Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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This is comm station ep8/70i7 ix calling USS Columbia.

Come in, Columbia. Respond, please.

This is scour Columbia...

Epsilon lx, this is dreadnoughf entente nco-2720...

This is epsilon lx, Columbia.

Am boosting ouzjouf. How read you this?

Fine, fine, epsilon lx. Proceed with your transmission.

Scout Columbia nco-627,

to rendezvous with scout revere nco-595

on stardate 7477.4.

F UN'her orders will be relayed at that time.

Signed commodore probe/t, sta/fleet.

End of transmission.

Received and understood, eps/lon ix. Thank you.

USS Columbia out.

Our sensor drone is intercepting this on quad I-14.

That's within klingon boundaries. Who are they fighting?

- Unknown, sir. -

I have an exterior visual.

We've plotted a course on that cloud, commander.

It will pass into federation space fairly close to us.

Heading?

Sir, it's on a precise heading for earth.

Our ancestdfis cast out their animal passidns on these very sands...

Saving our race through the attainment of kdlinahr.

Kdlinahr: Through which all emdtidn is rendunced and shed.

You have labdred fdr many seasdns, spdck...

And you have proved yourself worthy...

To receive from us this symbol of pure logic.

Your thoughts... give them to me.

Our minds are joined, Spock...

Together, and as one.

I sense the consciousness calling to you from space...

Your human blood is touched by it, Spock.

You have not yet attained kolinahr.

He must search elsewhere for his answer.

He shall not find it here.

Live long and prosper, Spock.

Commander sonak.

You received your appointment as enterprise science officer?

Based, I am told, on your recommendation, admiral.

- Thank you. - Then why aren't you aboard?

Captain Decker requested I complete final science briefing here

- before we leave on our mission. - Here? At starfleet?

The enterprise is in final preparation to leave dock.

Which will require 20 more hours at minimum, admiral.

Twelve.

I'm on my way to a meeting with admiral nogura

which will not last more than three minutes.

Report to me on the enterprise in one hour.

Report to you, sir?

It is my intention to be on that ship following that meeting.

Report to me in one hour.

- Admiral. - Mr. Scott.

Those departure orders. Twelve hours. Starfleet cannot be serious.

Why aren't the enterprise transporters operating, Mr. Scott?

A wee problem, sir. Just temporary.

Admiral, we have just finished 18 months redesigning and refitting the enterprise.

How in the name of hell do they expect me to have her ready in 12 hours?

Take me over, please.

She needs more work, sir. A shakedown.

Mr. Scott.

An alien object of unbelievable destructive power

is less than three days away from this planet.

The only starship in interception range is the enterprise.

Ready or not, she launches in 12 hours.

The crew haven't had near enough transition time

with all the new equipment.

And the engines, they're not even tested at warp power.

And an untried captain.

Two and a half years as chief of starfleet operations

may have made me a little stale,

but I wouldn't exactly consider myself untried.

They gave her back to me, Scotty.

Gave her back, sir?

Well, I doubt it was that easy with nogura.

You're right.

Well, any man who could manage such a feat,

I would not dare to disappoint.

She'll launch on time, sir.

And she'll be ready.

- Thank you, Mr. Scott. - Aye, sir.

Cargo ha y to launch crew.

A tra ve/ pod is now available at dock 6.

- Permission to come aboard, sir. - Granted, sir.

Welcome aboard, admiral.

Commander Scott, you're needed in engineering immediately.

Sir, you'll excuse me?

Fl/ght deck,

prepare for an incoming shutt/ecratt.

- Sir, if you'll follow me, I'll show you... - I think I can find my way, ensign.

Aye, sir.

Budge.

What's the problem?

I thought you people had that circuit patched in an hour ago!

We did. We had to disconnect it again

- so we could tie in radio messaging. - All right. Take out...

All right, as soon as somebody can get to it.

What's the next program?

I'll get somebody down there as soon as I can, cleary.

My people are all tied up now.

Captain, starfleet just signaled your transfer-of-command order, sir.

- Captain. - I appreciate the welcome.

I wish the circumstances were less critical.

Epsilon ix is monitoring the intruder. Keep a channel open to them.

Aye, sir.

Where's captain Decker?

He's in engineering, sir.

He, uh...

He doesn't know.

- Mr. Chekov. - Aye, sir.

Assemble the crew on the recreation deck at 0400 hours.

I want to show them what we're facing.

He wanted her back. He got her.

And captain Decker?

He's been with this ship every minute of her refitting.

Ensign, the possibilities of our returning from this mission in one piece

may have just doubled.

Engineering,

show me your readings on photon capacitors.

Check cleary on number six.

All wd stations, maintain present status.

Main stage flux chillers port and starboard.

Inter-cooler status.

Space matrix restoration coils.

Dilithium crystals.

I knew it. The transporter sensor was not activated.

Air equalization automatic off.

A faulty module.

Cleary! Put a new backup sensor into the unit.

Aye, sir.

Emergency shutdown trips.

Admiral kirk!

Well, we're getting a top-brass send-off. Don't worry.

She'll launch on schedule,

if we have to tow her out with our bare hands. Right, Scotty?

Aye, uh... that we will, sir.

- Let's talk. - Sure.

- Let me know when that backup's ready. - Aye, sir.

All due respect, sir, I hope this isn't some kind of starfleet pep talk.

- I'm really too busy. - I'm taking over the center seat, will.

You're what?

I'm replacing you as captain of the enterprise.

You'll stay on as executive officer, temporary grade reduction to commander.

You, personally, are assuming command?

Yeah.

May I ask why?

My experience.

Five years out there dealing with unknowns like this.

My familiarity with the enterprise, its crew.

Admiral, this is an almost totally new enterprise.

You don't know her a tenth as well as I do.

That's why you're staying aboard.

I'm sorry, will.

No, admiral. I don't think you're sorry.

Not one damn bit.

I remember when you recommended me for this command.

You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped

you'd find a way to get a starship command again.

Well, sir,

it looks like you found a way.

Report to the bridge, commander, immediately.

Aye, sir.

- -

Transporter room, come in! Urgent!

Red line on the transporter, Mr. Scott.

Transporter, do not engage.

- It's too late. They're beaming now. - Do not...

Do you read me, starfleet? Override us. Pull them back.

Unable to retrieve their pattern, enterprise.

- -

Give it to me.

Starfleet, boost your matter gain. We need more signal.

More signal!

We're losing their pattern.

Oh, no. They're forming.

Starfleet, do you have them?

Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long.

Fortunately.

- - Starfleet, kirk.

Please express my condolences to their families.

Commander sonak's can be reached through the vulcan embassy.

There was nothing you could have done, rand.

It wasn't your fault.

Yeoman. Turboshaft 8?

Back that way, sir.

We have to replace commander sonak.