Nichelle Nichols: Uhuru
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Captain Spock : [to Lt. Valeris] Lieutenant, the torpedo hit, once again, please.
[Valeris replays video]
Captain Spock : Hold.
[replay pauses]
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov : It *is* Enterprise. *We* fired.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : That is *not* possible! All weapons *visually* accounted for,
[to Spock]
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : sir.
Captain Spock : An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura : What, exactly, does *that* mean?
Captain Spock : It means that we can not have fired those torpedoes, someone else did.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Well, they dinna fire on themselves, and there were no the ships present.
Captain Spock : There was an enormous neutron energy surge.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Not from us!
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov : A neutron surge that big could only be produced by another ship.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura : Kronos One?
Captain Spock : Too far away. Very near *us*. Possibly *beneath* us.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : If there were a ship beneath us, the Klingons would have seen her.
Captain Spock : [pause] Would they?
Lieutenant Valeris : A bird-of-prey.
Captain Spock : A bird-of-prey.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov : *Cloaked?*
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : A bird-of-prey cannot fire when she's cloaked.
Captain Spock : All things being equal, Mr. Scott, I would agree. However, things are not equal. This one *can*.
Lieutenant Valeris : We must inform Starfleet Command.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : Inform them of what? A new weapon that is invisible? Raving lunatics, that's what they'll call us. They'll say we're so desperate to exonerate the Captain, we'll say *anything*.
Captain Spock : And they would be correct. We have no evidence, only a theory which happens to fit the facts.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura : Assuming you're right, Mr. Spock, why would they fire on their own president?
Captain Spock : Indeed.
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Cmdr. Nyota Uhura : You understand, we have lost all contact with the Captain and Dr. McCoy.
Captain Spock : Yes, at the moment, they are surrounded by a magnetic shield. However, if I know the Captain, by this time, he is deep into planning his escape.
[Cut to Captain Kirk on the losing end of a fist fight with an alien at least twice his size]
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Uhuru : Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to put back to spacedock immediately to be decommissioned.
Captain Spock : If I were human, I believe my response would be... "go to hell." If I were human.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov : Course heading, Captain?
Captain James T. Kirk : Second star to the right and straight on till morning.
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[the crew enter the bridge]
Kirk : Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it.
McCoy : And the good news is they're not going to prosecute.
Uhuru : They might as well have prosecuted me. I felt like Lt. Valeris.
McCoy : [looks at Spock] Well, they don't prosecute people for having feelings.
Chekov : Just as well, or we'll all have to turn ourselves in.
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Cmdr. Nyota Uhura : You are Crewman Dax?
Crewman Dax : Yes Commander. What is the problem?
Commander Pavel Chekov : Perhaps you have heard Russian epic of Cinderella? If shoe fits, wear it!
[drops magnetic boots at Dax's feet]
Captain Spock : Mr. Chekov...
[camera pans down to show that Dax's feet are incapable of fitting into boots]
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Captain Spock : Gas. Gas, Captain. Under impulse power, she expends fuel like any other vessel. We call it plasma, but whatever the Klingon designation, it is merely ionized gas.
Uhuru : Well, what about all that equipment we're carrying to catalog gaseous anomalies?
[seeing Kirk's reaction]
Uhuru : Well, the thing's gotta have a tailpipe.
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Kirk : [6:58] What are we all doing here?
McCoy : Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party.
Scotty : That suits me. I just bought a boat.
Uhuru : This had better be good. I'm supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy.
Chekov : Captain, isn't this just for top brass?
McCoy : If we're all here, where's Sulu?
Kirk : *Captain* Sulu, on assignment. Where's Spock?
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Captain James T. Kirk : Signal our surrender.
Uhura : [shocked] Captain?
Captain James T. Kirk : We surrender!
Uhura : [to Gorkon's ship] This is Enterprise. We surrender.
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Chekov : [Kirk and Bones have been arrested by the Klingons] Mr. Spock, we've got to do something.
Captain Spock : I assume command of this ship as of 0230 hours. Commander Uhura, please notify Starfleet headquarters. Tell them precisely what has taken place and request instructions.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura : Aye, sir.
Lieutenant Valeris : We cannot allow them to be taken back to Kronos as prisoners.
Captain Spock : What do you suggest, Lieutenant? Opening fire will not retrieve them. And an armed conflict is precisely what the captain wished to avoid. We will be able to follow the captain's movements.
Lieutenant Valeris : How did you achieve this, sir?
Captain Spock : Time is precious, Lieutenant. We must endeavor to piece together what happened here tonight. According to our data bank, this ship fired those torpedoes.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott : No way!
Captain Spock : I sympathize, Mr. Scott, but we need evidence. Please accompany me.
Chekov : And if we cannot piece together what happened? What then, sir?
Captain Spock : In that case, Mr. Chekov, it resides in the purview of the diplomats.
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Klingon Judge : It is the determination of this court that the prisoners are... guilty as charged.
Klingon Defense Attorney : I wish to note for the record that the evidence against my clients is entirely circumstantial. I beg the court to consider this when pronouncing its sentence.
Klingon Judge : So noted. Captain James T. Kirk, Dr. Leonard McCoy, in the interest of fostering amity for the forthcoming peace talks, the sentence of death is commuted.
[clamoring from the gallery]
Klingon Judge : It is the judgment of this court that, without possibility of reprieve or parole, you be taken from this place to the dilithium mines on the penal asteroid of Rura Penthe, there to spend the rest of your natural lives.
Uhuru : [watching on the Enterprise] Rura Penthe?
Chekov : Known throughout the galaxy as the alien's graveyard.
Scotty : Better to kill them now and get it over with.
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Uhuru : We're to report back at once.
Chekov : We cannot abandon Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy.
Uhuru : Of course not.
Lieutenant Valeris : 400 years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word "sabotage."
Uhuru : [getting the point] We are experiencing technical malfunction. All backup systems inoperative.
Chekov : Excellent. Uh, I-I mean... too bad.
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Captain Spock : Any progress?
Lieutenant Valeris : None. We have a crew of 300 turning their own quarters inside out, but the killers may still be among them. Surely they've disposed of these boots by now. Would it not have been logical to have left them on Gorkon's ship?
Captain Spock : Even logic must give way to physics. Gravity had not been restored by the time they escaped. Without the boots, they would have floated off the Klingon transporter pads.
Chekov : Why not simply vaporize them?
Lieutenant Valeris : [taking a phaser out of a cabinet] Like this?
[as she fires it at a cooking pot, an alarm sounds]
Lieutenant Valeris : [turning it off] At ease. As you know, Commander Chekov, no one can fire an unauthorized phaser aboard a starship. Suppose when they returned, they threw the boots into the refuse?
Captain Spock : I'm having the refuse searched. If my surmise is correct, those boots will cling to the killers' necks like a pair of Tiberian bats. They could not make their escape without them, nor can they simply throw them out the window for all to see. Those boots are here somewhere.
Uhuru : [entering] Did someone fire off a phaser?
