Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Page #3

Very active, sir.

Multiphasic transmissions,

overlapping.

It's almost a gibberish.

Let me see if I can sort it out.

Hi.

Busy?

Uhura is busy.

I am monitoring.

Hmm.

I just wanted to say

It's nice to have your Katra

back in your head and not in mine.

I may have carried your soul,

but I sure couldn't fill your shoes.

My shoes?

Forget it.

Perhaps we could cover

a little philosophical ground.

Life, death, life.

Things of that nature.

I did not have time

on Vulcan to review

the philosophical disciplines.

Come on, Spock.

It's me, McCoy.

You really have gone where

no man's gone before.

What did it feel like?

It's impossible to discuss

without a common frame of reference.

You're joking.

A joke...is a story

with a humorous climax.

I have to die to discuss

your insights on death?

I'm receiving a number

of distress calls.

I don't doubt it.

Juneau, Alaska, clouds increasing 95%.

Tokyo. Total cloud coverage.

All power from reserve banks.

Leningrad has lost

all electrical power.

Cloud coverage 100%.

Temperatures decreasing rapidly.

What is the estimate

cloud cover of the planet?

78.6%.

Notify all stations.

Starfleet emergency. Red alert.

Switch power immediately

to planetary reserves.

Switching now.

Red alert.

We are now on red alert.

Attention, attention. Red alert.

Mr. President,

even with planetary reserves,

we cannot survive without the sun.

I'm well aware of that, Admiral.

Ambassador Sarek,

I'm afraid you're trapped here with us.

There seems to be no way

we can answer this probe.

It's difficult to answer

when one does not

understand the question.

Mr. President...

perhaps you should transmit

a planetary distress signal...

while we still have time.

Admiral.

What is it?

Overlapping distress calls

and now a message from the federation.

On screen.

This is the president

of the United Federation of Planets.

Do not approach Earth.

The transmissions

of an orbiting probe

are causing critical

damage to this planet.

It's almost totally

ionized our atmosphere.

All power sources have failed.

All earth-orbiting

starships are powerless.

The probe is vaporizing our oceans.

We cannot survive

unless a way can be found

to respond to the probe.

Further communications

may not be possible.

Save your energy.

Save yourselves.

Avoid the planet earth at all costs.

Farewell.

Can you let us hear

the probe's transmission?

Yes, sir.

On speakers.

Spock, what do you make of that?

Most unusual.

An unknown form of energy

of great power and intelligence,

evidently unaware

that its transmissions

are destructive.

I find it illogical

that its intentions are hostile.

Is this its way of saying " Hi there"

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