Previously on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds...
I saw my own death, Spock.
I know exactly how and when my life ends.
The Gorn will hatch from her body in less than a day.
The incubation has severely altered her biochemistry.
With Spock's brain,
M'Benga's research, and Chapel's genetic expertise.
I saw something.
Yes.
It felt both a part of you and not.
Nurse Chapel and Dr. Korby
are about to make history.
The landing party's meeting soon.
- On Vadia Nine? - You've earned it.
Let's go dig up the past.
There is indeed some form
of advanced technology hiding beneath us.
Wow.
There is evil in this universe.
Gamble!
He wasn't ready for away missions.
You know more than most, we can't protect everyone.
Spock found life-forms trapped inside orbs.
Unwelcome guests.
"Here stands the Beholder, sentry
of eternal bridges."
This thing has a life sign reading.
What if this place isn't a palace or a lab?
What if it's a prison?
Captain?
I don't know what happened in there.
I had this overwhelming desire
to kill.
Whatever it is, we'll figure it out.
You couldn't kill your favorite ensign now, could you?
No!
If any of those things ever escaped,
God help us all.
Captain's personal log. Stardate 3165.2.
After exhaustive evaluation, Captain Batel has been cleared
to return to active duty as the new director
of the Starfleet Judge Advocate General's Office.
While we knew she couldn't stay on Enterprise forever,
it doesn't make saying goodbye any easier.
Welcome back.
- How did it feel? - Amazing but tiring.
I'm exhausted from all the bureaucratic banter.
Mm. They're really putting you through the wringer, huh?
The meetings are endless.
Tell me, when did Starfleet start cloning officials?
What can I do to help?
Take me to your cabin, where we can disappear,
just you and me, for the next 72 hours.
Mm.
What?
What did you do? What did you do?
It sure won't be the same here without you, Marie.
You were only gone a week,
and Chris hardly knew what to do with himself.
He actually jumped back into test pilot drills, voluntarily.
I heard him mutter something about yoga the other day?
Okay, all right, laugh all you want,
but yoga will take down the best of men.
But truly, you seem well.
I am. Thanks to all of you.
You-- Oh, wow.
So, uh, first Captain's Table?
- Well, how did you...? - Looking sharp,
Mr. Scott.
I thought you said this was a formal affair.
It is, it is.
For you.
Oh...
I'm just glad Enterprise
was able to be my ride back to Earth.
And I'm glad we all get to be there
- for your promotion ceremony. - Cheers.
Additionally, we will take the opportunity
to run ship-wide diagnostics.
Enterprise has had a challenging few months.
That is an understatement.
Oh, challenging schmallenging.
Remind me to tell you about the time
I spent with a time-tra--
traveling doctor I once knew.
Uh, Captain, it's, it's wonderful to see you again,
but I've got an incoming communication
that should be landing any moment, so...
- How is Dr. Korby these days? - Far.
He's on an expedition in the Ba-Dates system.
Cali-Katchna.
I'm sorry, what did you say?
The phrase the Vezda spoke
to you-- "Cali-Katchna."
Yeah, it turns out
it's phonetically almost identical
to the name of the city on Skygowan, where Roger is.
Followed a lead there, he's been ingratiating himself
with a local high cleric.
Do you think that is a coincidence?
I don't remember hearing it at all.
Uh, in any case,
I hope Roger finds what he's looking for soon.
I know how hard long distance can be.
It is, but it can be done.
I wish you could see this place, Christine.
A beautiful city, full of life.
And a whole culture built on the belief
that the Vezda were gods. If only they knew.
Their spiritual high chambers float above the city.
From the guarded entrance,
you transport up to the higher level.
It's taken me weeks to build their trust.
But today the local high cleric Zeperez
has agreed to take me up.
Hopefully, he can help us understand
what we encountered on Vadia Nine.
Maybe even clues about the Vezda's so-called immortality.
We'll have to shut down
the medical transporter
before the diagnostics sweep.
Buffer and all.
We just did a purge a few months after that...
Well, as Pelia would say,
"We sent that Vezda demon back to hell."
Would Pelia ever say that like a vampire?
Well, she would sometimes.
Odd.
- What? - Uh...
Residual pattern geometries, wee bitty ones.
Hardly there at all, but there they are.
Check the logs.
Zeperez is promised to us.
He has come to deliver us to the gods.
Could someone have used the medical transporter
without you knowing?
Access is DNA-locked.
Guys, there's a pattern here, it's... it's human.
It's been broken in pieces.
Aye, seems to have been rebuilt from emergency backups.
Let's see if we can get the pieces to cohere.
- Oh, my... - Scotty?
Whose pattern was rebuilt?
Ensign Gamble's pattern.
And it's left the ship.
But where did it go?
If it isn't Dr. Korby.
The man who wants to live forever.
Well, you've come to the right place.
Space.
The final frontier.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
Its five-year mission:
to explore strange new worlds...
...to seek out new life
and new civilizations...
...to boldly go where no one has gone before.
All signs points to the Vezda having rebuilt Gamble's body
and enabled the transporter from inside.
Is that even possible?
I would have said no, until now.
Where did he go?
Roger's emergency transponder activated 12 hours ago.
He hasn't answered any messages since.
It's too many coincidences.
Even at full warp, it'll take us 11 hours.
Skygowan is not a warp-capable society.
But they do engage
in interstellar trade with the Orions.
It's a mix of locals and travelers,
most hostile to the Federation.
All right. Understood.
We'll notify Starfleet and then you and La'An
will lead a covert tactical landing party.
Get in, find Korby, assess the Vezda situation.
Do not engage until we have backup,
a plan or, God willing, both.
Joseph...
I'll go, too.
I was gonna say you don't have to be on this mission.
No, I have to do it.
Spock, I want Science and Engineering
on a deep dive into every piece of data we have
from the Vadia Nine expedition.
If one of these things is loose,
we need to find a way to contain it.
All right, let's get to it.
Tai chi not cutting it for you today?
You know,
you didn't have to come on this mission.
You have a new job to report for, so...
We'll be back in time.
It doesn't make sense but I...
I think I need to be here.
The way you reacted to the Vezda.
Like I had to stop it.
We have to, Chris.
Why?
What do you know about it, Marie?
What-What's your gut telling you?
I don't know.
I just know we can't let it escape.
We won't.
I keep feeling like there's this rope around my waist,
pulling me towards something I don't understand.
Destiny maybe.
Do you really still believe our futures are written in stone?
These last few years have...
well, they've changed
what I thought life could be. I don't know.
Maybe there is more possibility than I thought.
Hmm.
Who told you that?
A wise woman.
Right before she told me to shave my beard.
It was just so scratchy.
They're so much like Vadia Nine here.
I can see why Roger was drawn to it.
Korby's communicator isn't pinging,
but that's where it went offline.
That looks just like the gateway on Vadia Nine.
It must act as a transport to the upper chamber.
Two guards, lightly armed.
I just need a distraction.
- Joseph, what about-- - Like on Rigel?
- Hey. - I told you!
They'll never let us.
Excuse me, sir? Sir?
Sir? Uh-oh.
Vulcan nerve pinch?
- Yeah. - Oh, my God.
- That's what you guys do? - You're jealous, right?
You couldn't learn it?
It wasn't for lack of trying.
Can-can you show me your thumb placement?
Ladies?
If we're going to find Korby,
we've got to get through that gateway.
Just pointing out,
the last time we walked into something like that,
we almost got trapped for eternity.
At least this one doesn't have a blood lock,
like on Vadia Nine.
Okay, so the Vezda escaped the transporter buffer.
But how did it get halfway across the quadrant?
Our experiences on Vadia Nine revealed technologies
that exploit inter-dimensional space.
They may also travel via similar methods.
I'm picking up what you're laying down, Spock-O.
This was our location
when Gamble's pattern was rebuilt.
We know inter-dimensional space folds along those...
- uh, what do you call them? - Ley lines.
They're a real thing.
Five days ago, at the moment the Vezda escaped,
it appears Enterprise was on one of those ley lines.
One that leads directly to Skygowan.
Yeah. What if these lines are a kind of bus route
for inter-dimensional travel? You know,
without actual buses, of course.
All great civilizations maintain some sort of trade route,
a way to connect the far reaches of the empire.
Oh, look, there's one that connects Vadia Nine to Skygowan.
Oh, dear.
If that thing in Gamble's body can travel
your bus-less bus route and access that Vezda prison
from across deep space, then, th--
Then it could feasibly free all its incarcerated brethren
and unleash them on Skygowan.
The sky would rain demons,
demons that could kill and possess
every man, woman and child on the planet.
No. No, no, no.
You shouldn't have come.
Gamble's been taken over by the Vezda.
- We know. - No, you don't understand.
Some of the people on this planet,
they-they-they worship him like, like he's a god.
If he commands it, they'll do it.
Anything.
Friends.
We are in the final days.
Prepare yourselves for liberation.
Demittis tenebris. Demittis tenebris.
Interitus vide clara.
Demittis tenebris. Demittis tenebris.
Interitus vide clara.
Captain Pike, I hear you might have
a planet in need of assistance.
Good to see you, James. If we can't contain this,
I'm worried it might become a galactic threat.
Well, Farragut is fully repaired
and we are on our way to you now.
Starfleet's orders are to observe and not interfere.
Might not be that simple.
I'm gonna need to know your captain's position on that.
My captain's position is that Enterprise saved her life.
And she owes you one.
It's not very Vulcan of her,
but she's learning.
No offense, Spock.
None taken.
Thank you, James. Pike out.
I'd just like to know, sir, so we can better help out,
whatever the plan is gonna be.
Rescue the people, stop the Vezda, kill it.
Any one of those would do. I just need options.
Demittis tenebris...
Okay, Gamble is taking over the city below.
How do we stop him?
If we could get our hands on one of those orbs.
The kind that Gamble was trapped in before?
Currently, they're the only thing we know
will actually stop the Vezda.
Roger? Something to tell us?
I think there might be more of those orbs through here.
I think this symbol is associated
with the containment orbs.
Well, it was on the well on Vadia Nine.
The entity inside Gamble tried to get through here.
The glyphs changed, but then
nothing else happened.
Wherever it was trying to go, it failed.
The idea that good and evil exist,
have always existed,
is the most commonly shared belief
in all the galaxy.
Wow.
That verse is in Swahili.
Your first language?
It was also mine.
"A young boy was not yet a man,
"but his time had come.
"To kill or be killed.
A knife in his hands."
Another myth? An epic poem?
No.
It's about me.
I was attacked on a colony when I was 12.
Had to defend myself.
The first time I, uh...
I took a life.
Joseph...
how is your life story written here,
light-years from where you were born?
Do you believe in destiny?
I delivered the boy to the creature
that took his body.
Maybe I'm supposed to be here.
I don't like any of this.
We need to find a way to get back to Enterprise.
Joseph!
We don't need to risk all of us.
I can find one of the orbs.
No.
That's an order, Doctor.
You were close.
About the entryway.
It's not just about you.
It's about us.
It's about duality.
Everything here is.
The Beholders constructed this portal
so that it could not be traversed alone.
Two must pass through.
You wanted the Enterprise to come.
You needed me there so you could get back to Vadia Nine
and this prison, dozens of light-years away.
I retain Gamble's memories, Doctor.
You became a part of him,
and so, a part of me.
And that is how we opened this doorway
and released my people to Skygowan,
where their future bodies await us.
So...
...thank you.
This warden has stood over us for eternity.
Now, the Beholder dies,
and what keeps us from escaping ends.
You couldn't go after him?
There was no way to get through the door.
After the Vezda pulled M'Benga through,
it sealed closed.
Our only option was to return to Enterprise
and find another way in, any other way.
I think Gamble needed to go through with M'Benga.
Otherwise, I'm sure the Vezda would have taken
the time to kill us.
M'Benga hasn't responded to comms
and Uhura still can't locate his transponder signal.
It's like they just disappeared.
They have to be somewhere.
It's just a matter of tracking them down.
CHAPEL Captain Pike?
You'd better get to sickbay.
It's, uh, it's Captain Batel.
This is incredible. Her eyes.
- They've changed? - Yes.
I think I've seen this before.
In a pictograph.
On an altar.
Are you sure you feel okay?
Honestly, I feel fine.
Uh, more than fine.
I feel great.
Everything looks normal to me if that helps at all.
Not really, no.
I think they may be fading back.
- Wait. - What?
No way.
No, this is impossible.
- What? - Oh, come on.
Nurse Chapel?
Sorry. Sorry.
Look.
This is the result of the bio-scan we took
of the Beholder statue on Vadia Nine.
We didn't think to cross-reference it.
Because why would we?
- Christine, this is not the time. - Look at this.
These are Captain Batel's life signs.
Right now.
What, you're saying Marie is somehow connected
to the Beholder statue on Vadia Nine?
No.
According to this...
...she is the statue.
The statue is her.
The Beholder.
These things don't die easy, but when they do,
they die screaming.
I'm still alive.
You haven't killed me.
You didn't just need me to get in.
You need me to get out, too, don't you?
If I die...
...would you be stuck here?
Oh, you will die.
Not until I permit it.
Don't be too sure.
It doesn't make any sense.
Maybe it does.
Maybe it finally makes all the sense in the world.
The Gorn, Una's Illyrian blood,
the Chimera Blossom.
You all saved me, but you also changed me.
Okay.
The Vezda.
What if they are evil?
- Many races are capable of-- - I mean,
what if they are the evil that predates doing evil?
What if they are evil itself?
I am not sure I understand.
Almost every race claims to have had
encounters, battles with evil.
Definitely, I've seen this all over the galaxy--
And when we fight things,
when we beat back the forces threatening us,
we have an epigenetic response.
The way humans can sense animal predators.
And Vulcans can feel the coming of an earthquake.
Our biology
changes in response to the threats we encounter.
What if by hybridizing me,
I have somehow taken on all the adaptive
characteristics of races that have faced evil.
The Gorn, humans, Illyrians.
If the Vezda are an evil that predates all our known races,
it is possible that all races that came later
might hold some genetic memory of how to combat them.
What if I got all of them?
All the parts of every race
that know how to fight the Vezda are in me.
And maybe by them coming together in one body it's...
...it's transforming me.
Into what?
Some kind of protector.
The Vezda are very old and very powerful.
But something locked them down in that well
on Vadia Nine and threw away the key.
Something equally powerful, maybe more.
And then stood sentry for millennia,
waiting for a day when they might escape.
A warden of sorts.
What if it's me?
Not you, it-it...
them eons ago, not you now.
How ca--? How can that even be possible?
Captain, when dealing with inter-dimensional space,
cause and effect can be reversed.
And time is not what it seems to be to us.
Chris?
Why haven't I been able to settle?
We both know the feelings I've been having like some
puzzle piece that just won't fit, that...
that I can't find some purpose,
that it's eluding me.
A starship captain, Counselor General.
None of them fit anymore.
But this does.
No, this is--
Marie.
The Beholder's biosignature is mine.
Because I am the sentry.
I have always been.
Effect before cause, remember?
Everything that happened to me
was so I could do this.
So I could be this.
So I could stand where I have always stood.
It's my destiny.
You, of all people, can understand that.
Marie, if...
if what you're saying is true...
I stay.
I guard.
I never leave.
You will have to defeat him first.
The way you reacted to him the first time,
it...
it triggered your capabilities.
Proximity could cause it to happen again.
There's only one way to find out.
Then I'm coming with you.
Seems like things have calmed down on the surface.
Until Gamble shows up again.
Chris...
this portal must only be programmed to open
for Joseph and Gamble together.
Without them, it's not working.
Joseph's trapped inside there. What do you need to open it?
To force it?
Far more power than either of us have.
The energy of a Vezda, I'm not sure.
Okay, you're talking about a science so advanced
it might as well be magic.
So what do we have that could open it?
We have to get power to Captains Batel and Pike.
They're on the second level of the temple.
They need it to open the portal.
We can beam down a nuclear battery.
The power needed suggests a battery will not be enough.
Two batteries?
At the necessary valences,
thermal, chemical, radiant,
gravitational, electrical, or nuclear
may likely prove far too destructive.
Hmm, exactly how much power do you need?
Based on the data of the Vezda life-form,
approximately 3.22 times ten to the 26 watts.
Hmm, that is the power
of the Earth's sun.
Less, technically.
The sun is...
close enough.
A focused phaser blast
from a starship could get you
about half of that?
Aye, but you'd have to direct it
precisely into the system or you'll
vaporize the whole temple.
You said a starship could generate half of what we need?
- Mm-hmm. - What about two starships?
- Phasers are not additive. - Well, no, they're not,
but they are complementary.
Fascinating.
Scotty is right.
Simultaneous fire from two ships
might do the trick.
Okay, sounds like a plan.
No, you don't understand.
Ship safeguards won't let us link
our weapons systems to the Farragut's.
We'd need the two ships to fire
in perfect synchronicity.
A millisecond off,
and the whole temple down there goes boom.
And we'd need to fire them manually.
I have an idea.
Two ships firing energy at the same time,
at the same target?
Phaser streams of anti-protons, to be precise.
Those are very powerful.
Perhaps the only thing powerful enough to help Captain Batel
and Captain Pike open the door.
But... two ships?
Yeah, and they have to operate in tandem.
Enterprise and Farragut seem
like they're not moving, but they are--
radiation waves, cosmic gas,
solar flares-- there's a lot going through here.
And I'm telling you as a pilot,
they shake at all,
the beams separate and it's adios Skygowans.
So how do we do this and not...
destroy the planet?
Two pilots must operate together.
Okay.
What do you know of the Vulcan mind meld?
I mean, frankly, about as much as I want to.
I'm not big on intimacy
without someone knowing every single one of my thoughts.
Wait, that wasn't just intellectual curiosity, was it?
No, it was not.
Hold on, you have a great pilot right here.
It's not really fancy flying that's called for.
No.
The firing process is rudimentary.
It is the coordination that is necessary.
Two people must quickly be comfortable
sharing a consciousness.
I have learned, despite your reticence,
that you are willing to do things others are not.
You seem to understand me, Spock.
Are you willing to attempt this?
If the Vezda cannot be stopped,
more than a single world may fall.
Well, I see why you brought me to a bar.
This is one hell of a date.
Indeed.
Okay, Mr. Spock.
But be gentle.
Oh, wait,
wait, wait. Um...
That one time on Orion's second moon.
Just try not to judge, okay?
I will do my best, Commander.
Maybe call me Jim.
Yes. Jim.
My mind to your mind.
My thoughts to your thoughts.
- Weapons ready? - Aye.
- Engineering? - As ready as we'll ever be.
Lieutenant Spock?
SPOCK and KIRK: We are both ready.
That's eerie.
They're connecting even faster than a comms link.
Get used to it, Ensign.
As Lieutenant Ortegas likes to say,
"Let's light this candle."
SPOCK and KIRK: One quarter impulse power.
Oh.
They move in perfect synchronicity.
It's almost poetic.
Steady, Pelia.
I'm steady. I'm steady.
SPOCK and KIRK: Rotation, 43 degrees
toward the planet's surface.
How's our aim?
- On target. - Hold ships.
SPOCK and KIRK: Rotation locked.
Fire.
You ready?
We're on Vadia Nine.
We are.
- Joseph. How...? - No time.
Hurry. It's trying to break out.
Annoying.
You... and a pet.
For eons, my people have suffered
under your wretched eyes.
The indignities I have imagined
committing upon you. The suffering.
Human flesh.
So fragile.
- Stop it. - You.
A fly.
Chris, don't do it.
You can't hurt him, but he...
He can hurt me.
Yeah, I get that now.
This is something only I can do.
- What's stopping you? - Oh, I don't know.
You have to fight back, Marie.
Happy anniversary.
- We made it. - We made it.
Mm, bacon's burning. Hold on.
Thought we said no gifts.
It's tradition.
Last year was paper,
second year is cotton.
M.B. and M.P.?
Well, I wasn't sure
if you were gonna take the name, and...
Well, planning the wedding happened so fast,
we never talked about it, so
- got you both. - I see.
So there could be two Captain Pikes or...
two Captain Batels?
Christopher Batel, that's got a ring to it.
- It's nice. - Mm.
- Hold on. - Aw, come back to me.
What are you doing?
- Thought we said no gifts. - It's tradition.
Sneak.
When you marry the best chef in Starfleet,
you want to show it off.
I love it.
This is the life worth risking everything for.
Mm.
Who is it?
Oh, I think I know.
Bob? This early?
He's still trying to talk me
into training cadets at the Academy.
Can you tell him no?
You know I can't. I...
I have to do the things I'm supposed to do.
And after our run-in with the Vezda, I just...
I remember.
We made a promise to enjoy
however much time we have together.
Yeah.
Oh, hey, what're you doing?
Hey, wait. Hey, wait.
Down.
Stay.
The Lucas?
It's a class-J training vessel.
How long?
It's a three-month observation exercise.
But you return a month early?
I do.
And when I come back, um...
- We knew this day would come. - Yeah.
Just never realized how much I'd actually have to live for.
And you'll continue to live for it.
This life we have will change,
but it won't go away.
This is... this is what we signed up for.
You faced the Vezda. I can face this.
I-I'm not scared of the accident.
I'm afraid of what it will do to this family.
You always having to take care of me...
Hey.
We have a beautiful life
because of you.
Because of us.
Um... I think that's my ride.
At this hour? No. It's too early.
Chris?
How?
I don't know what happened.
I-I did everything exactly as I was supposed to,
but the baffle plate, it just never ruptured.
There was no radiation leak, no explosion,
no accident.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I wasn't supposed to avoid this.
There could be huge consequences.
- This was my destiny and... - Maybe it's not anymore.
H-How can that be possible?
Skygowan.
When you were fighting that thing inside Gamble,
I-I was there, but...
I never totally understood what happened.
It was hard to explain.
The thought of losing you...
...of losing us, it-it gave me
the power I needed to open up the fabric of space and time.
Maybe, some-somehow, that reset everything.
I don't know. I don't know if that's it,
but I know you're here now.
I don't know what comes next anymore.
Isn't that the gift?
Should we be concerned?
Because Juliet's coming to dinner?
Whew.
No, I'm fairly used to that by now.
With a guest? A month after she started her new job?
Look.
The Daystrom Institute is lucky to have her.
I'm just concerned, Chris. What if something's gone wrong?
Then we face it, like we always do.
- We're here. Hi, Dad. - Hey! Get in here.
- Hi. - Kid. What? Really?
- Thank you. - Mom, act surprised.
- About what? - You didn't tell her?
- You told me not to say anything. - Tell me about what?
Oh, my God, but, Dad, you never listen to me.
Elijah.
What are you doing here?
Hey, buddy. Welcome.
Eli, how's your father doing these days?
Uh, he's good, ma'am.
Uh, Admiral April sends his best.
Admiral April? Tell me he doesn't make you call him that.
No, he does not.
Um...
Uh...
Eli, um, it's us.
You've been here a million times.
Is everything okay?
Is something going on with your job? Or his job?
Or e-- someone's job?
No. Okay, everyone's job is fine. My job is great.
All of the advice from Uncle Sock really paid off.
You've known how to say "Spock" since you were four years old.
Yes, and he loves his nickname.
Why rush home?
What's this surprise supposed to be?
Well, we did tell Dad at the Academy yesterday.
But we wanted to ask you as well.
Admiral, uh...
We're engaged.
But only with your blessings, ma'am.
I know it's old-fashioned.
You have more than my blessing.
Have you told your father yet?
Uh, not yet.
Well, we'll tell him together.
I never thought we'd see this.
And yet here we are.
Oh, should I get that?
Get what?
You don't hear that?
Chris, come back to me.
Chris.
What?
Champagne. Go put some on ice.
- And some cider for you. - Yeah. Cider for me. Okay.
So much to celebrate tonight.
We did it.
We made it.
Mm.
I never thought it was possible.
When I'm gone...
- Marie. - I have to say it.
I won't really be gone.
I'll always be with you.
All you have to do is look up at the stars...
...and know that I'm waiting for you there.
It's a little early.
Someone at the door, Chris.
I'm not leaving your side.
Chris, this lifetime was a gift.
But we both know it's time.
A gift?
Living our lives like this,
we got lucky.
You've given me everything I needed.
And more than I could've hoped for.
I needed to have this first.
So I can say goodbye and still remember you.
Still remember us.
Marie...
What are you talking about?
After all, isn't this what we're fighting for?
What we've always been fighting for?
Answer the door, Chris.
Soon, they will all be free,
and your memories will be long gone.
You will stay.
It's too late to stop me.
I am filled with light you cannot vanquish.
I am the Beholder.
But I am also Marie Batel.
The love I feel is brighter than your darkness.
Your judgment is here.
Captain's personal log, supplemental.
With the Vezda gone,
the people of Skygowan are recovering.
As if waking up from a terrible dream.
We remember, but it's over.
It's a perfect time to leave.
- Maybe get some time together. - Mm.
It's actually also, um...
...a perfect time to stay.
Yeah.
The Vezda are imprisoned.
All their history,
all that knowledge of the past, it's...
it's here for us to study now, safely.
I can't walk away from that.
What's this?
A scan of something I found.
Maps of the stars.
Areas that we've never been in.
If I'm gonna stay on the planet,
someone's got to look into it.
It's never gonna be easy between us, is it?
Easy isn't interesting.
Checkmate.
Intriguing.
We have melded minds, and yet,
I see you are still far better at this game than I.
And I see that you have some
interesting new relationships.
Um, anyway, I'll see you...
You and I will remain friends.
I think so, Spock.
It is possible, someday, we will work on the same ship.
Until then, it may be useful for us to continue our game.
Despite your behavior on the moon of Orion.
Although, I must confess, it is of
extraordinary good fortune that no one suffered permanent...
What are you boys talking about?
Oh, nothing at all.
James, good to see you.
Spock, are you ready?
Dance rehearsal.
Oh, God, the mind meld.
Like a steel trap.
♪ Send ♪
♪ Your dreams ♪
♪ Where nobody hides ♪
Hey.
Want to talk?
Not yet.
One day, maybe soon, but...
...not yet.
♪ Give ♪
♪ Your tears ♪
♪ To the tide ♪
♪ No time ♪
Even as a boy, I always hated goodbyes.
♪ No time ♪
How can we love the people in our lives so deeply...
...and then, one day,
simply never see them again?
♪ No time... ♪
Perhaps these moments we share
are anything but fleeting.
But...
maybe...
maybe they never really vanish.
Maybe Spock was right,
and time is not what we think.
♪ No time ♪
Maybe memory is as real as the present...
...and no one we have ever loved is truly gone.
♪ No time. ♪
Captain on the bridge.
Dr. Korby's research on Skygowan
has revealed a large number of uncharted planets.
How many?
Enough for a five-year mission.
I did just happen to plot a course
to a promising M-Class planet.
If that sounds cool to you, sir...
Hailing frequencies open, Captain.
Yeah.
Is this a "hit it" situation?
Uh, it's a new future.
It's whatever kind of adventure we want it to be.
I mean, I still kind of like "hit it."
Why don't you take us out, Erica.
As fast as you want to go.
Okay,
you asked for it.
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