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Showing posts with label Christopher Pike. Show all posts

Friday 7 July 2023

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.