Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Page #2

SD-103, you are clear

to deliver Captain Kirk and party

to NCC-1701 Alpha. Over.

Captain on the Bridge.

-As you were, Lieutenant...

-Valeris, sir.

We were told that you needed

a helmsman, so I volunteered.

Lieutenant, it is agreeable

to see you again.

Lieutenant was the first Vulcan

to be graduated

-at the top of her class at the academy.

-You must be very proud.

I don't believe so, sir.

She's a Vulcan, all right.

Let's get this over with.

Departure stations.

-Scotty.

-Aye, sir?

Did you find the engine room?

Right where I left it, sir.

Standby. Uhura, get me the dockmaster.

Control tower reading, sir.

Control, this is Enterprise

requesting permission to depart.

This is Control, Enterprise.

Permission to depart granted.

Thirty seconds for port gates.

Clear all moorings.

Awaiting port gates from this mark.

All moorings clear.

Aft thrusters.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

One-quarter impulse power.

Captain, may I remind you

that regulations specify thrusters

only while in spacedock?

Jim?

You heard the order, Lieutenant.

Aye, sir.

Captain's Log, Stardate 9522.6.

I've never trusted Klingons,

and I never will.

I could never forgive them

for the death of my boy.

It seems to me our mission

to escort the Chancellor

of the Klingon High Council

to a peace summit

is problematic at best.

Spock says this could be

an historic occasion,

and I'd like to believe him,

but how on earth can history

get past people like me?

Sorry.

You could have knocked.

We are almost at the rendezvous, sir.

I thought that you would like to know.

Right.

Permission to speak freely, sir.

It is an honour to serve with you.

You piloted well

out of spacedock, Lieutenant.

I've always wanted to try that, sir.

You've done well, Valeris.

As your sponsor at the academy,

I have followed your career

with satisfaction,

and as a Vulcan,

you've exceeded my expectations.

I do not understand this representation.

It is a depiction

from ancient Earth mythology,

the expulsion from Paradise.

Why keep it in your quarters?

It is a reminder to me

that all things end.

It is of endings that I wish to speak.

Sir, I address you as a kindred intellect.

Do you not recognise

that a turning point has been reached

in the affairs of the Federation?

History is replete

with turning points, Lieutenant.

-You must have faith.

-Faith?

That the universe

will unfold as it should.

-But is that logical? Surely we must...

-Logic, logic and logic.

Logic is the beginning

of wisdom, Valeris,

not the end.

This will be my final voyage onboard

this vessel as a member of her crew.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

I intend you to replace me.

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