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1
2
3 STAR TREK
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5
6
7 Written by
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9 Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
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15 November, 2007
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181-13 OMIT 1-13
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2014 OMIT 14
21
2215 OVER BLACKNESS, we HEAR a BACH HARPSICHORD CONCERTO. And then a 15
23 WOMAN -- breathing hard -- straining, harder and harder -- until
24 finally we HEAR a NEWBORN BABY CRYING -- and we...
25
26 FADE IN:
27
28 EXT. VULCAN FAMILY HOME - DUSK
29
30 The image is spectacular, aglow in DUSK LIGHT: a beautiful BABY,
31 just born, held in a WOMAN'S HANDS. It is being cleaned; warm
32 water runs down its face and body.
33
34 TIGHT ON the MIDWIFE (female, 60's) who holds and cleans the
35 baby as it CRIES. Another, younger, Midwife can be seen behind
36 her, assisting with the pitchers of water. As she cleans the
37 baby, she says to someone OFF-CAMERA:
38
39 MIDWIFE
40 He is strong.
41
42 The baby, now calm, gets SWADDLED. He is then gently held out
43 to the new MOTHER:
44
45 AMANDA GRAYSON, late 20's. An original beauty. She lies on a
46 divan, spent but eager to hold her first child. She tenderly
47 takes the infant into her arms, tears in her eyes, mesmerized.
48 She holds the wrapped baby tight and whispers sweetly:
49
50 AMANDA
51 ... hello.
52
53 CLOSE ON the YOUNGER MIDWIFE, standing at the rear of the room.
54 She raises an eyebrow as she quietly speaks:
55
56 YOUNGER MIDWIFE
57 The baby is healthy. Why does she cry?
58
59 MIDWIFE
60 (a beat; then)
61 She is human.
62
63 A distant, quiet BUZZ -- and the elder Midwife stands, looking
64 into the distance. And this is when we see, for the first time,
65 that the Midwife has POINTED EARS.
66
67 MIDWIFE (CONT'D)
68 Sarek arrives.
69
70 The Midwife moves away -- we PUSH IN on Amanda, who looks up for
71 a moment, clearly disquieted.
72
73
74
75
7615A OMIT 15A
77
7815B EXT. VULCAN LANDSCAPE - DUSK [FORMER SC. 14] 15B
79
80 A planet of massive, tortured ROCK FORMS, distant cities
81 constructed atop and underneath them. A HOVER-SPEEDER in the
82 mid-ground kicks up dust, backlit by the sun, as it traces the
83 horizon. We PAN WITH IT, revealing a FAMILY HOME, built
84 seamlessly into a rocky mountainside.
85
86 A SUPER READS: STARDATE 2230.06.
87
88 The speeder parks outside the home --
89
9015C EXT. VULCAN HOME - DUSK 15C
91
92 SAREK (late 40's, a Vulcan) comes out to the balcony through the
93 rear doors of the home. He moves to Amanda and kneels. He
94 looks at the child -- his child -- and says:
95
96 SAREK
97 Well done.
98
99 She looks at him for a beat, then says, flatly -- with just
100 enough rancor:
101
102 AMANDA
103 Thanks.
104
105 He regards her. Knows he's in TROUBLE --
106
107 SAREK
108 Your tone suggests disappointment. The
109 Science Council required my presence for
110 a session regarding--
111
112 AMANDA
113 Don't do that. You knew I wanted you
114 here.
115
116 The Vulcan Midwives share a look. Sarek glances at them. Nods.
117 The two women excuse themselves. Sarek reaches over, touches a
118 small touchpad -- the HARPSICHORD MUSIC STOPS. He says,
119 clinically:
120
121 SAREK
122 As you are aware, the Vulcan male is
123 traditionally not present at the moment
124 of delivery.
125
126 AMANDA
127 Well traditionally, I'm not the one
128 giving birth.
129 (then)
130 (MORE)
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132 3
13315C CONTINUED: 15C
134 AMANDA (CONT'D)
135 I moved here -- to another planet -- to
136 be with you. I needed you to be with me
137 today. Holding my hand and telling me
138 I'm doing great, even when I'm just...
139 breathing the best I can.
140
141 Sad that she has to tell him this at all, she just looks back at
142 the baby -- finding comfort in his innocence. Sarek considers
143 this. He moves closer to her. Whispers intimately:
144
145 SAREK
146 You are correct. I should have been
147 here. I am sorry.
148
149 And with her free hand, she pulls Sarek closer -- and kisses
150 him. And the two look at the baby.
151
152 SAREK (CONT'D)
153 I had a thought. That we might name the
154 child after one of our respected early
155 society-builders. His name was "Spock".
156
157 She looks at the baby, not immediately taken by the name.
158
159 SAREK (CONT'D)
160 Your silence does not suggest enormous
161 enthusiasm.
162
163 AMANDA
164 No... Spock.
165 (smiles, touches his
166 face)
167 ... Spock.
168
169 She looks at Sarek: Spock it is.
170
171 SAREK
172 The child has your eyes.
173
174 She pulls back the baby's swaddling, revealing his ears. She
175 gently rubs the top of his right ear -- AND IT UNFURLS,
176 revealing a small, soft pointed VULCAN EAR.
177
178 AMANDA
179 ... and your ears.
180
181 And off the image of this TINY BABY, half-human, half-Vulcan,
182 we... FADE OUT. And over BLACKNESS, we BEGIN TO HEAR an ALARM
183 SOUNDING -- GROWING -- and the SUPER "THREE YEARS LATER" APPEARS
184 -- and finally the BLACKNESS IS SPLIT BY TURBO-LIFT DOORS
185 OPENING and we REVEAL THAT WE'RE ON:
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187 4
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189
19015D INT. U.S.S. KELVIN [FORMER SC. 15A] 15D
191
192 With URGENCY, we MOVE DOWN a corridor with CAPTAIN ROBAU and
193 OFFICER PITTS:
194
195
196 CAPTAIN ROBAU OFFICER PITTS
197 -- our sensors haven't made -- no sir, it looked like a
198 sense of the anomaly? lightning storm in the middle
199 -- how far are we from the of space --
200 Klingon Neutral Zone? -- 150,000 kilometers, but the
201 vessel is not Klingon, Sir,
202 its registry doesn't match any
203 recorded profile --
204
205 SHWISH! The doors part and we enter THE BRIDGE OF THE SHIP -- a
206 flurry of activity -- the MASSIVE SHIP they are approaching on
207 the VIEWSCREEN. Robau moves to the center -- then he asks:
208
209 CAPTAIN ROBAU
210 Report.
211
212 -- turning to the ship's FIRST OFFICER: 32, all-American face,
213 swiveling in a console chair to FACE US:
214
215 FIRST OFFICER
216 Sir, new contact bearing zero-three-four.
217
218 CAPTAIN ROBAU FIRST OFFICER
219 Are they transmitting on any Negative, Captain -- all
220 frequency? communications appear to be
221 shut down.
222
223 CAPTAIN ROBAU FIRST OFFICER
224 Hail the ship. What's the Nothing even close, Sir.
225 closest match on registry?
226
227 Robau moves to Pitts:
228
229 CAPTAIN ROBAU
230 Any response?
231
232 OFFICER PITTS
233 No Sir -- hails met with silence.
234
235 CAPTAIN ROBAU
236 Maybe they're incapable -- any
237 identifiable damage?
238
239 OFFICER PITTS
240 Negative, Sir -- but our readings seem
241 confused--
242
243 5
24415D CONTINUED: 15D
245
246 CAPTAIN ROBAU
247 Confused?
248
249 OFFICER PITTS
250 -- not only is the ship unregistered --
251 but even its construction materials seem
252 unrecognizable.
253
254 Robau sits in the captain's chair his eyes on the ship as they
255 approach -- and we SEE IT on the VIEWSCREEN -- THE NARADA --
256 ENORMOUS AND THREATENING. He doesn't even realize that he says:
257
258 CAPTAIN ROBAU
259 ... oh my God...
260 (to himself, boggled)
261 A lightning storm... then this...
262 (to deck)
263 Signal all departments: first contact
264 protocols. Looks like we have someone
265 new on the block. All Stop.
266
26716-17 OMIT 16-17
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26918-19 OMIT 18-19
270
27119A OMIT 19A
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27319B OMIT 19B
274
27519C EXT. DEEP SPACE - CONTINUOUS 19C
276
277 And in the endless vacuum of space, and in TOTAL SILENCE, the
278 Kelvin appears as a dot, coming to a stop in front of the
279 gigantic BLACK CLAW that is the Narada --
280
28119D INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE 19D
282
283 Crew members are glued to their telemetry, working consoles:
284
285 FIRST OFFICER
286 Sir, should we initiate an invasive scan?
287
288 CAPTAIN ROBAU
289 That could be seen as an act of
290 provocation -- all readings passive--
291
292 Suddenly, a WARNING BEEP --
293
294
295 OFFICER PITTS CAPTAIN ROBAU
296 Sir, I have a reading --
297 they've locked weapons on us! -- Red alert! Arm weapons!
298
299 ALARMS BLARE -- LIGHTS GO RED as --
300
301 6
302
303
30420 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 20
305
306 The Narada FIRES a TORPEDO -- IT HEADS FOR THE KELVIN -- then
307 SEPARATES, fracturing into a multi-hit projectile --
308
30921 INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CONTINUOUS 21
310
311 Officers SCRAMBLE, brace for impact --
312
313
314 FIRST OFFICER CAPTAIN ROBAU
315 Torpedo locked on us at 320
316 degrees, mark two -- incoming -- Evasive pattern Delta-5!
317 fast!
318
31922 EXT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CONTINUOUS 22
320
321 A direct hit SMASHES several decks along the DISH of the ship --
322
32323 INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 23
324
325 In the massive Engine Room, a HUGE BLAST -- MEN GO FLYING IN THE
326 STEEL-SHATTERING EXPLOSION --
327
32824 INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 24
329
330 Captain Robau helps a fallen CREW MEMBER up from the floor --
331 then, on his chair com.:
332
333 CAPTAIN ROBAU
334 Damage report!
335
336 INTERCUT with:
337
33824A INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 24A
339
340 Moving with the Kelvin's CHIEF ENGINEER:
341
342 CHIEF ENGINEER
343 Our shields did nothing, Sir! Never seen
344 anything like it! Weapons off-line!
345 Main power at 38 percent!
346
347 As the crew regains their footing, the First Officer pulls
348 himself to his console, true fear in his eyes as he places an
349 inter-ship call -- it's RINGING -- his fear grows with every
350 passing RING -- then, we INTERCUT WITH:
351
35224B INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - MEDICAL BAY - CONTINUOUS [FORMER SC. 26B] 24B
353
354 A WOMAN, 25, answers her communicator -- she lies on an exam
355 table, afraid -- and pregnant. This is WINONA.
356
357 7
35824B CONTINUED: 24B
359
360 WINONA
361 -- what was that-- what's happening?!
362
363 But the First Officer is just relieved that she's still alive:
364
365 FIRST OFFICER
366 -- you're okay-- thank God-- where are
367 you?
368
369 WINONA
370 Medical bay-- I had a few close
371 contractions-- I'm fine-- what was that?
372
373 FIRST OFFICER
374 Just sit tight-- stay there-- we'll be
375 fine--
376
377 Or maybe not:
378
379 OFFICER PITTS
380 They're firing another, Captain!
381
38225 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 25
383
384 ANOTHER NARADA TORPEDO -- it SEPARATES, pieces HIT the Kelvin.
385
38625A INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 25A
387
388 Chief Engineer RUNS past us -- CONSUMED BY A SUDDEN EXPLOSION!
389
39025B INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 25B
391
392 A FEMALE CREW MEMBER running down the hall suddenly HOLDS ON as
393 a HOLE IS RIPPED IN THE HALL -- and she's YANKED OUT OF THE
394 CORRIDOR -- the CAMERA finally getting sucked out too!
395
39626 INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26
397
398 -- PANDEMONIUM --
399
400 8
40126 CONTINUED: 26
402
403 HELMSMAN OFFICER PITTS
404 -- life support failing on -- this is the U.S.S. Kelvin,
405 decks seven through thirteen! attemping to reach Starfleet
406 We have confirmed casualties, command on subspace! Repeat --
407 Sir! U.S.S. Kelvin, under attack by
408 unknown aggressor!
409
410 FIRST OFFICER TACTICAL OFFICER
411 -- shields at eleven percent -- were our shields even up?
412 and dropping! Ten percent -- That was like nothing I've
413 we're at nine! Eight percent! ever seen -- this ship can not
414 Seven! We're dropping here! take another hit like that!
415 Six!
416
417 CAPTAIN ROBAU
418 All remaining power to forward shields!
419 Prepare the shuttles f--
420
421 And he STOPS. They all do. A fucking FACE is now on their
422 VIEWSCREEN. A ROMULAN FACE -- the FIRST OFFICER of the Narada,
423 whom we'll come to know as AYEL:
424
425 AYEL
426 My commander requests the presence of
427 your captain in order to negotiate a
428 cease-fire. You will come aboard our
429 ship via shuttlecraft. Your refusal
430 would be unwise.
431
432 Screen goes DEAD. All eyes on Robau... and he feels them. A
433 tense, horrible moment. Finally, to the First Officer:
434
435 CAPTAIN ROBAU
436 Walk with me.
437
438 The First Officer follows Robau OFF THE BRIDGE AND INTO:
439
44026A INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CORRIDORS - CONTINUOUS 26A
441
442 As they walk, briskly:
443
444 CAPTAIN ROBAU
445 If I don't report within fifteen minutes,
446 execute general order 13.
447
448 FIRST OFFICER
449 Sir, we could issue a mayday call to--
450
451 CAPTAIN ROBAU
452 (frightened, but firm)
453 There is no help for us out here. If
454 we're going down, we're taking them with
455 us -- you save as many as you can.
456
457 8A
45826A CONTINUED: 26A
459
460 FIRST OFFICER
461 ... aye, Captain.
462
463 Robau heads into a waiting TURBOLIFT, turns -- they lock eyes,
464 knowing what this means. Finally:
465
466 CAPTAIN ROBAU
467 You're Captain now. Mr. Kirk.
468
469 He's gone. And we realize this is GEORGE KIRK, Jim's father.
470
47126B-C OMIT 26B-C
472
473 9
474
475
47626D INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26D
477
478 All eyes on Kirk as he enters -- moves to the captain's chair.
479 Sits. Not a small moment. Speaking his first words as Captain:
480
481 GEORGE KIRK
482 Lieutenant Pitts. Transfer Robau's vital
483 signs to the main view screen.
484
485 OFFICER PITTS
486 Yessir.
487
488 In a moment, Robau's VITAL SIGNS appear on various monitors --
489 his HEART RATE, OXYGEN LEVELS, BLOOD PRESSURE, all of it. A LOW-
490 PITCHED BEEPBEEP of his HEARTBEAT is now HEARD --
491
492 SCIENCE OFFICER
493 Vitals on line.
494
495 GEORGE KIRK
496 (slightly awkward)
497 -- thank you.
498
49926DA INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 26DA
500
501 TILT DOWN as the TURBO-LIFT DESCENDS -- we PUSH IN as the doors
502 open and Captain Robau gets out -- moves quickly -- hurries down
503 a SHUTTLE BAY catwalk --
504
50526DB INT. SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS [FORMER SC. 26C] 26DB
506
507 Robau enters a shuttle -- LIGHTS BLINK to life. He moves to the
508 cockpit -- starts the vehicle up --
509
510 CAPTAIN ROBAU
511 Computer, initiate departure sequence.
512
513 A LOUD HISS and the craft SHUDDERS as it disembarks --
514
51526DC INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26DC
516
517 Sparks dripping from the ceiling, everyone is motionless -- eyes
518 on the monitors -- and we're TIGHT ON GEORGE KIRK -- the BEEPS
519 of Robau's heart might as well be representing his own. He
520 realizes he's sweating -- wipes his forehead as:
521
522 OFFICER PITTS
523 The shuttle's pulling out of main bay,
524 Sir.
525
526 GEORGE KIRK
527 I want to see him -- floodlights please.
528
529 10
530
531
53226E EXT. U.S.S. KELVIN - SPACE 26E
533
534 Two MASSIVE FLOODLIGHTS on the Kelvin's dish GO HOT -- and turn,
535 FLARING out the lens -- landing on the SHUTTLE as it leaves the
536 KELVIN, heading toward the imposing Narada.
537
53826EA INT. SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 26EA
539
540 Backlit by the distant floodlights, Robau remains steely-eyed as
541 he moves for the darkened ship -- nerves --
542
54326F INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE 26F
544
545 And Robau's HEARTBEAT QUICKENS -- the tension they all feel:
546
547 OFFICER PITTS
548 His heart rate's elevated--
549
550 HELMSMAN
551 He's scared.
552
553 GEORGE KIRK
554 He's brave. That's what he is.
555
55626FA INT. SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 26FA
557
558 Robau watches as he gets closer, the BEEPBEEPING HEARD over the
559 SOUNDS of the shuttle -- but then --
560
56126FB EXT. NARADA - SPACE - CONTINUOUS 26FB
562
563 ALL WE HEAR IS THE LOW-PITCHED BEEPBEEP as the small shuttle
564 seems to get swallowed up by the massive forward-facing spires
565 of the Narada -- the distant floodlights creating EERIE SHADOWS
566 everywhere. A gigantic IRIS DOOR TURNS, SLOWLY OPENS -- and the
567 shuttle enters the Narada's main HANGAR -- the door CLOSES --
568
56926FC INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26FC
570
571 And everyone is just motionless and silent. Only Robau's VITAL
572 SIGNS can be HEARD, BEEPING away. George's eyes glued ahead --
573
57426G INT. SHUTTLE/NARADA HANGAR - CONTINUOUS 26G
575
576 TIGHT ON ROBAU as he faces the shuttle door, considering his
577 fate. Finally the SHUTTLE DOOR OPENS -- standing there are
578 eight ROMULAN GUARDS, brandishing WEAPONS. He steps down. They
579 grab him, hard -- he's SCANNED -- FRISKED -- PULLED ALONG -- and
580 we REVEAL the absolutely MASSIVE HANGAR, the insane architecture
581 of the interior of this dark, wet, dripping ship --
582
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584
585
58626H INT. NARADA BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26H
587
588 Robau is led into the enormous, dark bridge. A dozen Romulans
589 at controls. Robau does his level best to portray confidence as
590 he is led up a walkway to AYEL. Behind him, sitting silhouetted
591 and motionless, turned away and looking off, is his captain. A
592 presence always felt in this scene. This is NERO.
593
594 Ayel touches a panel, then THROWS AN IMAGE into the air before
595 Robau. A ROTATING HOLOGRAM OF A UNIQUE-LOOKING SPACECRAFT (we
596 will refer to it as the JELLYFISH).
597
598 AYEL
599 Are you familiar with this craft?
600
601 Robau regards it. Then:
602
603 CAPTAIN ROBAU
604 Who is your commander?
605 (silence, then re: Nero)
606 Is it him?
607
608 AYEL
609 You will speak only to me.
610
611 CAPTAIN ROBAU
612 Then ask your commander what right he has
613 to attack a Federation vessel.
614
615 AYEL
616 That was hardly an attack. My commander
617 will easily destroy your ship. If you do
618 not respond to the question.
619
620 Robau considers the hologram again. And what his answer might
621 mean for the fate of his crew.
622
623 CAPTAIN ROBAU
624 I've never seen it. Or any ship like it.
625
626 AYEL
627 Are you familiar with -- or better, know
628 the location of -- Ambassador Spock?
629
630 Ayel has thrown another HOLOGRAM -- A FLOATING, ROTATING IMAGE
631 OF SPOCK, who appears to be 75 earth-years old. The baby, born
632 just three years earlier. Robau is as confused as we are...
633
634 CAPTAIN ROBAU
635 I am unfamiliar with Ambassador Spock.
636
637 AYEL
638 A final question. What is the current
639 stardate?
640
641 12
64226H CONTINUED: 26H
643
644 CAPTAIN ROBAU
645 (the fuck?)
646 ... Stardate? ... it's 2233.04.
647 (finally)
648 ... hey, where are you from--?
649
650 Suddenly: TSCHING! Nero's activated his STAFF -- FOUR LARGE,
651 HORRIFYING BLADES APPEAR AT THE TIP AND NERO SPRINGS TO LIFE,
652 CHARGING ROBAU WITH A ROAR AND ROBAU'S EYES POP HOLY SHIT AND--
653
65426HA INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE 26HA
655
656 BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... Robau's vitals go dead. PUSH IN ON
657 KIRK as a SCREAMING ALARM IS HEARD --
658
659 OFFICER PITTS GEORGE KIRK
660 They're launching again! Evasive! Evasive! Delta-Five
661 maneuver! Fire full-spread!
662
66326I OMIT 26I
664
66526J EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 26J
666
667 The Kelvin BANKS as it FIRES WILDLY -- another TORPEDO BLASTING
668 FROM THE NARADA -- it SEPARATES -- some miss, OTHERS HIT!
669
67026K INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE 26K
671
672 Debris FLIES TROUGH THE CEILING, SLAMMING INTO A BRIDGE SUPPORT
673 BEAM! Green COOLANT SPEWS from under the floor grating --
674
675 GEORGE KIRK
676 I'm initiating General Order 13! Set
677 self-destruct for maximum matter-
678 antimatter yield! Two minute countdown!
679
680 OFFICER PITTS
681 Yessir!
682
683 GEORGE KIRK
684 I want auto-pilot targeted for their fuel
685 cells!
686
687 TACTICAL OFFICER
688 Sir, unable to locate the ship's power
689 source!
690
691 GEORGE KIRK
692 Then just target the damn thing dead
693 center!
694
695 HELMSMAN
696 We got bigger problems: the first hit
697 destroyed auto-pilot!
698 (MORE)
699
700 13
70126K CONTINUED: 26K
702 HELMSMAN (CONT'D)
703 The only way we're gonna ram that ship is
704 to fly manual control!
705
706 TIGHT ON GEORGE as this lands. More honorable than terrified:
707
708 GEORGE KIRK
709 -- then I'll do it myself -- get to the
710 shuttles, now!
711 (no one moves until:)
712 THAT'S AN ORDER! GO!
713
714 Agony in the faces as they reluctantly hurry off -- Kirk takes
715 the Captain's chair, hits the COMLINK:
716
717 GEORGE KIRK (CONT'D)
718 All decks, this is the Captain speaking --
719 evacuate the ship immediately, get to
720 your designated shuttle crafts --
721
72226L INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - MEDICAL BAY - CONTINUOUS 26L
723
724 MOVE FAST around Winona, in fucking labor now -- being
725 transferred onto a wheelchair by the Doctor and Nurse--
726
727 GEORGE KIRK (V.O.) WINONA
728 -- repeat: evacuate ship and
729 get to designated shuttles -- that's George's voice --
730 NOW! what's happening?
731
732 NURSE
733 We're packing it up -- you'll deliver in
734 the shuttle!
735
736 -- and she's on the move, out the door as her COMMUNICATOR
737 SOUNDS -- she answers --
738
739 WINONA
740 -- George!
741
74226M INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26M
743
744 Alone now on the bridge, piloting this massive craft by himself -
745 - George talks to Winona from the Captain's chair --
746
747 GEORGE KIRK
748 I have medical shuttle 37 standing by,
749 get to it now -- can you do that?
750
751 WINONA
752 Yes -- where are you?
753
754 HOLD ON GEORGE for a moment as he hesitates -- his eyes glued to
755 the screens as he pilots --
756
757 14
75826M CONTINUED: 26M
759
760 GEORGE KIRK
761 I'm on my way.
762
763 WINONA
764 Good-- and George, it's coming-- our
765 baby, it's coming now.
766
767 PUSH IN on him, his heart shattering -- having to out-maneuver
768 incoming torpedoes, piloting the ship to its doom -- still, he
769 forces optimism:
770
771 GEORGE KIRK
772 I'll see you in a minute, sweetheart.
773
774 He disconnects -- another ALARM -- he TURNS the ship, FIRES --
775
77626MA EXT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CONTINUOUS 26MA
777
778 The Kelvin BANKS AGAIN -- its PHOTONS SLAMMING INTO THE ONCOMING
779 NARADA TORPEDOES, JUST AVOIDING IMPACT!
780
78126N INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - SHUTTLE BAYS - CONTINUOUS 26N
782
783 CREW MEMBERS scramble to their shuttles as the ship TREMBLES --
784 and we find WINONA among them, being PUSHED through the madness.
785
78626P INT. MED-EVAC SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 26P
787
788 The Med-Team ARRIVES with Winona in the wheelchair-- it's CHAOS -
789 - and for Winona, a huge contraction --
790
791 WINONA
792 -- Agh! That was-- that was a big one!
793
794 -- as they put her into the shuttle bed:
795
796 NURSE
797 Just keep breathing, Honey, you're gonna
798 be just fine--
799
800 WINONA
801 (through the pain)
802 -- the baby, too, right?
803
804 NURSE
805 -- the baby too.
806
80726R INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26R
808
809 As George Kirk pilots, he checks the monitors -- one reads the
810 COUNTDOWN TO SELF-DESTRUCT (180 SECONDS, 179 SECONDS, 178
811 SECONDS...) and another reads IMPACT PROXIMITY (36,054 METERS,
812 36,042, 36018...).
813
814 15
81526R CONTINUED: 26R
816
817 Another screen that shows stats of DEPARTING SHUTTLES -- more
818 leaving as we glance at the screen -- but SHUTTLE 34 REMAINS
819 DOCKED --
820
821 The NARADA is GROWING in the viewscreen -- he hits the comlink:
822
823 GEORGE KIRK
824 Captain to shuttle 37 -- is my wife on
825 board?
826
827 INTERCUT WITH:
828
82926S OMIT 26S
830
83126T INT. MED-EVAC SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 26T
832
833 The PILOT is readying the controls --
834
835 SHUTTLE PILOT
836 Yessir, she is--
837
838 GEORGE KIRK
839 I need you to go now, d'you hear me?
840
841 SHUTTLE PILOT
842 We're waiting for you, Sir--
843
844 GEORGE KIRK
845 No-- go, take off, immediately.
846
847 SHUTTLE PILOT
848 ... yessir!
849
850 Shuttle Pilot works the controls -- and Winona, in the back,
851 feels the shuttle SHUDDER --
852
853 WINONA
854 Wait! We can't go, my husband isn't here
855 yet! Please! STOP--!
856
857 -- but she's suddenly WINCING as another CONTRACTION hits --
858
859 NURSE
860 You'll need to push now-- are you ready?
861
86226U EXT. U.S.S. KELVIN - SHUTTLE BAY - CONTINUOUS 26U
863
864 Clamps holding the shuttle SLAM BACK, the MED-SHUTTLE DROPS
865 HARD, FUSION IMPULSE ENGINES IGNITE and the shuttle MOVES --
866
86726V OMIT 26V
868
869 16
870
871
87226W INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26W
873
874 George hits COMLINK -- a TONE -- then WINONA'S VOICE:
875
876 WINONA
877 The shuttle's leaving-- where are you?
878
879 As George EVADES ENEMY FIRE, heading for the massive alien ship:
880
881 GEORGE KIRK
882 My love? Listen carefully, okay?
883
884 INTERCUT WITH:
885
88626X INT. MED-EVAC SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 26X
887
888 Winona, holding her communicator --
889
890 WINONA
891 -- we're about to have this baby --
892
893 GEORGE KIRK
894 Sweetheart... I'm not going to be able to
895 be there.
896
897 And she just stares -- realizing what's happening -- that he's
898 been made Captain -- that there was an evacuation -- and somehow
899 she just KNOWS. Tears come to her eyes --
900
901 WINONA
902 -- no-- no, no-- wait--
903
904 GEORGE KIRK WINONA
905 I want you to hear me.
906 Please. Are you still on the ship? No-
907 -- There's no other way-- my - no, you need to be here--
908 love-- you know all I want-- -- George, I can't do this
909 all I want in the world is to without you--
910 be with you-- (crying now)
911 -- please -- don't d--!
912
913 -- but she's WINCING AGAIN --
914
915 DOCTOR
916 Okay-- you need to push.
917
918 -- and she does -- the shuttle BANKS and --
919
92026Y EXT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CORRIDORS 26Y
921
922 -- and the shuttle LEAVES the Kelvin bay -- turning to join
923 DOZENS of other shuttles, all heading off in escape --
924
925 17
926
927
92826Z INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 26Z
929
930 As George PILOTS, DODGING INCOMING -- we INTERCUT WITH:
931
93226ZA INT. MED-EVAC SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 26ZA
933
934 Winona PUSHING -- giving birth to their baby -- and we're BACK
935 AND FORTH between a husband and wife that will never see each
936 other again, MUSIC SWELLING as the Kelvin TURNS HARD, avoiding
937 TORPEDOES -- the shuttle BANKING as the Doctor and Nurse help
938 Winona -- and we're ON GEORGE as he HEARS A BABY CRYING -- and
939 TEARS COME TO HIS EYES -- as he says--
940
941 GEORGE KIRK
942 Hey! Hey, so what is it?
943
944 WINONA'S VOICE
945 -- it's a boy.
946
947 GEORGE KIRK
948 It's a boy? Yeah?
949
950 And now we see Winona, handed this beautiful little boy. And
951 she cries, just looking at him --
952
953 GEORGE KIRK (CONT'D)
954 Tell me... tell me about him-- please--
955
956 WINONA
957 He's-- he's beautiful, he looks like you.
958
959 Heartsick, George laughs -- glances at the MONITORS -- SELF-
960 DESTRUCT COUNTDOWN IS AT T-MINUS 20 SECONDS -- oh God...
961
962 WINONA (CONT'D)
963 George, you should be here --
964
965 GEORGE KIRK
966 I know-- so what should we call him, huh?
967
968 WINONA
969 We could name him after your father.
970
971 GEORGE KIRK
972 Tiberius? Are you kidding me? No,
973 that's the worst-- we'll name him after
974 your dad-- let's call him Jim.
975
976 WINONA
977 ... Jim. Jim it is.
978
979 Through the VIEWSCREEN -- he's ABOUT TO HIT -- the ship ANGLES
980 within the enormous Narada blades -- George scared now --
981
982 18
98326ZA CONTINUED: 26ZA
984
985 GEORGE KIRK WINONA
986 Sweetheart? Sweetheart? I
987 love you. Can you hear me? -- yes-- yes, I hear you...
988 -- I love you. I love y--
989
990 -- his VOICE CUT OFF as --
991
99227-37 OMIT 27-37
993
99438 EXT. NARADA - CONTINUOUS 38
995
996 -- the Kelvin SLAMS INTO THE NARADA -- an EXPLOSION BEGINS and--
997
99838A INT. MED-EVAC SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 38A
999
1000 George's voice goes STATIC -- confusion washes over her face --
1001 suddenly LIT BY A BRIGHT GLOW -- she looks over, with wet
1002 devastated eyes --
1003
1004 -- what she sees is the MASSIVE EXPLOSION -- quickly SUCKED AWAY
1005 in the vacuum of space -- and she's CRYING -- holding her new
1006 baby who just lost a father -- his life altered forever...
1007
100839 OMIT 39
1009
101040 EXT. STARFIELD - ETERNAL NIGHT 40
1011
1012 The shuttle SAILS AWAY with the others... HOLD ON THIS... for a
1013 long beat. Then PAN OVER to see NERO'S SHIP TUMBLING SILENTLY
1014 THROUGH SPACE -- DEBRIS still raining from the explosion --
1015
101641 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 41
1017
1018 MAYHEM: ALARMS and CREW work to stabilize the ship (OVERLAPPING
1019 ROMULAN DIALOG TO BE WRITTEN) -- we arrive at Nero, who, with
1020 small specks of HUMAN BLOOD on his face, just STARES at the
1021 fucking HOLOGRAM OF SPOCK -- he's OBSESSED.
1022
1023 Ayel works a monitor, yelling out something (in Romulan) to one
1024 of their men -- and as a result:
1025
102642 EXT. NARADA - CONTINUOUS 42
1027
1028 Gargantuan "BLADES" EXTEND from the ship like otherworldly SAILS
1029 -- and the ship begins to STEADY -- but then ANOTHER SHIP
1030 APPEARS -- DECLOAKING FROM NOTHINGNESS: a fucking KLINGON VESSEL
1031 -- then ANOTHER -- AND ANOTHER --
1032
103343 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 43
1034
1035 And we're on Ayel as he witnesses, on his monitor, ships,
1036 popping up ALL AROUND THEM -- which is when they HEAR a VOICE --
1037 speaking KLINGON -- and we SUBTITLE:
1038
1039 19
104043 CONTINUED: 43
1041
1042 KLINGON VOICE (P.A.)
1043 Trespassing vessel: you have entered the
1044 jurisdiction of the Klingon Empire.
1045 Power down and prepare to be boarded or
1046 you will be destroyed.
1047
1048 Eyes wide, Ayel turns to Nero, still staring at Spock's image:
1049
1050 AYEL
1051 (SUBTITLED, in Romulan)
1052 Commander Nero -- we're surrounded.
1053
1054 Finally Nero looks up.
1055
1056 AYEL (CONT'D)
1057 (SUBTITLED, in Romulan)
1058 Sir-- what are your orders?
1059
1060 And we PUSH IN ON NERO as our MUSIC BUILDS, then we CUT TO:
1061
106244 OMIT 44
1063
106445 INT. VULCAN LEARNING CENTER - DAY 45
1065
1066 CLOSE ON a young VULCAN BOY. 11 years old. SPOCK. He's
1067 standing in an abstract space -- IMAGES PROJECTED and HOVERING --
1068 questions -- that he's answering as they appear, then disappear:
1069
1070 COMPUTER VOICE SPOCK
1071 What is the square root of
1072 2,396,304? -- one-thousand-five-hundered-
1073 forty-eight --
1074 -- Correct. What is the
1075 central assumption of Quantum -- everything that can happen
1076 Cosmology? does happen, in equal and
1077 parallel universes --
1078 -- Correct. Identify the 20th
1079 century earth composers of the
1080 following musical progression: -- Paul McCartney and John
1081 Lennon.
1082 -- Correct
1083
1084 And we find ANOTHER VULCAN CHILD -- then ANOTHER -- all in these
1085 odd spaces -- until we PULL BACK WIDE to reveal a large Vulcan
1086 LEARNING CENTER -- white "bowls", sunk into the dark ground,
1087 where PROFESSORS walk, hands behind their backs, surveying this
1088 mass "mental martial arts" test.
1089
1090 We're on ANOTHER VULCAN CHILD as she gets an answer wrong -- AND
1091 THE LIGHT OVER HER BOWL GOES OUT. Then ANOTHER CHILD -- who
1092 gets an answer wrong -- and HIS LIGHT GOES OUT. An EXTREMELY
1093 WIDE OVERHEAD SHOT reveals BOWL AFTER BOWL as the LIGHTS GO OUT.
1094
1095 20
109645 CONTINUED: 45
1097
1098 Until only one bowl remains. Spock's. He finishes his last
1099 question. Gets it right. PUSH IN ON HIM as the COMPUTER SAYS:
1100
1101 COMPUTER VOICE
1102 Your score is one-hundred percent.
1103 Congratulations. Spock.
1104
1105 Off his face, we CUT TO MOMENTS LATER, as Spock collects his
1106 things. As he does, three young VULCAN BULLIES walk up behind
1107 him. Spock glances at them, then back to his things.
1108
1109 YOUNG SPOCK
1110 I presume you've prepared new insults for
1111 today.
1112
1113 VULCAN BULLY #1
1114 Your mother lies with many men.
1115
1116 Spock just NODS. Tries to ignore the fact that IT STINGS.
1117
1118 YOUNG SPOCK
1119 I have no such information.
1120
1121 VULCAN BULLY #2
1122 You are neither human, nor Vulcan -- and
1123 therefore, have no place in the universe.
1124
1125 YOUNG SPOCK
1126 (swallowing that too)
1127 This is your thirty-fifth attempt to
1128 elicit an emotional response from me.
1129 Logic dictates you would cease by now.
1130
1131 VULCAN BULLY #1
1132 Look. He has human eyes. They look sad,
1133 don't they?
1134
1135 VULCAN BULLY #2
1136 Perhaps an emotional response requires
1137 physical stimuli.
1138
1139 And Bully #2 PUSHES Spock -- who stumbles back, almost falling
1140 into one of the bowls. He looks up as:
1141
1142 VULCAN BULLY #2 (CONT'D)
1143 He's a traitor, you know. Your father.
1144 For marrying her.
1145
1146 Spock stares -- we see him fighting the urge, but he's unable --
1147 AND HE CHARGES THE BULLY AND TACKLES HIM INTO THE BOWL! They
1148 land inside -- Spock cries, flailing as he punches Bully #2!
1149 The other two stand atop the bowl, stunned -- shocked -- unsure
1150 what the hell to do -- and we CUT TO:
1151
1152 21
1153
1154
115546 INT. LEARNING CENTER - CORRIDOR - LATER 46
1156
1157 TIGHT ON Spock, chastened, sitting glumly on a bench. A massive
1158 VULCAN CITY seen through the window behind him. His parents
1159 ARGUE at a distance down the hall:
1160
1161 AMANDA SAREK
1162 -- where I'm from, when
1163 someone hits you, you hit back-
1164 - how is that not logical? -- Spock had no reasonable
1165 -- They pick on him -- they expectation of being
1166 tease him -- every day. physically injured --
1167 -- Which is precisely when
1168 reason must guide his actions
1169 -- I want him to embrace above all.
1170 Vulcan, you know that... but
1171 he has to be himself-- which
1172 means, occasionally, being -- His "humanity" is very the
1173 human. source of his ostracism.
1174 -- When Vulcans get disgusted
1175 with each other, they never
1176 just walk away, do they? -- No.
1177 -- Well humans do.
1178
1179 And Amanda walks away, leaving Sarek standing there. He turns --
1180 sees his son down the corridor. Approaches. And we're PUSHING
1181 IN on Spock, studying the fear in his eyes. His father stops in
1182 front of him, looming there, looking down stoically:
1183
1184 YOUNG SPOCK
1185 I did not mean to create conflict between
1186 you and mother.
1187
1188 After a beat, Sarek seems to soften a little. No anger in his
1189 face. Takes a seat beside his son...
1190
1191 SAREK
1192 In marriage... conflict is...
1193
1194 YOUNG SPOCK
1195 ... constant?
1196
1197 SAREK
1198 Natural.
1199 (a beat)
1200 Emotions run deep within our race. In
1201 many ways, more deeply than in humans.
1202 Long ago, they nearly destroyed us...
1203 that is why we followed the teachings of
1204 Surak. Now you must choose.
1205
1206 YOUNG SPOCK
1207 ... between you and mother?
1208
1209 2
121046 CONTINUED: 46
1211
1212 SAREK
1213 Never, my son. But you may choose the
1214 ethic of logic. Logic offers a serenity
1215 humans seldom experience. The control of
1216 feelings... so that they do not control
1217 you.
1218
1219 YOUNG SPOCK
1220 They called you a traitor.
1221 (then)
1222 You suggest that I should be completely
1223 Vulcan... and yet you married a human...
1224 why?
1225
1226 Sarek is clearly conflicted by this. But he holds steady:
1227
1228 SAREK
1229 As Ambassador to Earth, my duty is to
1230 observe and understand human behavior.
1231 Marrying your mother... was logical.
1232 (Spock seems disquieted)
1233 Spock. You are fully capable of choosing
1234 your own destiny. The question you are
1235 faced with... is which path you will
1236 take. This is something only you can
1237 decide.
1238
123947 EXT. IOWA FARMHOUSE - DAY 47
1240
1241 BAM -- a door opens: 14 year-old GEORGE KIRK, JR. angrily exits
1242 the house, carrying a duffel. His angrier, redneckier UNCLE
1243 FRANK following. 11 year-old JIM KIRK nervously pursues them:
1244
1245 UNCLE FRANK
1246 Go ahead: go-- run away! You know I
1247 could give a damn!
1248
1249 YOUNG KIRK
1250 -- wait-- no! Where are you going?
1251
1252 GEORGE JR.
1253 Anywhere but here, far as I can get!
1254
1255 UNCLE FRANK
1256 Which won't be far enough -- know what
1257 your problem is?!
1258 (big luggie spit)
1259 No one ever taught you respect! How to
1260 follow orders! Do as you're told!
1261 (to Jim)
1262 -- what the hell are you doing?
1263
1264 YOUNG KIRK
1265 I-- I just don't want my brother to go.
1266
1267 23
126847 CONTINUED: 47
1269
1270 UNCLE FRANK
1271 Well I do-- and I asked you to wash the
1272 car! How many damn times do I need to
1273 repeat myself?! How many damn times?
1274 How many?
1275
1276 A glare to George and Frank walks off. Jim nervously follows
1277 his brother, pulling out a small, FLOATING DISC --
1278
1279 YOUNG KIRK
1280 Please stay-- you can have my Flo-Yo!
1281
1282 George hits it away:
1283
1284 GEORGE JR.
1285 This isn't about toys, it's Uncle Frank.
1286 I can't take him anymore -- Mom has no
1287 idea what he's like when she's not here--
1288 d'you hear him talking like he's our
1289 dad?! And that's not even his car you're
1290 washing! That was Dad's car! You know
1291 why you're washing it? Because he's
1292 gonna sell it!
1293
1294 JIM
1295 Don't leave -- okay? We can tell Mom
1296 when she gets back from Africa.
1297
1298 GEORGE JR.
1299 She's gone for five more months, by then
1300 I'll be in a different system.
1301 (sees fear in Kirk)
1302 You're gonna be okay. You always are.
1303 Always doing everything right -- good
1304 grades and obeying every stupid order...
1305 (then)
1306 I can't be a Kirk in this house. Show me
1307 how to do that and I'll stay.
1308
1309 But Jim can offer nothing. George gives him a quick hug and
1310 walks off. Jim sadly watches his brother go.
1311
131247A EXT. IOWA FARMHOUSE - DAY 47A
1313
1314 Kirk washes a VINTAGE CORVETTE. Red, white top. Dumping the
1315 sponge in bucket, he's sadly cleaning, his mind spinning over
1316 his brother's departure. Devastated.
1317
1318 And he's wiping the soapy passenger window (SQEEEEEEAK!) with
1319 the sponge, when he STOPS -- seeing the KEYS in the ignition.
1320 PUSH IN ON HIS FACE as a devilish idea comes to his mind. PRE-
1321 LAP A LOUD SCREECH and we CUT TO:
1322
132348-49 OMIT 48-49
1324
1325 24
1326
1327
132850 EXT. IOWA FARMHOUSE - DAY - LATER 50
1329
1330 THE CORVETTE BLASTS ONTO SCREEN, FISHTAILING ONTO THE ROAD,
1331 young Jim Kirk behind the wheel (NOTE: The SOUND of the engine
1332 is a metallic WHIR -- not a gas engine). TIGHT ON JIM'S FACE as
1333 he drives -- having never done this before, he's as nervous as
1334 he is determined --
1335
133650A EXT. IOWA ROAD - DAY - LATER 50A
1337
1338 The CORVETTE SPEEDS -- while inside the car, Jim turns on the
1339 updated, modified RADIO -- scans stations, momentarily losing
1340 control of the car -- but he's back on track as he finds a HARD
1341 ROCK SONG -- and HE'S STARTING TO FUCKING LOVE IT -- PILOTING
1342 SOMETHING THIS FAST FEELS GOOD.
1343
1344 He reaches for a CONVERTIBLE ROOF latch -- then the other -- but
1345 with the speed he's driving, THE ROOF RIPS RIGHT OFF THE FUCKING
1346 CAR -- Jim glances back, wide-eyed -- and the roof TUMBLES
1347 through the air, landing on the road -- and we PUSH AND ARC
1348 AROUND, as a POLICE OFFICER runs out from taking a roadside PISS
1349 -- he races back, jumps on his HOVERCRUISER and TAKES OFF --
1350 SPEEDING AFTER HIM, SIREN BLARING!
1351
1352 BACK IN THE CORVETTE -- BLOOPBLOOP!!! -- Jim's eyes dart to the
1353 REARVIEW as the cruiser WEAVES behind him -- then PULLS UP
1354 BESIDE HIM -- the COP sees a CHILD driving and is AMAZED -- he
1355 calls through his PA:
1356
1357 COP
1358 Son, you pull over that car!
1359
1360 But Jim just BLASTS the RADIO LOUDER:
1361
1362 JIM
1363 I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
1364
136551 EXT. IOWA ROAD - CONTINUOUS 51
1366
1367 George, bag over shoulder, thumb out. He turns at the SOUND of
1368 the SIREN -- sees what's approaching... that car... looks...
1369 familiar... and the THE CORVETTE SHOOTS PAST HIM, JIM AT THE
1370 WHEEL -- then the POLICE HOVERCRUISER! George runs into the
1371 middle of the road, mouth agape --
1372
1373 GEORGE JR.
1374 -- no... way.
1375
1376 Back at the Corvette, Jim YANKS the steering wheel TOWARD THE
1377 COP -- who RISES to avoid the Corvette, which SCREECHES onto a
1378 perpendicular DIRT ROAD, kicking up wild dust as the Cop ARCS
1379 QUICKLY to follow --
1380
1381 25
138251 CONTINUED: 51
1383
1384 Jim is now officially LOVING THIS -- and he DRIVES THROUGH a
1385 FENCE -- CRASH! The Cop RACES through it, in the Corvette's
1386 DUST -- and we PUSH IN on a SIGN that reads "DANGER - QUARRY
1387 AHEAD -- IOWA MINING CO." In fact --
1388
138952 EXT. QUARRY - CONTINUOUS 52
1390
1391 We see the MASSIVE QUARRY -- hundreds of feet deep -- and TILT
1392 UP to the Corvette and Cop speeding toward it --
1393
139453 INT. CORVETTE - MOVING - CONTINUOUS 53
1395
1396 KIRK, EYES INTENSE, ALMOST SUICIDAL -- this is where he's been
1397 headed all along -- and for a moment we think holy shit -- this
1398 is how James Kirk dies. He speeds toward the edge -- CLOSER --
1399 CLOSER -- but at the last second, Kirk SLAMS the brake -- the
1400 car SKIDS -- PIVOTS -- and he LEAPS FROM THE CAR, WHICH SAILS
1401 SIDEWAYS OFF THE CLIFF EDGE -- FALLING... falling... the COP
1402 comes to QUICK a STOP in CLOUDS of DUST as the Corvette EXPLODES
1403 ON THE QUARRY FLOOR --
1404
1405 The angry Cop hops off his hovercruiser, hand on weapon, as Jim
1406 Kirk, out of breath, exhilarated, gets to his knees.
1407
1408 COP
1409 What's your name, son?
1410
1411 And as he stands, we PUSH IN on him -- LOW and WIDE -- damn if
1412 that kid doesn't have a swagger. It's like the first time he's
1413 ever stood in his life.
1414
1415 JIM
1416 My name's Kirk. James Tiberius Kirk.
1417
1418 And as our MUSIC BUILDS we CUT TO:
1419
142054 EXT. RURA PENTHE- MINING QUARRY - NIGHT [FORMER OMIT] 54
1421
1422 CONSTANT SHOCKS OF LIGHT as an ALIEN PRISONER -- intelligent, bi-
1423 pedal, but with FOUR TERRIFIED EYES -- is SLAMMED DOWN onto the
1424 wet pavement -- a CHOKE STICK SHOVED under his chin -- then:
1425 VOICES. Brutal, guttural KLINGON --
1426
1427 KLINGON GUARD (O.S.)
1428 (SUBTITLED)
1429 You say they are not yours...
1430
1431 WHIP PAN TO SEE the scary KLINGON GUARDS -- four of them --
1432 standing above the Alien -- chilling MASKS hide their hideous
1433 faces -- and one holds a FLUORESCENT SET OF PAGES --
1434
1435 KLINGON GUARD (CONT'D)
1436 ... these Federation maps we found in
1437 your pockets.
1438
1439 26
144054 CONTINUED: 54
1441
1442 And the ALIEN SPEAKS -- an UNKNOWN LANGUAGE -- all eyes wild:
1443
1444 ALIEN
1445 (SUBTITLED)
1446 I speak the truth. I do.
1447
1448 KLINGON GUARD
1449 Then who are they for?
1450
1451 But the Alien just SHAKES HIS HEAD, afraid -- he will not talk.
1452 So they GRAB HIM AND YANK HIM UPWARD --
1453
1454 KLINGON GUARD (CONT'D)
1455 You would rather die then tell us?
1456
1457 PUSH IN TIGHT as the Alien finally WHISPERS, terrified:
1458
1459 ALIEN
1460 ... NERO!!!
1461
1462 And the Guards look at each other... seemingly with concern...
1463
1464 MOMENTS LATER EIGHT GUARDS WALK TOGETHER -- and we PAN WITH THEM
1465 to reveal the HORRIFYING EXPANSE THAT IS THE KLINGON PRISON
1466 YARD. We realize that the constant shocks of light was
1467 LIGHTNING, that apparently never stops here. A SUPER READS:
1468 "RURA PENTHE - KLINGON PRISON ASTEROID". And we see they're
1469 heading for a MUSCULAR FIGURE, using a SLEDGE HAMMER, SPLITTING
1470 ROCKS, lit brilliantly by the lightning strikes. BOOM UP to
1471 find that it's NERO. And he stops, SENSING the coming Guards.
1472 And he manages a small smile. And he QUICKLY TURNS to them --
1473 THEY ALL STOP, SUDDENLY. Afraid of him. One of them tosses
1474 Nero a set of MANACLES. Nero picks them up. Puts them on. And
1475 offers his cuffed hands, willingly.
1476
147754A INT. RURA PENTHE - HOLDING BLOCK - NIGHT [FORMER SC. 64B] 54A
1478
1479 Guards drag Nero through the massive pyramidal structure...
1480
148154B INT. RURA PENTHE - INTERROGATION CELL - NIGHT [FORMER SC. 64C] 54B
1482
1483 Nero's ARMS AND LEGS get STRAPPED IN TIGHT. Go WIDE to reveal
1484 he's pinned to an interrogation table -- three GUARDS. A
1485 KLINGON INTERROGATOR approaches; looms over Nero, studying the
1486 Romulan's face with clinical detachment...
1487
1488 KLINGON INTERROGATOR
1489 (SUBTITLED KLINGON)
1490 I have come far to meet you. "The One
1491 Who Does Not Speak." Ten years is a long
1492 time to maintain silence.
1493 (beat)
1494 Perhaps you simply do not speak Klingon,
1495 just as I do not speak Romulan.
1496 (MORE)
1497
1498 27
149954B CONTINUED: 54B
1500 KLINGON INTERROGATOR (CONT'D)
1501 (ENGLISH now)
1502 But I assume we both speak the language
1503 of our common enemy.
1504
1505 (NOTE: FROM NOW ON, OUR NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS WILL SPEAK ENGLISH,
1506 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.) He reveals a worn LEATHER JOURNAL.
1507 Opens it, flips through it almost casually... we see SKETCHES of
1508 the JELLYFISH SHIP, PAGES OF COMPLICATED MATH EQUATIONS...
1509
1510 KLINGON INTERROGATOR (CONT'D)
1511 We found this book in your cell.
1512 Cartography, mathematics-- what do these
1513 mean? This date here -- eleven years
1514 from now-- what happens then?
1515 (holds up the
1516 FLUORESCENT MAPS)
1517 And why attempt to smuggle in maps of
1518 Federation space?
1519
1520 Nero's face betrays nothing; no fear, no doubt. Cold as fucking
1521 ice. The Interrogator happens to stare at a page in the book:
1522 A DRAWING OF SPOCK. He closes the book.
1523
1524 KLINGON INTERROGATOR (CONT'D)
1525 When you were captured we assumed you
1526 were a spy, sent from Romulus to surveil
1527 the Empire. But because the Romulans
1528 deny your existence, I believe you are
1529 much more than that.
1530
1531 Interrogator looks over to the Guards, nods. A Guard approaches
1532 with some kind of GLASS CONTAINER; we HEAR something wet FLIP-
1533 FLOPPING around inside, but we can't SEE what it is.
1534
1535 KLINGON INTERROGATOR (CONT'D)
1536 Your ship remains in orbit above us now.
1537 We've been asking for its secrets for too
1538 long. That is why I am here. We want to
1539 know how it works and I believe now,
1540 finally... you will tell us.
1541
1542 A Guard uses TONGS to pull out the most DISGUSTING creature
1543 you've seen from the container: a SLUG with SUCKERS and spikes,
1544 covered in a grimy muck -- it FLIP FLOPS.
1545
1546 KLINGON INTERROGATOR (CONT'D)
1547 Centaurian slugs. Their native planet is
1548 in constant sunlight. As a result,
1549 there's nothing they hate more... than
1550 darkness.
1551
1552 A Guard GRABS NERO'S HEAD and FORCES IT BACK; the second PRIES
1553 HIS MOUTH OPEN with his hands.
1554
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1557
1558 Another Guard SHOVES THE THING INTO NERO'S MOUTH -- Nero keeps
1559 his eyes open -- furiously determined not to be broken -- as
1560 they FORCE HIM TO SWALLOW IT -- he DOESN'T SCREAM as the
1561 wretched thing makes its way down his esophagus and into his
1562 stomach --
1563
1564 KLINGON INTERROGATOR (CONT'D)
1565 They try to claw and bite their way out
1566 of any dark space they're in.
1567
1568 Nero stares at the ceiling in HORRIFYING INTERNAL PAIN -- but
1569 straining to block it out. PUSH DOWN on Nero's wide, crazed
1570 eyes -- TIGHTER as we SLOWLY DISSOLVE TO SEE WHAT HE'S SEEING --
1571 WHAT'S KEEPING HIM FROM LOSING HIS MIND -- DREAMLIKE, ETHEREAL
1572 IMAGES OF A WOMAN -- HER BEAUTIFUL, SMILING FACE -- SHE'S
1573 ROMULAN -- LOOKING AT US, EYES FULL OF LOVE -- AND SHE TURNS AND
1574 WE SEE SHE'S PREGNANT -- AND AS OUR MUSIC BUILDS, WE CUT TO:
1575
157655-56 OMIT 55-56
1577
157857 INT. VULCAN SCIENCE ACADEMY - COUNCIL ANTE-CHAMBER - DAY 57
1579
1580 Quiet. A waiting area. AMANDA, Spock's mother, stands alone in
1581 a passageway. She looks off-camera to her son:
1582
1583 AMANDA
1584 Spock, come here, let me see you.
1585
1586 SPOCK (O.S.)
1587 (beat)
1588 No.
1589
1590 AMANDA
1591 Spock.
1592
1593 Reluctantly, Spock walks into frame. She begins adjusting his
1594 collar. This is our ADULT SPOCK. Gripped by anxiety but trying
1595 like hell to look impassive.
1596
1597 AMANDA (CONT'D)
1598 There is no need to be so anxious.
1599 You'll do fine.
1600
1601 SPOCK
1602 I am hardly "anxious", mother.
1603 (beat, then, anxiously)
1604 And "fine" has variable definitions.
1605 "Fine" is unacceptable.
1606
1607 She just smiles as she works his collar. He sees this and it
1608 annoys him. He tries to move her hands away, to stop with his
1609 collar -- his annoyance, her love for him, all sweet-- but he
1610 doesn't let go of her hands. A meaningful silence between them.
1611
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1614
1615 SPOCK (CONT'D)
1616 May I ask a personal query?
1617
1618 AMANDA
1619 ... anything.
1620
1621 SPOCK
1622 Should I choose to complete the Vulcan
1623 discipline of Kolinahr... and purge all
1624 emotion... I trust you will not feel it
1625 reflects judgement upon you.
1626
1627 She stares at him, moved. Touches his face.
1628
1629 AMANDA
1630 As always... whoever you choose to be...
1631 you will have a proud mother.
1632
1633 HOLD on mother and son, worlds apart but forever bonded:
1634
163558 INT. VULCAN SCIENCE ACADEMY - COUNCIL CHAMBER - DAY 58
1636
1637 An imposing yet BEAUTIFUL INDOOR ATRIUM. Spock stands before
1638 the VULCAN HIGH COUNCIL. Among faces on the dais: his FATHER,
1639 seated beside the SCIENCE MINISTER and other VULCAN LEADERS.
1640
1641 SCIENCE MINISTER
1642 You have surpassed the expectations of
1643 your instructors. Your final record is
1644 flawless. With one exception. I see you
1645 have applied to Starfleet as well.
1646
1647 SPOCK
1648 It was logical to cultivate multiple
1649 options.
1650
1651 SCIENCE MINISTER
1652 Logical but unnecessary. You are hereby
1653 accepted to the Vulcan Science Academy.
1654 A distinction all the more significant
1655 given that you will be its first half-
1656 human pupil. It is truly remarkable,
1657 Spock. That you have achieved so much
1658 despite your disadvantage. Welcome to
1659 the Academy.
1660
1661 They all start to rise. But Spock is suddenly unsettled:
1662
1663 SPOCK
1664 If you would clarify, Minister-- what
1665 "disadvantage" are you referring to?
1666
1667 SCIENCE MINISTER
1668 ... your human mother.
1669
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1672
1673 As the council disperses, we PUSH IN on Spock's face -- the same
1674 look he had when he took punches as a kid. He glances at his
1675 father to say something, but Sarek's the consummate diplomat.
1676 His eyes command: remain calm. Spock STRUGGLES... then makes
1677 the first spontaneous -- human -- decision of his life --
1678
1679 SPOCK
1680 Council -- ministers. I must decline.
1681
1682 Everyone STOPS. A solid BEAT. Confused looks turn cold:
1683
1684 SCIENCE MINISTER
1685 No Vulcan has ever declined admission to
1686 this academy.
1687
1688 SPOCK
1689 Then as I am half-human, your record
1690 remains untarnished.
1691
1692 SAREK SPOCK
1693 Spock. You have made a
1694 commitment to honor the Vulcan At the moment, Father, I can
1695 way-- think of no greater way to
1696 honor our race than to attend
1697 Starfleet as its first Vulcan.
1698
1699 SCIENCE MINISTER
1700 Why did you come before this council
1701 today? Was it to satisfy your emotional
1702 need to rebel?
1703
1704 SPOCK
1705 I came with the intention of enrolling,
1706 as my father wished. However, your
1707 "insight" has convinced me otherwise.
1708 Therefore, the only emotion I wish to
1709 convey is gratitude. Thank you,
1710 Ministers, for your consideration.
1711 (a contained "fuck you")
1712 Live long and prosper.
1713
1714 He looks to his father, whose disappointment is evident --
1715 still, God bless him, Spock walks out --
1716
171759 EXT. "THE WARP TRAIL" BAR - IOWA - NIGHT 59
1718
1719 -- PUSH DOWN A HALLWAY -- MUSIC HEARD -- what seems like a PARTY
1720 is going on through windows in the double-doors ahead -- and a
1721 WOMAN SWOOPS INTO VIEW in front of us -- we PUSH BEHIND HER in
1722 the short skirt and high boots as she ENTERS the place -- a
1723 local, busy BAR -- the woman makes her way to the BAR, and we
1724 see her GORGEOUS, DIGNIFIED FACE. THIS IS UHURA. She leans
1725 into the bartender warmly, her smile glorious:
1726
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1729
1730 UHURA
1731 Hi. I'd like a Klabnian Fire Tea, two
1732 Cardassian Sunrises and three Earth
1733 beers, no slim-shots, anything on draft.
1734
1735 VOICE (O.S.)
1736 That's a lot of drinks for one woman.
1737 Wearing those boots.
1738
1739 JAMES KIRK'S FACE leans in: at 22, he's charming, witty,
1740 dangerous, rebellious. He grins at her, flirty. Uhura gives
1741 him a look, then back to the bartender:
1742
1743 UHURA
1744 And a shot of Jack, straight up.
1745
1746 KIRK
1747 (to the bartender)
1748 Make it two -- her shot's on me.
1749
1750 UHURA
1751 Her shot's on her. Thanks but no thanks.
1752
1753 KIRK
1754 Don't you want my name before you
1755 completely reject me?
1756
1757 UHURA
1758 I'm good without it.
1759
1760 Damn, he likes her already.
1761
1762 KIRK
1763 You are good without it. It's Jim. Jim
1764 Kirk.
1765 (long beat)
1766 If you don't tell me your name, I'm gonna
1767 have to make one up.
1768
1769 UHURA
1770 (beat)
1771 Uhura.
1772
1773 KIRK
1774 Uhura? No way -- that's the name I was
1775 gonna make up for you. Uhura what?
1776
1777 UHURA
1778 Just Uhura.
1779
1780 KIRK
1781 They don't have last names in your world?
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1785
1786 UHURA
1787 Uhura is my last name.
1788
1789 KIRK
1790 They don't have first names in your
1791 world? Wait, let me guess. Is it "Jim"?
1792
1793 That makes her smile. So he moves closer to her:
1794
1795 KIRK (CONT'D)
1796 Okay, so you're a cadet. Studying.
1797 What's your focus?
1798
1799 UHURA
1800 Xenolinguistics. Lemme guess: you don't
1801 know what that means.
1802
1803 KIRK
1804 Let me guess: study of Alien languages:
1805 phonology, morphology, syntax-- it means
1806 you've got a talented tongue.
1807
1808 UHURA
1809 And for a moment I thought you were just
1810 a dumb hick who only has sex with farm
1811 animals.
1812
1813 KIRK
1814 Well. Not only.
1815
1816 UHURA
1817 You think you're smart.
1818
1819 KIRK
1820 Oh, baby, I'm the smartest.
1821
1822 Something sad in that. A BURLY STARFLEET CADET appears.
1823
1824 BURLY CADET
1825 This guy bothering you?
1826
1827 UHURA
1828 Beyond belief, but nothing I can't
1829 handle.
1830
1831 KIRK
1832 You could handle me. That's an
1833 invitation.
1834
1835 The Burly Cadet spins Kirk around:
1836
1837 BURLY CADET
1838 Hey. You mind your manners.
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1842
1843 KIRK
1844 At ease, Cup Cake, it was a joke. Like
1845 your hairline.
1846
1847 Uhura turns back. The other cadets, seeing trouble, approach.
1848
1849 UHURA
1850 Hey -- Jim: enough.
1851
1852 BURLY CADET
1853 What was that?
1854
1855 KIRK
1856 You heard me, Moon Beam.
1857
1858 BURLY CADET
1859 You know how to count farm boy? There's
1860 five of us... and one of you.
1861
1862 KIRK
1863 Okay, so go get some more guys, come back
1864 and it'll be an even fight.
1865
1866 The cadet swings his fist but Kirk HEADBUTTS HIS HAND, BREAKING
1867 IT -- another Cadet PUNCHES KIRK, then THROWS HIM into a table,
1868 which Kirk FLIES OVER, landing hard -- another Cadet GRABS HIM,
1869 pulls him up -- Kirk SLAMS FIVE FAST PUNCHES that send the Cadet
1870 back -- when ANOTHER CADET PUNCHES HIM -- yet another HOLDS KIRK
1871 -- and that last punch is repeated THREE-- then FOUR times --
1872
1873 UHURA
1874 Enough! STOP!
1875
1876 Another punch and Kirk FLIES TO THE FLOOR - he's out of it, but
1877 won't give up. The Cadets UNLEASH on him and really PUMMEL HIM -
1878 - and Kirk's spirited, but LOSING -- about to LOSE BAD -- when
1879 an EAR-SPLITTING WHISTLE makes everything STOP -- they turn --
1880 standing in the doorway is a tall, rugged Starfleet officer --
1881 CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE.
1882
1883 PIKE
1884 Outside, all of you! NOW!
1885
1886 The cadets file out, in for it. Pike moves to a dazed, semi-
1887 conscious Kirk, now upside down on a table.
1888
1889 PIKE (CONT'D)
1890 Y'alright, Son?
1891
1892 KIRK
1893 You can... whistle really loud, y'know
1894 that?
1895
1896 -- and Kirk PASSES OUT.
1897
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1899
1900
190160 OMIT 60
1902
190361 INT. "WARP TRAIL BAR" - NIGHT 61
1904
1905 HIGH WIDE OVERHEAD SHOT of the almost-closed bar. Only Kirk and
1906 Pike sit here at a table. Kirk's bloodied, tissue in his nose.
1907
1908 PIKE
1909 I couldn't believe when the bartender
1910 told me who you are.
1911
1912 KIRK
1913 ... and who am I, Captain Pike?
1914
1915 PIKE
1916 Your father's son.
1917 (then, smiles)
1918 For my dissertation, I was assigned the
1919 U.S.S. Kelvin. Something I admired about
1920 your dad... he didn't believe in no-win
1921 scenarios.
1922
1923 KIRK
1924 He sure learned his lesson.
1925
1926 PIKE
1927 Depends on how you define winning.
1928 You're here, aren't you?
1929 (off Kirk's look)
1930 That instinct to leap without looking--
1931 that was his nature, too. And in my
1932 opinion it's something Starfleet has
1933 lost. We're admirable, respectable. But
1934 overly-disciplined.
1935 (beat)
1936 Those cadets you took on, they'll make
1937 competent officers -- but you can bet
1938 your ass they'll run home to momma the
1939 minute they're looking down the barrel of
1940 a Klingon phaser cannon.
1941
1942 KIRK
1943 -- why are you talking to me?
1944
1945 PIKE
1946 I looked up your file while you were
1947 drooling on the floor. Your aptitude
1948 tests were off the charts-- what is it,
1949 d'you like being the only Genius Level
1950 repeat-offender in the midwest?
1951
1952 KIRK
1953 Maybe I love it.
1954
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1957
1958 PIKE
1959 So your daddy dies... you can settle for
1960 a less-than-ordinary life.
1961 (beat)
1962 Or do you feel like you're meant for
1963 something better? Something special?
1964
1965 And that just hangs there for a beat. Because Pike just hit a
1966 nerve. Kirk does his best not to show it -- still absent-
1967 mindedly fiddling with STARFLEET SHIP SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS.
1968
1969 KIRK
1970 Come to think of it, I do want to feel
1971 special. You know what? I'm gonna go
1972 start a book club--
1973
1974 PIKE
1975 Enlist in Starfleet.
1976
1977 KIRK
1978 Enlist. You must be way down on your
1979 recruiting quota for the month--
1980
1981 PIKE
1982 If you're half the man your father was,
1983 Jim, Starfleet could use you. You could
1984 be an officer in four years, have your
1985 own ship in eight.
1986
1987 He's getting under Kirk's skin -- but Kirk keeps up the 'tude,
1988 grabs his jacket, stands --
1989
1990 KIRK
1991 We're even, right? I can go.
1992
1993 PIKE
1994 Riverside shipyard. Shuttle for new
1995 recruits leaves tomorrow, 0800.
1996 (Kirk turns, Pike grabs
1997 him)
1998 Your father was Captain of a Starship.
1999 For twelve minutes. I dare you to do
2000 better.
2001
2002 Eyes lock... and it's now Pike who stands and walks off. And
2003 that's where it hangs. Off Kirk, brooding...
2004
200562 EXT. IOWA PLAINS - SUNRISE 62
2006
2007 CORN STALKS whipping by -- Kirk on his SPOKELESS MOTORCYCLE
2008 rocketing across the plains -- his soul's been stirred and he's
2009 fighting it -- he cranks it, ELECTRIC ENGINE SCREAMING --
2010
2011 36
2012
2013
201463 EXT. STARFLEET CONSTRUCTION YARD - SUNRISE 63
2015
2016 Kirk pulls up to us, kills the bike. Camera starts to MOVE
2017 AROUND HIM -- he's dramatically BACKLIT and we COME AROUND for
2018 an INCREDIBLE REVEAL of a SHIPYARD -- at its center, the
2019 skeletal frame of a NEW SHIP under arclights. UNMISTAKABLY, THE
2020 U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. Unformed, raw, like its future captain. Our
2021 MUSIC SWELLS, we PUSH IN ON HIM, considering Pike's offer, his
2022 future, his fate.
2023
202464 EXT. STARFLEET SHIPYARD - MORNING 64
2025
2026 The shipyard is abuzz with activity -- cadets loading into a
2027 shuttle -- and Pike, staring off, waiting. The PILOT
2028 approaches:
2029
2030 SHUTTLE PILOT
2031 Waiting for something, Cap?
2032
2033 PIKE
2034 ... No. Guess not.
2035
2036 He climbs in. The pilot rapidly flips through switches, running
2037 a pre-flight sequence. Pike straps in. Glances through the
2038 viewshield... SEES SOMETHING... and he smiles. From his POV:
2039 KIRK on his MOTORCYCLE, driving into the shipyard --
2040
2041 PIKE (CONT'D)
2042 Hold her a second...
2043
2044 Kirk rides past a WATERFALL of cooling tanks -- stops the bike
2045 near the shuttle -- steps off, has nothing -- no bags -- just
2046 the clothes on his back.
2047
2048 SHIPYARD WORKER
2049 Nice ride, man.
2050
2051 Kirk kicks the stand, tosses the guy the startcard --
2052
2053 KIRK
2054 Live it up.
2055
2056 Kirk walks past the startled worker and approaches Pike.
2057
2058 KIRK (CONT'D)
2059 Four years? I'm gonna do it in three.
2060
2061 Pike grins as Kirk passes him.
2062
2063 Inside the shuttle, Kirk moves down rows of new recruits, some
2064 of them ALIEN. Passes UHURA and the BARFIGHT CADETS, who PERK
2065 UP when they see him -- one has a BANDAGED HAND.
2066
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2069
2070 KIRK (CONT'D)
2071 At ease, Gentlemen.
2072 (then, to Uhura)
2073 Never did get that first name.
2074
2075 UHURA
2076 (can't help it: a grin)
2077 And you never will.
2078
2079 He smiles as he takes a seat at the back of the shuttle. Straps
2080 in as it RISES...
2081
2082 MAN'S VOICE
2083 Are you people deaf? I told you I don't
2084 need a doctor, damnit! I AM A DOCTOR!
2085
2086 Kirk turns to see a MAN being forced OUT of the BATHROOM by a
2087 FEMALE FLIGHT OFFICER -- at 34, he has a Southern lilt and looks
2088 like a prisoner waiting for the guillotine to fall:
2089
2090 FLIGHT OFFICER MAN
2091 -- you need to find a seat -- -- I had one, in the bathroom,
2092 Darlin', with no windows --
2093 -- Sir, for your own safety, -- I suffer from Aviaphobia,
2094 siddown, or I will MAKE you case you don't understand big
2095 sit down... do you hear me? words, it means 'fear of dying
2096 RIGHT NOW. in something that flies.'
2097
2098 They GLARE at each other, then the man drops into the seat
2099 beside Kirk. The ship TORQUES to one side and the man GRIPS his
2100 armrests, pale, sweating -- glances at Kirk:
2101
2102 MAN
2103 I might throw up on you.
2104
2105 KIRK
2106 I think these things're pretty safe--
2107
2108 MAN
2109 Don't pander to me, kid: one tiny crack
2110 in the hull and our blood boils in
2111 thirteen seconds -- solar flare might
2112 crop up, cook us in our seats -- Hell,
2113 some of the damn passengers are blue.
2114 And wait'll you're sitting pretty with a
2115 case of Andorian shingles, see if you're
2116 still so relaxed when your eyeballs are
2117 bleeding-- space is disease and danger,
2118 wrapped in darkness and silence.
2119
2120 KIRK
2121 I hate to break this to you, but
2122 Starfleet operates in space.
2123
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2126
2127 MAN
2128 Yeah, well my ex-wife took the whole damn
2129 planet in the divorce, I got nowhere to
2130 go but up. Leonard McCoy.
2131
2132 KIRK
2133 Jim Kirk-- you really gonna throw up--?
2134
2135 MCCOY
2136 Maybe--
2137
2138 As the TREK THEME SOARS, the shuttle ascends and we...
2139
2140 FADE OUT.
2141
2142 OVER BLACK: "THREE YEARS LATER".
2143
2144 FADE IN:
2145
214664A-E OMIT 64A-E
2147
214864F INT. NERO'S CELL - NIGHT 64F
2149
2150 Nero lies on the floor of his cell, semi-conscious, looking like
2151 death. Behind him the DOOR OPENS. Two KLINGON GUARDS enter,
2152 backlit.
2153
2154 KLINGON GUARD #1
2155 The day you've been waiting for is upon
2156 us, Silent One. And look. No sign of
2157 salvation. No sign of change. Just more
2158 pain.
2159
2160 And they both lift his limp body up -- as something miraculous
2161 happens -- NERO SNAPS TO LIFE AND SINGLE-HANDEDLY BEATS THE SHIT
2162 OUT OF THE GUARDS -- TAKING THEM BOTH DOWN IN TEN SECONDS -- in
2163 what seems like an instant, he's the only one standing here --
2164 holding both of the Guards' rifles -- which he TWIRLS, badass.
2165
216664G INT. AYEL'S CELL - NIGHT 64G
2167
2168 PUSH IN ON THE DOOR as it opens -- Ayel, chained, looks up,
2169 intensely -- and sees that it's NERO who has arrived -- we PUSH
2170 IN TIGHT ON HIM as he SPEAKS FOR THE FIRST TIME:
2171
2172 NERO
2173 The wait is over.
2174
2175 Off Ayel, we CUT TO:
2176
2177 39
2178
2179
218064H EXT. STARFLEET ACADEMY GROUNDS - DAY [FORMER SC. 82] 64H
2181
2182 TILT DOWN from a GLIMMERING BUILDING TO REVEAL a sea of RED
2183 CADET UNIFORMS: HUNDREDS OF CADETS head across campus, McCoy and
2184 Kirk among them. A miraculous view of San Francisco beneath a
2185 blue sky, Golden Gate Bridge piercing the air. Kirk struts:
2186
2187 KIRK
2188 So you'll do it for me, right?
2189
2190 MCCOY
2191 I have no interest.
2192
2193 KIRK
2194 I didn't ask if you have interest, I
2195 asked if you'd do it.
2196
2197 MCCOY
2198 I'm about to ask you an obvious question:
2199 why bother?
2200
2201 KIRK
2202 Because I've failed the test twice.
2203
2204 MCCOY
2205 And you're determined to make it three.
2206 We've all failed it-- everyone has, and
2207 that's the point! No one goes back for
2208 seconds, let alone thirds -- it's not
2209 like you need to pass it to graduate.
2210
2211 KIRK
2212 So Bones: why do they make us take it?
2213
2214 MCCOY
2215 I told you to stop calling me that.
2216 You're very annoying.
2217
2218 KIRK
2219 And you're the greatest -- thank you.
2220
2221 MCCOY
2222 You'd better study for it this time.
2223
2224 KIRK
2225 Oh, no-- Bones -- I gotta date.
2226
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2229
2230 MCCOY
2231 A date? Listen, as smart as you are,
2232 which ain't much, if you don't prepare--
2233
2234 KIRK
2235 You have no idea how prepared I'm gonna
2236 be-- no idea.
2237
2238 And with a smile, Kirk heads off -- McCoy watches him go,
2239 calling after him:
2240
2241 MCCOY
2242 Seriously, stop calling me Bones!
2243 (to himself, hating it)
2244 "Bones".
2245
224665-78 OMIT 65-78
2247
224879 INT. DORM ROOM - NIGHT 79
2249
2250 In MOONLIGHT, a beautiful WOMAN lies on her back, in some kind
2251 of bra, moaning in delight -- this is GAILA --
2252
2253 GAILA
2254 -- oh Jim... Jim... Jim, I love you.
2255
2256 KIRK
2257 (kissing her)
2258 ... Yeah. I sent you a message.
2259
2260 Gaila reaches over, turns on the light and we realize: SHE'S
2261 GREEN. And not particularly happy:
2262
2263 GAILA
2264 I say "I love you", and you say "I sent
2265 you a message?"
2266
2267 KIRK GAILA
2268 -- but you can only open it
2269 tomorrow at three o'clock on
2270 the dot -- -- what are you talking about?
2271 What is it? What does it say?
2272 -- Gaila, promise me you're
2273 not going to open it 'till -- what is it? Tell me what
2274 three -- it says!
2275
2276 -- I'll erase it, I swear, if
2277 you don't promise me you'll -- All right!! Three o'clock!
2278 wait -- I prom--
2279
2280 They're INTERRUPTED by a DOOR OPENING -- GASP!
2281
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2284
2285 GAILA (CONT'D)
2286 (sotto)
2287 You can't get caught in this dorm-- hide!
2288 Under the bed, quick!
2289
2290 Kirk falls, lands hard on the floor, SCRAMBLES under the bed as
2291 Gaila's roommate enters -- UHURA. Dropping her backpack:
2292
2293 GAILA (CONT'D)
2294 Hey-- I thought you were going to be in
2295 the long-range sensor lab all night.
2296
2297 UHURA
2298 I was supposed to be, but it was crazy, I
2299 picked up an emergency transmission from
2300 a Klingon prison planet -- there was an
2301 escape and a ship stolen from th--
2302 (suddenly senses)
2303 ... you okay?
2304
2305 GAILA
2306 Yeah, been running simulations all week,
2307 just catching up on some rest. Tired.
2308 (fake yawn)
2309 That's all.
2310
2311 Uhura watches her. Her eyes narrow.
2312
2313 UHURA
2314 Were you running simulations with the
2315 mouth-breather hiding under the bed?
2316
2317 Gaila freezes, caught. Uhura looks down, Kirk PEERS OUT.
2318
2319 KIRK
2320 Your hearing is scary-- you sure both
2321 your parents are human?
2322
2323 UHURA
2324 The hell are you doing with him in here?
2325
2326 GAILA JIM
2327 I can't help it! I love him! Gaila loves me--
2328
2329 UHURA (CONT'D)
2330 Get outta here -- it's my ass too if
2331 administration catches you in this dorm.
2332
2333 KIRK
2334 (getting dressed, to
2335 Uhura)
2336 You and I have a big day tomorrow --
2337
2338 42
233979 CONTINUED: (2) 79
2340
2341 UHURA
2342 (pushing him out)
2343 You're gonna fail.
2344
2345 KIRK
2346 If I pass, will you tell me your first
2347 name?
2348
2349 UHURA
2350 No. Good night.
2351
2352 KIRK
2353 (quiet, tries to charm)
2354 I think the fact that you picked up a
2355 transmission of a Klingon prison escape
2356 is very interesting.
2357
2358 SHE CLOSES THE DOOR ON HIM and we CUT TO:
2359
236080 EXT. SPACE - NIGHT 80
2361
2362 The Narada APPEARS through space --
2363
236481 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - DAY 81
2365
2366 Dead silence on the bridge... all eyes on the VIEWSCREENS: empty
2367 starfield, roiling clouds of methane ice.
2368
2369 AYEL
2370 We have arrived at the coordinates you
2371 requested. Stardate confirmed. 2258.5.
2372
2373 Nero stands, looks out through his view screens.
2374
2375 NERO
2376 Standby.
2377
2378 Ayel studies his console, hope in his eyes. Quietly:
2379
2380 AYEL
2381 Captain... long range scans of Beta
2382 Quadrant complete. Romulus is there.
2383 She's there. We could go. Right now, go
2384 home...
2385
2386 NERO
2387 Not yet -- not like this. Not how we
2388 left. This is our chance... to serve our
2389 people. We owe it to them -- to do what
2390 no other Romulan could ever do.
2391
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2394
2395 Ayel hides his disappointment behind his eyes as suddenly -- A
2396 LIGHTNING STORM -- impossibly, from nowhere -- LOTS OF IT -- and
2397 through the lightning erupts THE JELLYFISH -- THE SHIP NERO HAS
2398 BEEN LOOKING FOR DECADES.
2399
2400 NERO (CONT'D)
2401 Welcome back. Spock.
2402
2403 And we won't know where we are as MUSIC BUILDS and we CUT TO:
2404
240581A INT. U.S.S. TRAINER - BRIDGE - SPACE [FORMER SC. 65] 81A
2406
2407 Uhura TURNS TO US, at her comm station -- PUSH IN on her. She
2408 seems wildly BORED and almost RESENTFUL:
2409
2410 UHURA
2411 -- we are receiving a distress signal
2412 from the U.S.S. Kobayashi Maru. The ship
2413 has lost power and is stranded.
2414 Starfleet Command has ordered us to
2415 rescue them.
2416
2417 WHIP TO THE COMMAND CHAIR, where KIRK captains the battered
2418 bridge. Confident -- cocky:
2419
2420 KIRK
2421 "Starfleet Command has ordered us to
2422 rescue them... Captain."
2423
2424 She glares, turns away. Then McCoy, at a console, reports:
2425
2426 MCCOY
2427 Klingon vessels have entered the Neutral
2428 Zone. And they are firing upon us.
2429
2430 KIRK
2431 That's okay.
2432
2433 McCoy and Uhura -- and the others -- look at him, confused.
2434
2435 MCCOY
2436 It's okay?
2437
2438 KIRK
2439 Yeah, don't worry about it.
2440
2441 McCoy and Uhura share a look -- that's when we CUT TO:
2442
244381B INT. TESTING CONTROL BOOTH - CONTINUOUS [FORMER SC. 66] 81B
2444
2445 Looking at the bridge from above, we PULL BACK to reveal an
2446 observation room above the faux-ship. This is the test Kirk was
2447 referring to. CONSOLE TECHNICIANS monitor the proceedings. A
2448 TEST ADMINISTRATOR turns to another and asks:
2449
2450 44
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2452
2453 TEST ADMINISTRATOR #1
2454 Did he say "don't worry about it"?
2455
2456 TEST ADMINISTRATOR #2
2457 -- what's he doing?
2458
2459 And we CONTINUE TO PULL BACK TO REVEAL that, sitting among the
2460 technicians, is Gaila. Our resident GREEN GIRL. She checks her
2461 watch -- PUSH IN ON IT: 2:59 PM. On her MONITOR awaits a 23rd
2462 century e-mail -- a MESSAGE FROM KIRK --
2463
246481C INT. U.S.S. TRAINER - BRIDGE SIMULATOR - DAY [FORMER SC. 67] 81C
2465
2466 MCCOY
2467 Three more Klingon Warbirds decloaking --
2468 and targeting our ship -- I don't suppose
2469 this is a problem either?
2470
2471 KIRK
2472 Nah.
2473
2474 WEAPONS OFFICER
2475 They're firing, Captain.
2476
2477 KIRK
2478 Alert medical bay to prepare to receive
2479 all crew members from the damaged ship.
2480
2481 UHURA
2482 And how do you expect us to rescue them
2483 when we're surrounded by Klingons?
2484
2485 KIRK
2486 Alert medical.
2487
2488 Annoyed, she does as:
2489
2490 MCCOY
2491 Our ship is being hit -- shields at sixty
2492 percent.
2493
2494 KIRK
2495 I understand.
2496
2497 MCCOY
2498 Should we at least, I dunno, fire back?
2499
2500 KIRK
2501 Mmmm... no.
2502
2503 MCCOY
2504 Of course not.
2505
2506 45
2507
2508
250981D INT. TESTING CONTROL BOOTH - CONTINUOUS [FORMER SC. 70] 81D
2510
2511 CLOSE ON GAILA'S WATCH as it changes to 3:00 -- and she opens
2512 Jim's message -- and all it reads is, "I'M SORRY." And just
2513 then something UPLOADS and EXECUTES and ALL THE SCREENS IN HERE
2514 AND ON THE BRIDGE DIE -- THE SYSTEM CRASHES -- everyone reacts --
2515
2516 TEST ADMINISTRATOR #1
2517 -- the hell's happening?!
2518
251981E INT. U.S.S. TRAINER - BRIDGE SIMULATOR - CONTINUOUS [FRMR. 71] 81E
2520
2521 The crew doesn't know what's up -- except Kirk, who is
2522 remarkably pleased -- when the LIGHTS AND MONITORS COME BACK ON,
2523 things are not the same:
2524
2525 UHURA
2526 (perplexed, works
2527 controls)
2528 -- the Kobayashi Maru is still in
2529 distress... but... the Klingons have
2530 stopped firing.
2531
2532 KIRK
2533 Arm photons. Prepare to fire on the
2534 Klingon warbirds.
2535
2536 MCCOY
2537 Jim, their shields are up.
2538
2539 KIRK
2540 Are they?
2541
2542 McCoy looks at his monitor. No they're not.
2543
2544 MCCOY
2545 ... no.
2546
2547 KIRK
2548 Fire on all enemy ships -- one photon
2549 each should do -- let's not waste
2550 ammunition.
2551
2552 WEAPONS OFFICER
2553 Target lock acquired on all warbirds --
2554 firing!
2555
2556 They fire -- AND DESTROY ALL FIVE KLINGON SHIPS INSTANTLY. All
2557 mouths here are agape.
2558
2559 46
256081E CONTINUED: 81E
2561
2562 KIRK
2563 Begin rescue of the stranded crew. So.
2564 We've eliminated all enemy ships, no one
2565 on board was injured and the successful
2566 rescue of the Kobayashi Maru crew is
2567 underway.
2568
2569 For the first time, Kirk looks up to the testing room windows:
2570
2571 KIRK (CONT'D)
2572 Anything else?
2573
257481F INT. TESTING CONTROL BOOTH - CONTINUOUS [FORMER SC. 72] 81F
2575
2576 And they're stunned up here, too -- Test Administrator #2 turns
2577 to someone OFF-CAMERA:
2578
2579 TEST ADMINISTRATOR #2
2580 How the hell'd that kid beat your test?
2581
2582 REVEAL who he was talking to: SPOCK is here. And not happy.
2583
2584 SPOCK
2585 ... I do not know.
2586
258782 OMIT 82
2588
258983 INT. ACADEMY COUNCIL CHAMBERS - DAY 83
2590
2591 TIGHT ON a stern STARFLEET ACADEMY PRESIDENT:
2592
2593 ACADEMY PRESIDENT
2594 James T. Kirk. Step forward.
2595
2596 It's a huge Starfleet chamber. Golden Gate Bridge visible
2597 through huge windows. 500 cadets, a nervous KIRK among them.
2598 He stands, moves to one of two PODIUMS.
2599
2600 ACADEMY PRESIDENT (CONT'D)
2601 An incident has occurred today that
2602 concerns the entire student body.
2603 Academic immorality by one is an assault
2604 on us all. It will. Not. Stand. Cadet
2605 Kirk, evidence has been submitted to this
2606 council suggesting you violated the
2607 ethical code of conduct pursuant to
2608 regulation 17.43 of the Starfleet code.
2609 Is there anything you care to say before
2610 we begin?
2611
2612 KIRK
2613 (uncomfortable beat)
2614 Yessir. I believe I have the right to
2615 face my accuser directly.
2616
2617 47
261883 CONTINUED: 83
2619
2620 President nods toward the assembly. SPOCK RISES. He and Kirk
2621 MEET EYES for the first time. It's clock-stopping.
2622
2623 ACADEMY PRESIDENT
2624 Step forward please. This is Commander
2625 Spock, one of our most distinguished
2626 graduates. He's programmed the Kobayashi
2627 Maru test for the last four years.
2628
2629 Spock steps up to the OTHER PODIUM. President nods.
2630
2631 SPOCK
2632 Cadet Kirk. It is obvious you somehow
2633 managed to install and activate a sub-
2634 routine in the programming code, thereby
2635 changing the conditions of the test.
2636
2637 We happen to find GAILA, in the crowd, fucking pissed.
2638
2639 KIRK
2640 Your point being?
2641
2642 ACADEMY PRESIDENT
2643 In academic vernacular, you cheated.
2644
2645 KIRK
2646 Respectfully. Define "cheating".
2647
2648 SPOCK
2649 To deceive by trickery.
2650
2651 KIRK
2652 Now let me ask you something I think we
2653 all know the answer to: the test is
2654 rigged, isn't it? You programmed it to
2655 be unwinnable.
2656
2657 ACADEMY PRESIDENT
2658 Mr. Kirk, I don't see how the intent of
2659 the exam is relevant to these
2660 proceedings.
2661
2662 KIRK
2663 Because if I'm right, Sir, then the test
2664 itself is a cheat.
2665
2666 SPOCK
2667 Your argument precludes the possibility
2668 of a no-win scenario --
2669
2670 KIRK
2671 I don't believe in no-win scenarios --
2672
2673 48
267483 CONTINUED: (2) 83
2675
2676 FIND PIKE amongst the officers in attendance. His eyes locked
2677 on Kirk. This is his boy. His recruit. And he's INVESTED.
2678
2679 SPOCK
2680 Then not only have you violated the
2681 rules, you've failed to understand the
2682 principle lesson.
2683
2684 KIRK
2685 Please, enlighten me.
2686
2687 SPOCK
2688 You, of all people should know, Cadet
2689 Kirk -- A captain cannot cheat death.
2690
2691 ON KIRK. The first punch by Spock that landed. The cockiness
2692 slips away as he senses where this is going --
2693
2694 KIRK
2695 "I of all people?"
2696
2697 SPOCK
2698 Your father, Lieutenant George Kirk, had
2699 assumed command of his vessel before
2700 killed in action, did he not?
2701
2702 Shit. The DADDY card. Kirk, a mix of ANGER and EMBARRASSMENT --
2703
2704 KIRK
2705 How long did it take you to look that up?
2706
2707 SPOCK
2708 How long did it take you to program the
2709 virus that allowed you to cheat?
2710
2711 The President smirks; considers ending this now but doesn't,
2712 it's just too damn entertaining...
2713
2714 KIRK
2715 Maybe you just don't like that I beat
2716 your test.
2717
2718 SPOCK
2719 I am Vulcan. "Like" is not a verb in our
2720 vernacular. I've simply made the logical
2721 deduction that you're a liar.
2722
2723 KIRK
2724 What an idiot I am for taking that
2725 personally --
2726
2727 SPOCK
2728 Agreed. Furthermore, you have failed to
2729 divine the purpose of the test.
2730
2731 48A
273283 CONTINUED: (3) 83
2733
2734 KIRK
2735 Enlighten me again.
2736
2737 SPOCK
2738 The purpose is to experience fear. Fear
2739 in the face of certain death. To accept
2740 that fear and maintain command of one's
2741 self and one's crew. This is a quality
2742 expected in every Starfleet captain.
2743
2744 Kirk absorbs that. Then --
2745
2746 KIRK
2747 So you're telling me the point. Of the
2748 whole thing. Is to be afraid?
2749
2750 SPOCK
2751 Fear is necessary, yes.
2752
2753 KIRK
2754 Have you taken the test, Commander Spork?
2755
2756 SPOCK
2757 Spock. As a Vulcan, I require no
2758 additional training to control my
2759 narcissism when making command decisions.
2760
2761 No he DIN'T! Kirk's hit guys for a lot less -- The crowd all
2762 but "OOOOOOHs." But Kirk ain't fucking done yet.
2763
2764 KIRK
2765 You keep reminding me that you're Vulcan.
2766 And I'm sure you're really proud of that,
2767 who wouldn't be-- but isn't it true you
2768 people don't experience fear at all?
2769
2770 ON SPOCK. He raises that eyebrow. And Kirk sees... no matter
2771 how subtly... that he has fucking made CONTACT. Smelling blood -
2772 -
2773
2774 KIRK (CONT'D)
2775 And if that's the case -- What's that say
2776 about your ability to make command
2777 decisions?
2778
2779 Well. Looks like Kirk just hit him in HIS fucking weak spot.
2780 And before this lovefest can continue --
2781
2782 49
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2784
2785 A REDSHIRT bursts into the HALL -- Kirk turns to look -- they
2786 all do -- now we're SPEEDING IN behind the REDSHIRT, who runs to
2787 the President, hands him a DATAPAD. President reads it.
2788 Everyone watches, on edge -- finally, quietly:
2789
2790 ACADEMY PRESIDENT
2791 (to all)
2792 We've received a distress call from
2793 Vulcan.
2794 (Spock reacts concerned)
2795 Cadet Kirk -- you are on academic
2796 probation pending the result of your
2797 hearing. Cadets, report to Shuttle
2798 Hangar One immediately -- this hearing is
2799 at recess until further notice --
2800 dismissed.
2801
2802 Everyone's on their feet, MOVING QUICKLY, Kirk suddenly
2803 irrelevant. PIKE passes by him, all fucking business, but
2804 before he goes --
2805
2806 PIKE
2807 Cheating isn't winning.
2808
2809 And as that settles on Kirk, McCoy now joins him. The two
2810 exiting with the rest of the cadets as Kirk eyes SPOCK --
2811
2812 KIRK
2813 Who was that pointy-eared bastard?
2814
2815 MCCOY
2816 I don't know, but I like him.
2817
281884 INT. STARFLEET ACADEMY - HANGAR - CONTINUOUS 84
2819
2820 DOLLY THROUGH HUNDREDS OF CADETS, racing to their shuttles --
2821 BARRACKS LEADERS stand on platforms, calling out SHIP
2822 ASSIGNMENTS -- cadets HURRYING OFF as they're called --
2823
2824 MALE BARRACKS LEADER FEMALE BARRACKS OFFICER
2825 Blake! U.S.S. Newton! Jaxa! The U.S.S. Endeavor!
2826 Counter! U.S.S. Odyssey! T'nag! The U.S.S. Antares!
2827 Fugeman: Regula One! Gerace: Pomoroy! The U.S.S. Oddyssey!
2828 U.S.S. Farragut! McGrath! Leifer! U.S.S. Newton!
2829 U.S.S. Wolcott! McCoy! Uhura! The U.S.S. Farragut!
2830 U.S.S. Enterprise! Welcome to
2831 Starfleet and Godspeed!
2832
2833 As the last of the cadets head off, Kirk stands there without a
2834 home -- he moves to his exiting Barracks Leader --
2835
2836 KIRK
2837 Excuse me, you didn't call my name.
2838 Kirk, James T..
2839
2840 50
284184 CONTINUED: 84
2842
2843 BARRACKS LEADER
2844 (checks his tablet)
2845 You're on academic probation. That means
2846 you're grounded until the Academy Board
2847 rules.
2848
2849 Kirk is POLEAXED as Leader heads off -- McCoy, needing to run:
2850
2851 MCCOY
2852 ... Jim, the Board'll rule in your favor.
2853 Most likely.
2854 (Kirk is just rocked)
2855 Look, Jim -- I gotta go --
2856
2857 KIRK
2858 ... yeah-- yeah, you go... I'm good.
2859
2860 Kirk forces a half-smile. Torn, McCoy hurries off. PULL AWAY
2861 from Kirk, alone as the mass of newly-minted cadets criss-
2862 crosses around him. At the hangar entrance, McCoy suddenly
2863 STOPS: a lightbulb. He quickly returns to Kirk, pulls him off:
2864
2865 MCCOY KIRK
2866 Come with me -- -- what're you doing --?
2867
2868 TRACK with them as they hurry through the throng of cadets --
2869 and suddenly we're moving in the OTHER DIRECTION as a pissed-off
2870 Uhura serpentines through the group to SPOCK --
2871
2872 UHURA
2873 Commander, a word?
2874
2875 Spock moves away from the officers, a private moment with her:
2876
2877 SPOCK
2878 Yes, Lieutenant?
2879
2880 UHURA
2881 Was I not one of your top students?
2882
2883 SPOCK
2884 Indeed you were --
2885
2886 UHURA
2887 Did I not receive a Gold rating for
2888 Exolinguistic skills, giving Starfleet
2889 first place over Kyoto and MIT at the
2890 Oxford Invitational?
2891
2892 A LOUD nearby SHUTTLE LEAVES BEHIND THEM -- it gets WINDY --
2893
2894 SPOCK
2895 An exceptional achievement, to be su--
2896
2897 51
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2899
2900 UHURA
2901 -- and did I not, on multiple occasions,
2902 demonstrate exceptional aural sensitivity
2903 and, I quote, "unparalleled ability to
2904 identify sonic anomalies" in subspace
2905 transmission tests?!
2906
2907 SPOCK
2908 Consistently, yes--
2909
2910 UHURA
2911 And while you were well aware that my
2912 unqualified desire was to serve on the
2913 U.S.S. Enterprise, I was assigned to the
2914 Farragut.
2915
2916 Spock reacts unusually; he seems almost embarrassed. Quiet.
2917
2918 SPOCK
2919 It was an attempt to avoid the appearance
2920 of favoritism.
2921
2922 She gets closer, voice low, all pride and defiance:
2923
2924 UHURA
2925 No. No. I am assigned to the
2926 Enterprise.
2927
2928 Their eyes hold. He checks his tablet, makes an change:
2929
2930 SPOCK
2931 Oh. Yes, I believe you are.
2932
293385 INT. SHUTTLE HANGAR MEDICAL BAY - CONTINUOUS 85
2934
2935 McCoy and Kirk enter fast. McCoy goes through a cabinet, preps
2936 a med in a hypospray SYRINGE.
2937
2938 KIRK
2939 What are you doing?
2940
2941 MCCOY
2942 Doing you a favor. I couldn't just leave
2943 you there, looking all pitiful-- roll up
2944 your sleeve, I'm gonna give you a vaccine
2945 against viral infection from Melvaran mud
2946 fleas.
2947
2948 McCoy FIRES the Hypospray --
2949
2950 52
295185 CONTINUED: 85
2952
2953 KIRK MCCOY
2954 Ow-- what for? To give you symptoms.
2955 -- I don't understand-- -- you're gonna start to lose
2956 vision in your left eye --
2957 -- yeah, I already have -- -- don't stand up yet --
2958 (he tries to stand;
2959 WOOZY)
2960 -- what'd you do to me? -- you're gonna get a really
2961 (in pain) bad headache. And flopsweat.
2962 -- this is a favor?! -- yeah, you're welcome.
2963
2964 McCoy ushers Kirk out of the room --
2965
296686 EXT. STARFLEET ACADEMY - HANGAR - CONTINUOUS 86
2967
2968 McCoy ushers Kirk to a shuttle -- a SCANNING OFFICER stops them:
2969
2970 SCANNING OFFICER
2971 "Kirk, James T." -- he's not cleared for
2972 duty aboard the Enterprise --
2973
2974 MCCOY
2975 But I am, and Medical Code states the
2976 treatment and transport of a patient's to
2977 be determined at the discretion of his
2978 attending physician, which is me.
2979 (re: scanner)
2980 You can see he's suffering, he needs me
2981 as his doctor, so since I'm assigned to
2982 this ship, so's he, or would you like to
2983 explain to Captain Pike why the
2984 Enterprise warped into a crisis without
2985 one of its medical officers?
2986
2987 SCANNING OFFICER
2988 ... as you were.
2989
2990 MCCOY
2991 As you were.
2992
2993 And with that, he pulls Kirk past the speechless officer --
2994
299586A EXT. SAN FRANCISCO - DAY 86A
2996
2997 A fleet of SHUTTLES depart Starfleet -- head out to space --
2998
299987 INT. SHUTTLE - DAY 87
3000
3001 Kirk, in agony, sweating, sits beside McCoy as they pass through
3002 the stratosphere. McCoy's peering out a window --
3003
3004 KIRK
3005 I might throw up on you.
3006
3007 53
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3009
3010 MCCOY
3011 You should look at this.
3012
3013 And through his pain, Kirk does... and is amazed...
3014
301588 INT. STARBASE ONE - SPACE DOCK - CONTINUOUS 88
3016
3017 The shuttle approaches a massive DOCKING STATION where a dozen
3018 STARFLEET VESSELS ARE DOCKED. But the ship we're approaching is
3019 miraculous: "U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC-1701" IS REVEALED ON THE HULL
3020 OF THE FLAGSHIP. THE QUEEN OF THE FLEET IS FULLY CONSTRUCTED
3021 AND READY FOR HER MAIDEN VOYAGE. The shuttle glides to the
3022 underside of the Enterprise. A DOCKING BAY opens --
3023
302489 INT. ENTERPRISE SHUTTLE BAY WALKWAY - CONTINUOUS 89
3025
3026 Officers move quickly on the ship -- Kirk and McCoy enter. Kirk
3027 WIPING HIS BROW, pretty much SOAKED.
3028
3029 KIRK
3030 Bones. Thanks for getting me on board.
3031 But I don't feel right. I feel like I'm
3032 leaking.
3033
3034 MCCOY
3035 Oh look, the pointy-eared bastard.
3036
3037 Kirk looks up -- SPOCK moves towards them, not seeing them --
3038 Kirk yanks McCoy out of the way -- Spock passes and enters a
3039 TURBOLIFT -- Kirk looks back as the doors close.
3040
3041 Then we go INTO THE TURBOLIFT -- for just a moment -- as the
3042 doors open and we enter with Spock:
3043
304490 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 90
3045
3046 Spock walks through the glorious, gleaming new space, taking his
3047 position at the SCIENCE CONSOLE. PIKE at the command chair.
3048
3049 SPOCK
3050 Captain, engineering reports "ready for
3051 launch".
3052
3053 PIKE
3054 The maiden voyage of our newest flagship
3055 deserves more pomp and circumstance than
3056 we can afford today, but her christening
3057 will have to be our reward for a safe
3058 return--
3059 (toggles intercom)
3060 All decks, this is Captain Pike. Prepare
3061 for immediate departure. Helm,
3062 thrusters.
3063
3064 54
306590 CONTINUED: 90
3066
3067 WHIP PAN to the helm: HIKARU SULU turns to Pike -- at 25, he's
3068 the Federation's best pilot. As he works the controls:
3069
3070 SULU
3071 Moorings retracted, Captain. Dock
3072 Control reports ready -- thrusters fired,
3073 separating from space dock --
3074
307590A EXT. SPACE DOCK - SPACE [FORMER SC. 92] 90A
3076
3077 The Enterprise moves away from the dock -- smaller SATELLITE
3078 crafts floating around it. The other FIVE STARFLEET SHIPS
3079 already ahead -- moving into position.
3080
308191 INT. MEDICAL BAY - CONTINUOUS 91
3082
3083 MEDICAL STAFF preps. McCoy enters with Kirk, in amusing agony --
3084 McCoy helps him onto a bed, prepares another hypospray.
3085
3086 KIRK MCCOY
3087 -- oh, this wasn't worth it --
3088 I wish I didn't know you-- I'm
3089 itching in my mouth, this is Here's a short-lasting
3090 horrible-- sedative -- those symptoms
3091 won't last long, don't be an
3092 infant.
3093
3094 And he SHOOTS KIRK with another hypospray --
3095
309692 OMIT 92
3097
309893 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 93
3099
3100 As Sulu works the controls --
3101
3102 SULU
3103 The fleet's cleared space dock, Captain.
3104 All ships ready for warp.
3105
3106 PIKE
3107 Set course for Vulcan.
3108
3109 SULU
3110 Course laid in.
3111
3112 PIKE
3113 Maximum warp. Punch it.
3114
3115 And Sulu does and --
3116
311794 EXT. STARBASE ONE - CONTINUOUS 94
3118
3119 The six ships -- ONE, then TWO, then THREE, then FOUR, then FIVE
3120 SNAP INTO WARP. The Enterprise, however... just sits there.
3121
3122 55
3123
3124
312595 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 95
3126
3127 Pike -- and the others -- look at Sulu, who is confused --
3128 concerned -- searching the controls. Finally:
3129
3130 PIKE
3131 Lieutenant, where's Helmsman McKenna?
3132
3133 SULU
3134 Uh, he has lungworms, Sir? He'll be fine
3135 but couldn't report to his post-- I'm
3136 Hikaru Sulu --
3137
3138 PIKE
3139 (fucking with him)
3140 -- and you are a pilot, right?
3141
3142 SULU
3143 Very much so, Sir-- I'm not sure
3144 what's... wrong here...
3145
3146 PIKE
3147 Is the parking brake on?
3148
3149 SULU
3150 (half-laughs)
3151 -- no, I'll figure it out, just--
3152
3153 SPOCK
3154 Have you disengaged the External Inertial
3155 Dampener?
3156
3157 Sulu does -- and realizes Spock is right. He makes it work.
3158
3159 SULU
3160 Ready for warp, Sir.
3161
3162 PIKE
3163 The external inertial dampener.
3164 That's... the parking brake.
3165
3166 SULU
3167 (essentially)
3168 ... yessir.
3169
3170 PIKE
3171 (laughs)
3172 Let's punch it!
3173
317495A EXT. STARBASE ONE - SPACE DOCK - CONTINUOUS 95A
3175
3176 And now alone, the Enterprise SNAPS INTO WARP -- and is gone.
3177
3178 56
3179
3180
318195B INT./EXT. AMANDA AND SAREK'S HOME - VULCAN - DAY [FRMR SC. 99] 95B
3182
3183 CLOSE ON a small Vulcan object. SHAKING, as if in a small
3184 earthquake. BOOM UP to find Amanda as she moves through her
3185 home, out to the balcony -- and in the distance, a mile away, is
3186 a massive COLUMN OF LIGHT -- like a ray from God, which creates
3187 NUKE-LIKE CONCENTRIC CLOUDS and massive DIRT AND DUST, slamming
3188 into the ground. Amanda's eyes go wide with terror --
3189
319095C EXT. DRILLING MACHINE - DAY 95C
3191
3192 Looking DOWN towards Vulcan at the gigantic DRILLING PLATFORM,
3193 the SOURCE of the PLASMA RAY -- and we TILT UP to see that the
3194 platform is HUNG ON A WIDE TETHER -- and we KEEP TILTING UNTIL
3195 WE SEE THE TETHER IS ATTACHED TO THE NARADA, in orbit above the
3196 planet --
3197
319895D INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 95D
3199
3200 Nero stares at holographic images of Vulcan -- as Ayel arrives
3201 behind him.
3202
3203 ROMULAN CREW MEMBER
3204 Captain Nero, drilling has begun.
3205
3206 NERO
3207 Prepare the Red Matter. Tell me when we
3208 reach core depth.
3209
3210 Ayel heads off --
3211
321295E INT. NARADA - HANGAR - LATER [FORMERLY SC. 101] 95E
3213
3214 Ayel enters the massive hangar -- where SPOCK'S JELLYFISH SHIP
3215 SITS. Ayel moves to, enters the Jellyfish --
3216
321795F INT. JELLY FISH - LATER 95F
3218
3219 Ayel moves into the CONTAINMENT HOLD -- a METALLIC ROOM
3220 containing a large, floating RED BALL -- some kind of energy
3221 source. Ayel observes TWO ROMULANS EXTRACTING some of this Red
3222 Matter, sucking it into a tube --
3223
322495G INT. NARADA - HANGAR - LATER 95G
3225
3226 Workers place the tube of Red Matter into a SPACE POD.
3227
322896 INT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE 96
3229
3230 The journey's underway. The bridge crew monitors systems:
3231
3232 SULU
3233 Engines at Maximum Warp, Captain.
3234
3235 57
323696 CONTINUED: 96
3237
3238 PIKE
3239 Russian whiz kid-- what's your name
3240 again? Chanko? Cherpov?
3241
3242 An 18 YEAR-OLD FACE leans into frame. HEAVY RUSSIAN ACCENT:
3243
3244 CHEKOV
3245 Ensign Chekov, Pavel H., Sir.
3246
3247 PIKE
3248 Fine, Chekov, Pavel H.: begin shipwide
3249 mission broadcast.
3250
3251 CHEKOV
3252 Yessir, happy to.
3253 (into console)
3254 Ensign authorization code: Nine-Five-
3255 Wictor Wictor-Two--
3256
3257 "AUTHORIZATION NOT RECOGNIZED, PLEASE TRY AGAIN." Chekov is a
3258 genius, a graduate of the academy at seventeen -- he sighs:
3259
3260 CHEKOV (CONT'D)
3261 Aigh, thees is the 23rd Century -- what
3262 good is woice recognition that doesn't
3263 recognize your woice?
3264 (again)
3265 Nine-Five-Victor-Victor-Two.
3266
3267 "ACCESS GRANTED: INTRA-SHIP COMMUNICATION ACTIVE."
3268
3269 CHEKOV ON SCREEN
3270 Your attention, plees: At twenty-two
3271 hundred hours, telemetry detected an
3272 anomaly in the Neutral Zone. What
3273 appeared to be a lightning storm in
3274 space.
3275
327697 INT. THE ENTERPRISE - SERIES OF SHOTS - CONTINUOUS 97
3277
3278 CHEKOV'S FACE appears on monitors throughout the great ship,
3279 including ENGINEERING: CRANE DOWN 12 stories of catwalks as
3280 engineers tend to the DILITHIUM CRYSTAL CHAMBER that operates
3281 the warp drive --
3282
3283 CHEKOV ON SCREEN
3284 Soon after, Starfleet received a distress
3285 signal from the Vulcan High Council that
3286 their planet was experiencing seismic
3287 activity. We then lost contact with
3288 Vulcan entirely.
3289
3290 WEAPONS BAY: TRACKING DOWN rows of PHOTON TORPEDOES stacked for
3291 war -- WEAPONS OFFICERS arming the cannons.
3292
3293 58
329497 CONTINUED: 97
3295
3296 VARIOUS SHOTS of the Crew at work in DIFFERENT SHIP LOCALS.
3297
3298 CHEKOV ON SCREEN (CONT'D)
3299 Our mission is to assess the condition of
3300 Vulcan and assist in evacuations, if
3301 necessary.
3302
3303 MEDICAL BAY: as the med staff sets up a triage area --
3304
3305 CHEKOV ON SCREEN (CONT'D)
3306 We should be arriving at Vulcan within
3307 two minutes. Thank you for your time.
3308
3309 And as Chekov's message ends, Kirk suddenly SITS UP IN FRAME --
3310 his mind SPINNING, through the pain and sedative -- he tries to
3311 get off the bed, to his feet, as McCoy hurries over --
3312
3313 MCCOY
3314 Jim, I told you to stay d-- good God!
3315
3316 What McCoy has just seen -- what we and Kirk see now -- is that
3317 KIRK'S HANDS HAVE SWOLLEN TO ALMOST TWO TIMES THEIR NORMAL SIZE.
3318
3319 KIRK
3320 -- what's this?!
3321
3322 MCCOY
3323 -- I don't know-- a reaction to the
3324 vaccine -- damnit --
3325
3326 Kirk rushes to the video monitor where Chekov was seen -- using
3327 his huge hands, he REWINDS CHEKOV'S SPEECH -- replays this part
3328 as McCoy SCANS KIRK WITH A HANDHELD DIAGNOSER --
3329
3330 CHEKOV ON SCREEN
3331 -- telemetry detected an anomaly in the
3332 Neutral Zone. What appeared to be a
3333 lightning storm in space.
3334
3335 He FREEZES it -- eyes wild -- looks to McCoy --
3336
3337 KIRK
3338 -- Bones -- we have to stop the ship--
3339
3340 MCCOY
3341 -- you're not allergic to Cardassian vole
3342 dander, are you?
3343
3344 KIRK
3345 --- what? How the hell would I know? Is
3346 Uhura on board?
3347
3348 58A
334997 CONTINUED: (2) 97
3350
3351 MCCOY
3352 You need an antidote, Jim, or you're
3353 gonna die.
3354
3355 59
3356
3357
335897A INT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - CORRIDOR 97A
3359
3360 MCCOY
3361 Jim, I'm not kidding, you gotta keep your
3362 heart rate down.
3363
3364 KIRK
3365 Computer, locate crew member Uhura --
3366
3367 MCCOY
3368 I haven't seen a reaction this severe
3369 since Med school.
3370
3371 A MAP appears -- locates her --
3372
3373 COMPUTER VOICE
3374 Lieutenant Uhura is at signals monitoring
3375 station twelve -- deck four.
3376
3377 KIRK
3378 We're flying into a trap.
3379
3380 Kirk RUNS OUT -- McCoy hurrying after him with a bag of gear:
3381
3382 MCCOY
3383 You're delusional, you know that.
3384
3385
338698 INT. SIGNALS MONITORING STATION - CONT. 98
3387
3388 Kirk and McCoy enter -- Kirk stops, looks around --
3389
3390 MCCOY
3391 Come here -- Jim -- don't move --
3392
3393 And McCoy INJECTS HIM WITH ANOTHER SHOT --
3394
3395 KIRK
3396 -- ow! Stop it!
3397
3398 And Kirk runs into a ENORMOUS SPACE -- giant STEEL COLLECTOR
3399 TANKS surround a dozen workstations where CREW MEMBERS collect
3400 data -- Kirk races to Uhura --
3401
3402 KIRK (CONT'D)
3403 The transmission from the Klingon prison
3404 planet -- what exactly did you hear?
3405
3406 UHURA
3407 What are you doing here-- what happened
3408 to your hands?!
3409
3410 60
341198 CONTINUED: 98
3412
3413 Kirk hides his hands behind his back -- as he talks it becomes
3414 MUFFLED AND SLURRED --
3415
3416 KIRK
3417 Who was it who escaped? What was the
3418 ship that was stolen--?!
3419 (to McCoy,
3420 indiscernible)
3421 -- what's happening to my mouth?
3422
3423 MCCOY
3424 (working Hypospray)
3425 -- you've got Numb Tongue --
3426
3427 KIRK
3428 (impossible to make out)
3429 Numb tongue?
3430
3431 MCCOY
3432 That's not good-- I can fix that--
3433
3434 Kirk grabs a pen with his huge hands and writes -- shows her
3435 what he's written: "THE SHIP - WAS IT ROMULAN?" Uhura looks at
3436 him -- somehow scared -- as McCoy INJECTS HIM AGAIN:
3437
3438 KIRK
3439 OW, DAMNIT!!! SONOFABITCH!
3440
344198A EXT. VULCAN SURFACE - OUTSIDE SPOCK'S HOME - CONT. [FRMR 112] 98A
3442
3443 EPIC WIDE SHOT: Amanda's a spec against the MASSIVE, EAR-
3444 SPLITTING PLASMA TWISTER. The image is almost religious. POP
3445 CLOSER to her face -- mesmerized, terrified -- suddenly: a
3446 HOVERSPEEDER RACES IN behind her, at the controls is SAREK:
3447
3448 SAREK
3449 (SHOUTS against wind)
3450 AMANDA! WE MUST GET TO THE SHELTER!
3451
3452 She turns to him in horror --
3453
345499-101 MIT
3455 O 99-101
3456
3457102 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 102
3458
3459 Bridge doors WHOOSH OPEN as Kirk RUNS IN, followed by Uhura and
3460 a harried McCoy --
3461
3462 KIRK
3463 Captain Pike-- Sir, we have to stop ship!
3464
3465 61
3466102 CONTINUED: 102
3467
3468 PIKE MCCOY
3469 -- Mr. Kirk! How the hell did
3470 you get on board the This man is under the
3471 Enterprise?! influence of a severe reaction
3472 to a vaccine. He is
3473 delusional and I take full
3474 responsibility for --
3475
3476 KIRK (CONT'D)
3477 Vulcan isn't experiencing a natural
3478 disaster, it's being attacked -- by
3479 Romulans.
3480
3481 ON THE CREW as that lands. But most specifically, SPOCK.
3482
3483 PIKE
3484 Cadet Kirk, I think you've had enough
3485 attention for one day -- Dr. McCoy,
3486 return to medical, we'll have words
3487 later.
3488
3489 MCCOY
3490 Yessir.
3491
3492 Rebuked, McCoy exits as:
3493
3494 SPOCK KIRK
3495 As you know, Mr. Kirk is not
3496 cleared to be aboard this
3497 vessel. By Starfleet Yeah, I get it, you're a
3498 regulations, that makes him a great arguer, I'd love to do
3499 stowaway... it again with you, too.
3500
3501 I can remove the cadet from -- Try it! This cadet is
3502 the bridge, Sir -- trying to save the bridge!
3503 -- By recommending a full stop
3504 in trans-warp in the midst of
3505 a rescue mission? -- It's not a rescue mission--
3506 listen to me! It's an attack!
3507 -- Based on what facts?
3508
3509 ON KIRK. Enough. And cadet or not, the bridge is HIS.
3510
3511 KIRK
3512 Fact: the same anomaly -- a lighting
3513 storm in space -- that we saw today also
3514 occurred on the day of my birth, before a
3515 Romulan ship attacked the U.S.S. Kelvin.
3516 (to Pike)
3517 You know that, I read your dissertation.
3518 Which was good.
3519 (MORE)
3520
3521 62
3522102 CONTINUED: (2) 102
3523 KIRK (CONT'D)
3524 Fact: This ship -- which had formidable
3525 and advanced weaponry -- was never seen
3526 or heard from again -- fact: the Kelvin
3527 attack took place on the edge of Klingon
3528 space and at 11-hundred hours last night
3529 there was an escape from a Klingon prison
3530 planet -- Rura Penthe -- fact: the
3531 escaped prisoners were Romulans, Sir, and
3532 it was reported that they stole a ship
3533 from the prison dock.
3534
3535 PIKE
3536 And you know of this prison escape how?
3537
3538 Kirk just points to Uhura.
3539
3540 UHURA
3541 Sir, I-- I intercepted and translated the
3542 message myself. Kirk's report is
3543 accurate.
3544
3545 KIRK
3546 We're warping into a trap-- there are
3547 Romulans waiting for us, I promise you
3548 that.
3549
3550 All eyes on Pike. He looks to Spock, who could screw Kirk
3551 here... But--
3552
3553 SPOCK
3554 The cadet's logic is sound.
3555 (then)
3556 And Lieutenant Uhura is unmatched in
3557 xenolinguistics, we would be wise to
3558 accept her conclusion.
3559
3560 PIKE
3561 (to Comm Officer)
3562 Scan Vulcan space, check if any
3563 transmissions are being made in Romulan.
3564
3565 COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
3566 Sir, I'm-- not sure I could distinguish
3567 the Romulan language from Vulcan.
3568
3569 PIKE
3570 (to Uhura)
3571 How about you -- you speak Romulan,
3572 Cadet...?
3573
3574 UHURA
3575 Uhura, Sir. All three dialects.
3576
3577 63
3578102 CONTINUED: (3) 102
3579
3580 PIKE
3581 Uhura, relieve the Lieutenant -- Mr.
3582 Hannity, hail the U.S.S. Truman.
3583
3584 Uhura sits at the console -- she PUTS ON THE EARPIECE. We've
3585 just watched the birth of an icon. She works the controls --
3586
3587 HANNITY
3588 The other ships are out of warp and have
3589 arrived at Vulcan, Sir-- but we seem to
3590 have lost all contact--
3591
3592 UHURA
3593 Captain, I pick up no Romulan
3594 transmissions -- or transmissions of any
3595 kind in the area. There seems to be
3596 something jamming all communication
3597 around Vulcan.
3598
3599 KIRK
3600 It's because they're being attacked.
3601 Captain. Please.
3602
3603 PIKE
3604 (long, tense beat)
3605 Shields up. Ready all weapons.
3606
3607 LIGHTS GO RED. HOLD ON THE FACES of our people -- AFRAID,
3608 HEARTS POUNDING as they dread what they're about to see --
3609
3610 SULU
3611 Arrival at Vulcan in five seconds!
3612 Four... three... two--
3613
3614 SUDDENLY, AS THE ENTERPRISE DROPS OUT OF WARP, THE FLAMING HULL
3615 OF A STARFLEET SHIP COMES BARRELING RIGHT AT THE BRIDGE!
3616
3617 CAPTAIN PIKE SULU
3618 EMERGENCY EVASIVE! ON IT, SIR!
3619
3620 Sulu DIPS the Enterprise FAST AND HARD and the spinning debris
3621 JUST SCARS the ship. The bridge shakes, but rights itself. THE
3622 CREW SEES THE NARADA FLOATING ABOVE THE PLANET -- THEIR EYES GO
3623 WIDE AT THE MONUMENTAL SHIP -- meanwhile, inside:
3624
3625103-6 OMIT 103-6
3626
3627107 INT. THE NARADA - CONTINUOUS 107
3628
3629 A PROXIMITY ALARM rings out --
3630
3631 ROMULAN FIRST OFFICER
3632 Sir, another Federation ship!
3633
3634 64
3635107 CONTINUED: 107
3636
3637 NERO
3638 Destroy it, too.
3639
3640108 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 108
3641
3642 Spock snaps to Pike as images FLASH on his console --
3643
3644 SPOCK
3645 Captain, they're locking torpedoes!
3646
3647 PIKE
3648 Full reverse, come about Starboard ninety
3649 degrees! Drop us down underneath them!
3650 Prepare to fire all weapons!
3651
3652109 EXT. SPACE - ABOVE VULCAN - CONTINUOUS 109
3653
3654 The Narada FIRES A TORPEDO and in a wild move, the Enterprise
3655 DROPS AND TUMBLES -- the SEPARATING TORPEDO passes RIGHT BETWEEN
3656 THE ENTERPRISE'S NACELLES -- ONE PIECE HITS our hero ship's
3657 DEFLECTOR DISH -- another the MAIN DISH and --
3658
3659110 INT./EXT. ENTERPRISE - ENGINEERING - CONTINUOUS 110
3660
3661 A CREW MEMBER runs through the machine room catwalks as a HUGE
3662 EXPLOSION sends him -- and large steel tanks -- TUMBLING INTO
3663 SPACE --
3664
3665 We see the ship from a distance -- the scale of the destruction
3666 relatively small --
3667
3668111 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 111
3669
3670 SULU
3671 Shields at thirty-two percent! Their
3672 weapons are powerful, Sir, we can't take
3673 another hit like that!
3674
3675 PIKE
3676 Get me Starfleet Command!
3677
3678
3679
3680 (CONT'D)
3681
3682 SPOCK
3683 Captain, the Romulan ship has lowered
3684 some kind of high energy pulse device
3685 into the Vulcan atmosphere-- its signal
3686 appears to be blocking our communications
3687 and transporter abilities!
3688
3689 64A
3690111 CONTINUED: 111
3691
3692 PIKE
3693 All power to forward shields -- prepare
3694 to fire all weapons!
3695
3696 65
3697
3698
3699111A INT. ENTERPRISE - WEAPONS BAY - CONTINUOUS 111A
3700
3701 Photons LOADED fast by CREW MEMBERS and --
3702
3703112 OMIT 112
3704
3705113 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 113
3706
3707 The Enterprise SWOOPS AROUND, firing photons at the Narada which
3708 takes the hits in stride --
3709
3710114 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 114
3711
3712 The bridge in action --
3713
3714 ROMULAN TACTICAL OFFICER
3715 Fire torpedoes, take them out--!
3716
3717 And just before our heroes are blown into oblivion, Nero
3718 suddenly LURCHES FORWARD and stabs out a hand:
3719
3720 NERO
3721 WAIT!!!
3722
3723 Nero's eyes are hard and bright as diamond drills:
3724
3725 NERO (CONT'D)
3726 The hull -- magnify --
3727
3728 On screen, the Enterprise's hull is revealed "U.S.S. ENTERPRISE
3729 NCC-1701." Nero LIGHTS UP with recognition --
3730
3731115 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 115
3732
3733 Pike on the comm:
3734
3735 PIKE
3736 Divert auxiliary power from port nacelle
3737 to the shields--!
3738
3739 But Pike stops when he sees, on the viewscreen
3740
3741 UHURA
3742 Captain, we're being hailed!
3743
3744 Pike looks over -- nods -- Uhura works controls and on
3745 viewscreen, Nero appears. Cool. Cordial. In English:
3746
3747 NERO
3748 Hello.
3749
3750 PIKE
3751 I am Captain Christopher Pike, to whom am
3752 I speaking?
3753
3754 66
3755115 CONTINUED: 115
3756
3757 NERO
3758 I am called Nero.
3759
3760 CLOSE ON KIRK -- breathless -- suddenly staring at the man who
3761 murdered his father -- holy SHIT...
3762
3763 PIKE
3764 You've declared war against the
3765 Federation. Withdraw, and I'll agree to
3766 arrange a conference with Romulan
3767 leadership at a neutral loca--
3768
3769 NERO
3770 I do not speak for the Empire. We stand
3771 apart. As does your Vulcan crew
3772 member... isn't that right? Spock?
3773
3774 All eyes on Spock. Spock looks to Pike, who nods permission:
3775
3776 SPOCK
3777 (to Nero)
3778 Pardon me. But I don't believe you and I
3779 are acquainted.
3780
3781 NERO
3782 ... no, we're not. Not yet.
3783 (then)
3784 I would like you to see something.
3785 Spock.
3786 (then)
3787 Captain Pike-- your transporter
3788 capability is disabled. You will man a
3789 shuttle and come aboard the Narada for
3790 negotiations. That is all.
3791
3792 The transmission ENDS. The crew stares in grave anticipation --
3793
3794 KIRK SPOCK
3795 -- he'll kill you, you know
3796 that-- Your survival is unlikely--
3797 -- Captain, we gain nothing by
3798 diplomacy-- going over to that -- I, too, suggest you rethink
3799 ship is a mistake. this strategy.
3800
3801 PIKE
3802 I understand that --
3803 (loud, to the bridge)
3804 I need officers who have been trained in
3805 advanced hand-to-hand combat!
3806
3807 Sulu's hand goes up --
3808
3809 SULU
3810 I have training, Sir!
3811
3812 67
3813115 CONTINUED: (2) 115
3814
3815 PIKE
3816 Then come with me -- Kirk, you too--
3817 you're not supposed to be here anyway.
3818 (to Chekov)
3819 Radio the engine room, have Chief
3820 Engineer Olsen meet us at Shuttle Bay
3821 Five.
3822
3823 CHEKOV
3824 Aye, Keptin.
3825
3826 PIKE
3827 Let's go.
3828
3829 Bridge doors WHOOSH open -- they EXIT.
3830
3831116 OMIT 116
3832
3833117 INT. ENTERPRISE - CORRIDORS - CONTINUOUS 117
3834
3835 WE TRACK FAST with Pike, Kirk, Spock and Sulu as they HURRY
3836 through the Enterprise toward the shuttle bay:
3837
3838 PIKE
3839 Without transporters, we can't beam off
3840 the ship, can't assist Vulcan, can't do
3841 our job. I'm creating an opportunity:
3842 Mr. Kirk, Mr. Sulu and Mr. Olson will
3843 space-jump from the shuttle. You'll have
3844 chutes -- you'll land on that machine
3845 they've lowered into the atmosphere
3846 that's scrambling our gear-- you'll get
3847 inside, disable that thing then beam back
3848 to the ship.
3849
3850 Kirk and Sulu share a HOLY FUCKING SHIT look --
3851
3852 KIRK
3853 ... okay.
3854
3855 PIKE
3856 Mr. Spock, I'm leaving you in command of
3857 the ship. Once we have transport
3858 capability and communications back up,
3859 you'll contact Starfleet and report what
3860 the hell's happening here.
3861 (MORE)
3862
3863 68
3864117 CONTINUED: 117
3865 PIKE (CONT'D)
3866 Something you've got only precious few
3867 minutes to figure out. If all else
3868 fails, fall back and rendezvous with the
3869 fleet in the Laurentian System.
3870 (Spock is freaked, then)
3871 Kirk. I'm promoting you to First
3872 Officer.
3873
3874
3875 KIRK SPOCK
3876 What!?! -- Captain?
3877
3878 PIKE (CONT'D)
3879 While I'm gone we need to keep the chain
3880 of command. And you two make a swell
3881 team.
3882
3883 SPOCK
3884 Captain. Please. I apologize, but the
3885 complexities of human pranks escape me.
3886
3887 PIKE
3888 It's not a prank, Spock. And I'm not the
3889 Captain. You are.
3890
3891 And with that, he's DONE. Strides off. Kirk finally shakes off
3892 the shock of his PROMOTION --
3893
3894 KIRK
3895 Once we knock out that machine... Sir,
3896 what happens to you?
3897
3898 PIKE
3899 I guess you'll have to come get me.
3900 (turns; to Spock)
3901 Careful with the ship. She's brand new.
3902
3903 They appreciate the pure BALLS of that. BRAVERY washes over
3904 them -- they'd fucking DIE for their Captain, who now turns to
3905 Kirk and Sulu --
3906
3907 PIKE (CONT'D)
3908 Suit up, Gentlemen.
3909
3910118 EXT. CITY OF VULCANA REGAR - CONTINUOUS 118
3911
3912 Sarek's hovercraft speeds along the desert floor, arriving at a
3913 massive CAVE OPENING -- he and Amanda hurry off the craft --
3914 into the cave --
3915
3916 68A
3917
3918
3919118A INT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONT. [FORMERLY SC. 116] 118A
3920
3921 Bridge doors WHOOSH open -- all eyes on Spock as he enters --
3922 their new captain. With cold certainty, he takes the command
3923 chair, hits the intercom:
3924
3925 SPOCK
3926 Dr. Puri, report --
3927
3928118B INT. MEDICAL BAY - CONTINUOUS 118B
3929
3930 CHAOS, UTTER AND COMPLETE. WOUNDED MEN AND WOMEN, it's bad,
3931 bloody -- a HAND hits an intercom: McCoy, badly shaken --
3932
3933 MCCOY
3934 It's McCoy-- Dr. Puri was on Deck 6, he's
3935 dead.
3936
3937 SPOCK
3938 (beat)
3939 Then you have just inherited his
3940 responsibility as Chief Medical Officer.
3941
3942 MCCOY
3943 Aye, Sir.
3944
3945 69
3946
3947
3948119 INT. ENTERPRISE - SHUTTLE BAY - CONTINUOUS 119
3949
3950 QUICK CUTS: Kirk, Sulu, and the ship's LEAD ENGINEER OLSON are
3951 suiting up for the drop, strapping on sleek AIRDROP ARMOR. WEB
3952 BELTS. CHUTE PACKS. HARNESSES. HELMETS. COM-SETS.
3953
3954119A INT. SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 119A
3955
3956 They race into the shuttle and take seats facing each other
3957 across a narrow aisle -- Red Shirt Engineer GRINS like he's
3958 going on a ski trip:
3959
3960 RED SHIRT ENGINEER
3961 I am pumped to kick some Romulan ass! No
3962 joke. BRING IT ON!
3963
3964 Kirk nods at him -- subtext: "What a fucking sack." He looks to
3965 Sulu.
3966
3967 KIRK
3968 So what kinda combat training d'you have?
3969
3970 SULU
3971 (proudly)
3972 Fencing.
3973
3974 KIRK
3975 (unimpressed, beat)
3976 ... fencing.
3977
3978 In the COCKPIT, Pike works the controls -- MOTORS WHINE and the
3979 craft LURCHES --
3980
3981119B INT. ENTERPRISE SHUTTLE HANGAR - NIGHT 119B
3982
3983 We see the shuttle LEAVE THE DOCK --
3984
3985120 EXT. IN ORBIT ABOVE VULCAN - CONTINUOUS 120
3986
3987 The shuttle soars from the Enterprise bay, the planet Vulcan a
3988 red orb below... THRUSTERS FLARE as it descends and now we
3989 REVEAL AN INCREDIBLE SIGHT:
3990
3991 THE NARADA: FROM ITS BELLY, TENTACLE CABLES DESCEND TOWARD THE
3992 PLANET'S OUTER ATMOSPHERE, WHERE THE PLASMA DRILL SUB-STATION IS
3993 TETHERED: THE SOURCE OF THE DRILL BEAM SHOOTING INTO THE PLANET.
3994 The shuttle GLIDES to a hover, 60,000 FEET ABOVE THE DRILL --
3995
3996 70
3997
3998
3999121 INT. SHUTTLE - CONTINUOUS 121
4000
4001 A KLAXON SOUNDS, signalling depressurization of the cargo lock --
4002 the guys ready their equipment, snatching for handstraps,
4003 standing on the lip of THE AIRLOCK -- Kirk and Sulu meet eyes
4004 through their helmet faceplates, the point of no return --
4005 PIKE'S VOICE over their headsets:
4006
4007 PIKE (V.O.)
4008 Pre-jump on one: Three, two, one.
4009
4010 KIRK, SULU, AND RED SHIRT ARE SLAMMED HARD INTO THE ROOF OF THE
4011 CARGO HOLD AS GRAVITY DIES.
4012
4013 PIKE (CONT'D)
4014 Good luck.
4015
4016 Pike hits another control -- as the shuttle BOMB BAY DOORS OPEN -
4017 - and KIRK, SULU, AND RED SHIRT ARE INSTANTLY PULLED OUT, INTO:
4018
4019122 EXT. ABOVE VULCAN - CONTINUOUS 122
4020
4021 THE THREE MEN IN VIOLENT FREEFALL TOWARD THE PLANET -- IN WILD
4022 SPIN -- THE SENSE OF SPEED'S BEYOND EXHILARATING --
4023
4024 ROCKETING THROUGH THE VOID AT 150 MPH AS THEY BREAK THROUGH THE
4025 PLANET'S ATMOSPHERE -- SHAKING VIOLENTLY AT TERMINAL VELOCITY --
4026
4027123 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 123
4028
4029 The falling trio TRACKED ON SCREEN, everyone watches, agape:
4030
4031 CHEKOV
4032 Away team's entering the atmosphere --
4033
4034 SPOCK and UHURA meet eyes -- this is fucking insane -- and a
4035 MAN'S ENTHUSIASTIC YELLING takes us to:
4036
4037124 EXT. VULCAN'S ATMOSPHERE -- CONTINUOUS 124
4038
4039 OLSON
4040 WHOOOAAAHYYYEAAAAH!
4041
4042 ONE BY ONE THEY STABILIZE -- FALLING FACE DOWN -- STRAIGHT PAST
4043 THE CABLE TENTACLES TETHERING THE DRILL TO THE NARADA WHICH GIVE
4044 US A SENSE OF INCREDIBLE RELATIVE SPEED AND SCALE -- THESE
4045 MASSIVE CABLES AT DIZZYING SPEED --
4046
4047 THEY ANGLE THEIR HANDS AND FEET FOR CONTROL, GUIDING THEMSELVES
4048 TOWARD THE PLASMA DRILL -- SULU PULLS HIS CHUTE FIRST, THEN KIRK
4049 -- their chutes SNAP OPEN -- JERKING THEM HARD UPWARD AS THE RED
4050 SHIRT BLOWS PAST KIRK AND SULU --
4051
4052 71
4053124 CONTINUED: 124
4054
4055 KIRK
4056 OLSON, PULL NOW, NOW!!!
4057
4058 HE DEPLOYS HIS CHUTE LAST -- 50 FT -- 40 -- 30 AND HIS CHUTE
4059 BILLOWS OUT, OPENED TOO LATE -- OLSEN'S FUCKING BODY SLAMS INTO
4060 THE EDGE OF THE CIRCULAR DRILL, BOUNCING OFF HARD STEEL AND
4061 RIGHT INTO ITS CENTER WHERE THE SWIRLING VORTEX SPINS -- HE'S
4062 INSTANTLY EVISCERATED IN THE PLASMA LIGHT!
4063
4064 Kirk approaches -- more terrified than ever -- he comes in hard,
4065 too -- SLAMS against the drill edge, bounces but quickly gets
4066 his footing -- hits a button on his chute and SLITS appear in
4067 the fabric, suddenly there's no more drag and THE CHUTE AUTO-
4068 RETRACTS into Kirk's pack -- A REUSABLE PARACHUTE.
4069
4070 BUT SULU ISN'T SO LUCKY: 20 yards from the drill surface his
4071 chute gets SNARED IN THE CABLES, JERKING him upside down -- the
4072 WIND is so intense Sulu is BLOWN SIDEWAYS -- his CHUTE LINES
4073 begin RUBBING on the sharp metal of the suspension rig! Kirk
4074 holds on to one of the chute's cables -- yells up:
4075
4076 KIRK (CONT'D)
4077 I'M COMING FOR YOU!
4078
4079 As Kirk tries to climb up, Sulu's cables begin to SNAP! ONE BY
4080 ONE -- and Sulu tries to CLIMB BACK using his chute cables,
4081 toward the rig -- otherwise he's gonna fly off.
4082
4083 As Kirk makes his way up the rig, suddenly:
4084
4085 SULU
4086 BEHIND YOU!!
4087
4088 Kirk SPINS just as a Romulan appears -- tackling Kirk to the
4089 drill platform! The two FIGHT PRECARIOUSLY ON THE EDGE OF THE
4090 SWIRLING PLASMA DRILL, WIND ROARING -- and suddenly there's
4091 ANOTHER ROMULAN from an OPEN HATCH! SULU SLIDES DOWN THE CABLE -
4092 - JUMPING and tackling the second guard and the shit is ON: our
4093 Starfleet heroes battling these Romulans to the death -- and
4094 Sulu KICKS OFF AN ANTENNA PIECE and uses it as a SABER --
4095 fucking swashbuckling at 10,000 feet! It's a frenzied assault
4096 even the bigger Romulan isn't ready for, and Sulu manages to
4097 KICK him into the vortex, where he's VAPORIZED as --
4098
4099 KIRK draws his PHASER and point-blank SHOOTS the Romulan,
4100 knocking him clear OFF the cylinder and into the sky, falling to
4101 his death, DISINTEGRATING as he falls --
4102
4103 Against pummeling wind, Kirk and Sulu move toward the HATCH --
4104 OPEN IT -- as:
4105
4106125 OMIT 125
4107
4108 72
4109
4110
4111126 INT. NARADA - HANGAR 126
4112
4113 Pike's SHUTTLE DOOR OPENS. Pike steps out. Surrounded by a
4114 dozen of Nero's men. Ayel steps forward. Pike stands firm,
4115 knowing this is the end for him:
4116
4117 PIKE
4118 I'm Captain Christopher Pi--
4119
4120 WHACK! He's cut off by a PUNCH to the face. Drops to his
4121 knees. Looks up at Ayel with blazing eyes, wipes a trickle of
4122 blood from his lip:
4123
4124 PIKE (CONT'D)
4125 So much for diplomacy.
4126
4127 He's DRAGGED AWAY as --
4128
4129127 INT. PLASMA DRILL CYLINDER - CONTINUOUS 127
4130
4131 Kirk and Sulu DROP IN through the outer hatch to find a control
4132 console, Sulu madly flips switches, no luck --
4133
4134 SULU
4135 None of this is familiar-- the interface,
4136 the controls--
4137
4138 KIRK SULU
4139 Step back-- -- what, you have an idea?
4140 -- yeahyeah, I do--
4141
4142 Kirk FIRES his PHASER at the console, BLASTING IT --
4143
4144128 EXT. PLASMA DRILL - CONTINUOUS 128
4145
4146 The immense column of light DISAPPEARS, leaving only a towering,
4147 swirling vortex of DIRT --
4148
4149129 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 129
4150
4151 Uhura's console LIGHTS UP with activity:
4152
4153 UHURA
4154 The jamming signal's gone --
4155 communications are re-established --
4156
4157 CHEKOV
4158 Transporter control re-engaged --
4159
4160 Spock looks up from his console, grave --
4161
4162 73
4163129 CONTINUED: 129
4164
4165 SPOCK
4166 Chekov, run gravitational sensors -- I
4167 want to know what they're doing to the
4168 planet.
4169
4170 CHEKOV
4171 Aye, Commander-- Keptin, sorry. Keptin.
4172
4173130 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 130
4174
4175 A Romulan Helmsman RUNS to Nero --
4176
4177 ROMULAN HELMSMAN
4178 The drill's been sabotaged, Sir.
4179
4180 Nero, mind racing --
4181
4182 NERO
4183 Launch the red matter. Now.
4184
4185131 EXT. NARADA - SPACE 131
4186
4187 The POD we saw earlier is FIRED from the ship -- it WHIPS past.
4188
4189132 EXT. PLASMA DRILL CYLINDER - CONTINUOUS 132
4190
4191 Kirk and Sulu pull themselves from the control cockpit back out
4192 onto the drill's outer hull, they start to hear a SOUND... A
4193 HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEK... GETTING LOUDER AS IT FALLS TOWARD THEM...
4194 THEY LOOK UP JUST IN TIME TO SEE: THE RED MATTER POD RIP RIGHT
4195 PAST THEM -- SNAP-TILT DOWN WITH IT AS IT PLUMMETS TOWARD
4196 VULCAN'S SURFACE, DISAPPEARING INTO THE DRILLED GAPING HOLE --
4197
4198 And for an instant... nothing. What looks like a puff of smoke
4199 billowing up from the planet's core... THEN A SHOCKWAVE BLASTS
4200 UPWARD, ALL THE WAY UP TO THE DRILL AT 10,000 FEET -- KIRK AND
4201 SULU FEEL IT -- LOSE THEIR BALANCE, FIGHT FOR PURCHASE AS:
4202
4203 KIRK
4204 Kirk to Enterprise -- they just launched
4205 something toward the planet!
4206
4207133 EXT. VULCAN SURFACE - CONTINUOUS 133
4208
4209 SCENES OF DESTRUCTION ACROSS THE PLANET AS IT STARTS TO COME
4210 APART: HUGE FISSURES FORM IN THE DESERT TERRAIN -- CRACKS SPREAD
4211 -- MOUNTAINS CRUMBLE -- PLATES SHIFTING, LAVA SPEWING SKYWARD --
4212 THE HEAT AND CONCUSSIVE BLAST SHAKE THE CAMERA TO A BLUR --
4213
4214134 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 134
4215
4216 WARNING ALARMS SCREAM:
4217
4218 74
4219134 CONTINUED: 134
4220
4221 CHEKOV
4222 Keptin: gravitational sensors are off the
4223 scale -- if my calculations are correct,
4224 that pod they launched is creating a
4225 singularity... that will consume the
4226 planet.
4227
4228 SPOCK'S STOIC FACE. WE GET ONLY A HINT OF THE WILD EMOTIONS
4229 STIRRING INSIDE HIM -- Uhura watches Spock, heartsick for him:
4230
4231 SPOCK
4232 They're creating a black hole... at the
4233 center of Vulcan?
4234
4235 CHEKOV
4236 ... yessir.
4237
4238 SPOCK
4239 How long does the planet have?
4240
4241 CHEKOV
4242 ... minutes, Sir. I'd say minutes.
4243
4244 SPOCK
4245 (beat, to Uhura)
4246 Alert Vulcan Command Center to signal a
4247 planetwide evacuation-- all channels, all
4248 frequencies -- maintain standard orbit --
4249
4250 UHURA
4251 What? Spock, wait --
4252
4253 She goes after him as he moves to the TURBOLIFT --
4254
4255 UHURA (CONT'D)
4256 -- where are you going?
4257
4258 SPOCK
4259 To evacuate the Vulcan High Council--
4260 they're tasked with protecting our
4261 cultural history. My parents will be
4262 among them--
4263
4264 UHURA
4265 -- you can't beam them out?
4266
4267 SPOCK
4268 It's not possible -- they'll be in the
4269 Katrik Arc, I must get them myself--
4270
4271 TURBOLIFT DOORS CLOSE AS --
4272
4273 75
4274
4275
4276135 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 135
4277
4278 HOLOGRAMS of VULCAN UNDER DESTRUCTION -- Nero watching them,
4279 pleased. He turns to Ayel --
4280
4281 NERO
4282 Retract the drill, let's move out!
4283
4284135A EXT. NARADA 135A
4285
4286 The drill platform LURCHES -- begins RETRACTING --
4287
4288136 EXT. PLASMA DRILL CYLINDER - CONTINUOUS 136
4289
4290 The platform BANKS -- Sulu FALLS BACK, OFF THE PLATFORM --
4291 WITHOUT A CHUTE! Kirk, holding on, watching this wide-eyed --
4292 and knowing what he must do, he RUNS AND JUMPS --
4293
4294 KIRK FALLS FAST, he's only gonna have one shot at this, presses
4295 his arms to his sides and ROCKETS downward, building speed, four
4296 hundred feet below is Sulu, FREEFALLING --
4297
4298 KIRK moves his feet and hands, angling toward him -- slashing
4299 downward at 160 mph, closing like a missile -- the gap between
4300 them narrows -- Sulu's 30 feet below him... 5000 feet to the
4301 planet surface. 40 ft -- 20 -- 10 -- WHAM! Kirk slams into
4302 Sulu in a mid-air tackle -- they TUMBLE TOGETHER -- Kirk's made
4303 the grab and locked his arms around Sulu in an iron grip,
4304 screams in his face:
4305
4306 KIRK
4307 I GOTCHA! NOW PULL MY CHUTE!
4308
4309 Sulu DOES -- it opens -- but HOLY FUCK, the double weight RIPS
4310 IT -- IT SNAPS AWAY FROM THEM -- NOW THEY'RE BOTH FREE-FALLING
4311 WITH NO CHUTE, THE GROUND COMING AT THEM FAST!
4312
4313 KIRK (CONT'D)
4314 ENTERPRISE, WE'RE FALLING WITHOUT A
4315 CHUTE!!! BEAM US UP!!! BEAM US UP!!!
4316
4317136A INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY 136A
4318
4319 The TRANSPORTER CHIEF works his controls, sweating -- trying to
4320 LOCK ON TO THEIR MOVING TARGET --
4321
4322 TRANSPORTER CHIEF
4323 I'm trying! I can't lock on your signal!
4324
4325137 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 137
4326
4327 SNAP AROUND as Chekov hears this -- watching his controls --
4328 Uhura watching too --
4329
4330 76
4331137 CONTINUED: 137
4332
4333 TRANSPORTER CHIEF (V.O.)
4334 -- you're moving too fast!
4335
4336 CHEVOK
4337 -- no-- I can do that-- I CAN DO THAT!!!
4338
4339 Chekov suddenly BOLTS -- Uhura watches him race off -- a CREW
4340 MEMBER steps into frame:
4341
4342 CREW MEMBER
4343 The black hole's expanding, we won't
4344 reach minimum safe distance if we don't
4345 leave immediately!
4346
4347137A INT. ENTERPRISE - VARIOUS AREAS 137A
4348
4349 Chekov SPRINTS through CORRIDORS -- ENGINE ROOM -- YELLING:
4350
4351 CHEKOV
4352 MOVE! I CAN DO THAT! I CAN DO THAT!!!
4353
4354 And we take him to:
4355
4356137B INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY 137B
4357
4358 -- where he races to the controls, out of breath, yelling:
4359
4360 CHEKOV
4361 I CAN LOCK ON! GIMME MANUAL CONTROL!
4362 QUICK!!!
4363
4364 -- and he begins working the controls --
4365
4366137C EXT. SKIES ABOVE VULCAN PLANET SURFACE - DAY 137C
4367
4368 Kirk and Sulu SPEED-DROPPING -- TERRIFIED --
4369
4370 KIRK
4371 ENTERPRISE, WHERE ARE YOU?!?!
4372
4373137D INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY 137D
4374
4375 Chekov's manipulating a joystick-like TARGETING DISPLAY --
4376 trying to match the CROSSHAIRS on the DROPPING FIGURES --
4377
4378 CHEKOV
4379 -- holdonholdonholdonholdon!
4380
4381138 EXT. SKIES ABOVE VULCAN PLANET SURFACE - CONTINUOUS 138
4382
4383 A massive SHEET OF LAVA, MILES HIGH, BURSTS INTO THE SKY -- Kirk
4384 and Sulu enter frame, BULLET-WHOOSH right past us, DROPPING --
4385
4386 77
4387138 CONTINUED: 138
4388
4389 KIRK
4390 (headset)
4391 NOW NOW NOW!!! DO IT NOW!!!!!!
4392
4393139 INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY [LOCATION CHANGE] 139
4394
4395 TIGHT ON CHEKOV as he struggles to lock onto them -- BEEP!
4396
4397 CHEKOV
4398 Compensating gravitational pull and--
4399 GOTCHA!
4400
4401 He HITS A BUTTON and --
4402
4403140 EXT. VULCAN SURFACE - CONTINUOUS 140
4404
4405 5 FEET BEFORE THEY HIT THE GROUND, KIRK AND SULU DEMATERIALIZE!
4406
4407141 INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY - CONTINUOUS 141
4408
4409 AND REMATERIALIZE, SLAMMING DOWN ON THE TRANSPORTER PADS, HARD
4410 AND PAINFUL, BUT SAFE! Transporter engineers GAPE in utter
4411 amazement and relief -- Chekov, sweating, laughs. Kirk and Sulu
4412 get their bearings, peeling themselves up, at stunned whispers:
4413
4414 SULU
4415 ... thanks.
4416
4417 KIRK
4418 ... yeah, not a problem.
4419
4420 And Kirk looks up as SPOCK hurries in --
4421
4422 SPOCK
4423 Step aside -- I'm going to the surface.
4424
4425 As the console ENGINEER works the display --
4426
4427 KIRK
4428 The surface of what? YOU'RE GOING DOWN
4429 THERE? Are you nuts?!
4430
4431 SPOCK
4432 Energize --
4433
4434 And Spock DEMATERIALIZES --
4435
4436142 EXT. VULCAN - DAY 142
4437
4438 PUSH IN as Spock MATERIALIZES -- the distant landscape around
4439 him COLLAPSING, IMPLODING, EXPLODING -- he sprints for the
4440 MOUNTAIN -- the entrance to the ARK -- a scared, small CREATURE
4441 runs past Spock as he heads up the mountain -- rocks falling --
4442
4443 78
4444
4445
4446143 INT. KATRIC ARK CHAMBER - DAY 143
4447
4448 Spock RACES through the tunnels as the world SHAKES around him --
4449 he enters the massive ARK CHAMBER -- sees, atop the enormous
4450 stairs, FIVE VULCAN ELDERS, Sarek among them, hands placed on
4451 the sarcophagus-like ark. Mind melding with it. Amanda is here
4452 too, kneeling beside Sarek -- and she sees her son, who is now
4453 RUNNING toward them -- she stands:
4454
4455 AMANDA
4456 Spock--!
4457
4458 Spock rushes up the stairs --
4459
4460 SPOCK
4461 The planet's not safe, it has only
4462 seconds left -- we must evacuate now --
4463
4464 And as they run out, ENORMOUS ROCKS COLLAPSE AROUND THEM -- and
4465 they run through the tunnels, the STONE COLLAPSING AROUND THEM --
4466
4467144 EXT. TUNNEL ENTRANCE - DAY 144
4468
4469 Spock and the group finally emerge from the tunnels to see --
4470 THE PLANET IS COLLAPSING, COMING TOWARD THEM -- Spock whips
4471 open a tri-corder, TREMBLING LIKE CRAZY --
4472
4473 SPOCK
4474 Spock to Enterprise: take us back now!
4475
4476145 INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER ROOM - CONTINUOUS [SET CHANGE] 145
4477
4478 Chekov works the controls:
4479
4480 CHEKOV
4481 Locking volume, transport in 5-4-3--
4482
4483146 EXT. KATRIC ARK CHAMBER - CONTINUOUS 146
4484
4485 HORROR AS THE WORLD LITERALLY STARTS TO FALL APART AROUND SPOCK,
4486 HIS PARENTS AND THE FIVE ELDERS -- MASSIVE SINKHOLES APPEARING,
4487 LIKE THE GRAND CANYON RACING FOR THEM -- AND WE SEE IN ALL THEIR
4488 FACES -- THE BELIEF THAT THEIR PLANET -- THAT THEY -- ARE GOING
4489 TO DIE -- and Spock, trying to hold it together -- even though
4490 their transport hasn't yet begun -- looks at Amanda -- their
4491 eyes lock -- THE COLLAPSING GROUND RACING TOWARD THEM -- and in
4492 a surreal, intimate moment, Amanda says to Spock, quietly:
4493
4494 AMANDA
4495 It's okay. To be scared.
4496
4497 79
4498146 CONTINUED: 146
4499
4500 PUSH IN ON SPOCK, looking at her -- as the LIGHT DARTS start
4501 TRACING THEM -- and they begin to EVAPORATE AS THE GROUND DROPS
4502 FROM UNDER AMANDA -- AND SHE'S SUCKED DOWN -- AWAY -- as Spock
4503 REACHES FOR HER, CALLING OUT --
4504
4505 SPOCK
4506 MOTHER!!!!
4507
4508147 INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY - CONTINUOUS 147
4509
4510 Chekov in a panic at the controls --
4511
4512 CHEKOV
4513 NO!!! I'M LOSING HER!!!
4514
4515 -- as the Vulcans MATERIALIZE on the pad, Spock still REACHING
4516 for his mother -- but all he gets it the GHOSTLY IMAGE OF HER --
4517 BEAUTIFUL, HOLDING, FROZEN IN SPACE -- AN IMAGE HE'LL BE HAUNTED
4518 BY FOREVER -- AS IT FADES AWAY, EVANESCING LIKE MIST -- ON SPOCK
4519 as it lands -- Sarek too... a mother... a wife... has been lost.
4520 And Kirk stands nearby, having observed all of this, without
4521 anything to do or say... there's no cheating death.
4522
4523148 EXT. SPACE - ETERNAL NIGHT 148
4524
4525 And the Enterprise BLASTS AWAY -- in the distance, THE ENTIRE
4526 PLANET OF VULCAN SWALLOWS INTO ITSELF -- A TERRIFYING,
4527 UNIMAGINABLE IMPLOSION -- UNTIL NOTHING IS THERE BUT DARKNESS.
4528 And over this we HEAR:
4529
4530 SPOCK (V.O.)
4531 Acting Captain's log. Stardate 2256.42:
4532 I have assumed command of the Enterprise.
4533
4534149-50 MIT
4535 O 149-50
4536
4537151 INT. ENTERPRISE - SICK BAY - CONTINUOUS 151
4538
4539 SHOCK. The kind that crashes after the world's changed. In
4540 triage, the bay's filled with wounded Enterprise Officers. The
4541 Vulcan Elders and Sarek being examined as well. Kirk sits here,
4542 getting his hand bandaged from the fight. During this, he looks
4543 up, seeing one of the Elders being treated for a slight wound --
4544 her GREEN BLOOD seen through the bandage...
4545
4546 SPOCK (V.O.)
4547 We've heard no word from Captain Pike. I
4548 have therefore classified him a hostage
4549 of the war criminal known as Nero.
4550
4551 80
4552
4553
4554151A INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE 151A
4555
4556 Spock sits in the captain's chair, reporting. He's glassy-eyed,
4557 staring at nothing as he speaks. Behind him, Uhura sits,
4558 watching, concerned.
4559
4560 SPOCK
4561 Nero, who has destroyed my home planet.
4562 And most of its six billion inhabitants.
4563 I estimate no more than ten thousand
4564 survived.
4565 (beat)
4566 While the essence of our culture has been
4567 saved, in the elders who now reside upon
4568 this ship... I am now a member of an
4569 endangered species.
4570
4571 Spock considers this. Clicks off the log recorder. Spock moves
4572 off, into the turbolift -- Uhura follows him --
4573
4574152 INT. TURBOLIFT - CONTINUOUS 152
4575
4576 Spock and Uhura. Silence hangs. She glances over, wanting to
4577 say so much, but not to invade what must be the worst moment of
4578 his life. He looks at her, with kind eyes. And Uhura does
4579 something odd -- she STOPS the lift. Spock looks over as she
4580 wordlessly reaches out and puts her arms around him. Just
4581 holding him. Kissing his face with utter tenderness and
4582 comfort, which he lets her do... and we realize, this is why the
4583 intimacy before -- this is their secret...
4584
4585 UHURA
4586 I'm so sorry.
4587
4588 Spock looks off, taking comfort, bewildered and lost...
4589
4590 UHURA (CONT'D)
4591 What can I do? Tell me what you need.
4592
4593 SPOCK
4594 ... I need...
4595
4596 He's on the verge of some emotional release... but self-
4597 consciousness returns and he clamps up, starting the lift again:
4598
4599 SPOCK (CONT'D)
4600 I need for us all to continue performing
4601 admirably.
4602
4603 He looks at her again -- gives her another kiss. The door opens
4604 and he exits. She watches him go -- and the door closes on her.
4605
4606 81
4607
4608
4609152A INT. ENTERPRISE - CORRIDOR 152A
4610
4611 Kirk comes down the hall, stretching his hand bandage -- when he
4612 stops. Standing at the other end of the corridor, operating a
4613 DATAPAD is a familiar-looking GREEN GIRL. Guilt overcomes him.
4614 After a beat he moves to her. Awkward.
4615
4616 KIRK
4617 Hey.
4618 (she turns to him)
4619 Listen, about what happened at Starfleet.
4620 The test and everything-- I know it looks
4621 like I was... using you, or whatever.
4622 And I'm sorry. I really am. And... I
4623 just hope you'll forgive me.
4624
4625 She just stares at him for a long beat, as if she's just pissed.
4626 But Kirk's face changes... and then he says:
4627
4628 KIRK (CONT'D)
4629 ... you're not Gaila, are you?
4630
4631 NOT GAILA
4632 (pissed)
4633 No.
4634
4635 KIRK
4636 (nods)
4637 Sorry.
4638
4639 And he walks off. (NOTE: ALT. VERSION HAS GAILA SAYING, "I'M
4640 NOT GAILA.")
4641
4642153 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 153
4643
4644 Uhura at her station, scanning for enemy signals -- all of our
4645 principals are here, in debate:
4646
4647 SPOCK
4648 Lieutenant, have you confirmed that Nero
4649 is headed for Earth?
4650
4651 UHURA
4652 Their trajectory suggests no other
4653 destination, Captain.
4654
4655 KIRK
4656 Earth may be his next stop, but we have
4657 to assume every Federation planet's a
4658 target.
4659
4660 CHEKOV
4661 Yes, agreed-- but why didn't they destroy
4662 us?
4663
4664 82
4665153 CONTINUED: 153
4666
4667 SULU
4668 Why waste a weapon? We weren't a threat.
4669
4670 SPOCK
4671 That's not it. He said he wanted me to
4672 see something. The destruction of my
4673 home planet.
4674
4675 MCCOY
4676 And how the hell did they do that by the
4677 way? When did they jump so far ahead in
4678 the arms race?
4679
4680 SPOCK
4681 The engineering comprehension necessary
4682 to artificially create a black hole may
4683 suggest the answer: such technology could
4684 theoretically be manipulated to create a
4685 tunnel through space time.
4686
4687 MCCOY
4688 Damnit, man, I'm a doctor, not a
4689 physicist -- are you suggesting they're
4690 from the future?
4691
4692 KIRK
4693 That is what he's suggesting and I don't
4694 buy it.
4695
4696 SPOCK
4697 If you eliminate the impossible, whatever
4698 remains -- however improbable -- must be
4699 the truth.
4700
4701 MCCOY
4702 How poetic.
4703
4704 KIRK
4705 Then what would an angry future Romulan
4706 want with Captain Pike?
4707
4708 SULU
4709 As Admiral he knows details of
4710 Starfleet's defenses.
4711
4712 KIRK
4713 What we need to do is catch up to that
4714 ship. Disable it, take it over and get
4715 Pike back.
4716
4717 They're all looking at Kirk like he's nuts.
4718
4719 82A
4720153 CONTINUED: (2) 153
4721
4722 MCCOY
4723 (bitingly)
4724 Fantastic, I'm in.
4725
4726 SPOCK
4727 Captain Pike left us with standing orders
4728 to rendezvous with the fleet on the other
4729 side of the quadrant.
4730 (MORE)
4731
4732 83
4733153 CONTINUED: (3) 153
4734 SPOCK (CONT'D)
4735 We're technologically outmatched in every
4736 way. A rescue attempt would be
4737 illogical.
4738
4739 KIRK
4740 "Illogical"-- you're funny.
4741
4742 CHEKOV
4743 Not to mention we couldn't do it anyway:
4744 Nero's ship would have to drop out of
4745 warp for us to overtake them --
4746
4747 KIRK
4748 -- what about assigning Engineering crews
4749 to try and boost our warp yield?
4750
4751 SPOCK KIRK
4752 Remaining power and crew are
4753 being used to repair radiation
4754 leaks on the lower decks and
4755 damage to the main deflector
4756 shield-- without which we
4757 cannot communicate with -- okay--okay, okayokayokay--
4758 Starfleet. there's gotta be SOME WAY!
4759
4760 SPOCK
4761 We must gather with the rest of Starfleet
4762 to balance the terms of our next
4763 engagement --
4764
4765 KIRK
4766 There won't be a next engagement, Spock:
4767 by the time we've "gathered", it'll be
4768 too late -- how many planets are you
4769 willing to risk? You say he's from the
4770 future? Knows what's gonna happen? Then
4771 the logical thing is to be unpredictable.
4772
4773 SPOCK
4774 You're assuming Nero knows how events are
4775 predicted to unfold. The contrary:
4776 Nero's very presence has altered the flow
4777 of history, beginning with the attack on
4778 the U.S.S. Kelvin, culminating in the
4779 events of today -- thereby creating a new
4780 chain of incidents that cannot be
4781 anticipated by either party.
4782
4783 MCCOY
4784 Does anyone understand him?
4785
4786 UHURA
4787 (stunned)
4788 ... an alternate reality.
4789
4790 84
4791153 CONTINUED: (4) 153
4792
4793 SPOCK
4794 Precisely. Whatever lives we might have
4795 lived, if the time continuum was
4796 disrupted... our destinies have changed.
4797 (then:)
4798 Mr. Sulu, plot a course for the
4799 Laurentian system, Warp Factor Three--
4800
4801
4802
4803 KIRK SPOCK
4804 -- wait-- don't do that --
4805 Spock -- running back to the
4806 rest of the fleet for a confab
4807 is a massive waste of time-- -- These were the orders
4808 -- He also ordered us to go Captain Pike issued when he
4809 back and get him! Spock, left ship--
4810 you're Captain now--! -- I am aware of my
4811 -- Every second we waste, responsibilities, Mr. Kirk!
4812 Nero's getting closer to his
4813 next target--! -- that is correct -- and why
4814 I'm instructing you to accept
4815 -- I will not allow us to go that I alone am in command.
4816 backwards, away from the
4817 problem, instead of hunting -- then I must remove you from
4818 Nero down! this ship. If I confine you
4819 to the brig, you'll likely
4820 escape. Mr. Chekov: have
4821 transportation prepare a
4822 deployment capsule. Mr. Sulu,
4823 escort him out.
4824
4825 For a beat, nobody moves -- an impossible choice for all of
4826 them. Torn, Chekov and Sulu close in on Kirk --
4827
4828 SULU
4829 I'm sorry.
4830
4831 KIRK
4832 Yeah, don't worry ab --
4833
4834 -- but Kirk SWINGS, Sulu jerks, FASTER, spins, GRABS Kirk's
4835 wrist! Kirk ELBOWS him as Chekov reaches for his PHASER but
4836 Kirk SLAMS HIM, the phaser DROPS -- Kirk reaches for it but
4837 Spock's fingers CLAMP on Kirk's neck: THE VULCAN PINCH:
4838
4839 BLACK.
4840
4841154 INT. NARADA - TORTURE ROOM 154
4842
4843 On PIKE'S FACE, strapped to a TABLE. Nero looks down upon him.
4844
4845 84A
4846154 CONTINUED: 154
4847
4848 NERO
4849 You are only the second human I have ever
4850 met, face to face. You must have so many
4851 questions for me.
4852 (MORE)
4853
4854 85
4855154 CONTINUED: (2) 154
4856 NERO (CONT'D)
4857 (then)
4858 I only have one for you. I need the
4859 subspace frequencies of Starfleet's
4860 border detection grids. Specifically
4861 those surrounding Earth.
4862
4863 Pike looks up at him -- quiet rage. Then --
4864
4865 PIKE
4866 Christopher Pike -- Captain, U.S.S.
4867 Enterprise, registry NCC-1701.
4868
4869 NERO
4870 Christopher.
4871 (beat; hardcore)
4872 Answer my question.
4873
4874 PIKE
4875 No. You answer for the genocide you just
4876 committed on a peaceful planet--
4877
4878 NERO
4879 I prevented genocide.
4880 (beat, calms)
4881 Where I come from, Christopher... this
4882 ship is just a mining vessel. I chose a
4883 life of honest labor to provide for
4884 myself... and the wife who was carrying
4885 my child.
4886 (beat)
4887 I sit here now... knowing you as enemies.
4888 Not just of today. But of tomorrow. I
4889 watched as your Federation did nothing.
4890 They let us burn to death... as our
4891 planet broke in half.
4892
4893 Curiosity behind Pike's eyes.
4894
4895 PIKE
4896 Then Nero, you're confused. Romulus has
4897 not been destroyed. How can you blame
4898 the Federation for something that hasn't
4899 happened--?
4900
4901 NERO
4902 It did happen. I remember it. I... felt
4903 it.
4904 (then; pained)
4905 When I lost her... I promised myself I
4906 would not speak another word until the
4907 day of my retribution. In twenty five
4908 years I forgot the sound of my own
4909 voice... but I didn't forget the pain.
4910 That feeling cannot be erased.
4911 (MORE)
4912
4913 86
4914154 CONTINUED: (3) 154
4915 NERO (CONT'D)
4916 (turning to anger now)
4917 A feeling that every surviving Vulcan now
4918 shares.
4919
4920 Pike just looks at him. Sees how fucking far GONE he is.
4921
4922 PIKE
4923 If what you say is true... you can save
4924 Romulus. You have a second chance to --
4925
4926 NERO
4927 -- yes, which is a gift I won't waste on
4928 mercy.
4929 (beat)
4930 My purpose, Christopher, is not simply to
4931 avoid the destruction of the home I
4932 love...
4933 (beat)
4934 ... but to create a Romulus which exists,
4935 free of the Federation. Only then will
4936 she be saved.
4937
4938 And the "she" could refer to the planet... or to Nero's lost
4939 love. Either way, Pike knows a losing battle when he's fighting
4940 one. Ever so nobly, he quietly says --
4941
4942 PIKE
4943 Then we have nothing more to discuss.
4944
4945 Nero reaches for something under the counter Pike lies upon.
4946 Retrieves A FAMILIAR GLASS CONTAINER -- inside -- DOZENS OF
4947 CENTAURIAN SLUGS, the very ones used on Nero.
4948
4949 NERO
4950 It's not the fault of the human race that
4951 Starfleet chose Earth as its center.
4952 You're a more noble race than my fallen
4953 cousins. I'll take no pleasure in your
4954 extinction.
4955
4956 PIKE
4957 How reassuring.
4958
4959 Nero opens the container, reaches for a pair of TONGS
4960
4961 NERO
4962 The frequencies, please.
4963
4964 PIKE
4965 Christopher Pike -- Captain, U.S.S.
4966 Enterprise, registry NCC-1701.
4967
4968 Nero sad-smiles. What he expected.
4969
4970 87
4971154 CONTINUED: (4) 154
4972
4973 NERO
4974 As you wish.
4975
4976 A ROMULAN GUARD HOLDS PIKE'S MOUTH -- Nero uses the tongs -- and
4977 OFF PIKE'S EXPRESSION --
4978
4979155 INT. SHUTTLE CRAFT - CONTINUOUS 155
4980
4981 Our POV is BLURRY. We come into FOCUS on a blinking instrument
4982 panel. KIRK is stirring awake, his shoulder kills. He sits up:
4983 inside a ONE-MAN POD CRAFT. He WIPES THE GLASS -- looks up --
4984 like a TUNNEL OF SNOW, 30 feet long, to the sky. THE PODCRAFT'S
4985 EMBEDDED ON THE SURFACE OF A VAST, ICE PLANET. Kirk's been
4986 MAROONED. He closes his eyes, his face falls...
4987
4988 KIRK
4989 Computer... where am I?
4990
4991 COMPUTER VOICE
4992 Current location Delta Vega: Class "M"
4993 Planet, unsafe. You have been ordered to
4994 remain in your pod until retrieved by
4995 Starfleet authorities.
4996
4997 KIRK
4998 Bite me, how's that.
4999
5000 The CANOPY RISES -- a blast of cold air hits Kirk -- with some
5001 agony, out he goes -- he CLIMBS UP THE TUBE OF SNOW -- and gets
5002 to the surface -- looks out. HE'S IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING
5003 NOWHERE. Finally:
5004
5005 KIRK (CONT'D)
5006 SONOFABITCH-BITCH-BITCH! THERE'S NOTHING
5007 HERE!!! YOU NECK-PINCHING MOTHERF--!!!
5008
5009 SMASH CUT TO:
5010
5011156-7 OMIT 156-7
5012
5013158 EXT. DELTA VEGA - PLANET SURFACE - CONTINUOUS 158
5014
5015 TRACKING along a massive ICE SHEET... Kirk ENTERS FRAME walking
5016 along, cold, pissed... whips out a TRICORDER, speaks into it:
5017
5018 KIRK
5019 Lieutenant's log, supplemental: I'm
5020 preparing a testimonial for my Starfleet
5021 court martial assuming there's still a
5022 Starfleet left.
5023
5024 From overhead, what we see -- what Kirk doesn't -- is something
5025 HUGE, SLITHERING UNDERWATER beneath the ice --
5026
5027 88
5028158 CONTINUED: 158
5029
5030 KIRK (CONT'D)
5031 Acting Captain Spock -- whose only form
5032 of expression's apparently limited to his
5033 left damn eyebrow -- has marooned me on
5034 Delta Vega in what I believe to be a
5035 violation of security protocol 49.09,
5036 governing the treatment of prisoners
5037 aboard a st--
5038
5039159 EXT. DELTA VEGA - PLANET SURFACE - CONTINUOUS 159
5040
5041 Kirk FREEZES at a nearby GROWL. He looks -- sees nothing --
5042 then ANOTHER GROWL -- he turns -- some thirty feet away, an
5043 eleven foot-tall cross between a polar bear and a gorilla (it's
5044 a POLARILLA) steps out from behind a mass of ice. Sees Kirk.
5045 It's horrifying. Kirk takes a SLOW, SMALL STEP BACKWARD -- and
5046 the fucking thing CHARGES HIM -- KIRK RUNS, TERRIFIED -- and the
5047 POLARILLA PURSUES -- gaining -- it's gonna EAT HIM ALIVE WHEN
5048 SUDDENLY --
5049
5050 WHATEVER WAS BENEATH THE ICE EARLIER EXPLODES UP THROUGH IT --
5051 IT'S NEARLY 30 FEET TALL, RED, HUNDREDS OF EYES -- IT SMACKS THE
5052 POLARILLA AWAY LIKE NOTHING AS KIRK FALLS TO THE ICE AND TURNS
5053 BACK -- HOLY SHIT! THIS THING IS SO MUCH WORSE! IT ROARS AS
5054 KIRK GETS TO HIS FEET AND RUNS, SCREAMING --
5055
5056 KIRK HAULS ASS AS THE THING COMES AFTER HIM -- THEN SUDDENLY HE
5057 FALLS -- DROPS -- and we see that Kirk is FALLING DOWN A MASSIVE
5058 SNOW MOUNTAIN! The huge red creature stops at the edge and
5059 ROARS LOUDLY -- until the ice shelf BREAKS AWAY! The creature
5060 starts to FALL AS WELL! Now Kirk is TUMBLING, the immense
5061 creature TUMBLING not far behind!
5062
5063 And Kirk LANDS ON THE ICE, HARD -- sees a distant CAVE. Looks
5064 up at the FLAILING CREATURE that is about to CRUSH HIM -- Kirk
5065 tries to run, but the ice is TOO SLIPPERY -- FINALLY he gets
5066 footing and runs off toward the cave -- as the red creature
5067 LANDS HARD -- its sharp SPEAR LIMBS STAB into the ice as it
5068 pursues Kirk --
5069
5070160 INT. CAVE - DAY 160
5071
5072 Kirk races through the darkened cave -- the creature comes
5073 after him -- Kirk goes as fast as he can -- the creature reaches
5074 out and fucking GRABS HIM -- pulls him toward the disgusting,
5075 wet, TEETHY MOUTH -- Kirk tries to hold on to anything he can --
5076 but he's fucking LUNCH -- and just as you're SCREAMING, there's
5077 LIGHT -- FIRE LIGHT -- and a FIGURE APPEARS, WAVING A TORCH --
5078
5079 And the red creature's eyes ALL GO WILD -- and it DROPS KIRK and
5080 BACKS OFF, AFRAID -- the figure CHASES IT until it's gone.
5081 Kirk, on the ground, is freaked out, out of breath, and can't
5082 take his eyes off this man... who says:
5083
5084 89
5085160 CONTINUED: 160
5086
5087 FIGURE
5088 The Hen-Gra. Notoriously afraid of heat.
5089
5090161 INT. CAVE - DAY 161
5091
5092 And the Figure turns... we may have recognized the voice.
5093 IT'S SPOCK. As in NIMOY. HERE. Lit in the darkness by the
5094 fire. We'll refer to him as SPOCK PRIME. He looks at Kirk --
5095 moves closer to him -- finally seeing him. And is amazed...
5096
5097 KIRK
5098 Hey... thank you...
5099
5100 SPOCK PRIME
5101 ... Jim?
5102
5103 KIRK
5104 (stunned)
5105 -- how d'you know my name?
5106
5107 SPOCK PRIME
5108 How did you find me--? Does Starfleet
5109 know of my presence?
5110
5111 KIRK
5112 HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?
5113
5114 Spock looks deep into the eyes of the freaked out young man,
5115 feeling the full effect of fate playing its hand, but realizing
5116 he doesn't recognize him...
5117
5118 SPOCK PRIME
5119 I have been... and always shall be...
5120 your friend.
5121
5122 KIRK
5123 -- no, I don't know you -- the only
5124 Vulcan I know isn't exactly a buddy.
5125
5126 Of all the things Spock predicted Kirk might say, it wasn't
5127 that. He's analyzing a thousand steps ahead, calculating:
5128
5129 SPOCK PRIME
5130 You are James T. Kirk. Your father is
5131 George, as is your brother. Your
5132 mother's name is Winona -- you were born
5133 in 2233 --
5134
5135 KIRK
5136 Stop. Please. I don't understand.
5137
5138 As Spock nods, we PRE-LAP:
5139
5140 90
5141161 CONTINUED: 161
5142
5143 SPOCK PRIME
5144 ... I am Spock. One hundred and thirty
5145 years senior to the Vulcan you know.
5146
5147 KIRK
5148 (beat, beat, beat)
5149 Bullshit.
5150
5151161A INT. CAVE - NIGHT 161A
5152
5153 Firelight flickers -- shadows of Kirk and Spock Prime dance on
5154 the ice walls. Remarkable NIGHT STARS outside.
5155
5156 SPOCK PRIME
5157 It's remarkably pleasing to see you
5158 again.
5159 (re: Vulcan)
5160 ... especially after the events of today.
5161
5162 KIRK
5163 Old friend. Sir, I don't have any idea
5164 how you know what you know. But I don't
5165 know you and if you are Spock we're not
5166 friends. You hate me. You marooned me
5167 here for mutiny...
5168
5169 SPOCK PRIME
5170 Mutiny? You are not the Captain?
5171
5172 KIRK
5173 You're the captain. Pike was taken
5174 hostage.
5175
5176 SPOCK PRIME
5177 (realizing, grave)
5178 ... by Nero.
5179
5180 KIRK
5181 What do you know about him?
5182
5183 SPOCK PRIME
5184 (guilty, burdened)
5185 ... he is a remarkably...
5186 (MORE)
5187
5188 91
5189161A CONTINUED: 161A
5190 SPOCK PRIME (CONT'D)
5191 troubled Romulan.
5192 (then)
5193 ... Please. Allow me -- it will be
5194 easier--
5195
5196 Spock Prime reaches for Kirk's face -- Kirk grabs his wrist --
5197
5198 KIRK
5199 What're you doing--?
5200
5201 A skeptical beat, but Kirk finally releases his hand. Spock
5202 gently places his fingers on Kirk's cheek and temple --
5203
5204 SPOCK PRIME
5205 (whispering; a mantra)
5206 Our minds... one and together...One
5207 hundred and twenty-seven years from now
5208 everything ends.
5209
5210 Spock's eyes SNAP SHUT, Kirk JOLTS as if by an electric charge --
5211 and the SCREEN OVEREXPOSES TO WHITE as we CUT TO our MIND MELD
5212 SEQUENCE:
5213
5214162 EXT. SPACE - NIGHT 162
5215
5216 A SUPERNOVA. An EXPLODING STAR, like a LIGHT, EATING AWAY AT
5217 ALL AROUND IT --
5218
5219 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5220 A star in Beta Quadrant will go supernova
5221 -- and like a cancer left untreated... it
5222 will grow... and destroy everything.
5223
5224162A INT. VULCAN SCIENCE ACADEMY 162A
5225
5226 Now we're seeing VULCAN SCIENCE ACADEMY -- where SIX VULCAN
5227 SCIENTISTS study a HOLOGRAM of this event -- the star's ORIGIN,
5228 its PATH OF DESTRUCTION -- and SPOCK PRIME is among them --
5229
5230 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5231 I saw the beginning of it myself. Vulcan
5232 Science Academy devised a plan to stop
5233 it.
5234
5235162B EXT. VULCAN SHIPYARD - NIGHT 162B
5236
5237 PUSH IN as the JELLYFISH SHIP is under construction --
5238
5239 92
5240162B CONTINUED: 162B
5241
5242 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5243 We built a ship containing a material
5244 capable of generating the only thing
5245 powerful enough to consume a supernova.
5246 A black hole.
5247
5248163 INT. JELLYFISH - CONTAINMENT HOLD - NIGHT 163
5249
5250 Now we're INSIDE the ship -- the CONTAINMENT HOLD -- being
5251 ASSEMBLED by Vulcan Scientists --
5252
5253 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5254 I agreed to pilot the ship. Knowing I
5255 would not return.
5256
5257164 Now we see Spock Prime, in a ritual ceremony of a Vulcan 164
5258 Kamikaze pilot. Tea, sipped inside the Ark --
5259
5260 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5261 My sacrifice, in service of all races,
5262 seemed only logical.
5263
5264 Now Spock Prime sits in the Jellyfish COCKPIT --
5265
5266 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.) (CONT'D)
5267 Unfortunately... before I could begin the
5268 mission... the supernova destroyed
5269 Romulus.
5270
5271165 OMIT 165
5272
5273166 -- and suddenly we're OUT OF THE MIND MELD as KIRK GRABS SPOCK 166
5274 PRIME'S HAND AGAIN:
5275
5276 KIRK
5277 Nero's planet was destroyed--
5278
5279 SPOCK PRIME
5280 Yes. He of course blamed us. Believed
5281 Vulcan allowed his planet to die. Which
5282 was hardly the case. Let me continue.
5283
5284 KIRK SPOCK PRIME
5285 This annoys me, I don't like -- I know, I know, I'm not
5286 it-- do we have to do it like surprised to hear you complain
5287 this--? -- allow me to finish.
5288
5289 Spock Prime touches Kirk again and we go:
5290
5291 93
5292
5293
5294167 EXT. SPACE 167
5295
5296 -- the JELLYFISH SWOOPS PAST US -- and we PAN -- and see the
5297 MASSIVE SUPERNOVA in the infinite distance -- no sense of scale
5298 here -- but then -- THE NARADA APPEARS -- FIRES TORPEDOES at the
5299 Jellyfish.
5300
5301 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5302 Nero came after me. Determined to thwart
5303 my mission. If Romulus was allowed to
5304 die, he said... all planets should share
5305 its fate.
5306
5307167A SPOCK PRIME IN THE COCKPIT, ROCKED AS TORPEDOES EXPLODE 167A
5308 CLOSELY. TIGHT ON SPOCK PRIME AS HIS MIND RACES --
5309
5310 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5311 I needed an exit. I knew if this mission
5312 failed... everyone, everywhere... would
5313 lose everything.
5314
5315 Spock Prime LEAVES the cockpit --
5316
5317167B INT. JELLYFISH - CONTAINMENT HOLD 167B
5318
5319 Prime ENTERS AN AIRLOCK -- TUMBLES IN WEIGHTLESSNESS and enters
5320 THE CONTAINMENT ROOM. QUICK CUTS as he REMOVES RED MATTER FROM
5321 THE HOLD --
5322
5323 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5324 I realized: a large black hole could
5325 destroy the supernova. A smaller one...
5326 could be my escape. Could send me back
5327 in time, allowing me to complete my
5328 mission. So I created a black hole...
5329
5330 Spock loads the CANNISTER with a small amount of RED MATTER into
5331 a JETTISON TUBE --
5332
5333167C EXT. JELLYFISH - SPACE - NIGHT 167C
5334
5335 -- and he FIRES THE CANNISTER INTO SPACE --
5336
5337167D EXT. JELLYFISH - COCKPIT - NIGHT 167D
5338
5339 Spock Prime back in the cockpit -- takes aim on his controls and
5340 FIRES AT THE CANNISTER --
5341
5342167E EXT. JELLYFISH/NARADA - SPACE - NIGHT 167E
5343
5344 A BLACK HOLE IS CREATED -- Spock Prime PILOTS TOWARD THE HOLE --
5345
5346 94
5347167E CONTINUED: 167E
5348
5349 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5350 Nero must have understood what I was
5351 trying to do. Because he began racing
5352 for it.
5353
5354 The NARADA and the JELLYFISH aiming for the BLACK HOLE --
5355
5356167F OMIT 167F
5357
5358167G INT. JELLYFISH - COCKPIT - NIGHT 167G
5359
5360 Spock Prime watches as the NARADA GOES IN -- LIGHTNING STORM-
5361 STYLE DISAPPEARING FIRST -- then SPOCK PRIME'S FACE -- WHITE
5362 WITH LIGHTNING -- OVEREXPOSED --
5363
5364 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5365 Nero simply got to it first. How long I
5366 was travelling... I couldn't tell you.
5367 It was timeless. But when I arrived...
5368
5369 LIGHT on Spock Prime's face goes away -- he and the Jellyfish
5370 are back in SPACE --
5371
5372168-9 OMIT 168-9
5373
5374170 EXT. SPACE - NIGHT 170
5375
5376 -- but now, facing him, is the NARADA.
5377
5378 SPOCK PRIME (V.O.)
5379 Nero was waiting for me.
5380
5381171-3 OMIT 171-3
5382
5383174 INT. CAVE - DAY 174
5384
5385 KIRK INHALES, SHARPLY, having been there with Spock Prime. Back
5386 to the two men, in a cave:
5387
5388 Kirk stares at him... his mind spinning because now he
5389 believes him. The result is overwhelmingly emotional.
5390
5391 SPOCK PRIME
5392 Forgive me... emotional transference is
5393 an effect of the mind meld.
5394
5395 95
5396174 CONTINUED: 174
5397
5398 KIRK
5399 (sympathy, surprise)
5400 ... so you do feel...
5401
5402 SPOCK PRIME
5403 "Cthia" is the stricture that binds our
5404 emotions... but few of us are that
5405 perfectly Vulcan.
5406
5407 Kirk gathers himself, wipes his eyes on his sleeve...
5408
5409 KIRK
5410 Going back in time... you changed all our
5411 lives.
5412
5413 SPOCK PRIME
5414 Yet remarkably, events within our
5415 timelines, characteristics, people...
5416 seem to overlap significantly. Tell me
5417 about the rest of the crew? Chekov--
5418 Uhura --?
5419
5420 KIRK
5421 Tactical and Communications --
5422
5423 SPOCK PRIME
5424 -- Sulu --
5425
5426 KIRK
5427 -- he's the helmsman, why?
5428
5429 SPOCK PRIME
5430 Dr. McCoy would assert our meeting here
5431 is not a matter of coincidence... but
5432 rather, indication of a higher purpose.
5433
5434 KIRK
5435 ... he'd call it a damn miracle.
5436
5437 SPOCK PRIME
5438 Yes he would. Perhaps the time stream's
5439 way of attempting to mend itself. In
5440 both our histories, the same crew found
5441 its way onto the same ship in a time of
5442 ultimate crisis -- therein lies our
5443 advantage.
5444 (rises)
5445 We must go-- there's a Starfleet outpost
5446 not far from here.
5447
5448 But Kirk stands -- stops him:
5449
5450 96
5451174 CONTINUED: (2) 174
5452
5453 KIRK
5454 Where you came from... did I know my
5455 father?
5456
5457 SPOCK PRIME
5458 ... yes. You often spoke of him as your
5459 inspiration for joining starfleet.
5460
5461 This is amazing for Kirk -- he looks off, trying to imagine that
5462 life. Spock intuits what this means.
5463
5464 SPOCK PRIME (CONT'D)
5465 You should know. He proudly lived to see
5466 you become captain of the Enterprise.
5467
5468 KIRK
5469 ... Captain?
5470
5471 SPOCK PRIME
5472 A ship we must return you to as soon as
5473 possible.
5474
5475174A EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 174A
5476
5477 The Enterprise STREAKS through frame in a warp blur --
5478
5479174B INT. ENTERPRISE BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 174B
5480
5481 Sulu at his controls:
5482
5483 SULU
5484 Warp three. Course one-five-one mark
5485 three, the Laurentian System.
5486
5487 The turbolift opens -- McCoy enters, moves to Spock:
5488
5489 MCCOY
5490 You wanted to see me?
5491
5492 SPOCK
5493 (discreet tone)
5494 Yes, Doctor. I'm aware that James Kirk
5495 is a friend of yours. Supporting me, as
5496 you did, must have been difficult.
5497
5498 MCCOY
5499 ... are you thanking me?
5500
5501 SPOCK
5502 I'm simply acknowledging your
5503 difficulties.
5504
5505 We're not sure how McCoy is taking this...
5506
5507 97
5508174B CONTINUED: 174B
5509
5510 MCCOY
5511 Permission to speak freely, Sir.
5512
5513 SPOCK
5514 I welcome it.
5515
5516 MCCOY
5517 Do you. Okay then: are you out of your
5518 Vulcan mind? Were you doing the logical
5519 thing? Maybe. The right one?
5520 Debatable. But one thing's for damn sure
5521 -- that kid doesn't know how to lose.
5522 Just isn't in his DNA. Back home we have
5523 a saying: "If you're gonna ride in the
5524 Kentucky Derby, don't leave your prize
5525 stallion in the stable."
5526
5527 SPOCK
5528 ... a curious metaphor, Doctor. As a
5529 stallion must first be broken before it
5530 can reach its potential.
5531
5532 MCCOY
5533 My God, Man... you could at least act
5534 like it was a hard decision.
5535
5536 SPOCK
5537 I intended to assist in the effort to re-
5538 establish communication with Starfleet.
5539 However, if crew morale would be better
5540 served by my roaming the halls weeping,
5541 I'll gladly defer to your medical
5542 expertise.
5543
5544 A strong look and Spock turns away as Sarek enters the bridge.
5545 Spock moves to meet him. Off McCoy, fuming --
5546
5547174C EXT. DELTA VEGA - PLANET SURFACE - DAY 174C
5548
5549 A fucking BLIZZARD. Kirk and Spock Prime move through the
5550 maddening whiteout. Kirk yells through it:
5551
5552 KIRK
5553 I AM SO PISSED OFF AT THE OTHER YOU RIGHT
5554 NOW!
5555
5556 And Spock POINTS -- an OUTPOST -- half a mile away.
5557
5558175 INT. STARFLEET OUTPOST - DAY 175
5559
5560 Long tile corridor. The door at the end opens -- SNOW AND WIND
5561 as Kirk and Spock Prime enter. Door closes. Silence again.
5562
5563 98
5564175 CONTINUED: 175
5565
5566 KIRK
5567 ... hello?!
5568
5569 Echo. Nothing. They head down. After a beat, a SMALL, DARK,
5570 ODDLY ALIEN CREATURE STEPS OUT. Eyes them curiously. This is
5571 KEENSER.
5572
5573 KEENSER
5574 ... can I help you?
5575
5576 SPOCK PRIME
5577 Are you the station chief?
5578
5579 Keenser looks them over. Then:
5580
5581 KEENSER
5582 ... no. This way.
5583
5584 And they follow Keenser into a MASSIVE WAREHOUSE, filled mostly
5585 with junked space parts. A large, tarped SHUTTLE in the
5586 background. In the middle of the huge, depressing space is a
5587 table. And a STARFLEET OFFICER who is ASLEEP, legs kicked up,
5588 leaning back in a chair, a hat covering his face. Keenser taps
5589 the Officer's boot.
5590
5591 STARFLEET OFFICER
5592 Hm.
5593
5594 KEENSER
5595 Visitors.
5596
5597 A beat -- and the Officer peers from under his hat. A cool,
5598 slow burn.
5599
5600 STARFLEET OFFICER
5601 You realize how unacceptable this is.
5602
5603 KIRK
5604 Excuse me?
5605
5606 SPOCK PRIME
5607 (re: the Officer)
5608 ... Fascinating.
5609
5610 KIRK
5611 What?
5612
5613 Officer stands, unhappy about something. Keeser watches nearby --
5614
5615 STARFLEET OFFICER
5616 I'm sure it's no' your fault, and I know
5617 youse lads are just doing your jobs, but
5618 could you no' have come a wee bit
5619 sooner?!
5620 (MORE)
5621
5622 99
5623175 CONTINUED: (2) 175
5624 STARFLEET OFFICER (CONT'D)
5625 Six months I've been living on nothing
5626 but Starfleet Protein Nibs and the
5627 promise of a real food delivery! Six
5628 months, boys! It's pretty clear what's
5629 going on here, isn't it? Punishment!
5630 Ongoing! For something that was clearly
5631 an accident!
5632
5633 SPOCK PRIME
5634 You're Montgomery Scott.
5635
5636 KIRK
5637 You know him?
5638
5639 SCOTTY
5640 Yes, that's me -- Scotty-- you're in the
5641 right place-- are there any other hard-
5642 working and equally-starving Starfleet
5643 officers around?
5644
5645 KEENSER
5646 Me.
5647
5648 SCOTTY
5649 You eat nothing. A bean and you're done
5650 for a week, I need food. And now you're
5651 here -- so. Thank you. Where is it.
5652
5653 SPOCK PRIME
5654 You are in fact the Mr. Scott who
5655 postulated the theory of trans-warp
5656 beaming.
5657
5658 SCOTTY
5659 Yes! That's exactly what I'm talking
5660 about! How d'ya think I ended up here?
5661 I got into a debate with my instructor on
5662 the issue of Relativistic Physics as they
5663 pertain to subspace travel... He seemed
5664 to think that the range of transporting
5665 say, a roast turkey, was limited to a few
5666 hundred miles -- so I told my instructor
5667 I could not only beam a bird from one
5668 planet to an adjacent planet in the same
5669 system -- which is no big deal anyway --
5670 but if I were so inclined I could
5671 actually do it with a lifeform! So I
5672 tested it on Admiral Archer's prize
5673 beagle. Which... was a mistake.
5674
5675 KIRK
5676 I know that dog. What happened to it?
5677
5678 100
5679175 CONTINUED: (3) 175
5680
5681 SCOTTY
5682 I'll tell ya when it reappears. Dunno.
5683 Feel guilty.
5684
5685 SPOCK PRIME
5686 What if I told you your trans-warp theory
5687 was correct? That it is indeed possible
5688 to beam onto a ship that is travelling at
5689 warp speed. And that you only required
5690 the correct field equation to
5691 recrystallize dilithium?
5692
5693 SCOTTY
5694 I haven't been stationed here that long.
5695 If such an equation had been discovered,
5696 I'da heard.
5697
5698 SPOCK PRIME
5699 The reason you haven't heard of it, Mr.
5700 Scott... is because you haven't
5701 discovered it yet.
5702
5703 Kirk reacts. Scotty reacts -- is almost spooked -- sobers up a
5704 bit... really regards Spock Prime. Skeptical. Amused.
5705
5706 SCOTTY
5707 Y'from the future, are ya? Brilliant.
5708 D'they still have sandwiches where you're
5709 from? Piece and jam? Mince 'n tatties?
5710 Cockaleekie soup?
5711
5712 KIRK
5713 What is he talking about?
5714
5715 KEENSER
5716 Food.
5717
5718 SPOCK PRIME
5719 Allow us access to your shuttle... and I
5720 will show you what a genius you actually
5721 are.
5722
5723 Off Scotty, who can't help but be intrigued --
5724
5725176 OMIT 176
5726
5727177 EXT./INT. SCOTTY'S SHUTTLE - TRANSPORTER PAD - MOMENTS LATER 177
5728
5729 Scotty PULLS A TARP over much of the out-of-service shuttle.
5730
5731 SCOTTY
5732 She's a wee bit dodgy: shield emitters
5733 are totally banjaxed, along wi' a few
5734 other things.
5735
5736 101
5737177 CONTINUED: 177
5738
5739 Spock finishes speed-typing the FIELD EQUATIONS on the
5740 TRANSPORTER CONTROL PANEL -- amazingly fast.
5741
5742 SCOTTY (CONT'D)
5743 ... rapid. That's impressive.
5744
5745 Spock Prime steps aside:
5746
5747 SPOCK PRIME
5748 Your equation for achieving trans-warp
5749 beaming.
5750
5751 Scotty looks at the equations -- we watch his expression run the
5752 gamut: from confused, to dumbfounded, to quiet awe and delight:
5753
5754 SCOTTY
5755 Imagine that! Never occurred to me to
5756 think of space as the part that's moving.
5757
5758 SPOCK PRIME
5759 Point of fact: it did occur to you.
5760 (he works the console)
5761 Extrapolating Enterprise's course --
5762
5763 SCOTTY
5764 -- Enterprise? Had its maiden voyage
5765 already, has it? Well, you must've done
5766 something right to be assigned to that
5767 ship, Kiddo. She's a well endowed lady --
5768 love to get my hands on her ample
5769 nacelles, if you'll pardon the
5770 engineering parlance.
5771
5772 SPOCK PRIME
5773 Now's your chance, Mr. Scott.
5774
5775 SCOTTY
5776 Look, even if I believed you -- where
5777 you're from, what I've done-- which I
5778 don't -- we're still talkin' bout
5779 slingshotting aboard while she's going
5780 faster than light. Without a proper
5781 receiving pad, that's like tryin'a hit a
5782 bullet with a smaller bullet, wearing a
5783 blindfold. On a horse.
5784
5785 SPOCK
5786 I calculate no more than a four meter
5787 margin of error.
5788
5789 SCOTTY
5790 That's all well and good unless you
5791 rematerialize four meters outside the
5792 ship.
5793
5794 102
5795177 CONTINUED: (2) 177
5796
5797 As Spock works the keyboard, an ENTERPRISE SCHEMATIC rotates:
5798
5799 SPOCK PRIME
5800 Agreed: the aft engineering bay is your
5801 best option: a large space and no
5802 unpredictable airlocks --
5803
5804 KIRK
5805 -- you're coming with us, right?
5806
5807 SPOCK PRIME
5808 No, Jim. My destiny lies along a
5809 different path.
5810
5811 KIRK SPOCK PRIME
5812 Your destiny can wait -- he (simply, strong)
5813 won't believe me, only you can Under no circumstances can he
5814 explain w-- be made aware of my existence.
5815 You must promise me this.
5816
5817 KIRK
5818 You're telling me I can't tell you I'm
5819 following your own orders? Why not?
5820 What happens?
5821
5822 SPOCK PRIME
5823 Trust me. Above all. Jim, this is the
5824 one rule you cannot break. To stop Nero,
5825 you alone must take command of your ship.
5826
5827 KIRK
5828 How, over your dead body?
5829
5830 SPOCK PRIME
5831 Preferably not. There is, however,
5832 Starfleet Regulation 619.
5833 (off Kirk's confusion)
5834 Yes. I forget what little regard you had
5835 for such things. 619 states that any
5836 commanding officer who is emotionally
5837 compromised by the mission at hand...
5838 must resign said command.
5839
5840 KIRK
5841 So I need to emotionally compromise you?
5842
5843 SPOCK PRIME
5844 Jim. I just lost my planet. I can tell
5845 you. I am emotionally compromised.
5846 (then)
5847 What you must do... is get me to show it.
5848
5849 PUSHING IN ON KIRK as this lands for him --
5850
5851 103
5852177 CONTINUED: (3) 177
5853
5854 KIRK
5855 Hm.
5856
5857 SCOTTY
5858 Aye, then. Live or die, Laddie, let's
5859 get this over with. he Enterprise has a
5860 decent cafeteria I'm guessing.
5861
5862 Scotty's on the pad. Kirk follows, looks at Spock:
5863
5864 KIRK
5865 You know... coming back in time...
5866 changing history... that's cheating.
5867
5868 SPOCK PRIME
5869 A trick I learned from an old friend.
5870
5871 Something strikes Kirk -- his eyes GLINT with revelation. Spock
5872 responds enigmatically: a silent acknowledgment of what Kirk
5873 must do to get the ship. He raises his hand in the legendary
5874 Vulcan salute:
5875
5876 SPOCK PRIME (CONT'D)
5877 Live long, and prosper.
5878
5879 And Spock activates the transporter and they DEMATERIALIZE --
5880 the light plays off his face as he watches them vanish --
5881
5882178 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 178
5883
5884 The Enterprise SHOOTS THROUGH FRAME at warp --
5885
5886179 INT. ENTERPRISE - ENGINEERING BAY - CONTINUOUS 179
5887
5888 Amid the ROAR of the ship's plasma drives, PARTICLES
5889 rematerialize... it's KIRK, eyes wide in suspense. He looks
5890 down at his legs, his chest, his arms to make sure he's still in
5891 one piece, glances over to share his relief with Scotty... BUT
5892 SCOTTY ISN'T THERE. A strange BANGING -- Kirk turns: the
5893 BANGING is coming from a large metal TANK -- then Scotty appears
5894 in a TRANSLUCENT PIPE -- FREAKING OUT -- BANGING ON THE CLEAR
5895 METAL -- Kirk's mind races -- he looks around for a way to save
5896 his new friend -- just then a STRONG CURRENT IS FELT inside the
5897 tube -- AND SCOTTY IS YANKED AWAY, DOWN THE TUBE!
5898
5899 KIRK
5900 -- no-- shit!
5901
5902 And Kirk runs after him -- down the length of the ORANGE,
5903 TWISTING and TURNING tubes -- SCOTTY SEEN every time he enters a
5904 CLEAR TUBE AREA -- then DISAPPEARING again into the ORANGE tubes
5905 -- and Scotty gets sucked UPWARDS -- and Kirk turns and looks --
5906 FOLLOWS THE LENGTH OF TUBE -- SEEING WHERE IT'S HEADING -- TO A
5907 GIANT WATER TURBINE -- essentially? A MASSIVE FUCKING BLENDER.
5908
5909 104
5910179 CONTINUED: 179
5911
5912 KIRK (CONT'D)
5913 -- no--nonono--
5914
5915 And Kirk HAULS ASS to the control panel -- we see the huge
5916 machine -- overhead, the RELEASE VALVE under the pipe -- and
5917 Kirk works as fast as he can --
5918
5919 KIRK (CONT'D)
5920 COMEONCOMEONCOMEON -- like the simulator:
5921 manual control enabled, pressure seal:
5922 enabled -- shutdown--
5923
5924 -- but the COMPUTER SAYS:
5925
5926 COMPUTER VOICE
5927 Turbine Shutdown Not Allowed.
5928
5929 KIRK
5930 DAMNIT!
5931
5932180 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 180
5933
5934 A display on the forward console, an ALARM FLASHES --
5935
5936 CHEKOV
5937 Keptin, we're detecting unauthorized
5938 access to a water turbine control board!
5939
5940 Spock moves from Sarek to Chekov --
5941
5942 SPOCK
5943 Bring up video.
5944
5945 Chekov brings up TWO DOZEN SECURITY VIDEO IMAGES ON ONE SCREEN.
5946 Spock points to one -- it ENLARGES -- and we see KIRK AND SCOTTY
5947 racing through the ship -- Spock's eyes narrow -- he moves to
5948 the Captain's chair -- hits comm:
5949
5950 SPOCK (CONT'D)
5951 Security, this is the captain -- seal
5952 engineering deck and bring me the
5953 intruders in turbine station three -- set
5954 phasers to stun.
5955
5956181 INT. PIPE - CONTINUOUS 181
5957
5958 INSIDE THE TUBE, SCOTTY TUMBLES, YELLING UNDERWATER as --
5959
5960 105
5961
5962
5963181A INT. ENTERPRISE - ENGINEERING BAY - CONTINUOUS 181A
5964
5965 Kirk, AT THE PANEL, accesses the RELEASE VALVE CONTROL -- he
5966 watches Scotty disappear through a CLEAR SECTION -- Kirk times
5967 it -- waiting -- then he HITS THE BUTTON and Scotty DROPS
5968 THROUGH THE RELEASE VALVE AND SLAMS TO THE FLOOR -- hurt, wet,
5969 but BREATHING, deeply --
5970
5971 KIRK
5972 You all right?
5973
5974 SCOTTY
5975 (recovering, looking
5976 around)
5977 -- nice -- (cough) -- ship. Really.
5978
5979 KIRK
5980 -- let's get to the bridge--
5981
5982181B INT. ENTERPRISE - VARIOUS AREAS 181B
5983
5984 Kirk and wet Scotty race through the ship -- only to finally
5985 turn a corner and be faced with PHASERS, AIMED RIGHT AT THEM.
5986
5987 But suddenly PHASERS are at their heads. Two SECURITY GUARDS --
5988 one, THE GUY HE GOT INTO THE FIGHT WITH AT THE BAR, YEARS AGO.
5989
5990 SECURITY OFFICER #1
5991 Come with me. Moon Beam.
5992
5993 Off Kirk -- shit --
5994
5995182-3 OMIT 182-3
5996
5997184 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE [SET CHANGE] 184
5998
5999 WOOSH -- bridge doors open -- Kirk and Scotty are ushered in by
6000 the Security Guards. Spock moves to them, containing his anger
6001 and dismay. McCoy is here as well. Spock walks right up to
6002 Kirk... raises his eyebrow.
6003
6004 KIRK
6005 Surprise.
6006
6007 SPOCK
6008 (to Scotty)
6009 Who are you?
6010
6011 KIRK
6012 He's with me.
6013
6014 106
6015184 CONTINUED: 184
6016
6017 SPOCK
6018 We're travelling at warp -- how did you
6019 manage to get aboard this ship?
6020
6021 Kirk stares at the young Spock -- a different experience now --
6022
6023 KIRK
6024 You're the genius, you figure it out.
6025
6026 SPOCK
6027 As Captain of this vessel I order you to
6028 answer the question.
6029
6030 KIRK
6031 Well I'm not telling.
6032 (then)
6033 Captain.
6034
6035 HUH. That confounds Spock. And Kirk is off to the races --
6036
6037 KIRK (CONT'D)
6038 Does that frustrate you? My lack of
6039 cooperation... does it make you angry?
6040
6041 Spock again focuses on Scotty --
6042
6043 SPOCK
6044 You are not a member of this ship's crew.
6045 Under penalty of court martial, I order
6046 you to explain to me how you beamed ab --
6047
6048 KIRK
6049 (to Scotty)
6050 -- Don't answer him.
6051
6052 SPOCK
6053 You will answer me.
6054
6055 ON SCOTTY. Weighing all this. Then --
6056
6057 SCOTTY
6058 I'd rather not take sides.
6059
6060 Spock nods back to the SECURITY GUARDS, over this --
6061
6062 SPOCK
6063 Escort them to the Brig.
6064
6065 But before the guards can do so --
6066
6067 KIRK
6068 What is it about you, Spock? Your planet
6069 was just destroyed -- your mother
6070 murdered -- and you're not even upset?
6071
6072 107
6073184 CONTINUED: (2) 184
6074
6075 SPOCK
6076 Your presumption that these experiences
6077 interfere with my abilities to command
6078 this ship is inaccurate--
6079
6080 KIRK
6081 HA! And yet you said fear was necessary
6082 for command. I mean -- did you see that
6083 bastard's ship? Did you see what he did?
6084
6085 SPOCK
6086 (tense)
6087 Yes, of course I--
6088
6089 KIRK
6090 So are you afraid or aren't you?!?
6091
6092 SPOCK
6093 (tenser)
6094 I will not... allow you to lecture me
6095 about the merits of emotion.
6096
6097 Kirk gets close to Spock --
6098
6099 KIRK
6100 Then why don't you stop me.
6101
6102 Sarek watches, tense. McCoy, too. Spock blinks --
6103
6104 SPOCK
6105 Step away from me, Mr. Kirk.
6106
6107 KIRK
6108 What is it like? Not to feel? Anger.
6109 Or heartbreak. Or the need to stop at
6110 nothing to avenge the death of the woman
6111 who gave birth to you?!
6112
6113 SPOCK
6114 (volcanic)
6115 -- back away --
6116
6117 KIRK
6118 (closer still)
6119 You must not feel anything! It must not
6120 even compute for you! You must not have
6121 loved her at all--!
6122
6123 -- WHAM! SPOCK HAS JUST HIT KIRK -- and Kirk goes to hit back,
6124 but Spock fucking DELIVERS A SERIES OF POWERFUL BLOWS --
6125 Security stand back as the Captain attacks...
6126
6127 And Spock is now fucking CHOKING Kirk -- HE SLAMS KIRK AGAINST
6128 THE WALL -- SPOCK'S CHOKING THE LIFE OUT OF HIM --
6129
6130 108
6131184 CONTINUED: (3) 184
6132
6133 SAREK
6134 Spock!
6135
6136 And everything -- everything -- STOPS. Spock, red-faced,
6137 releases his grip. Kirk GULPS air and tumbles to the ground.
6138 Spock staggers back. Kirk's hardly able to speak, close to
6139 collapsing. But despite his brutalized face, his expression
6140 isn't about spite, or hatred... but compassion.
6141
6142 Spock sees the faces of the STUNNED CREW staring at him. But
6143 worst of all? Sarek. His father. Spock levels his chin.
6144 Quickly wipes his eyes. Trying to regain some semblance of
6145 dignity... looks to McCoy. Softly --
6146
6147 SPOCK
6148 Doctor. I am no longer fit for duty. I
6149 hereby relinquish my command on the
6150 grounds that I have been... emotionally
6151 compromised. Please note the time and
6152 date in the ship's log.
6153
6154 JESUS. Spock just... QUIT. And after a beat, he leaves the
6155 room. Sarek follows a moment later.
6156
6157 The crew just stands there in stunned SILENCE. Finally --
6158
6159 SCOTTY
6160 I like this ship. It's exciting.
6161
6162 McCoy turns to Kirk, exasperated --
6163
6164 MCCOY
6165 Congratulations, Jim. Now we've got no
6166 Captain and no first officer to goddamn
6167 replace him.
6168
6169 ON KIRK. The moment is upon him.
6170
6171 KIRK
6172 Yeah we do.
6173
6174 ON MCCOY. The CREW -- confused. Sulu just fucking POINTS at
6175 Kirk and they all realize HOLY SHIT -- Pike made KIRK the First
6176 Officer before he left!
6177
6178 MCCOY
6179 WHAT?!
6180
6181 KIRK
6182 Thanks for the support!
6183
6184 And Kirk moves to the captain's chair, passing Uhura:
6185
6186 108A
6187184 CONTINUED: (4) 184
6188
6189 UHURA
6190 I sure hope you know what you're doing.
6191
6192 KIRK
6193 ... so do I.
6194 (studies chair, sits,
6195 into mic)
6196 Attention crew of the Enterprise. This
6197 is James Kirk...
6198
6199185 INT. ENTERPRISE - CORRIDOR 185
6200
6201 TRACKING WITH SPOCK, hearing the announcement as he walks
6202 stoically -- past CREW, hearing this --
6203
6204 KIRK (V.O.)
6205 Mr. Spock has resigned commission and
6206 advanced me to acting Captain. I know
6207 you were all expecting to regroup with
6208 the fleet, but I've ordered a pursuit
6209 course of the enemy ship to Earth.
6210
6211186 OMIT 186
6212
6213187 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE [SET CHANGE] 187
6214
6215 On KIRK as he ends the announcement:
6216
6217 KIRK
6218 I want all departments at battle stations
6219 and ready in ten minutes. Either we're
6220 going down, or they are. Kirk out.
6221
6222 Clicks off. PUSH IN ON KIRK, staring off --
6223
6224 UHURA
6225 I want some answers.
6226
6227 He looks up. Uhura is there. Pissed off:
6228
6229 109
6230187 CONTINUED: 187
6231
6232 UHURA (CONT'D)
6233 Right now. Where the hell'd you get
6234 trans-warp technology?
6235
6236 KIRK
6237 -- yeah, you know that's complicated --
6238
6239 UHURA
6240 Do I look simple to you?!
6241
6242 SULU
6243 I'm a PhD in astrophysics, I think I can
6244 handle it -- how'd you get back?
6245
6246 CHEKOV
6247 You vant us to trust you but you von't
6248 tell us the truth?
6249
6250 KIRK
6251 No. No, I won't-- hey, I'm the Captain
6252 now! I don't have to tell you anything!
6253 Now listen: we need to figure out a way
6254 to catch up and get to Nero's ship.
6255
6256 SULU
6257 There's not a chance. They're gonna be
6258 in geosynchronous orbit around Earth in
6259 ten minutes. We'll never make it.
6260
6261 MCCOY
6262 Even if we could, you can't go in guns
6263 blazing, not with their technology,
6264 that's suicide.
6265
6266 KIRK
6267 Then we find a way to get on that ship
6268 and steal the black hole device away from
6269 them.
6270
6271 SCOTTY
6272 Well you can forget transwarp. No way to
6273 predict the Narada's position from here.
6274
6275 KIRK
6276 Uhura: anything from Captain Pike?
6277
6278 UHURA
6279 No... I've been monitoring all channels.
6280
6281188 INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY [SET CHANGE] 188
6282
6283 SPOCK stand here, staring at the place where his mother should
6284 have, but didn't, arrive. Sarek enters. Sees his son. They're
6285 alone for the first time in ages. A beat:
6286
6287 110
6288188 CONTINUED: 188
6289
6290 SAREK
6291 You must not punish yourself.
6292 (beat)
6293 Speak your mind, Spock.
6294
6295 SPOCK
6296 That would be unwise.
6297
6298 SAREK
6299 What is necessary is always wise.
6300
6301 Watch Spock's face. Struggling with what's pent-up inside...
6302
6303 SPOCK
6304 I feel as conflicted as I once was. As a
6305 child. Have I made so little progress?
6306
6307 SAREK
6308 (beat, softly)
6309 You will always be a child of two worlds.
6310 I am grateful for that. And for you.
6311 (painfully)
6312 And not only because you are all I have
6313 left of her.
6314
6315 Spock looks at Sarek. This is as close to emotion as he'll get.
6316
6317 SPOCK
6318 I feel anger. For the one who took her
6319 life. An anger I cannot stop.
6320
6321 SAREK
6322 I believe she would say... do not try to.
6323 (then)
6324 You asked me once. Why I married your
6325 mother.
6326 (beat, simply)
6327 I married her because I loved her.
6328
6329 Their look HOLDS -- and for Spock, a revelation...
6330
6331189 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE 189
6332
6333 -- the strategy session continues in FULL SWING -- now Chekov,
6334 the youngest of the bunch, gets up the courage to chime in,
6335 incidently becoming the very first officer to say:
6336
6337 CHEKOV
6338 Keptin Kirk? Excuse me, plees, could
6339 I...?
6340
6341 All eyes shift to the wonder-kid who awaits permission to speak:
6342
6343 111
6344189 CONTINUED: 189
6345
6346 KIRK
6347 Yes, Chekov-- you don't need to ask
6348 permission to--
6349
6350 CHEKOV
6351 Based on the Narada's course from Vulcan,
6352 I've projected that Nero will travel past
6353 Saturn. If we could drop out of warp
6354 behind one of Saturn's moons, say, Titan,
6355 the magnetic distortion from the planet's
6356 rings will make us invisible to Nero's
6357 sensors. We could follow him to Earth by
6358 staying in his blind spot.
6359
6360 KIRK
6361 What blind spot?
6362
6363 CHEKOV
6364 Its exhaust wake. If we adjust our
6365 shield frequencies, they shouldn't detect
6366 us.
6367
6368 MCCOY
6369 Wait a minute-- anyone understand this
6370 kid? How old are you?
6371
6372 CHEKOV
6373 I am seventeen, Sir, how old are you?
6374
6375 MCCOY
6376 We're all old enough to shave here.
6377
6378 SPOCK (O.S.)
6379 Doctor... Mr. Chekov is correct.
6380
6381 Everyone turns, surprised: SPOCK has entered the bay --
6382 galvanized, full of purpose --
6383
6384 SPOCK (CONT'D)
6385 I have reviewed his telemetry. If Mr.
6386 Sulu can maneuver us into position, I can
6387 beam aboard Nero's ship.
6388
6389 KIRK
6390 I won't order you to do that, Mr. Spock.
6391
6392 SPOCK
6393 Romulans and Vulcans share a common
6394 ancestry. Our cultural similarities will
6395 make it easier for me to access their
6396 ship's computer to locate the device.
6397 (beat; a flicker of
6398 emotion)
6399 (MORE)
6400
6401 111A
6402189 CONTINUED: (2) 189
6403 SPOCK (CONT'D)
6404 Also, my mother was human. Which makes
6405 Earth the only home I have left.
6406
6407 112
6408189 CONTINUED: (3) 189
6409
6410 The crew looks at this very courageous Vulcan with deep respect -
6411 - but his focus is on Uhura, whose eyes smile back at him.
6412
6413 KIRK
6414 Then I'm coming with you.
6415
6416 SPOCK
6417 (beat, considering)
6418 I would cite regulation, but I know you
6419 will simply ignore it.
6420
6421 KIRK
6422 See, we're getting to know each other.
6423
6424 And a MOMENT -- a burgeoning friendship --
6425
6426190 EXT. BARREN LANDSCAPE 190
6427
6428 PANNING ACROSS AN ALIEN LANDSCAPE... and even though it's in
6429 shadow, you start to recognize it as THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
6430 OUR POV ascends now to see:
6431
6432 THE ENTERPRISE DROPS OUT OF WARP IN THE DEAD SILENCE OF SPACE...
6433
6434 And we move past it, along the orbit of the moon, cresting the
6435 horizon to see EARTH -- AND NERO'S SHIP HOVERING ABOVE IT.
6436
6437191 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - NIGHT 191
6438
6439 CLOSE ON NERO -- his face illuminated on the DARKENED BRIDGE of
6440 the Narada by SOFT BLUE LIGHT. Light radiated by EARTH. A
6441 BEAUTIFUL HOLOGRAM before him. He doesn't notice behind him, as
6442 those BLADES from his STAFF APPEAR BEHIND HIS NECK. Nero
6443 tenses, only now sensing this unforeseen danger: AYEL HOLDS THE
6444 WEAPON. Strong. Tough. But under it all... terrified.
6445
6446 AYEL
6447 The men and I have discussed this. What
6448 we are about to do.
6449 (beat)
6450 We have to turn the ship around. We can
6451 save our home.
6452
6453 Nero turns slowly and deliberately -- Ayel tenses:
6454
6455 AYEL (CONT'D)
6456 Stop.
6457
6458 Nero now faces Ayel, blades at his throat -- Ayel growing more
6459 nervous as he faces his master. The surrounding crew stare on,
6460 frozen in the moment, only slightly confirming their makeshift
6461 mutiny with scared looks.
6462
6463 113
6464191 CONTINUED: 191
6465
6466 AYEL (CONT'D)
6467 We can go back. That's what we want. We
6468 have taken our vengeance on Vulcan. No
6469 more. We want to go home now.
6470
6471 Nero considers this... nods gently.
6472
6473 NERO
6474 There is no need, Ayel. To threaten me.
6475 (beat)
6476 I understand.
6477
6478 Ayel is massively relieved. Nero gently reaches out, holds the
6479 staff (still aimed at him). He deactivates it -- the blades
6480 instantly RETRACT.
6481
6482 NERO (CONT'D)
6483 I understand. But you are wrong.
6484
6485 And just as Ayel realizes he's fucked, Nero somehow activates
6486 the staff in a way we have not seen -- AND THE BLADES APPEAR ON
6487 THE OTHER END -- THE END NOW FACING AYEL -- AND JUST AS AYEL'S
6488 EYES GO WIDE -- NERO THRUSTS THE BLADES INTO AYEL -- WHO FALLS
6489 TO THE FLOOR, DEAD! Nero's hard face turns to the rest of his
6490 crew.
6491
6492 NERO (CONT'D)
6493 We will return to Romulus when the
6494 Federation lies in ruins and not a moment
6495 before. When those who watched our
6496 people burn at last understand our pain,
6497 our loss. I refuse to return as a slave!
6498 We will return as conquerors!
6499
6500 ON THE FACES OF THE MEN, SUBMITTING TO HIS WILL, our MUSIC
6501 BUILDING -- and then, his eyes on Earth like a fucking LION eyes
6502 a gazelle--
6503
6504 NERO (CONT'D)
6505 Deploy the drill.
6506
6507192 EXT. THE NARADA 192
6508
6509 THE DRILL BAY DOORS open as they LOWER THE PLASMA DRILL.
6510
6511193 INT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE 193
6512
6513 No sign of Kirk and Spock. Sulu's in the captain's chair.
6514 Chekov at helm.
6515
6516 SULU
6517 Mr. Chekov, transfer manual control to
6518 the Captain's chair.
6519
6520 114
6521193 CONTINUED: 193
6522
6523 CHEKOV
6524 Aye.
6525 (works controls)
6526 I've projected the parabolic course you
6527 must follow. If you deviate by so much
6528 as a meter, we will be detected.
6529
6530 SULU
6531 Give me one quarter impulse burst for
6532 five seconds and I'll do the rest with
6533 thrusters. On my mark. Three... two...
6534 one... fire.
6535
6536194 EXT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - SPACE 194
6537
6538 The impulse engines SURGE, shutting off as the ship slips out
6539 from behind the moon and into open space --
6540
6541195 INT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 195
6542
6543 Sulu makes rapid-fire thruster combinations to stay on track --
6544 a stealthy ballet of incredible dexterity. THE NARADA appears
6545 over the horizon in geosynchronous orbit, passing underneath the
6546 Enterprise as they arc in behind it.
6547
6548 SULU
6549 All stop in three... two... one...
6550
6551196 EXT. THE NARADA/ENTERPRISE - CONTINUOUS 196
6552
6553 The small Enterprise pulls into position behind the massive
6554 Narada's BLIND SPOT and comes to a gentle stop. Tension --
6555
6556197 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - NIGHT 197
6557
6558 SULU (INTO CHAIR COMM)
6559 Transporter Room. We're in stable
6560 geosynchronous orbit behind the Narada.
6561
6562 CHEKOV
6563 (scanning)
6564 No sign they've detected us --
6565
6566198 INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER ROOM - CONTINUOUS 198
6567
6568 KIRK and SPOCK ready themselves for transport. STRAP ON UTILITY
6569 BELTS: COM-SETS, TRICORDERS, and of course, PHASERS --
6570
6571 SCOTTY
6572 (on Communicator)
6573 Well done, Mr. Sulu.
6574
6575 115
6576198 CONTINUED: 198
6577
6578 KIRK
6579 Whatever happens Mr. Sulu, if you feel
6580 you have a tactical advantage fire on
6581 that ship. Even if we're still aboard.
6582 It's an order.
6583
6584 SULU
6585 Yessir. Good luck.
6586
6587 Spock turns to Uhura, who hands him a small TRANSLATOR DEVICE:
6588
6589 UHURA
6590 We'll be monitoring your frequency...
6591
6592 Uhura gives the translator to Spock -- AND HE KISSES UHURA.
6593
6594 SPOCK
6595 Thank you, Nyota.
6596
6597 They part, revealing KIRK'S SHOCKED FACE. Uhura walks off,
6598 leaving the two men -- Kirk looking stunned at Spock.
6599
6600 KIRK
6601 Her first name is...
6602
6603 SPOCK
6604 I have no comment on the matter.
6605
6606 Kirk still stunned as Scotty moves to transporter control.
6607
6608 SCOTTY
6609 If there's any common sense to their ship
6610 design, I'll be puttin' ya in a cargo
6611 bay, shouldn't be a soul in sight.
6612
6613 KIRK AND SPOCK STAND ON THE TRANSPORTER PAD, SIDE-BY-SIDE AND
6614 FACING THE SAME DIRECTION FOR THE FIRST TIME -- AN ICONIC IMAGE -
6615 - The moment of truth.
6616
6617 KIRK
6618 Energize.
6619
6620 Scotty hits the transport and Kirk and Spock DISAPPEAR --
6621
6622199 INT. NARADA - CARGO BAY - CONTINUOUS 199
6623
6624 Kirk and Spock MATERIALIZE in the cargo bay... to find
6625 themselves suddenly smack-dab in the middle of SIX ROMULAN
6626 GUARDS working at cargo consoles!!
6627
6628 116
6629199 CONTINUED: 199
6630
6631 For a split second they're as shocked as Kirk and Spock, until
6632 they ATTACK -- Kirk immediately engages the closest Romulan,
6633 struggles -- but Spock's a machine: his palm snaps up CRACKING a
6634 nose -- SLAMS a head against the wall -- as battle-ready as the
6635 Romulans are, it's like trying to catch a GHOST, Kirk finally
6636 knocks his one opponent unconscious, and turns to see it's ALL
6637 OVER --
6638
6639 KIRK
6640 (a touch insecure)
6641 Mine had a gun.
6642
6643 SPOCK
6644 I am trained in the Vulcan martial art of
6645 Suus Mahna.
6646
6647 Kirk and Spock move to a still conscious Romulan as he struggles
6648 to get up. Spock reaches for the fallen Romulan's temples.
6649
6650 SPOCK (CONT'D)
6651 I am unable to meld with these Romulans --
6652 there are subtle differences in their
6653 physiology I did not anticipate --
6654
6655 KIRK SPOCK
6656 -- punch him in the face --
6657 make him talk! Suus Mahna his -- Suss Mahna is only intended
6658 ass! for self-defense, he's no
6659 longer a threat --
6660 -- then pretend it's a threat -
6661 - I'm your captain, that's an
6662 order!
6663
6664 Spock PUNCHES the Romulan HARD -- and via Uhura's comlink
6665 translator, speaks in SUBTITLED ROMULAN:
6666
6667 SPOCK (SUBTITLE) (CONT'D)
6668 What is your computer access code?
6669
6670 The guard SPITS green blood at Spock, who PUNCHES him again --
6671
6672 SPOCK (SUBTITLE) (CONT'D)
6673 TELL! (PUNCH) ME! (PUNCH) THE! (PUNCH)
6674 CODE!
6675
6676200 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 200
6677
6678 ROMULAN HELMSMAN
6679 The plasma drill is repaired and fully
6680 deployed.
6681
6682 NERO
6683 Good. Let's begin.
6684
6685 117
6686
6687
6688201 EXT. SUSPENDED DRILL - ABOVE CALIFORNIA - CONTINUOUS 201
6689
6690 THE ENERGY TORNADO FIRES FROM THE DRILL INTO THE EARTH!
6691
6692202 EXT. SAN FRANCISCO - DAY 202
6693
6694 The plasma beam SLAMS INTO SAN FRANCISCO BAY -- massive
6695 CONCUSSION CLOUDS FORM AROUND THE BEAM --
6696
6697202A EXT. STARFLEET ACADEMY/COMMAND - CONTINUOUS 202A
6698
6699 Cadets RUN to see the horrific sight of the plasma beam --
6700
6701203 INT. ENTERPRISE BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 203
6702
6703 As Uhura returns to the bridge, everyone's stations go DARK --
6704 STATIC on screens --
6705
6706 CHEKOV
6707 They've activated the drill --
6708
6709 UHURA
6710 Communications and transporter
6711 inoperative --
6712
6713 SULU
6714 They're on their own now.
6715
6716204 INT. NARADA - CONTINUOUS 204
6717
6718 A ROTATING SHIP SCHEMATIC -- Spock typing at a console,
6719 searching -- accesses two inter-cam windows: on one, SPOCK
6720 PRIME'S SHIP, THE JELLYFISH -- in a lower containment hold -- on
6721 the other: PIKE, unclear if he's dead or alive.
6722
6723 SPOCK
6724 What you refer to as the "Red Matter
6725 Device" is in the main hangar -- and I've
6726 located Captain Pike.
6727
6728 KIRK
6729 Is he alive?
6730
6731 SPOCK
6732 Unknown.
6733
6734 KIRK
6735 Let's move.
6736
6737 They cover each other with phasers as they move down the hall --
6738
6739 118
6740
6741
6742205 INT. NARADA - MAIN HANGAR 205
6743
6744 Captain Pike's shuttle and the Jellyfish sit parked among the
6745 equipment. Kirk and Spock stealthily board the Jellyfish --
6746
6747206 INT. JELLYFISH - COCKPIT - CONTINUOUS 206
6748
6749 Kirk hits a console, a familiar voice comes to life:
6750
6751 COMPUTER VOICE
6752 Voice print and face recognition analysis
6753 enabled.
6754
6755 KIRK
6756 Spock, you'll be piloting the ship alone.
6757
6758 SPOCK
6759 Which may be problematic, as I am
6760 unfamiliar with this ship's design.
6761
6762 THE LASER GRID RESPONDS TO SPOCK'S VOICE, scans his features for
6763 ID -- THE HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY MATERIALIZES:
6764
6765 COMPUTER VOICE
6766 Welcome back, Ambassador Spock.
6767
6768 KIRK
6769 (awkwardly)
6770 Wow. That's weird.
6771
6772 He looks to Kirk in surprise -- Spock's eyes fix with sudden
6773 understanding. Ambassador Spock... of course... suddenly all
6774 the pieces start coming together...
6775
6776 SPOCK
6777 Computer: what is your manufacturing
6778 origin?
6779
6780 COMPUTER VOICE
6781 Stardate 2397, commissioned by the Vulcan
6782 Science Academy.
6783
6784 Spock looks at Kirk, a touch upset:
6785
6786 SPOCK
6787 It appears you've been keeping rather
6788 important information from me.
6789
6790 KIRK
6791 Just trust me. Can ya do that?
6792
6793 Spock weigh his options. Trust. Finally:
6794
6795 119
6796206 CONTINUED: 206
6797
6798 KIRK (CONT'D)
6799 I'll get Pike.
6800
6801 Kirk exits --
6802
6803207 INT. NARADA [SET CHANGE] 207
6804
6805 Kirk moves through various areas of the ship --
6806
6807208 INT. JELLYFISH - COCKPIT 208
6808
6809 Spock works the control -- fires up the craft --
6810
6811209 EXT. NARADA - HANGAR - WITH JELLYFISH INSIDE 209
6812
6813 LIGHTS COME ON -- he starts it up -- the ship begins to RISE --
6814 and with the enormous JELLYFISH now OPERATING -- FLOATING IN THE
6815 HANGAR, Spock turns the ship and FIRES AT THE MASSIVE IRIS DOOR,
6816 BLOWING IT OPEN! DEBRIS AND LOOSE OBJECTS GET SUCKED INTO SPACE
6817 as --
6818
6819210 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE 210
6820
6821 The ship SHUDDERS from within -- ALARMS --
6822
6823 ROMULAN HELMSMAN
6824 Primary core rupture, warp engines off-
6825 line!
6826
6827 NERO
6828 HOW?!!
6829
6830 ROMULAN TACTICAL OFFICER
6831 Someone has detonated weapons in the main
6832 hangar!
6833
6834 CLOSE -- NERO -- EYES WILD, REALIZING THEY HAVE A SABOTEUR:
6835
6836 NERO
6837 Restore power! Engage auxiliary systems!
6838
6839211 OMIT 211
6840
6841212 EXT. NARADA - CONTINUOUS 212
6842
6843 THE JELLYFISH FLIES OUT -- ANGLES TOWARD THE DRILL AND FIRES
6844 ANOTHER TORPEDO -- DIRECT HIT!
6845
6846 THE MASSIVE RIG SWINGS -- THE TETHERS SNAPSNAPSNAP -- THE DRILL
6847 TILTS AND ROCKETS LOOSE, PLUMMETING DOWN... DOWN... DOWN...
6848
6849213 ... CRASHING INTO SAN FRANCISCO BAY 213
6850
6851 120
6852
6853
6854214 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 214
6855
6856 As the bridge crew fights to regain control:
6857
6858 ROMULAN TACTICAL OFFICER
6859 The drill's been severed!
6860
6861 ROMULAN COMMANDER
6862 Ambassador Spock's ship has been stolen
6863 as is heading out of the solar system!
6864
6865 NERO
6866 -- WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!
6867
6868 A beat -- the Romulan Commander looks up from his console:
6869
6870 ROMULAN COMMANDER
6871 (darkly)
6872 ... Spock.
6873
6874 OFF Nero's fucking mega rage --
6875
6876215 EXT. SPACE - ABOVE EARTH 215
6877
6878 The Narada turns -- accelerates in pursuit of the Jellyfish and
6879 AWAY FROM EARTH -- and now we're back to the imagery of the
6880 first few moments of the movie -- THE NARADA GAINING ON THE
6881 JELLYFISH, SPOCK AT THE CONTROLS --
6882
6883216 INT. NARADA - CONTINUOUS 216
6884
6885 NERO
6886 (to comms officer)
6887 Open a channel --
6888
6889 ROMULAN COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
6890 Channel Open --
6891
6892 NERO
6893 Spock -- I should've killed you when I
6894 had the chance.
6895
6896217 INT. NERO'S SHIP/ JELLYFISH - INTERCUTTING: 217
6897
6898 SPOCK STARES WITH DEADLY FOCUS AT THE VIEWSCREEN:
6899
6900 SPOCK
6901 Under authority granted me by the Europa
6902 convention, I'm confiscating this
6903 illegally obtained ship and order you to
6904 surrender your vessel. No terms. No
6905 deals.
6906
6907 And Nero? Just grins in perfect contentment...
6908
6909 121
6910217 CONTINUED: 217
6911
6912 NERO
6913 You can't cheat me again, Spock. I know
6914 you better than you know yourself.
6915
6916 SPOCK
6917 Last warning: unconditional surrender or
6918 you will be destroyed.
6919
6920 NERO
6921 (to his Men)
6922 Fire at will.
6923
6924 ROMULAN COMMANDER
6925 Sir-- if you ignite the red matter, the--
6926
6927 NERO
6928 I want Spock dead! Fire!
6929
6930 Nero hurries to the controls -- operates them himself and --
6931
6932218 EXT. NARADA - CONTINUOUS 218
6933
6934 -- FIRE IT DOES -- TORPEDOES BLAST FROM THE HOLD and to the
6935 jellyfish, which performs evasive maneuvers -- the torpedoes
6936 EXPLODE as --
6937
6938219 INT. NARADA - AIRLOCK SHAFT - CONTINUOUS 219
6939
6940 Kirk moves through shadow into an airlock shaft, starts climbing
6941 ladder rungs --
6942
6943220 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 220
6944
6945 The JELLYFISH TILTS, earth receding far behind it -- Spock veers
6946 to avoid being blown apart -- Nero's ship gaining -- firing --
6947
6948221 INT. NARADA - CORRIDORS - CONTINUOUS 221
6949
6950 Kirk moves through the space -- into the TORTURE ROOM, where he
6951 finds PIKE, CLOSE TO DEATH -- Kirk begins unfastening his binds.
6952 Pike sees him through his fog -- amazed --
6953
6954 PIKE
6955 ... Kirk?
6956
6957 KIRK
6958 Came back, Sir. Just like you ordered.
6959
6960 Kirk helps LIFT HIM -- but what he DOESN'T SEE are the FOUR
6961 GUARDS entering with weapons --
6962
6963 122
6964221 CONTINUED: 221
6965
6966 But PIKE, God bless him, does: summoning his last ounce of
6967 strength, he manages to UNHOLSTER KIRK'S PHASER AND BLASTS THE
6968 FOUR GUARDS OUT OF EXISTENCE! Safe, he SLUMPS, dropping the
6969 phaser --
6970
6971222 EXT. NARADA - SPACE - CONTINUOUS 222
6972
6973 The Narada FIRES again, TEARING a gash in the Jellyfish's side.
6974
6975223 INT. JELLYFISH - CONTINUOUS 223
6976
6977 An array EXPLODES --
6978
6979 NERO ON COMMS
6980 ... you should've fled, Spock. Sight
6981 target, standby torpedoes... FIRE!
6982
6983 COMPUTER VOICE
6984 Warning: Shields off-line.
6985
6986 On Spock -- bad as things are, they just got worse -- his mind
6987 SPINS until:
6988
6989 SPOCK
6990 Computer, prepare self destruct sequence.
6991
6992224 EXT. JELLYFISH - CONTINUOUS 224
6993
6994 And the Jellyfish TURNS -- a new course RIGHT FOR THE NARADA --
6995
6996225 INT. SPACE - NARADA AND JELLYFISH - CONTINUOUS 225
6997
6998 CLOSE ON SPOCK, bravely facing certain death -- on a collision
6999 course with the Narada -- looks like he's gonna sacrifice
7000 himself -- and we assume he'll pull away at the last second, of
7001 course he will, but he DOESN'T:
7002
7003226 EXT. NARADA AND JELLYFISH - CONTINUOUS 226
7004
7005 SMASH! THE JELLYFISH EXPLODES, SPOCK SEEMINGLY KILLED -- AND IN
7006 THE BLAST, THE RED MATTER IGNITES! A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE STARTS
7007 TO FORM, THE BIGGEST ONE YET! STARS DRIFT TOWARD ITS CENTER,
7008 PULLED INTO THE SPHERE BY THE GRAVITY WELL AS IT STARTS TO
7009 EXPAND --
7010
7011227 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 227
7012
7013 As the ship's ROCKED HARD, Nero sees the black hole BUILDING
7014 through the cockpit window:
7015
7016 NERO
7017 FULL REVERSE!!! NOW, NOW!!
7018
7019 123
7020
7021
7022228 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 228
7023
7024 EVERYTHING'S GETTING SUCKED INTO THE EVER-EXPANDING BLACK HOLE --
7025 A MASSIVE PULSE OF ENERGY PUMMELS NERO'S SHIP, SHEARING THROUGH
7026 ITS HULL -- AS THE NARADA TRIES TO REVERSE OUT OF THE GRAVITY
7027 WELL, THE ENTERPRISE IS REVEALED BEHIND IT -- HAVING BEEN THERE
7028 THE WHOLE TIME --
7029
7030229 INT. ENTERPRISE - TRANSPORTER BAY - CONTINUOUS 229
7031
7032 IT'S A RUSH, CRAZY, TENSE AS HELL --Uhura, McCoy, a MED TEAM and
7033 ND OFFICERS race in as Scotty finishes receiving incoming
7034 signals:
7035
7036 KIRK, SPOCK... AND PIKE MATERIALIZE ON THE PAD:
7037
7038 KIRK
7039 (to Transporter Chief)
7040 Nice timing, Lieutenant --
7041
7042 SCOTTY
7043 Never beamed two targets from two places
7044 onto the same pad before! That was
7045 pretty good!
7046
7047 Kirk transfers Pike to McCoy, who urgently SCANS Pike and barks
7048 to a MED-TECH:
7049
7050 MCCOY
7051 -- we're gonna need gastric stimulators,
7052 let's prep him for surgery, now!
7053
7054230 INT. NARADA - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 230
7055
7056 Everyone's HURLED off their feet -- consoles fry -- FIRE --
7057
7058 ROMULAN COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
7059 Nero-- it's the Enterprise!
7060
7061 NERO
7062 LOAD WEAPONS AND RAISE SHIELDS!!!
7063
7064 ROMULAN HELMSMAN
7065 ENGINES USING ALL OUR POWER, SIR!
7066
7067 Nero's eyes come UNHINGED --
7068
7069231 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 231
7070
7071 WHOOSH: KIRK and SPOCK race back onto the bridge --
7072
7073 CHEKOV
7074 Keptin! The enemy ship is losing power--
7075 its shields are down!
7076
7077 124
7078231 CONTINUED: 231
7079
7080 KIRK
7081 Hail them -- now!
7082
7083 NERO appears on screen from the Narada bridge -- the Narada's on
7084 its last legs -- a beat before Nero TURNS, realizing Kirk's
7085 fucking GRINNING at him from the screen:
7086
7087 KIRK (CONT'D)
7088 This is Captain James T. Kirk of the
7089 U.S.S. Enterprise -- your ship is
7090 compromised -- too close to the
7091 singularity to survive without assistance
7092 -- which we are willing to provide.
7093
7094 SPOCK
7095 (sotto)
7096 Captain -- what are you doing?
7097
7098 KIRK
7099 (sotto)
7100 We show them compassion-- it may be the
7101 only way to earn peace with Romulus.
7102 It's logic, Spock! I thought you'd like
7103 that.
7104
7105 SPOCK
7106 No, not really, not this time.
7107
7108 NERO
7109 I would rather suffer the death of
7110 Romulus a thousand times than accept
7111 assistance from you.
7112
7113 KIRK
7114 You got it.
7115 (turns)
7116 Lock phasers! Fire everything we've got!
7117
7118232 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 232
7119
7120 THE ENTERPRISE ARCS AROUND, FIRING A FULL SALVO AT THE NARADA --
7121 AND THE HITS CONNECT, A DOMINO-EFFECT OF EXPLOSIONS RIPPLING
7122 ACROSS THE ALREADY WEAKENED SHIP -- IT STARTS NOSE-DIVING,
7123 TOWARD THE BLACK HOLE --
7124
7125233 INT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE 233
7126
7127 KIRK
7128 Kirk to Engineering: get us out of here,
7129 Scotty!
7130
7131 SCOTTY (V.O.; COMMS)
7132 -- you bet yer ass, Captain --
7133
7134 125
7135
7136
7137234 INT. NARADA - CONTINUOUS 234
7138
7139 The walls are RIPPING AWAY, PYLONS pull free from their
7140 moorings, into the ever-expanding sphere -- NERO -- IN THE
7141 CHAOS, KNOWING HE'S REACHED THE END, CLOSES HIS EYES:
7142
7143 NERO
7144 Forgive me... Romulus...
7145
7146235 EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS 235
7147
7148 AND THE NARADA IMPLODES, BUCKLING IN ON ITSELF, DISAPPEARING IN
7149 PIECES INTO THE BLACK VORTEX --
7150
7151 Leaving only the Enterprise -- its nacelles FLARE as the ship
7152 tries to make the quantum leap -- BUT: the black hole's now a
7153 TITANIC WHIRLPOOL so insanely strong that the Enterprise is held
7154 in place by the gravity well even at warp! IT SHAKES INTO A
7155 BLUR, trying to cut loose but it CAN'T --
7156
7157236 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 236
7158
7159 KIRK
7160 WHY AREN'T WE AT WARP?!
7161
7162 CHEKOV
7163 -- WE ARE --!
7164
7165 SCOTTY OVER SPEAKERS
7166 CAPTAIN, WE'RE TRAPPED IN THE GRAVITY
7167 WELL! IT'S GOT US!
7168
7169 KIRK
7170 GO TO MAXIMUM WARP! PUSH IT!!!
7171
7172237 INT. ENTERPRISE - ENGINEERING - INTERCUTTING: 237
7173
7174 Scotty SHOUTS BACK into the com against the SCREAMING DRIVE:
7175
7176 SCOTTY
7177 I'M GIVIN' HER ALL SHE'S GOT, CAPTAIN!
7178
7179 KIRK
7180 ALL SHE'S GOT ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH! WHAT
7181 ELSE D'YOU GOT?!
7182
7183 SCOTTY
7184 (last desperate thought)
7185 IF WE EJECT THE CORE AND DETONATE, THE
7186 BLAST COULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PUSH US
7187 AWAY BUT I CAN'T PROMISE ANYTHING!
7188
7189 KIRK
7190 DO IT DO IT DO IT!
7191
7192 126
7193237 CONTINUED: 237
7194
7195 Scotty SLAMS the activation panel and we see the WARP CORE eject
7196 down a tube, like an INSTANT PNEUMATIC RELEASE --
7197
7198238 EXT. ENTERPRISE - ABOVE THE BLACK HOLE - CONTINUOUS 238
7199
7200 THE WARP CORE TUBE LAUNCHES FROM THE ENTERPRISE, STREAKING RIGHT
7201 INTO THE MOUTH OF THE BLACK HOLE -- AN INSANE, SILENT EXPLOSION:
7202 THE BLACK HOLE LIGHTS UP FROM HORIZON TO HORIZON, THE BLAST WAVE
7203 WHITING OUT THE FRAME! THE ENTERPRISE IS CONSUMED WITHIN IT:
7204
7205 FOR A MINUTE, WE THINK IT'S GONE... UNTIL IT'S JETTISONED OUT
7206 INTO THE STARS, FLYING AWAY, LEAVING THE FIRESTORM BEHIND IT!
7207
7208239 INT. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 239
7209
7210 Everyone white-knuckles their seats as the blast DISSIPATES...
7211 and our crew sits, wide-eyed, trembling... finally, truly safe.
7212
7213240 EXT. STARFLEET ACADEMY - SAN FRANCISCO - DAY 240
7214
7215 Back home.
7216
7217241 INT. STARFLEET ACADEMY - MEDICAL BAY/HANGAR - DAY 241
7218
7219 Spock is seen in a medical office with Pike, who lies in bed,
7220 recovering -- McCoy monitors him - Spock exits -- walks through
7221 the corridor -- sees a VULCAN in silhouette, staring out at the
7222 Academy. Sarek. Spock moves to him -- says quietly:
7223
7224 SPOCK
7225 Father...?
7226
7227 Sarek turns -- but IT ISN'T SAREK. IT'S SPOCK PRIME. Who says:
7228
7229 SPOCK PRIME
7230 I am not... our father.
7231
7232 An incredible beat, our two Spocks in eye lock... both minds
7233 processing conversational possibilities at an incredible rate...
7234 surreal extensions of each other, separate but connected...
7235
7236 SPOCK
7237 ... Fascinating.
7238
7239 SPOCK PRIME
7240 There are so few Vulcans left. We cannot
7241 afford to ignore each other.
7242
7243 Young Spock's eyes flicker in puzzlement...
7244
7245 SPOCK
7246 Then why did you send Kirk aboard when
7247 you alone could've explained the truth?
7248
7249 127
7250241 CONTINUED: 241
7251
7252 SPOCK PRIME
7253 (beat, simply)
7254 Because you needed each other. Opposing
7255 yet complimentary opposites. It was that
7256 balance between us -- I should say
7257 you and Kirk -- that often made the
7258 impossible, possible.
7259
7260 SPOCK
7261 ... it was a test?
7262
7263 SPOCK PRIME
7264 (no: his heart heavy)
7265 I'm in no position to pass judgment...
7266 my actions have robbed you of much. I
7267 could not also deprive you the revelation
7268 of all you can accomplish together... of
7269 a friendship that will define you both in
7270 ways you cannot yet realize.
7271
7272 There is, to young Spock's surprise, vulnerability in that.
7273
7274 SPOCK
7275 How did you persuade him to keep your
7276 secret?
7277
7278 SPOCK PRIME
7279 I inferred universe-ending paradoxes
7280 would ensue should he break his promise.
7281
7282 SPOCK
7283 You lied.
7284
7285 SPOCK PRIME
7286 I implied.
7287
7288 SPOCK
7289 A gamble...
7290
7291 SPOCK PRIME
7292 An act of faith. One I hope you'll
7293 repeat in the future.
7294
7295 Young Spock considers an enduring friendship between him and
7296 Kirk... for the first time, understanding it. But --
7297
7298 SPOCK
7299 The future's not what it used to be... in
7300 the face of extinction, it's only logical
7301 I resign my Starfleet commission and help
7302 rebuild our race.
7303
7304 127A
7305241 CONTINUED: (2) 241
7306
7307 SPOCK PRIME
7308 And yet, you are in a unique position...
7309 you can be in two places at once.
7310 (MORE)
7311
7312 128
7313241 CONTINUED: (3) 241
7314 SPOCK PRIME (CONT'D)
7315 (beat)
7316 I urge you to remain in Starfleet: I've
7317 already located a suitable planet on
7318 which to establish a Vulcan colony, and
7319 assist in the foundation of a new science
7320 academy.
7321
7322 Young Spock takes that in, resolute...
7323
7324 SPOCK
7325 My future cannot be determined by your
7326 past. We are one, but not the same.
7327
7328 SPOCK PRIME
7329 Then I ask that you do yourself a favor.
7330 Put away logic. Do what feels right.
7331 The world you've inherited lives in the
7332 shadow of incalculable devastation... but
7333 there's no reason you must face it alone.
7334
7335 Spock Prime moves to the door, stops. Offers the VULCAN SALUTE:
7336
7337 SPOCK PRIME (CONT'D)
7338 As my customary farewell would appear
7339 oddly self serving, I will simply say...
7340 good luck.
7341
7342 Their eyes hold. Spock turns, disappearing into the corridor.
7343 Young Spock stares at the empty doorway a beat, his mind a
7344 jumble of thoughts... and our MUSIC BUILDS...
7345
7346242 INT. STARFLEET CORRIDOR - HANGAR - CONTINUOUS 242
7347
7348 As Spock Prime walks off down the corridor, he passes right by a
7349 man conferring with a nurse -- the man pauses, turns... it's
7350 SAREK. Suddenly overcome by a feeling that the stranger who's
7351 just passed him is... oddly familiar.
7352
7353243 INT. STARFLEET ACADEMY - COUNCIL CHAMBERS - DAY 243
7354
7355 MUSIC STILL BUILDING -- glass walls reveal THE ENTERPRISE at
7356 dock, UTILITY CRAFTS floating around it, repairing. Standing at
7357 attention in rows, THE ENTERPRISE CREW -- over four hundred of
7358 them wearing DRESS UNIFORMS -- TRACK DOWN the faces, all proud --
7359 and we STOP ON YOUNG KIRK. Composed, focused, a man. The
7360 ACADEMY PRESIDENT stands at a podium:
7361
7362 ACADEMY PRESIDENT
7363 This assembly calls Captain James
7364 Tiberius Kirk...
7365
7366 129
7367243 CONTINUED: 243
7368
7369 Kirk breaks from formation, pivots, marches down the hangar --
7370 past UHURA... SULU... CHEKOV... SCOTTY. All Beaming. Notably
7371 absent, is Spock. Kirk ascends the stairs, snaps to attention:
7372
7373 ACADEMY PRESIDENT (CONT'D)
7374 Your inspirational valor and supreme
7375 dedication to your comrades are in
7376 keeping with the highest traditions of
7377 service and reflect utmost credit to
7378 yourself, your crew, and the Federation.
7379 For your... unique solution to the
7380 Kobayashi Maru, it's my honor to award
7381 you with a commendation for original
7382 thinking.
7383
7384 He opens a BOX -- glorious in repose, a MEDAL:
7385
7386 ACADEMY PRESIDENT (CONT'D)
7387 By Starfleet Order 28455, you are hereby
7388 directed to report to Commanding Officer,
7389 USS Enterprise, for duty as his relief.
7390
7391 Kirk turns. Walks to... PIKE. In a wheelchair now, wearing an
7392 ADMIRAL'S UNIFORM. Overnight, his hair's turned totally grey --
7393 but despite his trauma, his pride's overwhelming. They SALUTE:
7394
7395 KIRK
7396 I relieve you, Sir.
7397
7398 PIKE
7399 I am relieved. Congratulations, Captain.
7400
7401 Pike containing a smirk, pins the medal to Kirk's chest.
7402
7403 KIRK
7404 Thank you, Sir.
7405
7406 Kirk turns to the crowd. Eyes shining. WILD APPLAUSE. As Kirk
7407 rejoins his crew for hugs and congratulations, we go to the BACK
7408 of the hangar... SPOCK PRIME. Watching. Moved beyond words.
7409 He turns and leaves them to it... and our MUSIC SWELLS as --
7410
7411244 INT. U.S.S. ENTERPRISE - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 244
7412
7413 The turbolift WHOOSHES open and in walks Kirk -- to every fan's
7414 delight, wearing his iconic GOLD SHIRT. All around him, our
7415 crew -- young and fresh-faced but no longer children -- in
7416 charge of the greatest starship ever built:
7417
7418 130
7419244 CONTINUED: 244
7420
7421 SULU
7422 Maneuvering thrusters and impulse engines
7423 at your command, Sir.
7424
7425 CHEKOV
7426 Weapons systems and shields on standby.
7427
7428 UHURA
7429 Dock control reports ready. Yard Command
7430 signalling clear.
7431
7432 KIRK
7433 Scotty how are we?
7434
7435 SCOTTY (O.S. OVER COMM LINK)
7436 Dilithium chamber at maximum efficiency,
7437 Captain.
7438
7439 MCCOY
7440 (wry grin)
7441 Same ship, different day.
7442
7443 And Kirk pauses. His eyes go over to the empty science console
7444 with a sense of incompleteness. In fact, everyone on the bridge
7445 feels it. A bitter truth they'll have to accept.
7446
7447 KIRK
7448 Mr. Sulu, prepare to engage thrus--
7449
7450 WHOOSH: the turbolift door opens. SPOCK!!! Wearing his BLUE
7451 UNIFORM. Our hearts soar --
7452
7453 SPOCK
7454 Permission to come aboard, Captain.
7455
7456 KIRK
7457 ... Permission granted.
7458
7459 SPOCK
7460 As you have yet to select a first
7461 officer, respectfully, I would like to
7462 submit my candidacy. Should you desire,
7463 I can provide character references.
7464
7465 Kirk nearly laughs. Spock's eyebrow goes up. Something passes
7466 between them... it carries acceptance, and trust...
7467
7468 KIRK
7469 It would be my honor, Commander.
7470 Maneuvering thrusters, Mr. Sulu. Take us
7471 out.
7472
7473 SULU
7474 Aye, Captain.
7475
7476 131
7477244 CONTINUED: (2) 244
7478
7479 As the ship maneuvers out of dry dock, Spock takes his place
7480 next to Kirk. Gold and blue, side by side.
7481
7482245 EXT. STARBASE ONE - DRYDOCK - CONTINUOUS 245
7483
7484 And the ship crests the drydock portal, drifting into space...
7485 blessed one last time by the voice of our Vulcan hero:
7486
7487 SPOCK/NIMOY
7488 Space... the final frontier. These are
7489 the continuing voyages of the Starship
7490 Enterprise. Her ongoing mission... to
7491 explore strange new worlds... to seek out
7492 new life forms, and new civilizations...
7493 To boldly go, where no one has gone...
7494 before...
7495
7496 The TREK THEME SOARS as the Enterprise warps off into a universe
7497 of infinite possibilities...
7498
7499 FADE OUT.
7500
7501 T H E B E G I N N I N G
7502
7503 132
7504245 CONTINUED: 245
7505
7506
7507
7508 ADDENDUM TO SCRIPT: ALTERNATE SCENES
7509
7510 ALTERNATE SCENE A
7511
7512 THE FOLLOWING DIALOGUE TO BE ASSIGNED TO MAIN OR ADDITIONAL
7513 BRIDGE CREW IF TIME AND CASTING PERMITS.
7514
7515 INT. KELVIN BRIDGE
7516
7517 CAPTAIN ROBAU
7518 ... oh my God...
7519 (to himself, boggled)
7520 A lightning storm... then this...
7521 (to deck)
7522 Signal all departments: first contact
7523 protocols. Looks like we have someone
7524 new on the block. All Stop.
7525
7526 KELVIN CREW MEMBER
7527 All stations, FC-3 procedures
7528 initiated..."
7529
7530 KELVIN CREW MEMBER COMMS
7531 Broadcasting universal greeting on all
7532 open frequencies.
7533
7534 FIRST OFFICER
7535 Sir, should we initiate an active scan?
7536
7537 CAPTAIN ROBAU
7538 That could be seen as an act of
7539 provocation -- all readings passive--
7540
7541 Crew members are glued to their telemetry, working consoles:
7542
7543 KELVIN CREW MEMBER
7544 EM sensors in passive sweep...
7545
7546 KELVIN CREW MEMBER (CONT'D)
7547 Power signature detected -- level's
7548 increasing.
7549
7550 Suddenly, a WARNING BEEP --
7551
7552
7553
7554 OFFICER PITTS CAPTAIN ROBAU
7555 Sir, I have a reading --
7556 they've locked weapons on us! -- Red alert! Arm weapons!
7557
7558 ALARMS BLARE -- LIGHTS GO RED as --
7559
7560 133
7561
7562
7563EXT. SPACE - CONTINUOUS
7564
7565The Narada FIRES a TORPEDO -- IT HEADS FOR THE KELVIN -- then
7566SEPARATES, fracturing into a multi-hit projectile --
7567
7568INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CONTINUOUS
7569
7570Officers SCRAMBLE, brace for impact --
7571
7572
7573
7574 FIRST OFFICER CAPTAIN ROBAU
7575Torpedo locked on us at 320
7576degrees, mark two -- incoming -- Evasive pattern Delta-5!
7577fast!
7578
7579 CREW MEMBER
7580 Redirecting auxiliary power to forward
7581 shields!"
7582
7583 CREW MEMBER (CONT'D)
7584 Aft torpedo tubes are hot!
7585
7586EXT. U.S.S. KELVIN - CONTINUOUS
7587
7588A direct hit SMASHES several decks along the DISH of the ship --
7589
7590INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS
7591
7592Captain Robau helps a fallen CREW MEMBER up from the floor --
7593then, on his chair com:
7594
7595 CAPTAIN ROBAU
7596 Damage report!
7597
7598INTERCUT with:
7599
7600INT. U.S.S. KELVIN - ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS
7601
7602Moving with the Kelvin's CHIEF ENGINEER:
7603
7604 KELVIN CREW MEMBER
7605 Diagnostic's back online -- rerouting to
7606 auxiliary console.
7607
7608 KELVIN CREW MEMBER 2
7609 Power grid junctions C-7 and E-3 are
7610 out...
7611
7612 KELVIN CREW MEMBER
7613 Dispatch repair teams to deck 4.
7614
7615 134
7616CONTINUED:
7617
7618 CHIEF ENGINEER
7619 Our shields did nothing, Sir! Never seen
7620 anything like it! Weapons off-line!
7621 Main power at 38 percent!
7622
7623 135
7624CONTINUED: (2)
7625
7626
7627
7628
7629 ALTERNATE SCENE B
7630
7631 SPOCK PRIME
7632 Then I ask that you do yourself a
7633 favor... put away logic, and do what
7634 feels right. The world you've inherited
7635 lives in the shadow of incalculable
7636 devastation... but there's no reason you
7637 must face it alone.
7638
7639And from around his neck, he removes the PENDANT that until now,
7640we've only caught glimpses of. Places it on the table beside
7641his younger self. The feeling in his eyes is profound...
7642
7643 SPOCK PRIME (CONT'D)
7644 This was a gift to me. Representing...
7645 a dream. One we were unable to fulfill.
7646 (softly)
7647 The way you can now.
7648
7649And moves to the door. Stops. Offers the VULCAN SALUTE:
7650
7651 SPOCK PRIME (CONT'D)
7652 As my customary farewell would appear
7653 oddly self serving, I will simply say...
7654 good luck.
7655
7656Their eyes hold. Spock turns, disappearing into the corridor.
7657Young Spock stares at the empty doorway a beat, his mind a
7658jumble of thoughts. Looks to the pendant... and realizes it's a
7659HOLO-EMITTER. After considering a beat, he hits an activation
7660button and a MOVING HOLOGRAPHIC MESSAGE materializes before him:
7661
7662CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK. WILLIAM SHATNER. As always, brash, wry,
7663confident -- and SINGING:
7664
7665 KIRK/ SHATNER
7666 Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to
7667 you...
7668 (stops, grins)
7669 I know I know, it's illogical to
7670 celebrate something you had nothing to do
7671 with, but I haven't had the chance to
7672 congratulate you on your appointment to
7673 the ambassadorship so I thought I'd seize
7674 the occasion... Bravo, Spock -- they tell
7675 me your first mission may take you away
7676 for awhile, so I'll be the first to wish
7677 you luck... and to say...
7678 (beat, emotional)
7679 I miss you, old friend.
7680
7681 136
7682CONTINUED: (3)
7683
7684... and we're PUSHING IN on Young Spock, taking in the image of
7685Kirk's future self, the message, but above all -- the clear,
7686unquestionable friendship these two men had...
7687
7688INT. CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS
7689
7690As Spock Prime walks off down the corridor, he passes right by a
7691man conferring with a nurse -- the man pauses, turns... it's
7692SAREK. Suddenly overcome by a feeling that the stranger who's
7693just passed him is... oddly familiar.
7694
7695 KIRK/SHATNER (V.O.)
7696 I suppose I'd always imagined us...
7697 outgrowing Starfleet together. Watching
7698 life swing us into our Emeritus years...
7699
7700INT. STARBASE ONE - HANGAR - ETERNAL NIGHT
7701
7702MUSIC BUILDING -- glass walls reveal THE ENTERPRISE at dock,
7703UTILITY CRAFTS floating around it, repairing. Standing at
7704attention in rows, THE ENTERPRISE CREW -- over four hundred of
7705them wearing DRESS UNIFORMS -- TRACK DOWN the faces, all proud:
7706
7707 KIRK/SHATNER (V.O.)
7708 I look around at the new cadets now and
7709 can't help thinking... has it really been
7710 so long? Wasn't it only yesterday we
7711 stepped onto the Enterprise as boys?
7712 That I had to prove to the crew I
7713 deserved command... and their respect?
7714
7715And we STOP ON YOUNG KIRK. Composed, focused, proud. A man.
7716And to every fan's delight, finally wearing his YELLOW SHIRT.
7717The FEDERATION COMMANDANT stands at a podium:
7718
7719 COMMANDANT
7720 This assembly calls Captain James
7721 Tiberius Kirk...
7722
7723Kirk breaks from formation, pivots, marches down the hangar --
7724past UHURA... SULU... CHEKOV... SCOTTY. All Beaming. Notably
7725absent, is Spock. Kirk ascends the stairs, snaps to attention:
7726
7727 COMMANDANT (CONT'D)
7728 Your inspirational valor and supreme
7729 dedication to your comrades are in
7730 keeping with the highest traditions of
7731 service and reflect utmost credit to
7732 yourself, your crew, and the Federation.
7733 By Starfleet Order 28455, you are hereby
7734 directed to report to Commanding Officer,
7735 USS Enterprise, for duty as his relief.
7736
7737 137
7738CONTINUED:
7739
7740Kirk turns. Walks to... PIKE. In a wheelchair now, wearing an
7741ADMIRAL'S UNIFORM. Overnight, his hair's turned totally grey --
7742but despite his trauma, his pride's overwhelming. They SALUTE
7743each other:
7744
7745 KIRK
7746 I relieve you, Sir.
7747
7748 PIKE
7749 ... I am relieved.
7750
7751He opens a BOX in his lap -- glorious in repose, a MEDAL:
7752
7753 PIKE (CONT'D)
7754 And as Fleet Admiral, for your... unique
7755 solution to the Kobayashi Maru, it's my
7756 honor to award you with a commendation
7757 for original thinking.
7758
7759Pike containing a smirk, pins the medal to Kirk's chest...
7760
7761 PIKE (CONT'D)
7762 (a touch choked)
7763 Congratulations, Captain.
7764
7765 KIRK
7766 Thank you, Sir.
7767
7768Kirk turns to the crowd. Eyes shining. WILD APPLAUSE. OUR
7769MUSIC SOARS. Bones leans in to Sulu, rolling his eyes:
7770
7771 BONES
7772 ... Same ship, different day.
7773
7774As Kirk rejoins his crew for hugs and congratulations, we go to
7775the BACK of the hangar... SPOCK PRIME. Watching. Moved beyond
7776words. He turns and leaves them to it... as he goes...
7777
7778 KIRK/SHATNER (V.O.)
7779 I know what you'd say -- `It's their turn
7780 now, Jim...' And of course you're
7781 right... but it got me thinking:
7782
7783INT. STARFLEET HOSPITAL - EARTH - DAY
7784
7785Our montage comes full circle as we END on Kirk's transmission:
7786
7787 KIRK/SHATNER
7788 Who's to say we can't go one more round?
7789 By the last tally, only twenty five
7790 percent of the galaxy's been chartered...
7791 I'd call that negligent. Criminal even --
7792 an invitation.
7793 (MORE)
7794
7795 138
7796CONTINUED:
7797 KIRK/SHATNER (CONT'D)
7798 You once said being a starship captain
7799 was my first, best destiny... if that's
7800 true, then yours is to be by my side. If
7801 there's any true logic to the universe...
7802 we'll end up on that bridge again
7803 someday.
7804
7805Stops, grins. Because this is the part he needs to say most...
7806
7807 KIRK
7808 Admit it, Spock. For people like us, the
7809 journey itself... is home.
7810
7811Young Spock's face. Lost in feelings that flood through him.
7812
7813 139
7814CONTINUED: (2)
7815
7816
7817
7818 ALTERNATE SCENE C
7819
7820SKILL DOMES: Questions to be spoken or represented graphically
7821and answers to be dispersed to Vulcan children at directors
7822discretion.
7823
7824
7825Q: What is the arc length of a curve from x equals a to x equals
7826b?
7827
7828A: The integral, from a to b, of the square root of one plus the
7829squared derivative of y with respect to x, d x.
7830
7831
7832Q: Calculate the dimensionality of a fractal whose initiator
7833divides into three equal parts, each of which is replaced by
7834four parts.
7835
7836A: 1.26
7837
7838
7839Q: What is the dimensionality of a fractal whose initiator
7840divides into r equal parts , each being replaced by N equal
7841parts?
7842
7843A: Dimensionality equals the logarithm of N divided by the
7844logarithm of r.
7845
7846
7847Q: A cone is sliced by a plane that does not intersect the base,
7848nor is the plane parallel to the base. What shape is formed by
7849the intersection?
7850
7851A: An ellipse.
7852
7853
7854Q: What is the formula for the volume of a sphere?
7855
7856A: Four-thirds pi times the radius cubed.
7857
7858
7859Q: What is the electrical charge of an up-type quark?
7860
7861A: Positive two thirds.
7862
7863
7864Q: A discount function with exponential discounting for all
7865periods, and an additional scalar discount for the present, is
7866called what?
7867
7868A: Quasi-hyperbolic.
7869
7870 140
7871CONTINUED: (3)
7872
7873
7874
7875
7876Q: An excessively impatient person, who discounts future values
7877solely because they are not in the present, is called what?
7878
7879A: A hyperbolic or quasi-hyperbolic discounter.
7880
7881
7882Q: In an infinitely repeated classic prisoners' dilemma, how
7883many subgame perfect equilibria exist?
7884
7885A: Infinitely many.
7886
7887
7888Q: How many equilibria exist in a classic Hawk-Dove strategic
7889interaction game?
7890
7891A: Two in pure strategies and one in mixed strategies. (The
7892mixed strategy equilibria is unstable.)
7893
7894
7895Q: What are the two key features of a pure public good?
7896
7897A; Non-excludability and non-rivalry in consumption.
7898
7899
7900Q: What is the only known intelligent life form to have achieved
7901faster-than-light travel without political unification?
7902
7903A: Humans. Assuming, of course, you regard humans as
7904intelligent.
7905
7906
7907Q: What are the six recognized exceptions to the Prime Directive
7908under Federation law?
7909
7910A: LEAVE UNANSWERED
7911
7912
7913Q: What are the four key dimensions of Vulcan aesthetics?
7914
7915A: Leave unanswered
7916
7917
7918Q: What term describes an action that is morally praiseworthy
7919but not morally obligatory?
7920
7921A: Supererogatory.
7922
7923
7924Q: When is an action said to be supererogatory?
7925
7926A: When it is morally praiseworthy but not morally obligatory.
7927
7928 141
7929CONTINUED: (4)
7930
7931 ALTERNATE SCENE D
7932
7933Miscellaneous dialogue to be dispersed by director to supporting
7934crew or main cast at his/her discretion.
7935
7936CADETS AT STARFLEET:
7937
7938 CADET
7939 Heard that guy passed second-year exams
7940 in his first term.
7941
7942 CADET (CONT'D)
7943 Ruining the curve for everyone.
7944
7945 CADET (CONT'D)
7946 I'd like to load her photon tubes.
7947
7948 CADET (CONT'D)
7949 Can't believe I failed the navigational
7950 comp.
7951
7952 CADET (CONT'D)
7953 The Newton's not an antique, it's a
7954 classic. Give me the Newton over the
7955 Enterprise any day.
7956
7957 CADET (CONT'D)
7958 Did you see the new assignment roster?
7959
7960 CADET (CONT'D)
7961 I flunked the sub-atomic particles quiz.
7962
7963 CADET (CONT'D)
7964 They better give me a red shirt for this.
7965
7966 CADET (CONT'D)
7967 Do we have time to get married?
7968
7969 CADET (CONT'D)
7970 (on one knee)
7971 I know this is sudden, but... will you
7972 marry me?
7973
7974 CADET (CONT'D)
7975 I'm calling my Mom...
7976
7977
7978 CADET (CONT'D)
7979 Can't believe I'm on the Mayflower...
7980
7981
7982ROMULANS:
7983
7984 142
7985CONTINUED: (5)
7986
7987 ROMULAN OFFICER
7988 Secure the transport deck.
7989
7990 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
7991 Security team to the docking bay.
7992 Report.
7993
7994 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
7995 Bring the prisoner to the bridge.
7996
7997 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
7998 Secure the prisoner and take him to the
7999 brig.
8000
8001 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
8002 Federation defenses are weak in this era.
8003
8004 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
8005 Prepare shuttles for evacuation.
8006
8007 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
8008 Communications -- monitor all Federation
8009 channels.
8010
8011 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
8012 Scramble signals on all Federation
8013 channels.
8014
8015 ROMULAN ENSIGN
8016 Anterior hull breach, deck level seven.
8017
8018 ROMULAN ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8019 Security breach in the docking bay,
8020 tracking now...
8021
8022 ROMULAN ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8023 The Vulcans value logic but not honor.
8024
8025 ROMULAN ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8026 No remaining signal - the vessel is gone.
8027
8028 ROMULAN OFFICER
8029 Long live the Romulan Star Empire.
8030
8031 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
8032 We are being attacked.
8033
8034
8035 ROMULAN OFFICER (CONT'D)
8036 Stinking Klingons.
8037
8038 ROMULAN ENSIGN
8039 Captain we have a new contact.
8040
8041 143
8042CONTINUED: (6)
8043
8044 ROMULAN ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8045 Firing solution ready.
8046
8047 ROMULAN ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8048 Sir, tracking new contact.
8049
8050 ROMULAN ENGINEER
8051 Sir, we have a hull breach in the aft
8052 section.
8053
8054 ROMULAN ENGINEER (CONT'D)
8055 This is a mining vessel. We don't have
8056 the manoeuvrability to follow.
8057
8058
8059VULCANS:
8060
8061 VULCAN CIVILIAN
8062 Where is planetary security?
8063
8064 VULCAN CIVILIAN (CONT'D)
8065 The planet is coming apart!
8066
8067 VULCAN CIVILIAN (CONT'D)
8068 Hope is beyond reason.
8069
8070 VULCAN CIVILIAN (CONT'D)
8071 Stay together and keep moving.
8072
8073 VULCAN CIVILIAN (CONT'D)
8074 Planetary evacuation is in progress.
8075
8076 VULCAN CIVILIAN (CONT'D)
8077 This is highly improbable.
8078
8079 VULCAN CIVILIAN (CONT'D)
8080 It seems we are under attack.
8081
8082 VULCAN CIVILIAN (CONT'D)
8083 I await my fate with a clear consciences.
8084
8085 VULCAN PRIEST
8086 An end is just a beginning.
8087
8088STARFLEET BRIDGE:
8089
8090 ENSIGN
8091 All com channels open.
8092
8093 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8094 We have clearance from Starfleet.
8095
8096 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8097 Proceeding as directed.
8098
8099 144
8100CONTINUED: (7)
8101
8102 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8103 Transporter deck is operational.
8104
8105 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8106 Shields at one-hundred percent and
8107 stable.
8108
8109 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8110 Engineering reports warp core is stable.
8111
8112 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8113 Warp propulsion system is at maximum
8114 efficiency.
8115
8116 OFFICER
8117 Monitor all channels.
8118
8119 OFFICER (CONT'D)
8120 Bring up schematics for the Defiant,
8121 Newton, Armstrong, and Mayflower.
8122
8123 OFFICER (CONT'D)
8124 Set a course for Rigel 3 and transmit to
8125 the other ships.
8126
8127 ENSIGN
8128 Warp drive is off line, we are on impulse
8129 only, repeat, impulse only.
8130
8131 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8132 Sir, we've been detected -- Romulan
8133 vessel is turning about.
8134
8135 OFFICER
8136 Rerouting power to port shields.
8137
8138 ENSIGN
8139 Hull breach on deck 38, atmospheric
8140 stabilization has been lost.
8141
8142 ENSIGN (CONT'D)
8143 Life support is fluctuating.
8144
8145MEDICAL BAY:
8146
8147 NURSE
8148 Class four casualties here, class three
8149 in the next door.
8150
8151 DOCTOR
8152 Dose him alpha waves and resume
8153 compressions.
8154
8155 145
8156CONTINUED: (8)
8157
8158 DOCTOR (CONT'D)
8159 Cortical stimulation's failing --
8160
8161 NURSE
8162 This should numb the pain.
8163
8164 NURSE (CONT'D)
8165 Airways clear.