crew from Ceti Alpha V. Spock's coffin, having soft-landed, rests on the Genesis planet's surface.

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Star Trek Generations ( Paramount Pictures , 1994 ) is the seventh feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series . It is often referred to as just Generations . It is the first film in the series to star the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation , and is a symbolic passing of the torch of the film series from the original series cast to the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast.

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• T'Lir, last of the Organians, has ties to "Errand of Mercy" & plays a crucial role in the ongoing god war in the Star Trek universe.
• Star Trek #20 explores T'Lir's origin story & their impact on the franchise, drawing on deep history & connecting to previous episodes.
• With ties to both Klingons and Organians, T'Lir aids Sisko in countering Kahless & innovates new technology to save the universe.

Warning: contains spoilers for Star Trek #20!

The original Star Trek episode “Errand of Mercy” is considered a classic, and now 57 years later, its epic consequences are still being felt. The episode introduced both the Klingons and the Organians, two species that have played a large role in the franchise’s god war. T’Lir, the last of the Organians, tells their origin in Star Trek #20, and it has a direct tie to “Errand of Mercy.”

Star Trek #20 is written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Megan Levens. T’Lir tells the crew of the Theseus that they were a child on Organia during the events chronicled in “Errand of Mercy.” They were so impressed by Mister Spock’s actions during the crisis they chose to incorporate themselves permanently as a Vulcan after the other Organians were killed by Kahless.

As T’Lir recounts their life story, Mister Scott corroborates their account.

Star Trek's God War Is Drawing On the Franchise's Deep History

T'lir has ties to the organians, an original series species.

In late 2022, IDW gave their Star Trek line a shot in the arm, kicking off a major, franchise-spanning storyline. The Klingon Emperor Kahless took up arms against the galaxy’s god-like beings. Sisko returned from exile to stop him, and to help, Starfleet gave him a crew culled from across the various Star Trek shows and movies. Kahless manages to kill off many of the gods, and his actions have had a direct impact on the fabric of reality. T’Lir warned Sisko that in the wake of Kahless’ assault, space-time had been compromised.

The Organians also appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Observer Effect."

T’Lir has been a huge boon to Sisko and Starfleet during Kahless’ attack. They used their god-like powers to not only detect other gods, but also to create fantastic devices capable of countering Kahless. The Kardashev Drive, which takes the Theseus to the Pleroma, was also one of T’Lir’s innovations. T’Lir is the last of the Organians, and rather than wallow in misery, they channel their survivor’s guilt into ensuring Kahless is stopped, and the universe is restored to normal. T’Lir is doing their fellow Organians proud by helping Sisko.

In Star Trek #20, a new form of warp drive is introduced, but ironically, it is breaking the Prime Directive in new and unexpected ways.

The Organians Have Had a Major Impact on the Star Trek Universe

57 years later, the organians are still having influencing events.

And it all comes back to “Errand of Mercy.” A first season Star Trek episode, it is considered vital to the franchise’s mythos due to introducing the Klingons, but now the god war is giving it even more significance. In “Errand of Mercy,” the Organians were merely trying to stop a war between the Federation and the Klingons, and they succeeded. Now, the last of the Organians is trying to save the universe from total collapse. “Errand of Mercy,” after 57 years, is still influencing the Star Trek franchise in new and exciting ways.

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Real-life 'Star Trek' planet was actually just an illusion caused by a 'jittery' star

New research shows that sometimes life imitates art, even in astronomy.

A planet beyond the solar system that has been compared to Spock's homeworld Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise may have been nothing more than an illusion caused by a jittery star. 

The extrasolar planet or " exoplanet " (a term for a planet outside of our solar system) was proposed to orbit a star called 40 Eridani A or "Keid," which is part of a triple star system located around 16.3 light-years from Earth. In Star Trek, this star is also home to the planet Vulcan. First announced in 2018 , the planet caused quite a stir thanks to its similarities with Spock's fictional home planet.

A team of scientists led by astronomer Abigail Burrows of Dartmouth College now thinks that the "wobble" of this planet's parent star isn't the result of an orbiting world tugging on it at all. Burrows and colleagues discovered using a NASA instrument called NEID located at Kitt Peak National Observatory that the origin of this wobble is actually "pulses and jitters" of Keid itself.

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The fictional version of Vulcan was first introduced during Gene Roddenberry's seminal original series run of Star Trek , mentioned in the 1965 unaired pilot episode "The Cage." In the 2009 J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek reboot , Vulcan was destroyed by a time-traveling enemy of Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the Enterprise crew. 

By wiping out the real-life Vulcan, officially designated HD 26965 b, this new research shows that sometimes life imitates art.

Sorry Keid, you're on your own...

There are several ways to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars, but the two most successful techniques are the transit method and the radial velocity method . Both of these techniques consider the effect an orbiting planet has on its star.

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The transit method, employed to great success by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) , measures the tiny dips in light a planet causes as it crosses the face of its parent star. 

While the transit method is by far the more fruitful of these two exoplanet detection methods , the radial velocity method is useful for spotting exoplanets that don't pass between the face of their star and our vantage point in the solar system. 

The radial velocity method uses tiny shifts in the light of a star as an orbiting planet gravitationally tugs on it. As a star is pulled away from Earth, the wavelength of the light it emits is stretched, causing it to move to the "red end" of the electromagnetic spectrum, a phenomenon called " redshift ." The converse happens when the star is pulled toward Earth, the wavelengths of light compress, and the light is "blue-shifted" toward the "blue end" of the electromagnetic spectrum.

This is analogous to the Doppler effect, which impacts sound waves on Earth. When an ambulance races toward us, the soundwaves from its siren are compressed, making them sound higher-pitched. When the ambulance races away, the sound waves are more spaced out, and the siren becomes lower-pitched. 

The radial velocity method is best for detecting especially massive planets , as these exert a larger gravitational pull on their stars and thus generate a more pronounced shift in the starlight from that stellar body. However, it is less robust for detecting planets with masses lower than that of Jupiter, the solar system's most massive planet.

When HD 26965 b was first potentially detected using the radial velocity method, its mass was estimated to be about 8 times greater than that of Earth but less than that of Neptune, making it a so-called "super-Earth" planet. The faux-Vulcan was suspected to orbit its parent star at around 22% of the distance between Earth and the sun , completing a year in around 42 Earth days.

Yet even the scientists who discovered this planet warned that it could be a misdetection caused by Keid's inherent jitteriness. By 2023, researchers had cast major doubts on the existence of this exoplanet. These new high-precision radial velocity measurements, which were not yet available in 2018, are the final nail in the coffin of the Vulcan-like HD 26965 b.

The disappointing news for Star Trek fans was delivered by NEID, the name of which rhymes with "fluid." NEID is an instrument that uses radial velocity to measure the motion of nearby stars with extreme precision. 

NEID separated out the suspected planetary signal into its constituent wavelengths representing light emitted from various layers in the structure of Keid's surface or photosphere . This allowed the team to detect significant differences in the individual wavelengths compared to the total combined signal.

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The upshot is that the signal implied the existence of HD 26965 b is actually the result of something flickering at the surface of Keid approximately every 42 Earth days. This effect could also be created when hot and cold plasma rises and falls through Keid's convection zone and interacts with surface features like dark sunspot patches or bright, active regions called " plages ."

While this discovery isn't great news for Keid and its planetary prospects, or for fans of Star Trek, it is a positive step for exoplanet-hunting scientists. 

That's because the finely tuned radial velocity measurements of NEID promise that planetary signals can be more accurately separated and distinguished from the natural jitters of stars in the future. 

The team's research is published in The Astronomical Journal. 

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Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University. Follow him on Twitter @sciencef1rst.

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