The Captain's Oath

UHURA: 

Spock! Spock, stop! Stop! 

He's our only chance to Save Kirk!

(Spock stops, then throws a final punch. Blackout.)

WINONA : 

What is it?

GEORGE : 

It's a Boy. Let's 

call him ‘Jim’.

PIKE : 

Your Father was 

Captain of a Starship 

for twelve minutes. 

He Saved eight hundred Lives. 

I Dare You to Do Better.

[Starfleet Medical]

MCCOY: 

Oh, don't be so melodramatic. You were barely dead. 

It was the transfusion that 

really took its toll. 

You were out cold 

for two weeks.

KIRK: 

Transfusion?

MCCOY: 

Your cells were 

heavily irradiated. 

We had No Choice.

KIRK: 

Khan?

MCCOY: Once we caught him, 

I synthesised a serum from 

his superblood. 

Tell me, are you feeling homicidal? 

Power mad? Despotic?

KIRK: 

No more than usual. 

How'd you catch him?

MCCOY: 

I didn't.

(Spock enters.)

KIRK: 

You Saved My Life.

MCCOY: Uhura and I had something to do with it, too, you know.

SPOCK: 

You Saved My Life, Captain, 

and the lives of —

KIRK: 

Spock, just. 

Thank You.

SPOCK: 

You are Welcome, Jim.

[San Francisco Plaza]

(Khan and his seventy two superpeople in their cryo tubes are in a big vault. A big public ceremony is taking place out of doors.)

KIRK: 

There will always be those who 

mean to Do Us Harm. 

To Stop Them, We risk awakening 

the same evil within ourselves. 

Our first instinct is 

to seek Revenge 

when Those We Love 

are Taken from Us. 

But that's not 

Who We Are. 

We are Here today to rechristen 

The U.S.S. Enterprise, and to 

Honour those who lost their lives

 nearly one year ago. 

When Christopher Pike first 

gave me His Ship, he had me recite 

The Captain's Oath, words 

I didn't appreciate at the time. 

Now I see them as 

A Call for Us to Remember, 

Who We Once Were, and 

Who We Must Be again. 

And those words?

Space -- The Final Frontier :

These are The Voyages 

of The Starship, ‘Enterprise’. 

Her Five Year Mission :

To explore strange new worlds, 

To seek out new life, 

and new civilisations --

To Boldly Go,

Where no-one has 

gone before.

[Bridge]

CHEKOV: Captain on the bridge.

KIRK: It's hard to get out of it once you've had a taste, isn't that right, Mister Sulu?

SULU: Captain does have a nice ring to it. The chair's all yours, sir.

KIRK: Mister Scott.

[Engineering]

KIRK: How's our core?

SCOTT: Purring like a kitten, Captain. She's ready for a long journey.

[Bridge]

KIRK: Excellent. Come on, Bones! It's gonna be fun.

MCCOY: Five years in space. God help me.

KIRK: Doctor Marcus. I'm glad you could be a part of the family.

CAROL: It's nice to have a family.

KIRK: Spock.

SPOCK: Captain.

KIRK: Where shall we go?

SPOCK: As a mission of this duration has never been attempted, I defer to your good judgement, Captain.

KIRK: 

Mister Sulu, Take Us Out.

SULU: Aye, Captain.