Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - full transcript

It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise--now a training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission when his nemesis Khan Noonien Singh--infamous conqueror from late 20th century Earth--appears after years of exile. Khan later revealed that the planet Ceti Alpha VI exploded, and shifted the orbit of the fifth planet as a Mars-like haven. He begins capturing Project Genesis, a top secret device holding the power of creation itself, and schemes the utter destruction of Kirk.

Saavlk: Captain's

log, stardate 8130.3.

Starship enterprise on training

mission to gamma hydra,

section 14, coordinates 22-87-4.

Approaching neutral zone.

All systems normal

- and functioning.

- Leaving section 14 for section 15.

Stand by. Project parabolic course

to avoid entering neutral zone.

Sulu: Aye, captain.

Course change projected.

Captain, I'm getting something

on the distress channel.

On speakers.

Man: Imperative! This is the kobayashi

maru, 19 periods out of altair vi.

We have struck a gravitic

mine and have lost all power.

Our hull is penetrated and we have

sustained many causalities...

This is the starship enterprise.

Your message is breaking up.

Can you give us your coordinates?

Repeat, this is the starship...

Enterprise, ourposition is

gamma hydra, section 10.

In the neutral zone.

Hull penetrated, life

support systems failing.

Can you assist us, enterprise?

- Can you assist us?

- Data on kobayashi maru.

Computer voice: Subject vessel is

third class neutronic fuel carrier,

crew of 81, 300 passengers.

Damn.

Mr sulu? Plot an

intercept course.

May I remind the captain that if

a starship enters the zone...

I'm aware of my

responsibilities, mister.

Sulu: Estimating two

minutes to intercept.

Now entering the neutral zone.

Computer voice: Warning. We

have entered neutral zone.

We are now in violation

of treaty, captain.

Stand by, transporter room,

ready to beam survivors aboard.

Captain! I've lost their signal.

Computer voice: Alert. Sensors

indicate three klingon cruisers,

bearing 3-1-6 Mark 4.

- Closing fast.

- Visual.

Battle stations.

Activate shields.

Shields activated.

Inform the klingons we

are on a rescue mission.

They're jamming all the

frequencies, captain.

Computer voice: Klingons on

attack course and closing.

We're over our heads. Mr

sulu, get us out of here.

I'll try, captain.

Computer voice: Alert.

Klingon torpedoes activated.

- Alert.

- Evasive action!

Engineering, damage report.

Scotty on intercom: Main

energizer hit, captain.

Engage auxiliary power.

Prepare to return fire.

Shields collapsing, captain.

- Fire all phasers.

- No power to the weapons, captain.

Scotty: Captain, it's no use.

We're dead in space.

Saavlk: Activate escape pods. Send out

the log buoy. All hands abandon ship.

- Repeat, all hands abandon ship.

- Klrk: All right. Open her up.

- Any suggestions, admiral?

- Klrk: Prayer, mr saavik.

The klingons don't

take prisoners.

Lights.

Man on pa: Motors on.

Captain?

Trainees, to the briefing room.

Woman on pa: Maintenance crew,

report to bridge simulator.

Maintenance crew, report

to bridge simulator.

- "Physician, heal thyself."

- Ls that all you've got to say?

- What about my performance?

- I'm not a drama critic.

Well, mr saavik, are you gonna

stay with the sinking ship?

- Permission to speak candidly, sir?

- Granted.

Saavlk: I don't believe this was a

fair test of my command abilities.

- And why not?

- Because there was no way to win.

A no-win situation is a possibility

every commander may face.

- Has that never occurred to you?

- No, sir. It has not.

How we deal with death is at least as

important as how we deal with life,

wouldn't you say?

As I indicated, admiral, that

thought had not occurred to me.

Well, now you have something

new to think about. Carry on.

Woman on pa: Engineering

cadets, assemble on c-level.

McCoy: Admiral.

Wouldn't it be easier to just put an

experienced crew back on the ship?

Galloping around the cosmos is

a game for the young, doctor.

Now, what is that

supposed to mean?

Aren't you dead?

I assume you're

loitering around here

to learn what efficiency rating

I plan to give your cadets?

I am understandably curious.

They destroyed the simulator

room and you with it.

The kobayashi maru scenario

frequently wreaks havoc

with students and equipment.

As I recall, you took the

test three times yourself.

Your final solution was,

shall we say, unique.

It had the virtue of

never having been tried.

By the way, thank you for this.

I know of your

fondness for antiques.

"It was the best of times, it

was the worst of times..."

- Message, Spock?

- None that I'm conscious of.

Except, of course, happy birthday.

Surely the best of times.

Woman on pa: Captain

Spock, captain Spock,

space shuttle leaving

in 15 minutes.

- Where are you off to now?

- The enterprise.

I must check in before your inspection.

And you?

Home.

Klrk: Why, bless me, doctor.

What beams you into

this neck of the woods?

Beware romulans bearing gifts.

- Happy birthday, Jim.

- Thanks.

Romulan ale. Why, bones,

you know this is illegal.

I only use it for

medicinal purposes.

I got a border ship that brings

me in a case every now and then

across the neutral zone.

- Now, don't be a prig.

- 2283.

Yeah, well, it takes this

stuff a while to ferment.

Here, give me. Now,

you open this one.

I'm almost afraid to.

What is it?

Klingon aphrodisiacs?

- No.

- Bones, this is charming.

For most patients your age, I

usually recommend retinax v.

- I'm allergic to retinax.

- Exactly. Cheers.

Cheers.

Happy birthday.

- I don't know what to say.

- Well, you could say thank you.

Thank you.

Damn it, Jim, what the

hell's the matter with you?

Other people have birthdays.

Why are we treating

yours like a funeral?

- Bones, I don't want to be lectured.

- What the hell do you want?

This is not about age

and you know it.

It's about you flying a

goddamn computer console

when you want to be out

there hopping galaxies.

Spare me your notions

of poetry, please.

- We all have our assigned duties.

- Bull!

You're hiding, hiding behind

rules and regulations.

- Who am I hiding from?

- From yourself, admiral.

Don't mince words, bones.

What do you really think?

Jim, I'm your doctor

and I'm your friend.

Get back your command.

Get it back before you turn

into part of this collection.

Before you really do grow old.

Chekov: Starship log,

stardate 8130.4.

Log entry by first

officer pavel Chekov.

Starship reliant on orbital

approach to ceti Alpha vi

in connection with

project Genesis.

We are continuing our search

for a lifeless planet

to satisfy the requirement

of a test site

for the Genesis experiment.

So far, no success.

Standard orbit, please.

Mr beach, any change

in the surface scan?

Negative. Limited atmosphere

dominated by craylon gas, sand,

high-velocity winds. Incapable

of supporting life forms.

Does it have to be

completely lifeless?

Don't tell me you

found something.

We've picked up a minor energy

flux reading on one dynoscanner.

Damn. Are you sure? Maybe the

scanner's out of adjustment.

I suppose it could be a particle of

preanimate matter caught in the matrix.

All right. Get on the

comm-pic to dr Marcus.

Aye, sir.

Maybe it's something

we can transplant.

You know what she'll say.

Carol: Let me get this straight.

Something you can transplant?

Chekov: Yes, doctor.

Carol: Something you

can transplant?

I don't know.

Terrell: But it may only be a

particle of preanimate matter.

Then again, it may not. You

boys have to be clear on this.

There can't be so much as a

microbe, or the show's off.

Why don't you have a look?

But if it is something that

can be moved, I want...

You bet, doctor.

We're on our way.

Well, don't have kittens,

Genesis is going to work.

They'll remember you in one breath

with Newton, Einstein, surak!

Thanks a lot. No respect

from my offspring.

Par for the course.

Are you teaming up with me

for bridge after dinner?

Maybe. What is it?

Every time we have dealings

with starfleet, I get nervous.

We are dealing with something

that could be perverted

into a dreadful weapon.

Remember that overgrown boy scout

you used to hang around with?

- That's exactly the kind of man...

- Listen, kiddo.

Jim kirk was many things, but

he was never a boy scout.

Man on raido: Captain Terrell,

stand by to beam down.

Terrell on radlo: Chekov, are you sure

these are the correct coordinates?

Chekov on radlo: Captain, this is

the garden spot of ceti Alpha vi.

Terrell: I can barely see it.

Chekov: There's nothing here.

The tricorder must be broken.

Terrell: Chekov, overhere.

Those look like cargo carriers.

Hey, give me a hand.

What the hell happened?

If they crashed, then where's

the rest of the ship?

What the hell is that?

Botany bay.

Botany bay?

Oh, no!

We've got to get out of here now.

Damn.

- What about the tricorder.

- Hurry. Never mind that. Hurry. Hurry!

Chekov, what's the matter with you?

Chekov!

Chekov: Come on! Hurry!

Starship reliant to

captain Terrell.

This is commander Kyle. Will

you please respond, captain?

Captain Terrell.

Respond, please.

Let's give them a

little more time.

Khan.

I don't know you.

But you...

I never forget a face.

Mr Chekov,

isn't it?

I never thought to

see your face again.

- Chekov, who is this man?

- A criminal, captain.

A product of late 20th

century genetic engineering.

What do you want with us?

Sir, I demand to be...

You are in a position

to demand nothing, sir.

L, on the other hand, am in a

position to Grant nothing.

What you see is all that remains

of the ship's company and crew

of the botany bay,

marooned here 15 years ago

by captain James t. Kirk.

- Listen to me. You men and women...

- Captain, captain, captain.

Save your strength, captain.

These people have sworn

to live and die at my command

200 years before you were born.

Do you mean he never

told you the tale?

To amuse your captain? No?

Never told you how the enterprise

picked up the botany bay,

lost in space from

the year 1996,

myself and the ship's company

in cryogenic freeze?

- I've never even met admiral kirk.

- Khan: Admiral?

Admiral.

Never told you how admiral kirk

sent 70 of us into exile

on this barren sand heap,

with only the contents of these

cargo bays to sustain us?

You lie! On ceti Alpha

v there was life!

- A fair chance.

- This is ceti Alpha v.

Ceti Alpha vl exploded six

months after we were left here.

The shock shifted the orbit of this

planet and everything was laid waste.

Admiral kirk never bothered

to check on our progress.

It was only the fact of my

genetically engineered intellect

that allowed us to survive.

On earth,

two hundred years ago,

I was a prince

with power over millions.

Captain kirk was your host.

You repaid his hospitality by trying

to steal his ship and murder him.

You didn't expect to find me. You

thought this was ceti Alpha vl.

Ah.

Why are you here?

Why?

Allow me to introduce

you to ceti Alpha v's

only remaining

indigenous life form.

What do you think?

They killed 20 of my people,

including my beloved wife.

Not all at once

and not instantly, to be sure.

You see, their young

enter through the ears

and wrap themselves around

the cerebral cortex.

This has the effect of

rendering the victim

extremely susceptible

to suggestion.

Later, as they grow,

follows madness and death.

Chekov: Khan, listen to me.

These are pets, of course.

Not quite domesticated.

Khan, captain kirk was

only doing his duty.

Terrell: No!

That's better.

Now, tell me, why are you here?

And tell me where I

may find James kirk.

Man on radio: Enterprise

to admiral kirk's shuttle.

You're cleared for docking.

Approach portside torpedo bay.

Enterprise, this is admiral

kirk's party on final approach.

Woman on radlo: Enterprise welcomes you.

Prepare for docking.

Klrk: I hate inspections.

I'm delighted. Any chance to

go aboard the enterprise.

Well, I, for one, am glad to have

you at the helm for three weeks.

I don't think these

kids can steer.

Open the airlock.

- Permission to come aboard, captain.

- Welcome, admiral.

I think you know my training crew.

Certainly they have come to know you.

Yes. We've been through

death and life together.

Mr Scott, you old space dog.

You're well?

I had a wee bout, sir, but

dr McCoy pulled me through.

- A wee bout of what?

- Shore leave, admiral.

Oh, yes.

And who do we have here?

Midshipman, first class, Peter

Preston, engineer's mate, sir!

First training

voyage, mr Preston?

- Yes, sir!

- I see.

Well, shall we start

with the engine room?

Scotty: We'll see you there, sir.

And everything is in order.

That'll be a pleasant

surprise, mr Scott.

I'll see you on the bridge, admiral.

Company dismissed.

Well, mr Scott, are your cadets capable

of handling a minor training cruise?

- Give the word, admiral.

- Mr Scott, the word is given.

Aye, sir.

Admiral, what about the

rest of the inspection?

Man on radio: This is

starfieet operations.

Enterprise is clear

for departure.

Admiral on the bridge.

Woman on radio: Pre-stage

flux chillers, port.

Man on radio: On.

Woman: Pre-stage flux

chillers, starboard.

Man: On.

Woman: Main stage

fiux chillers, port.

Man: Enabled. Saavlk:

Running lights on.

Woman: Main stage flux

chillers, starboard.

Man: Enabled.

Very well, mr saavik. You

may clear all moorings.

Saavlk: Aye, sir.

- All moorings are clear, captain.

- Thank you.

Lieutenant?

Have you ever piloted a

starship out of space dock?

Never, sir.

Take her out, mr saavik.

Aye, sir.

For everything, there is a

first time, lieutenant.

Don't you agree, admiral?

Klrk: Mmm-hmm.

- Aft thrusters, mr sulu.

- Sulu: Aft thrusters.

Would you like a tranquilliser?

Saavlk: Ahead one-quarter

impulse power.

Ahead one-quarter impulse power.

We are free and

clear to navigate.

Course heading, captain?

- Captain's discretion.

- Mr sulu, you may indulge yourself.

Aye, sir.

Does that about do it?

I don't think there's another

piece of information

we could squeeze into

the memory banks.

- Next time, we'll design a bigger one.

- Who'd wanna build it?

Dr Marcus? Comm-pic coming

in on hyperchannel.

- It's the starship reliant.

- On the screen, please, jedda.

Come in, please. This is the

reliant calling regula I.

Repeat, this is u.S.S. Reliant.

Carol: Commander, we are receiving.

This is regula l. Go ahead.

Dr Marcus. Good. We're en route to you

and should be there in three days.

En route? Why? We weren't expecting

you for another three months.

- Has something happened?

- Nothing has happened.

Ceti Alpha vi has checked out.

- Then I don't understand why you...

- We have received new orders.

Upon our arrival at regula I,

all materials of project Genesis

Will be transferred to this ship

for immediate testing

on ceti Alpha vi.

- Who in the hell do they think they are?

- Please be quiet.

Commander Chekov, this

is completely irregular.

- I have my orders.

- Pin him down, mother.

Who gave the order?

The order comes from.

Admiral James t. Kirk.

I knew it! I knew it! All along,

the military's wanted to get...

This is completely improper,

commander Chekov.

I have no intention of allowing reliant

or any other unauthorised personnel

access to our work or materials.

I'm sorry that you feel that way, doctor.

Admiral kirk's orders are confirmed.

Please prepare to deliver Genesis to

us upon our arrival. Reliant out.

Well done, commander.

You realise, sir, they Will

attempt to contact admiral kirk

and confirm the order.

Saavlk: Hold, please.

Thank you, sir.

Lieutenant, are you wearing

your hair differently?

It's still regulation, admiral.

May I speak, sir?

Self-expression doesn't seem

to be one of your problems.

You're bothered by your performance

on the kobayashi mar...

I failed to resolve

the situation.

There's no correct resolution.

It's a test of character.

May I ask how you

dealt with the test?

You may ask.

That's a little joke.

Humour. It is a

difficult concept.

It is not logical.

We learn by doing.

Who's been holding up

the damn elevator?

Thank you, sir.

- Did she change her hairstyle?

- I hadn't noticed.

Wonderful stuff,

that romulan ale.

Uhura on intercom: Admiral kirk?

Kirk here.

I have an urgent comm-pic from

space lab regula I for you, sir.

Dr Carol Marcus.

- I'll take it in my quarters, uhura.

- Uhura: Aye, sir.

It never rains, but it pours.

As a physician, you of all

people should appreciate

the dangers of

re-opening old wounds.

Sorry.

Carol: Jim, can you read me?

I can hear you, Carol. What's wrong?

What's the matter?

Why are you taking

Genesis away from us?

Taking Genesis? Who's

taking Genesis?

Who is taking Genesis?

- I can see you, but I can't hear.

- Carol...

Jim, did you give the order?

What order? Who's

taking Genesis?

Please help us, Jim.

I Will not let them have Genesis

without proper authorisation!

- Have Genesis? Who's taking...

- On whose authority can they do this?

- No one's authority!

- Jim, please...

Uhura, what's happening?

Uhura: Transmission jammed

at the source, sir.

- Alert starfleet headquarters.

- Uhura: Aye, sir.

I want to talk to

starfleet command.

Carol: Quiet. We must

have order in here.

This has to be some

sort of mistake.

Davld: Mistake! We're

all alone here.

They waited until everyone

was on leave to do this.

Reliant is supposed to be at

our disposal, not vice-versa.

It seems clear starfleet

never intended...

Carol: L know that, but...

Man: David, you were right.

Davld: L tried to

tell you before.

Scientists have always been

pawns of the military.

Starfleet has kept the

peace for 100 years.

I cannot and Will not subscribe to

your interpretation of this event.

You may be right, doctor.

But what about reliant?

She's on her way.

Klrk: We have a problem.

Something may be wrong on regula l.

We've been ordered to investigate.

If memory serves, regula I is a

scientific research laboratory.

I told starfleet command all we

had was a boatload of children,

but we're the only

ship in the quadrant.

Spock, these cadets of

yours, how good are they?

How Will they respond

under real pressure?

As with all living things,

each according to his gifts.

Of course, this ship is yours.

No, that won't be necessary.

Just get me to regula l.

As a teacher on a training mission, I'm

content to command the enterprise.

If we are to go on actual duty,

it is clear that the senior officer

on board must assume command.

It may be nothing.

Garbled communications.

- You take the ship.

- Jim.

You proceed from a

false assumption.

I'm a vulcan. I have

no ego to bruise.

You're about to remind me that

logic alone dictates your actions?

I would not remind you of

that which you know so well.

If I may be so bold, it was a mistake

for you to accept promotion.

Commanding a starship is

your first, best destiny.

Anything else is a

waste of material.

I would not presume

to debate you.

That is wise.

In any case, were I

to invoke logic,

logic clearly dictates

that the needs of the many

outweigh the needs of the few.

Or the one.

You are my superior officer.

You are also my friend.

I have been and always

shall be yours.

- Stop energizers.

- Sulu: Stop energizers.

Put me on speakers.

An emergency situation

has arisen.

By order of starfleet command,

as of now, 1800 hours,

I'm assuming command

of this vessel.

Duty officer, so note

in the ship's log.

Plot a new course for space

laboratory regula l.

Engine room.

- Mr Scott.

- Scotty on intercom: Aye, sir?

- We'll be going to Warp speed.

- Aye, sir.

- Course plotted for regula I, admiral.

- Klrk: Engage Warp engines.

- Prepare for Warp speed.

- Ready, sir.

I know that none of you were

expecting this. I'm sorry.

I'm going to have to ask you to grow up

a little bit sooner than you expected.

Warp 5, sulu.

So much for the little

training cruise.

Woman: Course to intercept

enterprise ready, sir.

Khan: Excellent.

- Helmsman?

- Sir, may I speak?

We're all with you, sir.

But consider this.

We are free. We have a ship and

the means to go where we Will.

We have escaped permanent

exile on ceti Alpha v.

You have proved your superior intellect

and defeated the plans ofadmiral kirk.

You do not need to

defeat him again.

He tasks me. He tasks me

and I shall have him.

I'll chase him round

the moons of nibia

and round the antares maelstrom

and round perdition's flames

before I give him up.

Prepare to alter course.

Uhura: Space station

regula I, please come in.

Dr Marcus, please respond.

This is enterprise...

It's no use. There's no

response from regula l.

- But no longerjammed?

- No, sir. No nothing.

There are two possibilities.

They are unable to respond.

They are unwilling to respond.

- How far?

- 12 hours, 43 minutes, present speed.

"Give up Genesis," she said.

What in god's name does it mean?

Give it up to whom?

It might help my analysis

if I knew what Genesis was,

beyond the biblical reference.

Uhura, have dr McCoy

join us in my quarters.

Uhura: Aye, sir.

Klrk: Mr saavik?

You have the conn.

Well, I've got sickbay ready.

Now, Will someone please

tell me what's going on?

Computer. Request

security procedure

and access to project

Genesis summary.

Computer voice: Identify

for retina scan.

Kirk, admiral James t.

- Security scan approved.

- Summary, please?

Project Genesis. A proposal

to the federation.

- Carol Marcus.

- Yes.

What exactly is Genesis?

Well, put simply, Genesis

is life from lifelessness.

It is a process whereby molecular

structure is reorganised

at the subatomic level into

life-generating matter of equal mass.

Stage one of our experiments was

conducted in the laboratory.

Stage two of the series Will be

attempted in a lifeless underground.

Stage three Will involve the

process on a planetary scale.

It is our intention to

introduce the Genesis device

into a preselected area

of a lifeless space body,

a moon or other dead form.

The device is delivered,

instantaneously causing what

we call the Genesis effect.

Matter is reorganised with

life-generating results.

Instead of a dead moon, a

living, breathing planet

capable of sustaining whatever life

forms we see fit to deposit on it.

Fascinating.

The reformed moon simulated here

represents the merest fraction

of the Genesis' potential,

should the federation wish

to fund these experiments

to their logical conclusion.

When we consider the cosmic problems

of population and food supply,

the usefulness of this

process becomes clear.

This concludes our proposal.

Thank you for your attention.

It literally is Genesis.

Power of creation.

Have they proceeded

with their experiments?

Klrk: Well, the tape was

made about a year ago,

so I can only assume they've

reached stage two by now.

Dear lord, do you think we're

intelligent enough to...

Suppose... what if this thing were

used where life already exists?

It would destroy such life

in favour of its new matrix.

Its new matrix? Do you have

any idea what you're saying?

I was not attempting to evaluate

its moral implications, doctor.

As a matter of cosmic history,

it has always been easier

to destroy than to create.

Not any more! Now we can

do both at the same time.

According to myth, the earth

was created in six days.

Now, watch out. Here comes Genesis.

We'll do it for you in six minutes.

Really, dr McCoy, you must

learn to govern your passions.

They Will be your undoing.

Logic suggests...

Logic? My god, the man's

talking about logic.

We're talking about

universal armageddon.

- You green-blooded, inhuman...

- Saavik: Bridge to admiral kirk.

Admiral, sensors indicate a

vessel in our area, closing fast.

- What do you make of her?

- It's one of ours, admiral. It's reliant.

Spock: Reliant?

Try the emergency channels.

Picture, mr saavik.

Khan: Slow to one-half

impulse power.

- Let's be friends.

- Slowing to one-half impulse power.

Reliant in our section, this

quadrant, sir, and slowing.

Sir? May I quote general order 12?

"On the approach of any vessel"

"when communications have

not been established..."

Lieutenant. The admiral is

well aware of the regulations.

Aye, sir.

Klrk: Ls it possible their

comm system has failed?

Spock: It would explain

a great many things.

They're requesting

communications, sir.

Let them eat static.

Joachlm: They're still

running with shields down.

Of course. We are one

big happy fleet.

Kirk, my old friend.

Do you know the klingon

proverb that tells us,

"revenge is a dish that

is best served cold?"

It is very cold in space.

This is damn peculiar.

- Yellow alert.

- Energize defence fields.

I'm getting a voice message.

They say their chambers coil is

overloading their comm system.

- Spock?

- Scanning.

Their coil emissions are normal.

- They still haven't raised their shields.

- Raise ours.

Their shields are going up.

Lock phasers on target.

Locking phasers on target.

- They're locking phasers.

- Raise shields.

Fire!

- Sulu, get those shields up.

- Trying, sir.

Man: I can't breathe.

I can't breathe.

Man: L need air! I need air!

I can't get power, sir.

Scotty?

- Uhura, turn off those damn channels!

- Mr Scott on the screen.

We're just hanging on, sir.

The main energizer's out.

- Kirk: Try auxiliary power!

- Aye, aye, sir.

Damage report.

They knew exactly

where to hit us.

Who? Who knew where to hit us?

And why?

One thing is certain. We cannot

escape on auxiliary power.

Visual.

- Sulu, divert all power to phasers.

- Spock: Too late.

Hang on!

Klrk: Scotty! What's left?

Scotty: Just the batteries, sir. I can

have auxiliary power in a few minutes.

We don't have a few minutes!

- Can you give me phaser power?

- A few shots, sir.

- Not enough against their shields.

- Who the hell are they?

Uhura: Admiral, the commander

of the reliant is signalling.

He wishes to discuss

terms of our surrender.

- Put it on screen.

- Uhura: Admiral...

Do it! While we still have time.

Uhura: On screen, sir.

- Khan.

- You still remember, admiral.

I cannot help but be touched.

I, of course, remember you.

What is the meaning of this attack?

Where is the crew of the reliant?

Surely I have made

my meaning plain.

I mean to avenge myself

upon you, admiral.

I've deprived your

ship of power,

and when I swing around, I mean

to deprive you of your life.

But I wanted you to know first

who it was who had beaten you.

Khan, if it's me you want,

I'll have myself beamed aboard.

Spare my crew.

I make you a counterproposal.

I'll agree to your terms if,

in addition to yourself,

you hand over to me

all data and material

regarding the project

called Genesis.

- Genesis? What's that?

- Don't insult my intelligence, kirk.

Give me some time to recall

the data on our computers.

I give you 60 seconds, admiral.

Klrk: Clear the bridge.

At least we know he

doesn't have Genesis.

Keep nodding as though

I'm still giving orders.

Mr saavik, punch up the data charts

of reliant's command console.

Reliant's command?

- Hurry!

- 45 seconds.

- The prefix code?

- That's all we've got.

Saavlk: The chart's up, sir.

Khan: Admiral.

We're finding it.

Admiral.

Klrk: Please.

Please, you've gotta

give us time.

The bridge is smashed. The

computer's inoperative.

Time is a luxury you

don't have, admiral.

Damn!

- Admiral?

- It's coming through now, Khan.

- Reliant's prefix number is 16309.

- I don't understand.

You have to learn why

things work on a starship.

Each ship has its own

combination code

to prevent an enemy from

doing what we're attempting.

We're using our console to order

reliant to lower her shields.

Assuming he hasn't changed the combination.

He's quite intelligent.

Fifteen seconds, admiral.

Khan, how do we know

you'll keep your word?

I've given you no word

to keep, admiral.

In myjudgement, you simply

have no alternative.

I see your point.

Stand by to receive

our transmission.

Mr sulu, lock the phasers on

target and await my command.

Phasers locked.

- Time's up, admiral.

- Here it comes.

Now, mr Spock.

Sir, our shields are dropping.

- Raise them.

- I can't!

Where's the override?

The override?

Fire.

Fire! Fire!

- We can't fire, sir.

- Why can't you?

They've damaged the photon control and

the Warp drive. We must withdraw.

- No! No!

- Sir, we must!

Enterprise can wait. She's

not going anywhere.

- Sulu: Sir, you did it.

- I did nothing.

Except get caught with

my breeches down.

I must be getting senile.

Mr saavik, you go right

on quoting regulations.

In the meantime, let's find out

how badly we've been hurt.

- Is the word given, admiral?

- The word is given.

Warp speed.

Preston: Aye.

He stayed at his post

when the trainees ran.

Spock on intercom: Admiral?

This is Spock.

Yes, Spock?

Engine room reports

auxiliary power restored.

We can proceed at impulse power.

Best speed to regula l.

Kirk out.

I'm sorry, Scotty.

Sulu: Approaching regula

and space lab regula I.

Uhura: Space station regula I,

this is the starship enterprise.

Please come in.

Space station regula

I, do you read?

Space station regula I, this is enterprise.

Please acknowledge.

This is enterprise.

Do you read me?

Space station regula I, do you read?

Please come in.

There's no response, sir.

Sensors, captain?

The scanners and sensors

are still inoperative.

There's no way to ascertain

what's inside the station.

No way of telling if reliant

is still in the area.

Precisely.

Klrk: What do you make of

that planetoid beyond?

Spock: Regula is class-d.

It consists of various

unremarkable ores,

essentially a great

rock in space.

And reliant could be

hiding behind that rock.

A distinct possibility.

- Engineering.

- Scotty: Aye, sir?

Mr Scott? Do you have enough

power for transporters?

Barely, sir.

- Klrk: I'm going down there.

- Khan could be down there.

He's been there, hasn't

found what he wants.

Can you spare someone?

There may be people hurt.

- Yeah, I can spare me.

- Saavlk: Begging the admiral's pardon.

General order 15, "no

flag officer shall beam"

"into a hazardous area

without armed escort."

There's no such regulation.

All right, join the party.

Mr Spock, the ship is yours.

- Jim, be careful.

- We Will.

Indeterminate life signs.

Phasers on stun.

Move out.

Jim!

Well, rigor hasn't set in.

This couldn't have happened

too long ago, Jim.

Carol.

This is enterprise calling space

lab regula l. Respond, please.

Saavlk: Admiral, over here. Uhura:

Dr Marcus, come in, please.

Oh, my god.

Please acknowledge signal.

- Please...

- Saavik: Commander uhura,

this is lieutenant saavik. We're all right.

Please stand by. Out.

Oh, sir, it was Khan.

- We found him on ceti Alpha v.

- Easy. Easy, pav.

He put creatures in our

bodies to control our minds.

McCoy: It's all right.

You're safe now.

Made us say lies, do things.

But we beat him.

He thought he controlled

us, but he did not.

- The captain was strong.

- Captain.

Where's dr Marcus? Where

are the Genesis materials?

He couldn't find them. Even

the data banks were empty.

- Erased?

- He tortured those people,

but none of them would tell him anything.

He went wild.

He slit their throats. He

wanted to tear the place apart.

But he was late.

He had to get back to the reliant

in time to blow you to bits.

Where's reliant's crew? Dead?

Marooned on ceti Alpha v.

He's completely mad, admiral. He

blames you for the death of his wife.

I know what he blames me for.

The escape pods are all in place.

Where's the transporter room?

- Did he make it down here?

- Lt was not my impression.

He spent most of his time

trying to wring the information

out of the people.

Saavlk: Anything? Klrk:

The unit's been left on.

Which means nobody

remained to turn it off.

Those people back there bought escape

time for Genesis with their lives.

This is not logical.

These coordinates are

deep inside regula,

a planetoid we know

to be lifeless.

If stage two was completed, it

was going to be underground.

It was going to be

underground, she said.

Saavlk: Stage two of what?

- Kirk to enterprise.

- Spock: Spock here.

Captain Spock, damage report.

Admiral, if we go by the book,

like lieutenant saavik,

hours could seem like days.

- I read you, captain. Let's have it.

- The situation is grave, admiral.

We won't have main power for six days.

Auxiliary power has temporarily failed.

Restoration may be possible in

two days, by the book, admiral.

- Meaning you can't even beam us back?

- Not at present.

Captain Spock. If you don't

hear from us within one hour,

your orders are to restore

what power you can,

take the enterprise to

the nearest starbase

and alert starfleet command as soon

as you're out ofjamming range.

Uhura: Sir, we won't

leave you behind.

Uhura, if you don't hear from us, there

won't be anybody behind. Kirk out.

Well, gentlemen, you

can stay here, or...

If it's all the same, admiral,

we'd like to share the risk.

Right. Let's go. Saavik?

- Go? Where are we going?

- Where they went.

Suppose they went nowhere?

Then this Will be your big

chance to get away from it all.

Admiral.

Genesis, I presume.

- Phasers down.

- Davld: You.

- Where's dr Marcus?

- Davld: I'm dr Marcus.

Carol: Jim!

Is that David?

Mother, he killed

everybody we left behind.

Of course he didn't.

David, you're just

making this harder.

I'm afraid it's even harder

than you think, doctor.

Please don't move.

- Chekov.

- I'm sorry, admiral.

Your excellency, have

you been listening?

I have indeed, captain.

You have done well.

I knew it! You son of a bitch!

- Don't move! Anybody!

- Captain? We are waiting.

What's the delay?

All is well, sir.

You have the coordinates

to beam up Genesis.

First things first, captain.

Kill admiral kirk.

Sir, it is difficult. L...

- I try to obey, but...

- Kill him.

L...

Kill him, Terrell, now.

God's sakes!

Davld: What is it?

Khan, you bloodsucker!

You're gonna have to do

your own dirty work now.

Do you hear me? Do you?

Kirk.

Kirk, you're still

alive, my old friend.

Still, old friend, you've managed

to kill just about everyone else,

but like a poor marksman, you

keep missing the target.

Perhaps I no longer

need to try, admiral.

- Oh, no.

- Davld: Let go. He can't take it!

Khan.

Khan, you've got Genesis,

but you don't have me.

You were going to kill me, Khan.

You're gonna have to come down here.

You're going to have

to come down here.

I've done far worse

than kill you.

I've hurt you, and I wish

to go on hurting you.

I shall leave you

as you left me,

as you left her,

marooned for all eternity in

the centre of a dead planet.

Buried alive. Buried alive.

Khan!

Khan!

This is lieutenant saavik calling

enterprise. Can you read us?

- He's coming around.

- Klrk: Pavel?

Can you read us?

It's no use, admiral. They're

still jamming all channels.

If enterprise followed orders,

she's long since gone.

If she couldn't obey,

she's finished.

So are we, it looks like.

I don't understand. Who's

responsible for all this?

Who is Khan?

- Well, it's a long story.

- We appear to have plenty of time.

Is there anything to eat?

I don't know about anybody

else, but I'm starved.

How can you think of food

at a time like this?

First order of

business, survival.

There's food in

the Genesis cave.

Enough to last a

lifetime, if necessary.

- We thought this was Genesis.

- This?

It took the starfleet corps of

engineers 10 months in spacesuits

to tunnel out all this.

What we did in there,

we did in a day.

David, why don't you show dr McCoy

and the lieutenant our idea of food?

We can't just sit here.

Oh, yes, we can.

This is just to give us

something to do, isn't it?

Come on.

Admiral?

As your teacher mr Spock

is fond of saying,

"I'd like to think that there

always are possibilities."

I did what you wanted.

I stayed away.

Why didn't you tell him?

How can you ask me that?

Were we together?

Were we going to be?

You had your world

and I had mine,

and I wanted him in mine,

not chasing through the

universe with his father.

Actually, he's a lot

like you in many ways.

Please tell me what

you're feeling.

There's a man out there I

haven't seen in 15 years

who's trying to kill me.

You show me a son that'd

be happy to help him.

My son.

My life that could have been

and wasn't.

What am I feeling?

Old.

Worn out.

Let me show you something

that'll make you feel young,

as when the world was new.

Impulse power restored.

Excellent. More than a

match for poor enterprise.

You did all this in a day?

The matrix formed in a day.

The life forms grew later at a

substantially accelerated rate.

McCoy: Jim, this is incredible!

Have you ever seen the like?

Can I cook or can't I?

Where is she?

Saavlk: Sir, may I

ask you a question?

- What's on your mind, lieutenant?

- The kobayashi maru, sir.

Are you asking me if we're

playing out that scenario now?

On the test, sir, Will you

tell me what you did?

I would really like to know.

Lieutenant, you are looking

at the only starfleet cadet

who ever beat the

no-win scenario.

How?

I reprogrammed the simulation so it

was possible to rescue the ship.

- What?

- He cheated.

I changed the

conditions of the test.

I got a commendation

for original thinking.

I don't like to lose.

Then you never faced that

situation, faced death?

I don't believe in

the no-win scenario.

Kirk to Spock. It's two hours.

Are you ready?

Spock: Right on

schedule, admiral.

Just give us your coordinates

and we'll beam you aboard.

All right.

I don't like to lose.

Saavlk: Report, we were immobilised.

Captain Spock said it'd be two days.

Klrk: Come, come, lieutenant. You of

all people go by the book. Spock!

- You know dr Marcus.

- Spock: Why, of course.

Hello, mr Spock.

McCoy: I'm taking this

bunch to sickbay.

- Saavlk: By the book?

- By the book.

Regulation 46a. "If transmissions are

being monitored during battle..."

"No un-coded messages

on an open channel."

- You lied.

- I exaggerated.

Hours instead of days. Now we

have minutes instead of hours.

- They're inoperative below c-deck.

- What is working around here?

Not much, admiral. We

have partial main power.

Klrk: That's it? Spock: Best

we could do in two hours.

- Sulu: Admiral on the bridge.

- Battle stations.

Tactical.

Uh-oh.

Spock: She can still

outrun us and outgun us,

but there is the mutara

nebula at 1 -5-3 Mark 4.

Klrk: Scotty, can

we make it inside?

The energizer's bypassed

like a Christmas tree,

so don't give me too many bumps.

No promises. On your way.

Trouble with the nebula, sir,

is all that static discharge and

gas clouds our tactical display.

Visual won't function and

shields Will be useless.

Sauce for the goose, mr saavik.

The odds Will be even.

There she is. There she is.

Ah.

Not so wounded as we

were led to believe.

So much the better.

Estimating nebula

penetration in 2.2 minutes.

Reliant is closing.

If they go in there,

we'll lose them.

Khan: Explain it to them.

That was close.

Klrk: They just don't

want us going in there.

One minute to nebula perimeter.

Why are we slowing?

Daren't follow them into the nebula, sir.

Our shields would be useless.

- They are reducing speed.

- Uhura, patch me in.

Uhura: Aye, sir.

You're on, admiral.

Kirk on radio: This

is admiral kirk.

We tried it once your way, Khan.

Are you game for a rematch?

Khan, I'm laughing at

the superior intellect.

- Full impulse power.

- No, sir.

You have Genesis. You can

have whatever you...

Full power! Damn you!

I'll say this for

him, he's consistent.

We are now entering

the mutara nebula.

Klrk: Emergency lights.

Tactical.

Inoperative.

Khan: Raise the shields.

As I feared, sir, not functional.

I'm reducing speed.

Man: Target, sir.

Phaser lock inoperative, sir.

Klrk: Best guess, mr sulu.

Fire when ready.

Aft torpedoes, fire!

Hold your course.

Evasive starboard!

Fire!

Kirk: Damage, mr Scott?

Admiral, I've got to take

the mains off the line.

- It's the radiation...

- Scotty.

Khan: Joachim!

Yours is superior...

I shall avenge you.

Could you use another

hand, admiral?

Man the weapons

console, mr Chekov.

- Spock.

- Spock: Sporadic energy readings.

Port side, aft. Could

be an impulse turn.

He won't break off now.

He followed me this

far, he'll be back.

But from where?

He's intelligent but

not experienced.

His pattern indicates

two-dimensional thinking.

- Full stop.

- Full stop, sir.

Z-minus 10,000 metres.

Stand by photon torpedoes.

Torpedoes ready, sir.

Look sharp.

Fire!

Uhura, send to commander reliant,

"prepare to be boarded."

Uhura: Aye, sir.

Commander reliant,

this is enterprise.

Surrender and prepare

to be boarded.

Enterprise to reliant. You are ordered

to surrender your vessel. Respond.

Reliant, come in, reliant.

You are ordered to

surrender your vessel.

Enterprise to reliant. You are ordered

to surrender your vessel. Respond.

No, kirk.

The game's not over.

"To the last I Will

grapple with thee."

Admiral, scanning an

energy source on reliant,

a pattern I've

never seen before.

- It's the Genesis wave.

- What?

Davld: They're on a

build-up to detonation.

- How soon?

- We encoded four minutes.

- We'll beam aboard and stop it.

- You can't.

Scotty, I need Warp speed in

three minutes or we're all dead.

Uhura: No response, admiral.

Klrk: Scotty!

Mr sulu, get us out of here.

Best possible speed.

Sulu: Aye, sir.

Are you out of your vulcan mind?

No human can tolerate the

radiation that's in there.

As you are so fond of observing,

doctor, I am not human.

You're not going in there.

Perhaps you're right. What

is mr Scott's condition?

Well, I don't think that he...

I'm sorry, doctor. I have no

time to discuss this logically.

Remember.

Spock! Get out of there!

Spock!

Spock! Get out of there!

- Time from my Mark?

- Two minutes, 10 seconds.

Engine room, what's happening?

Spock!

Scotty: Spock! Get out of there!

McCoy: Good god, man,

get out of there!

Scotty: No! Don't! Don't!

McCoy: Spock! Spock!

Time?

Three minutes, 30 seconds.

- Distance from reliant?

- 4,000 kilometres.

We're not gonna make it, are we?

No.

No, you can't get away.

"From hell's heart

I stab at thee."

"For hate's sake I spit

my last breath at thee."

- Sir, the mains are back online.

- Bless you, Scotty. Go, sulu!

My god, Carol. Look at it.

Engine room. Well done, Scotty.

McCoy: Jim, I think you'd

better get down here.

- Bones?

- Better hurry.

Saavik, take the conn.

No! You'll flood the

whole compartment.

- He'll die.

- Sir, he's dead already.

It's too late.

Spock!

Ship out of danger?

Yes.

Don't grieve, admiral.

It is logical.

The needs of the

many outweigh...

- The needs of the few.

- Or the one.

I never took the

kobayashi maru test.

Until now.

What do you think

of my solution?

Spock.

I have been, and always

shall be, your friend.

Live long and prosper.

No.

Klrk: We are

assembled here today

to pay final respects

to our honoured dead.

And yet it should be noted that,

in the midst of our sorrow,

this death takes place in

the shadow of new life,

the sunrise of a new world,

a world that our beloved comrade gave

his life to protect and nourish.

He did not feel this sacrifice

a vain or empty one,

and we Will not debate his profound

wisdom at these proceedings.

Of my friend, I can

only say this.

Of all the souls I have

encountered in my travels,

his was the most

human.

Sulu: Honours!

Come.

I don't mean to intrude.

No, not at all. I should

be on the bridge.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

I poured myself a drink.

Would you like it?

Lieutenant saavik was right.

You never have faced death.

No, not like this.

I haven't faced death.

I've cheated death.

I've tricked my way out of death

and patted myself on the

back for my ingenuity.

I know nothing.

You knew enough to tell

saavik that how we face death

is at least as important

as how we face life.

- Just words.

- But good words.

That's where ideas begin. Maybe

you should listen to them.

I was wrong about

you and I'm sorry.

- Is that what you came here to say?

- Mainly.

And also that I'm proud,

very proud to be your son.

Kirk: Captain's log,

stardate 8141 .6.

Starship enterprise

departing for ceti Alpha v

to pick up the crew of u.S.S.

Reliant.

All is well.

And yet, I can't help wondering

about the friend I leave behind.

"There are always

possibilities," Spock said.

And if Genesis is

indeed life from death,

I must return to

this place again.

He's really not dead, as

long as we remember him.

"It's a far, far better thing I

do than I have ever done before."

"A far better resting

place I go to"

"than I have ever known."

Is that a poem?

Something Spock was trying

to tell me on my birthday.

You okay, Jim? How do you feel?

Young.

I feel young.

Spock: Space, the

final frontier.

These are the continuing voyages

of the starship enterprise.

Her ongoing mission, to

explore strange new worlds,

to seek out new life forms

and new civilisations,

to boldly go where no

man has gone before.

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