Earth: Final Conflict (1997–2002): Season 4, Episode 22 - Point of No Return - full transcript

Previously on Gene Roddenberry's
Earth: Final Conflict

Where is the source of this jaridian energy?

Find it and destroy it!

My god Liam! Look!

- That's a jaridian replicant.
- No. I saw his face. It's Sandoval!

It's some kind of... body armor.

I can't turn us around.

Sandoval has a master lockout
on the propulsion and guidance systems.

Where is he taking us?

Double star, in the constellation of Cetus.

The Jaridian's home world.



Welcome to Jaridia!

- What is your intention?
- To trial and then to kill you.

Then to char all life
from the face of the earth.

Let the humans leave!

They were never our allies.

Their contact with you

was enough to doom them.

.

Sorry to pull you away
from your dinner, Mr. Urick.

I'm not to worry,
the President can handle it.

The ambassador from Mali is reading a poem
about his soy harvest.

A long Poem...

I was thrilled to have an excuse to leave.

What do we got, Georges?



Our space net has detected a burst
of taelon interdimensional energy

coming from an object
in orbit around Mercury.

- Any chance it's a mistake?
- No, sir.

About half an hour ago,
the object left mercury on a trajectory to earth.

Allright, transmit a demand for identification.
Use the ANA protocol.

And see who answers...

This is the Atlantic National Alliance
Defence Command.

Hubble, we're back.

Kincaid!

Well, I'll be damned.

Good to see you.

We thought you were dead.
Where's Renee Palmer?

The mothership was hijacked to Tau Ceti.

We were nearly vaporized by a Jaridian
battlecruiser commanded by Vorjak.

Renee is down on the drive bay,
nursing enough power to bring us home.

Are you two in command
of this thing yourselves.

Taelons only had a day or two of
core energy left, that was a month ago.

The Taelons survive.

Vorjak left enough energy on board
for us to make the trip back.

But we're in bad shape.

Our telemetry confirms the
mothership's systems are down,

including the weapon pods.

How many Taelons are alive?

406.

But without energy showers,
they're barely conscious.

We're hoping to get back to Earth in time
to rig up some kind of stasis

- to keep them alive.
- You listen me Kincaid.

The Taelons are no longer welcome.

They disappeared, we dealt with it,
and good riddance.

You get back here, get off that ship, and
send them to kingdom come.

If Zo'or thinks he's gonna perch in
earth orbit, he can forget it.

You tell him I have authority to blow
the mothership out of the sky, and by god, I'll do it.

They have come to Earth
with a promise of peace.

An alien race, called the Taelons.

But there are those who resist
these alien Companions.

For the taelons true mission...

the secrets they hide...

will forever alter our world...

The fate of humanity now relies

on those who dare challenge the future

of Earth.

.

- Hello.
- Suprise!

I know, I promised I wouldn't
get all misty but...

I thought you two had sailed off
into the jaridian sunset forever.

- Almost, but not quite.
- Ho! not quite...

Street, the Taelons only have 21 hours left.

We need to keep the Taelons alive...

until you crack
the last two dimensions of Ma'el's riddle.

- No! No, I'm through with Ma'el.
- Come on Street!

The riddle in his relic is the key
to their survival.

You're the only hope they've got.

Hope?

Liam, it's because of me, because of this "gift"...
being able to think in multi-dimensions,

nearly got the two of you killed.

You have any idea what it was like last month,
thinking you were dead?

I don't want to talk about 9-dimensional levels anymore.
You're back...

- Let's go out and have some fun.
- Street...

they're all that remain of their entire species.

They're ancient, advanced
beyond our imagination.

And we can't let them die.

Our destinies are one; they are interwoven.

Don't start that destiny routine with me.
I don't owe anybody.

Besides, it's over. Done, finished.

I roasted the data disk.
It's cyber dust.

Why would you do that?

I tried so hard to break the 8th dimension,
I was in one of those trances for three days.

I thought it would bring you back.

All I got was a very dehydrated body
and a migraine so...

I made sure I would never try that again.

I don't wanna be responsible anymore.

So, you're willing to see
a species become extinct?

Renee, we can't make her do it.

The Taelons tried that once.
She's got to want to.

Until we can convince her, we've got to get
the Taelons off the mothership and initiate stasis.

You summoned me?

What I'm about to ask you
is well worth your time.

I haven't much left.

I'm preparing for a departure to Earth
in less than twelve hours.

Before you go,

I wish to offer you
the privilege of terminating me.

I don't think I heard you correctly.

Is this not the moment you've wished for,
even dreamed of?

You win, I lose.

Your skrill is more than capable of
dissipating my energy.

Do it quickly.

I see.

"Give me immortality or give me death. "

- What are you talking about?
- You're a coward Zo'or.

If you can't live forever,
you'd rather not live at all.

But you're so afraid of a lingering death,
you want a quick end.

Well, I'm sorry.

I'll no longer
take orders from you.

I'll enjoy watching you just fade away.

That's it.

Eighth dimension...

As it was foretold by Ma'el,

the light will come
in the darkest hour.

The riddle in Ma'el's relic has been solved.

It's global.
The source is indeterminate.

What is it? Some kind of taelon super-weapon?
Jaridian?

We're not sure, Sir.

Someone, somewhere,
has found the key to our survival.

What is it?

Go to Defcon 3.

I'll brief the president.

I was just dancing, trying not to think about Ma'el,
when it... it just hit me.

Probably because I wasn't trying.

- I solved the 8th dimension.
- And the light?

I don't know, I don't want to know.

It just started somehow.

I'm gonna take a migraine pill and try
never to think about Ma'el again.

It's a beacon!

- Where?
- Right there, 2:00.

52 degrees latitude,
173 degrees longitude.

The Behring Sea.

It's the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Seems to be shining
right out of that mountain.

Mount Karmenikov.

Volcano. The bureau of
seismology says she's dormant but not cold.

The last big eruption was
over 3,000 years ago.

I'll touch down on the rim.

Beginning descent.

- What's happening?
- Helm's not responding.

We're being pulled down the sky.

Hold on, Renee.

Few bumps and bruises.

The I.D. drives are operational.
She can still fly.

Look...

It's a... lava tube on the side
of the caldera.

That's where I have to go.

What happens here is the turning
point Renee.

Earth's future...

I've seen these before.

Ma'el was here 2,000 years ago.

- Ma'el gone around. Ireland, Peru.
- And Siberia apparently.

It looks like a datalog.

Power source is dead.

But something in here
has an energy signal.

- Can you read that?
- I think it says it's a portal.

- It leads to another chamber.
- Are you crazy?

Your atoms could be smeared across a million
miles of I.D. space, you don"t know.

Renee, I told you.

Something greater
than I am is at work here. something...

Something's drawing me. Some...

Some instinct, maybe it's
my Kimera heritage. I don't know.

My father told me to have faith.

He hasn't let me down yet.

Activate your tracker and keep a comm line
opened. We've got less than 9 hours left.

- Renee?
- I got you... You're still on earth,

but you're more than 1,000 Feet underground.

I'm in a chamber.

There's a pool.
Some kind of energy.

I can't scan it.

The walls are covered
with more Ma'el's writing.

Street will study this. Let's get her on it!

See if Augur will come with her.
He's the authority on Ma'el.

Strange! Your coordinates,
they keep shifting.

I'm walking back to the portal.

Hurry up! I don't like it.

First you're 100 feet up,
then you're 30 feet below.

The portal's not activating.

It worked less than a minute ago.

It's dead.

.

How is our progress, Prajak?

Without inter-dimensional technology,
this was a...

Do you question my command?

No, Vorjak.

But our warriors would have preferred
spending their final hours on Jaridia,

rather than die a meaningless death
in an obscure corner of the galaxy.

A meaningless death is staying on our home world
than we as warriors of a final duty to our race.

We will reach the mothership!
Jaridia will prevail!

And we will die with honour.

If anyone can fix the 2000 neural portal,
it's you.

Ho damn Liam always sticking his nose
in the places where it doesn't belong.

Don't give me that look.
How was I supposed to stop him?

Hold on! This isn't about either of you!
We've got to get Liam out of there.

Ho! hold on here is your problem!
Looks like your portal grid's out of juice.

Thanks! We knew that!

If we'd been using our heads, Liam could have
taken a portable portal down with him

but he's stuck down there.
See if you can get the juice flowing again?

Then we'll just gonna have to improvise

Liam, it's Augur.
I'm on the case.

Listen... What's your power situation?

I feel a all lot better knowing you're here Augur.

There's power in the chamber
but I can't find the source.

Well, then if there's power,
then we just gonna have to get this baby back online.

Let's look under the hood, shall we?

You okay?

Oh, my god.

It's Ma'el.

In the flesh... Holographically speaking that is.

He recorded this 2,000 years ago.

Liam... Can you translate?

After his ship crashed, Ma'el found
an alien colony...

not Taelon, nor Atavus.

They came here
8 billion years before he did.

Atavus?

- That's a Taelon proto-species, they're extinct!
- Not totally, this is a healing chamber.

Ma'el designed it to regenerate the Taelons
with the healing energy in the pool.

It's the Atavus residual life force.

The Taelons are descending from the Atavus;
they might be compatible.

Ma'el knew that the dying taelons
would follow him here.

This chamber was what he left for them.

Why involve humans?

Why make someone
solve a nine-dimensional code?

To force the Taelons to collaborate with humans
instead of dominate us.

Ma'el also said that two of us
must assist the regeneration.

One kimera and one human,
more evolved than the others but...

We gonna need his relic to solve
the 9th dimension of the riddle.

Don't look at me! I'm not going
near the 9th dimension.

And don't "oh, Street" me.

I came to help
get you out of there, and that's it.

Renee...

is there a pilot at Doors that
you can trust to keep a secret?

- A pilot? What for?
- Take the shuttle to the mother ship.

Have Da'an pick five other taelons
and bring them back here,

with Ma'el's relic.

In the meantime, we're gonna figure
out how to engineer a miracle.

We saw the light,

as it was foretold by Ma'el.

Liam has led the way to our salvation.

- There is new hope for my species.
- For six of you, at least.

That's better than extinction.

It would be impossible for me to select
who lives and who dies.

Well, somebody has to...

It's the Titanic.
There are six seats on a life raft.

You have to lead Da'an!

There is an ancient Taelon procedure.

Humans might call it a "triage".

We group our consciousness and our energy.

Once merged, the commonality of over
400 can live on within the bodies of six.

Ma'el also said you'll need the relic that
contains his original manuscript.

We maintain it in a secure chamber.
I shall retrieve it.

I must thank you, Miss Palmer.

My friend is trapped in a rock coffin.
I'll do anything it takes to save him.

Maybe the Taelons are ready
to give up, Da'an...

Humans can resist a long shot.

And Taelons understand that long shots
are pointless.

I now have the relic, Da'an, and
have thereby reduced my risk to nearly zero.

Give me a report, soldier.

We detected a spurious energy signal.
Traced it to this device.

It doesn't appear on any of the
mothership technical diagrams.

- Have you told anyone?
- No, Sir, I informed you first.

Good.

Erase any log entries of this occurrence
and investigate no further.

I'll take it from here.

Jaridians...

It is time.

Four hundred and five will enter
and merge, and only six will leave.

How Zo'or plans on carrying out his
selfish quest eludes me.

All of the portals are non-operational.

He has the relic, but we don't have time to wait.

Ready to leave when you are,
with or without Zo'or.

Zo'or, what have you done?

Observe the first rule of the galaxy, Da'an.

Energy may neither be created nor destroyed.

I have conserved what remained in several
of our brethen for my own use.

This is an abomination!

This is murder! You are damned.

Were you not about to ask them to merge
so that you might live?

I refuse to sacrifice my individuality
to the commonality.

Rather I choose to regenerate alone and intact.

Relinquish the relic.

- Ma'el's prophecy is sacrosanct.
- Sacrosanct and subject to revision.

Time is precious.

I suggest you proceed quickly
with this pitiful integration ritual.

By the time you reach the
Atavus regeneration chamber,

there will be one less bio-receptacle available.

Renee, what the hell are you doing?

You're not authorized to be up there.

I've a team of Doors engineers
working on an energy transfer

that should allow for a controlled descent.

Don't waste your time.

We just pulled 4 ICBMs out of cold storage
and being prepped for launch.

- Nuclear warheads? Hubble, they're banned!
- Yeah, well, we kept some...

megatons under the perma-ice in Rostock.

Nothing like having a few nukes for a rainy day.

Hubble, listen to me.

Our destiny is linked to the Taelons.

The Taelons aren't our destiny.
They are a detour.

So spare me the palaver get your butts off
that mothership now! That's an order.

Urick, you can shove your order.

Thanks for the update.

What?

Renee says Hubble Urick has turned into
Dr. Strangelove and Zo'or's got Ma'el's relic.

Forget the relic, we fix the portal,
get Liam back, we're out of here.

No... Liam's right.

There's a divine plan out of this, this is got to be.

- Don't go cosmic on me Augur!
- Me? Cosmic?

You're the one
with the multi-dimensional brain.

Hey! I know you think you're cursed,
but your gifts equal...

- chaos.
- Look where we are Augur!

- What more proof do you need?
- You're smarter than that!

You are... Hey!

What's the underlying principle to chaos theory?
Infinite correlation,

perfection made manifest.
That's how you fit into this all equation.

Stop it! Don't try to make this all add up,
you can't.

Why?

Because I'm no longer looking for an angle?

Liam's right, Juliette.

This was all meant to happen,
it was all meant to bring us here, now.

To bring humanity to this place.

The future of our entire species depends
on what's going to happen next.

- Liam, what's up?
- I think we've got similarities here,

between Taelon stasis tech and these
Atavan modules.

I'm gonna download some
light data and send it your way, OK?

Sounds good.

Transmitting.

Look at the particle dragging, it's intense.

I've been here before 8 dimensions.
This must be a glimpse of the 9th.

So, what do we do now?

I don't know. Isolate the Taelon components,
see what we get.

Half-baked, but what the hell.

Liam, we're gonna transfer
a first draft start-up protocol.

Hit me.

Good work. The modules are responding
to the Taelon protocols.

Sweet.

Liam, what's going on?

- I think we've reactivated the energy pool.
- You're kidding?

You can't question destiny, Street,
it's just roll-roving.

I'm transferring the bio-readings
back to you now, tell me what we have.

We've activated the regeneration sequence
but according to this,

we've only got an hour before it overloads.

Maybe even less.

The selection process has been completed.

I now carry a portion of
the combined Taelon consciousness,

as do five others,
and they are on the way to the shuttle bay.

Let's get you all down to the regeneration chamber now,
before Zo'or finds a way to get there first.

Zo'or still has the relic and
we cannot locate him.

One problem at a time.

- Vorjak.
- Sandoval.

I can't let you board just yet.

I should not be surprised.

- You betrayed us once before.
- You sent the raiders to destroy Earth.

I remain true to our original agreement
of mutual self-interest.

But now you trap us...
Why? To kill us?

It is my fondest wish to see
the Taelons annihilated.

It is not my wish to see my planet obliterated.

This is where I choose to live and prosper. So...

I propose we agree on a new arrangement.

- What?
- Spare Earth, and subjugate it,

so that I may rule.

You have the weapons to dominate
the entire planet, and I want them.

You give them to me, and I will deliver you the Taelons.

Agreed.

Intruder alert, deck five.
Intruder alert, deck five.

Follow me.

We need to get to
the bridge deck quickly.

You promised me the Taelons.
Where are they?

They've abandoned ship.

You may not have noticed Vorjak,
but we're in a shutdown mode,

without power, in an untethered, descending orbit.

- They've returned to Earth then, to die?
- No...

to live.

To be resurrected by Atavan technology
discovered in a regeneration chamber

beneath the surface of the Earth.

There are six bio-receptacles ready to be inhabited.

On a first come for serve basis.

- Where is this place?
- I don't know the precise location.

But...

I have tracked where the shuttle
carrying the Taelons has gone.

Tell me now...

- or die!
- We're all going to die, Vorjak.

Look at yourself,
look at your men.

Your hyper-metabolisms are ready to implode.

You kill me, you kill yourselves,
while the Taelons live on and on.

- What do you want?
- Exactly what I asked for...

Earth. Intact, under Jaridian dominion and my rule.

Access to the regeneration chamber is my insurance,
and I'm not letting you go there without me.

Agreed.

Take us there at once.

In order to do that I'll need your help
to power up a shuttle.

I assume you still have a ration
of core energy with you.

No. It was depleted during our voyage here.

But we can remove the energy packs from our weapons.

If we do that
to supply power to the shuttle only,

it should be enough for the journey.

Augur... Street...

I'm burning up down here.

Are you still getting the bio-reading
from the receptacles?

Yeah holding steady.

- How's the portal coming?
- Street, Augur...

There are five other Taelons
in the shuttle. Help me get them.

I'll have to get in line.
Liam comes out before a Taelon goes in.

Why that?

We jump-started the regeneration cycle
but it triggered an overload.

Da'an?

- I have restored the reserve power.
- Get Liam out of there before he fries.

I regret, but the nature of this portal is mono-directional.

One way? Why the hell is that?

Ma'el was worried that the Atavus
might spontaneously regenerate

and leave before the Taelons arrived.

I will go to Liam.

Perhaps I can reverse the portal's directionality
from within the chamber.

We're at Defcon 5 Sir.

- Are there any humans still on board?
- One. An FBI Agent, Ronald Sandoval.

You're talking sub-human there.

- What about Renee Palmer?
- We know her shuttle left the mothership.

We can't confirm if she was on board.

The mothership's shields are weakened.
She's nearly defenseless.

It should be a turkey shoot.

I'm not gonna try to rain on our own parade here.

I want to blow that mother to hell
and be done with it,

while it's on the far side of the moon.

Targeting coordinates have been set.

Missile command is standing by
for launch authorization.

All right. I'll recommend to the President
that we do it now.

The energy packs have been integrated
into the power grid.

Good!

Computer, direct all but essential base level
power to the shuttle bay.

- Unable to comply.
- Why?

Power has already been diverted to the portal system.

Zo'or!

He was aboard.

He'll reach the regeneration
chamber before us.

We won't be far behind.
Computer, store portal coordinates.

Emergency alert. Sensors have detected
four incoming missiles

with nuclear fission warheads.

Its target trajectory is portside.
Five minutes to impact.

Divert power to port shields!
Change course headings: 207.8

Major Kincaid?

I heard you had preceded me here.

As always...

I am impressed with your resourcefulness.

Zo'or, how did you get the link?

Da'an and your friend Miss Palmer

unknowingly
revealed to me the Atavus whereabouts,

and Ma'el's divining rod was programmed
with a preset link to this portal.

A useful antiquity, I must say.

What about the other Taelons?

If you use one of those receptacles,

- there won't be enough for everyone else.
- They are of no concern...

Because you see, Major Kincaid,
the future is mine.

Zo'or, don't.

We haven't unlocked
the 9th dimension of the riddle.

I'm getting a new bio-reading
from the regeneration chamber.

We had an unexpected visitor.

- What?
- Zo'or.

He portalled in, using Ma'el's relic.

Then he took a dip
in the Atavus energy pool.

He tried to...

merge with their life force.

But...

Something went wrong.

Really wrong.

I am ready to join you now, Liam.
However, I must inform you,

Ma'el designed this portal with
one-directional capability only.

Look,

I don't care how you do it but get my friend's
butt out there somehow, someway.

- Do you understand?
- Our friend... understood.

Wait! Are you sure, Zo'or's history?

- Why?
- His residual energy is still in the chamber.

It started out chaotic but now it's elliptical.

Infinite correlation...

Divine oder...

Perfection made manifest!

- What are you talking about?
- That's where I have to be.

Vorjak! Change of plan.
We don't need the shuttle.

I have the datalink to take us the chamber.

- All we have to do is power the bridge portal.
- Impossible!

Our weapons packs don't have
enough energy to activate the I.D matrix.

You'll have to divert power from the shields.

We can't render the ship defenses,
those are nuclear warheads are coming at us!

Shields are semi-deployed.
Impact in two minutes.

I do not wish to die in this Taelon crypt.

Do it!

Liam!

Liam?!

Liam?

Street, what are you doing down here?

You were right. Augur were right.
I'm not a curse, I'm a gift, just like you.

- A gift, I see that now.
- Okay, easy, easy.

Ha'gel and Ma'el, they were talking about us,
in tandem, in time, in space and...

- Oh my god! Is that...?
- Zo'or... I'm afraid so.

My child!

He thought he could use Ma'el's relic
and Atavus life force to gain immortality.

But it was an illusion.

- Perhaps it is not in our destiny to survive.
- No, no you're wrong! Listen to me...

Ma'el was a Kimera devoty, mystic
wrote the Taelon party line whose prophecy said...

that your and your face alone, Liam,
would appear from out of the code

from Ma'el's riddle to unite the divided.

What about you? Do you fit into this?

Where do you think my multidimensional
gifts come from?

From the same place that all creation
finds its true origin:

From the unifying field...

We are that unifying field of possibility, Liam.

We are the key to the 9th dimension.

We just have to go through the gate together.

You and me.
Human to human.

Maybe a little Kimera thrown in.

Shields are down, we've got to get off!

- Inside! Move, now!
- Vorjak...

Hel...

We will survive you after all, Da'an.

After we regenerate with the Atavus,
we will take great pleasure

in watching the last of your species die.

Look at him!
Look at your ennemy Vorjak.

That's what will happen
if you regenerate with the Atavus alone.

Lies!

Why should I believe a human slave
of the Taelons?

It's real simple...

the only way for
a Taelon or a Jaridian to survive

is for both species to give up the fight
and to return to their origins.

Together you were Atavus.

Together, and only
together, you will survive as Atavus.

Liam, you've got to get the hell out of there now!

The magma pressure in this
volcano is about to shoot you to the roof.

I can't - I'm needed here.

Hey, didn't you hear what she said, this thing is about to blow.

Then, go, get to the shuttle and save yourselves.

We survived until the end of our kind, Da'an.

What now?

Together, we shall go forward.

Goodbye, Da'an.

Goodbye, Liam.

And thank you, for all
the brethren and for all time...

you were our salvation.

- Street, go!
- No, we can't do it! It's a one-way portal.

- Yeah for me, not for you!
- No, I meant to be here too.

Okay, if you were meant to be here,

- the portal won't take you.
- No, I want to be here, Liam.

I'll see you on the outside! I promise!

Now, get out of here!

Thank god you made it.

Liam?

No time for goodbyes, Renee.

- I just need to see this thing through.
- I understand.

It's his destiny now, and we're not part of it.
Let's go.

The Atavan life force

It needs both Taelon
and Jaridian energies to regenerate.

I don't know what they'll become, but...

it's in the hands of destiny now.