All language subtitles for St.03 Ep.10 -

♪ ♪

Previously onStar Trek:
Strange New Worlds...

I saw my own death, Spock.

I know exactly
how and when my life ends.

CHAPEL:
The Gorn will hatch from
her body in less than a day.

SPOCK:
The incubation has severely
altered her biochemistry.

GAMBLE:
With Spock's brain,

M'Benga's research,
and Chapel's genetic expertise.

-[screeching]
-[Spock and Batel screaming]

-[Chapel grunts]
-BATEL: I saw something.

SPOCK:
Yes.

It felt both
a part of you and not.

M'BENGA:
Nurse Chapel and Dr. Korby

are about to make history.

The landing party's
meeting soon.

-On Vadia Nine?
-You've earned it.

CHAPEL:
Let's go dig up the past.

KORBY:
There is indeed some form

of advanced technology
hiding beneath us.

CHAPEL:
Wow.

PELIA:
There is evil in this universe.

-CHAPEL: Gamble!
-[screams]

He wasn't ready
for away missions.

You know more than most,
we can't protect everyone.

-[gasps]
-[bones snap]

KORBY: Spock found life-forms
trapped inside orbs.

UHURA:
Unwelcome guests.

LA'AN:
"Here stands the Beholder,
sentry

of eternal bridges."

CHAPEL:
This thing has
a life sign reading.

LA'AN:
What if this place
isn't a palace or a lab?

What if it's a prison?

[speaking alien language]

Captain?

BATEL: I don't know
what happened in there.

[grunting]

I had this overwhelming desire

to kill.

Whatever it is,
we'll figure it out.

You couldn't kill your favorite
ensign now, could you?

-[grunts]
-No!

[guttural sigh]

PELIA:
If any of those things
ever escaped,

God help us all.

PIKE:
Captain's personal log.
Stardate 3165.2.

After exhaustive evaluation,
Captain Batel has been cleared

to return to active duty
as the new director

of the Starfleet
Judge Advocate General's Office.

While we knew she couldn't
stay onEnterprise forever,

it doesn't make saying
goodbye any easier.

-Welcome back.
-[sighs]

-How did it feel?
-Amazing but tiring.

I'm exhausted from all
the bureaucratic banter.

Mm. They're really putting you
through the wringer, huh?

The meetings are endless.

Tell me, when did Starfleet
start cloning officials?

What can I do to help?

Take me to your cabin,
where we can disappear,

just you and me,
for the next 72 hours.

Mm.

What?

What did you do?
What did you do?

UNA:
It sure won't be the same here
without you, Marie.

You were only gone a week,

and Chris hardly knew
what to do with himself.

He actually jumped back into
test pilot drills, voluntarily.

I heard him mutter something
about yoga the other day?

Okay, all right,
laugh all you want,

but yoga will take down
the best of men.

But truly, you seem well.

I am. Thanks to all of you.

[door chimes]

You-- Oh, wow.

So, uh, first Captain's Table?

-Well, how did you...?
-PELIA: Looking sharp,

Mr. Scott.

[laughter]

I thought you said
this was a formal affair.

It is, it is.

-For you.
-[chuckles]

Oh...

[laughter]

BATEL:
I'm just glad Enterprise

was able to be my ride
back to Earth.

And I'm glad we all
get to be there

-for your promotion ceremony.
-Cheers.

Additionally, we will
take the opportunity

to run ship-wide diagnostics.

Enterprisehas had
a challenging few months.

That is an understatement.

PELIA:
Oh, challenging schmallenging.

Remind me to tell you
about the time

I spent with a time-tra--

traveling doctor I once knew.

CHAPEL:
Uh, Captain, it's, it's
wonderful to see you again,

but I've got
an incoming communication

that should be landing
any moment, so...

-How is Dr. Korby these days?
-LA'AN: Far.

He's on an expedition
in the Ba-Dates system.

Cali-Katchna.

I'm sorry, what did you say?

SPOCK:
The phrase the Vezda spoke

to you-- "Cali-Katchna."

CHAPEL:
Yeah, it turns out

it's phonetically
almost identical

to the name of the city
on Skygowan, where Roger is.

Followed a lead there,
he's been ingratiating himself

with a local high cleric.

SPOCK:
Do you think
that is a coincidence?

[sighs]
I don't remember hearing it
at all.

Uh, in any case,

I hope Roger finds
what he's looking for soon.

I know how hard
long distance can be.

It is, but it can be done.

[chuckles softly]

♪ ♪

KORBY:
I wish you could see
this place, Christine.

A beautiful city, full of life.

And a whole culture
built on the belief

that the Vezda were gods.
If only they knew.

Their spiritual high chambers
float above the city.

From the guarded entrance,

you transport up
to the higher level.

It's taken me weeks
to build their trust.

But today
the local high cleric Zeperez

has agreed to take me up.

Hopefully,
he can help us understand

what we encountered
on Vadia Nine.

Maybe even clues about the
Vezda's so-called immortality.

SCOTTY:
We'll have to shut down

the medical transporter

before the diagnostics sweep.

Buffer and all.

We just did a purge
a few months after that...

Well, as Pelia would say,

"We sent that Vezda demon
back to hell."

CHAPEL:
Would Pelia ever say that
like a vampire?

Well, she would sometimes.

[PADD beeps]

Odd.

-What?
-Uh...

Residual pattern geometries,
wee bitty ones.

Hardly there at all,
but there they are.

Check the logs.

ABNA:
Zeperez is promised to us.

He has come to deliver us
to the gods.

Could someone have used
the medical transporter

without you knowing?

-[beeps negatively]
-Access is DNA-locked.

Guys, there's a pattern here,
it's... it's human.

It's been broken in pieces.

SCOTTY:
Aye, seems to have been rebuilt
from emergency backups.

Let's see if we can get
the pieces to cohere.

-Oh, my...
-M'BENGA: Scotty?

Whose pattern was rebuilt?

SCOTTY:
Ensign Gamble's pattern.

And it's left the ship.

But where did it go?

If it isn't Dr. Korby.

The man who wants
to live forever.

Well, you've come
to the right place.

PIKE:
Space.

The final frontier.

These are the voyages
of the starshipEnterprise.

Its five-year mission:

to explore strange new worlds...

...to seek out new life

and new civilizations...

...to boldly go
where no one has gone before.

♪

♪ ♪

♪

All signs points to the Vezda
having rebuilt Gamble's body

and enabled the transporter
from inside.

Is that even possible?

I would have said no, until now.

Where did he go?

CHAPEL:
Roger's emergency transponder
activated 12 hours ago.

He hasn't answered
any messages since.

It's too many coincidences.

Even at full warp,
it'll take us 11 hours.

SPOCK:
Skygowan is not
a warp-capable society.

But they do engage

in interstellar trade
with the Orions.

It's a mix of locals
and travelers,

most hostile to the Federation.

All right. Understood.

We'll notify Starfleet
and then you and La'An

will lead a covert
tactical landing party.

Get in, find Korby,
assess the Vezda situation.

Do not engage
until we have backup,

a plan or, God willing, both.

Joseph...

I'll go, too.

I was gonna say you don't
have to be on this mission.

No, I have to do it.

Spock, I want Science
and Engineering

on a deep dive into
every piece of data we have

from the Vadia Nine expedition.

If one of these things is loose,

we need to find a way
to contain it.

All right, let's get to it.

♪ ♪

Tai chi not cutting it
for you today?

-[chuckles softly]
-You know,

you didn't have
to come on this mission.

You have a new job
to report for, so...

We'll be back in time.

It doesn't make sense but I...

I think I need to be here.

The way you reacted
to the Vezda.

Like I had to stop it.

We have to, Chris.

Why?

What do you know
about it, Marie?

What-What's your gut
telling you?

I don't know.

I just know
we can't let it escape.

We won't.

I keep feeling like there's
this rope around my waist,

pulling me towards something
I don't understand.

Destiny maybe.

Do you really still believe our
futures are written in stone?

These last few years have...

well, they've changed

what I thought life could be.
I don't know.

Maybe there is more
possibility than I thought.

Hmm.

Who told you that?

A wise woman.

[chuckles softly]

Right before she told me
to shave my beard.

It was just so scratchy.

[indistinct chatter]

CHAPEL:
They're so much like
Vadia Nine here.

I can see why Roger was
drawn to it.

UHURA:
Korby's communicator
isn't pinging,

but that's where it went
offline.

CHAPEL:
That looks just like the gateway
on Vadia Nine.

It must act as a transport
to the upper chamber.

Two guards, lightly armed.

I just need a distraction.

-Joseph, what about--
-Like on Rigel?

[both cackling]

-Hey.
-I told you!

They'll never let us.

[chatter, laughter]

-Excuse me, sir? Sir?
-[laughing]

Sir? Uh-oh.

Vulcan nerve pinch?

-Yeah.
-CHAPEL: Oh, my God.

-That's what you guys do?
-You're jealous, right?

You couldn't learn it?

It wasn't for lack of trying.

Can-can you show me
your thumb placement?

Ladies?

If we're going to find Korby,

we've got to get
through that gateway.

UHURA:
Just pointing out,

the last time we walked
into something like that,

we almost got trapped
for eternity.

♪ ♪

At least this one
doesn't have a blood lock,

like on Vadia Nine.

[whooshing]

Okay, so the Vezda escaped
the transporter buffer.

But how did it get
halfway across the quadrant?

Our experiences on Vadia Nine
revealed technologies

that exploit
inter-dimensional space.

They may also travel via
similar methods.

I'm picking up what you're
laying down, Spock-O.

This was our location

when Gamble's pattern
was rebuilt.

We know inter-dimensional space
folds along those...

-uh, what do you call them?
-Ley lines.

They're a real thing.

SPOCK:
Five days ago, at the moment
the Vezda escaped,

it appears Enterprisewas
on one of those ley lines.

SAM:
One that leads directly
to Skygowan.

Yeah. What if these lines are
a kind of bus route

for inter-dimensional travel?
You know,

without actual buses, of course.

All great civilizations maintain
some sort of trade route,

a way to connect
the far reaches of the empire.

Oh, look, there's one that
connects Vadia Nine to Skygowan.

Oh, dear.

If that thing
in Gamble's body can travel

your bus-less bus route
and access that Vezda prison

from across deep space,
then, th--

Then it could feasibly free
all its incarcerated brethren

and unleash them on Skygowan.

PELIA:
The sky would rain demons,

demons that could kill
and possess

every man, woman and child
on the planet.

♪

KORBY:
No. No, no, no.

You shouldn't have come.

Gamble's been taken over
by the Vezda.

-We know.
-No, you don't understand.

Some of the people
on this planet,

they-they-they worship him like,
like he's a god.

If he commands it,
they'll do it.

Anything.

♪ ♪

[excited chatter]

Friends.

We are in the final days.

Prepare yourselves
for liberation.

Demittis tenebris.
Demittis tenebris.

Interitus vide clara.

Demittis tenebris.
Demittis tenebris.

Interitus vide clara.

[pained groaning]

[screaming]

[screaming]

Captain Pike,
I hear you might have

a planet in need of assistance.

Good to see you, James.
If we can't contain this,

I'm worried it might become
a galactic threat.

Well,Farragut is
fully repaired

and we are on our way
to you now.

Starfleet's orders are
to observe and not interfere.

Might not be that simple.

I'm gonna need to know
your captain's position on that.

My captain's position is
thatEnterprise saved her life.

And she owes you one.

It's not very Vulcan of her,

but she's learning.

No offense, Spock.

None taken.

Thank you, James. Pike out.

SCOTTY:
I'd just like to know, sir,
so we can better help out,

whatever the plan is gonna be.

Rescue the people,
stop the Vezda, kill it.

Any one of those would do.
I just need options.

Demittis tenebris...

UNA:
Okay, Gamble is taking over
the city below.

How do we stop him?

If we could get our hands
on one of those orbs.

LA'AN:
The kind that Gamble was
trapped in before?

Currently, they're
the only thing we know

will actually stop the Vezda.

Roger? Something to tell us?

I think there might be
more of those orbs through here.

I think this symbol
is associated

with the containment orbs.

Well, it was on the well
on Vadia Nine.

The entity inside Gamble
tried to get through here.

The glyphs changed, but then

nothing else happened.

Wherever it was
trying to go, it failed.

The idea that
good and evil exist,

have always existed,

is the most commonly
shared belief

in all the galaxy.

Wow.

That verse is in Swahili.

Your first language?

M'BENGA:
It was also mine.

"A young boy was not yet a man,

"but his time had come.

"To kill or be killed.

A knife in his hands."

Another myth? An epic poem?

M'BENGA:
No.

It's about me.

I was attacked on a colony
when I was 12.

Had to defend myself.

The first time I, uh...

I took a life.

Joseph...

how is your
life story written here,

light-years from
where you were born?

Do you believe in destiny?

I delivered the boy
to the creature

that took his body.

Maybe I'm supposed to be here.

I don't like any of this.

We need to find a way
to get back to Enterprise.

UNA:
Joseph!

We don't need to risk all of us.

I can find one of the orbs.

No.

That's an order, Doctor.

[all grunting]

You were close.

About the entryway.

It's not just about you.

It's about us.

It's about duality.

Everything here is.

The Beholders
constructed this portal

so that it could not be
traversed alone.

Two must pass through.

You wanted
the Enterpriseto come.

You needed me there so you
could get back to Vadia Nine

and this prison,
dozens of light-years away.

I retain
Gamble's memories, Doctor.

You became a part of him,

and so, a part of me.

And that is how
we opened this doorway

and released
my people to Skygowan,

where their future bodies
await us.

So...

...thank you.

This warden has
stood over us for eternity.

Now, the Beholder dies,

and what keeps us
from escaping ends.

[screams]

[groaning]

[panting]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

You couldn't go after him?

There was no way
to get through the door.

After the Vezda pulled
M'Benga through,

it sealed closed.

Our only option was
to return to Enterprise

and find another way in,
any other way.

I think Gamble needed
to go through with M'Benga.

Otherwise, I'm sure
the Vezda would have taken

the time to kill us.

M'Benga hasn't
responded to comms

and Uhura still can't locate
his transponder signal.

It's like they just disappeared.

They have to be somewhere.

It's just a matter
of tracking them down.

CHAPEL [over comm]:
Captain Pike?

You'd better get to sickbay.

It's, uh, it's Captain Batel.

CHAPEL:
This is incredible. Her eyes.

-BATEL: They've changed?
-CHAPEL: Yes.

I think I've seen this before.

In a pictograph.

On an altar.

Are you sure you feel okay?

Honestly, I feel fine.

Uh, more than fine.

I feel great.

Everything looks normal to me
if that helps at all.

Not really, no.

I think they may be fading back.

-CHAPEL: Wait.
-PIKE: What?

CHAPEL:
No way.

No, this is impossible.

-PIKE: What?
-Oh, come on.

Nurse Chapel?

Sorry. Sorry.

Look.

This is the result
of the bio-scan we took

of the Beholder statue
on Vadia Nine.

[chuckles] We didn't think
to cross-reference it.

Because why would we?

-Christine,
this is not the time.
-Look at this.

These are
Captain Batel's life signs.

Right now.

What, you're saying Marie is
somehow connected

to the Beholder statue
on Vadia Nine?

No.

According to this...

...she is the statue.

The statue is her.

GAMBLE:
The Beholder.

These things don't die easy,
but when they do,

they die screaming.

I'm still alive.

You haven't killed me.

You didn't just need me
to get in.

You need me to get out, too,
don't you?

If I die...

...would you be stuck here?

Oh, you will die.

Not until I permit it.

Don't be too sure.

-[grunts]
-[screeching]

[screeching echoes]

It doesn't make any sense.

Maybe it does.

Maybe it finally makes
all the sense in the world.

The Gorn, Una's Illyrian blood,

the Chimera Blossom.

You all saved me,
but you also changed me.

Okay.

The Vezda.

What if they are evil?

-Many races are capable of--
-I mean,

what if they are the evil
that predates doing evil?

What if they are evil itself?

I am not sure I understand.

CHAPEL: Almost every race
claims to have had

encounters, battles with evil.

Definitely, I've seen this
all over the galaxy--

And when we fight things,

when we beat back
the forces threatening us,

we have an epigenetic response.

The way humans can sense
animal predators.

And Vulcans can feel
the coming of an earthquake.

CHAPEL:
Our biology

changes in response
to the threats we encounter.

What if by hybridizing me,

I have somehow taken on
all the adaptive

characteristics of races
that have faced evil.

The Gorn, humans, Illyrians.

If the Vezda are an evil that
predates all our known races,

it is possible that all races
that came later

might hold some genetic memory
of how to combat them.

What if I got all of them?

All the parts of every race

that know how to fight the Vezda
are in me.

And maybe by them coming
together in one body it's...

...it's transforming me.

Into what?

Some kind of protector.

The Vezda are very old
and very powerful.

But something locked them
down in that well

on Vadia Nine
and threw away the key.

Something equally powerful,
maybe more.

And then stood sentry
for millennia,

waiting for a day
when they might escape.

A warden of sorts.

What if it's me?

Not you, it-it...

them eons ago, not you now.

How ca--?
How can that even be possible?

SPOCK: Captain, when dealing
with inter-dimensional space,

cause and effect
can be reversed.

And time is not
what it seems to be to us.

Chris?

Why haven't I been able
to settle?

We both know the feelings
I've been having like some

puzzle piece that just
won't fit, that...

that I can't find some purpose,

that it's eluding me.

A starship captain,
Counselor General.

None of them fit anymore.

[sighs]

But this does.

No, this is--

Marie.

The Beholder's biosignature
is mine.

Because I am the sentry.

I have always been.

Effect before cause, remember?

Everything that happened to me

was so I could do this.

So I could be this.

So I could stand where I have
always stood.

It's my destiny.

You, of all people,
can understand that.

Marie, if...

if what you're saying is true...

I stay.

I guard.

I never leave.

You will have
to defeat him first.

CHAPEL: The way you reacted
to him the first time,

it...

it triggered your capabilities.

Proximity could cause it
to happen again.

There's only one way
to find out.

Then I'm coming with you.

♪ ♪

PIKE: Seems like things have
calmed down on the surface.

BATEL:
Until Gamble shows up again.

♪ ♪

Chris...

this portal must only
be programmed to open

for Joseph and Gamble together.

Without them, it's not working.

Joseph's trapped inside there.
What do you need to open it?

To force it?

Far more power
than either of us have.

The energy of a Vezda,
I'm not sure.

Okay, you're talking
about a science so advanced

it might as well be magic.

So what do we have
that could open it?

We have to get power
to Captains Batel and Pike.

They're on the second level
of the temple.

They need it to open the portal.

SCOTTY: We can beam down
a nuclear battery.

The power needed suggests
a battery will not be enough.

Two batteries?

At the necessary valences,

thermal, chemical, radiant,

gravitational, electrical,
or nuclear

may likely prove
far too destructive.

Hmm, exactly how much power
do you need?

Based on the data
of the Vezda life-form,

approximately 3.22
times ten to the 26 watts.

Hmm, that is the power

of the Earth's sun.

Less, technically.

The sun is...

close enough.

A focused phaser blast

from a starship could get you

about half of that?

SCOTTY:
Aye, but you'd have to direct it

precisely into the system
or you'll

vaporize the whole temple.

You said a starship could
generate half of what we need?

-Mm-hmm.
-What about two starships?

-Phasers are not additive.
-SCOTTY: Well, no, they're not,

but they are complementary.

Fascinating.

Scotty is right.

Simultaneous fire from two ships

might do the trick.

Okay, sounds like a plan.

No, you don't understand.

Ship safeguards
won't let us link

our weapons systems
to the Farragut's.

We'd need the two ships to fire

in perfect synchronicity.

A millisecond off,

and the whole temple
down there goes boom.

And we'd need
to fire them manually.

I have an idea.

Two ships firing energy
at the same time,

at the same target?

Phaser streams of anti-protons,
to be precise.

Those are very powerful.

Perhaps the only thing powerful
enough to help Captain Batel

and Captain Pike open the door.

But... two ships?

Yeah, and they have
to operate in tandem.

Enterpriseand Farragutseem

like they're not moving,
but they are--

radiation waves, cosmic gas,

solar flares-- there's
a lot going through here.

And I'm telling you as a pilot,

they shake at all,

the beams separate
and it's adiosSkygowans.

So how do we do this and not...

destroy the planet?

Two pilots must operate
together.

Okay.

What do you know
of the Vulcan mind meld?

[laughs]

I mean, frankly,
about as much as I want to.

I'm not big on intimacy

without someone knowing every
single one of my thoughts.

Wait, that wasn't just
intellectual curiosity, was it?

No, it was not.

Hold on, you have
a great pilot right here.

It's not really fancy flying
that's called for.

SPOCK:
No.

The firing process
is rudimentary.

It is the coordination
that is necessary.

Two people must quickly
be comfortable

sharing a consciousness.

I have learned,
despite your reticence,

that you are willing
to do things others are not.

You seem to
understand me, Spock.

Are you willing to attempt this?

If the Vezda cannot be stopped,

more than a single world
may fall.

Well, I see why
you brought me to a bar.

This is one hell of a date.

Indeed.

Okay, Mr. Spock.

But be gentle.

Oh, wait,

wait, wait. Um...
[clears throat]

That one time
on Orion's second moon.

Just try not to judge, okay?

I will do my best, Commander.

Maybe call me Jim.

Yes. Jim.

SPOCK:
My mind to your mind.

My thoughts to your thoughts.

-Weapons ready?
-LA'AN: Aye.

-Engineering?
-As ready as we'll ever be.

Lieutenant Spock?

SPOCK and KIRK:
We are both ready.

That's eerie.

They're connecting even faster
than a comms link.

Get used to it, Ensign.

As Lieutenant Ortegas
likes to say,

"Let's light this candle."

SPOCK and KIRK:
One quarter impulse power.

PELIA:
Oh.

They move
in perfect synchronicity.

It's almost poetic.

Steady, Pelia.

I'm steady. I'm steady.

SPOCK and KIRK:
Rotation, 43 degrees

toward the planet's surface.

How's our aim?

-On target.
-Hold ships.

SPOCK and KIRK:
Rotation locked.

Fire.

♪ ♪

You ready?

[screeching]

PIKE:
We're on Vadia Nine.

[screeching continues]

We are.

-Joseph. How...?
-No time.

Hurry. It's trying to break out.

Annoying.

You... and a pet.

For eons,
my people have suffered

under your wretched eyes.

The indignities I have imagined

committing upon you.
The suffering.

[gasps]

Human flesh.

So fragile.

-Stop it.
-You.

-A fly.
-[cries out]

Chris, don't do it.

You can't hurt him, but he...

He can hurt me.

Yeah, I get that now.

This is something only I can do.

[gasps]

-PIKE: What's stopping you?
-Oh, I don't know.

You have to fight back, Marie.

[grunts]

[Pike groans, coughs]

♪ ♪

Happy anniversary.

-We made it.
-We made it.

Mm, bacon's burning. Hold on.

BATEL:
Thought we said no gifts.

It's tradition.

Last year was paper,

second year is cotton.

M.B. and M.P.?

Well, I wasn't sure

if you were gonna
take the name, and... [sighs]

Well, planning the wedding
happened so fast,

we never talked about it, so

-got you both.
-[laughs] I see.

So there could be
two Captain Pikes or...

-two Captain Batels?
-[laughs]

Christopher Batel,
that's got a ring to it.

-It's nice.
-Mm.

-Hold on.
-Aw, come back to me.

What are you doing? [chuckles]

-Thought we said no gifts.
-It's tradition.

Sneak.

When you marry the best chef
in Starfleet,

-you want to show it off.
-[laughs]

I love it.

This is the life
worth risking everything for.

Mm.

[knock on door]

Who is it?

Oh, I think I know.

Bob? This early?

He's still trying to talk me

into training cadets
at the Academy.

Can you tell him no?

[knock on door]

You know I can't. I...

I have to do the things
I'm supposed to do.

And after our run-in
with the Vezda, I just...

I remember.

We made a promise to enjoy

however much time
we have together.

Yeah.

[knock on door]

-[dog barks]
-[gasps]

-[laughing]
-Oh, hey, what're you doing?

-Hey, wait. Hey, wait.
-[laughing]

[barking]

Down.

-Stay.
-[barks]

The Lucas?

It's a class-J training vessel.

How long?

PIKE: It's a three-month
observation exercise.

But you return a month early?

I do.

And when I come back, um...

[Juliet giggling]

-We knew this day would come.
-Yeah.

Just never realized how much
I'd actually have to live for.

And you'll continue
to live for it.

This life we have will change,

but it won't go away.

This is... this is
what we signed up for.

You faced the Vezda.
I can face this.

I-I'm not scared
of the accident.

I'm afraid of what
it will do to this family.

You always having
to take care of me...

Hey.

We have a beautiful life

because of you.

Because of us.

[knock on door]

Um... I think that's my ride.

At this hour? No.
It's too early.

[knock on door]

Chris?

How?

I don't know what happened.

I-I did everything
exactly as I was supposed to,

but the baffle plate,
it just never ruptured.

There was no radiation leak,
no explosion,

no accident.

You say that
like it's a bad thing.

I wasn't supposed to avoid this.

There could be
huge consequences.

-This was my destiny and...
-Maybe it's not anymore.

H-How can that be possible?

Skygowan.

When you were fighting
that thing inside Gamble,

I-I was there, but...

I never totally understood
what happened.

It was hard to explain.

The thought of losing you...

...of losing us, it-it gave me

the power I needed to open up
the fabric of space and time.

Maybe, some-somehow,
that reset everything.

I don't know.
I don't know if that's it,

but I know you're here now.

I don't know
what comes next anymore.

Isn't that the gift?

[knock on door]

Should we be concerned?

-[groans]
-[oven door closes]

Because Juliet's
coming to dinner?

Whew. [sighs]

No, I'm fairly
used to that by now.

With a guest? A month after
she started her new job?

Look.

The Daystrom Institute
is lucky to have her.

I'm just concerned, Chris.
What if something's gone wrong?

[knock on door]

-Then we face it,
like we always do.
-[door opens]

-JULIET: We're here. Hi, Dad.
-Hey! Get in here.

-Hi.
-PIKE: Kid. What? Really?

-[laughs] Thank you.
-Mom, act surprised.

-About what?
-You didn't tell her?

-You told me
not to say anything.
-Tell me about what?

Oh, my God, but, Dad,
you never listen to me.

-[clears throat]
-Elijah.

What are you doing here?

-[laughs]
-Hey, buddy. Welcome.

Eli, how's your father
doing these days?

Uh, he's good, ma'am.

Uh, Admiral April
sends his best.

Admiral April? Tell me he
doesn't make you call him that.

No, he does not. [laughs]

Um...

Uh...

[scoffs]

Eli, um, it's us.

You've been here
a million times.

Is everything okay?

Is something going on
with your job? Or his job?

Or e-- someone's job?

No. Okay, everyone's job
is fine. My job is great.

All of the advice
from Uncle Sock really paid off.

You've known how to say "Spock"
since you were four years old.

Yes, and he loves his nickname.

-[laughs]
-Why rush home?

What's this surprise
supposed to be?

Well, we did tell Dad
at the Academy yesterday.

ELIJAH: But we wanted
to ask you as well.

Admiral, uh...

We're engaged.

ELIJAH: But only
with your blessings, ma'am.

[Elijah and Juliet laugh]

JULIET:
I know it's old-fashioned.

You have more than my blessing.

Have you told your father yet?

ELIJAH:
Uh, not yet.

Well, we'll tell him together.

I never thought we'd see this.

And yet here we are.

[knock on door]

Oh, should I get that?

Get what?

[knock on door]

PIKE:
You don't hear that?

Chris, come back to me.

-[knock on door]
-BATEL: Chris.

What?

Champagne. Go put some on ice.

-And some cider for you.
-Yeah. Cider for me. Okay.

BATEL:
So much to celebrate tonight.

[sighs]

BATEL:
We did it.

We made it.

PIKE:
Mm.

I never thought it was possible.

When I'm gone...

-Marie.
-I have to say it.

I won't really be gone.

I'll always be with you.

All you have to do
is look up at the stars...

...and know that
I'm waiting for you there.

It's a little early.

[sighs]

[knock on door]

Someone at the door, Chris.

I'm not leaving your side.

Chris, this lifetime was a gift.

But we both know it's time.

[stammers]

A gift?

[knock on door]

BATEL:
Living our lives like this,

we got lucky.

You've given me
everything I needed.

And more than
I could've hoped for.

I needed to have this first.

So I can say goodbye
and still remember you.

Still remember us.

Marie...

What are you talking about?

After all, isn't this
what we're fighting for?

What we've always
been fighting for?

[knock on door]

Answer the door, Chris.

♪ ♪

GAMBLE:
Soon, they will all be free,

and your memories
will be long gone.

[screeching]

You will stay.

It's too late to stop me.

I am filled with light
you cannot vanquish.

I am the Beholder.

But I am also Marie Batel.

The love I feel is brighter
than your darkness.

Your judgment is here.

♪ ♪

PIKE:
Captain's personal log,
supplemental.

With the Vezda gone,

the people of Skygowan
are recovering.

As if waking up
from a terrible dream.

We remember, but it's over.

[sighs]
It's a perfect time to leave.

-Maybe get some time together.
-Mm.

It's actually also, um...

...a perfect time to stay.

Yeah.

The Vezda are imprisoned.

All their history,

all that knowledge
of the past, it's...

it's here for us
to study now, safely.

I can't walk away from that.

[clears throat]

CHAPEL:
What's this?

A scan of something I found.

Maps of the stars.

Areas that we've never been in.

If I'm gonna stay on the planet,

someone's got to look into it.

[sighs] It's never gonna be
easy between us, is it?

Easy isn't interesting.

Checkmate.

Intriguing.

We have melded minds, and yet,

I see you are still far better
at this game than I.

And I see that you have some

interesting new relationships.

[La'An laughs]

Um, anyway, I'll see you...

You and I will remain friends.

I think so, Spock.

It is possible, someday,
we will work on the same ship.

Until then, it may be useful
for us to continue our game.

Despite your behavior
on the moon of Orion.

Although, I must confess,
it is of

extraordinary good fortune that
no one suffered permanent...

What are you boys talking about?

Oh, nothing at all.

James, good to see you.

Spock, are you ready?

Dance rehearsal.

Oh, God, the mind meld.

Like a steel trap.

["Wait" by M83 playing]

♪ Send♪

-[sighs]
-♪ Your dreams♪

♪ Where nobody hides♪

Hey.

Want to talk?

Not yet.

♪ ♪

One day, maybe soon, but...

...not yet.

♪ Give♪

♪ Your tears♪

♪ To the tide♪

♪ No time♪

♪ ♪

PIKE: Even as a boy,
I always hated goodbyes.

♪ No time♪

How can we love the people
in our lives so deeply...

...and then, one day,

simply never see them again?

♪ No time...♪

Perhaps these moments we share

are anything but fleeting.

But...

maybe...

maybe they never really vanish.

Maybe Spock was right,

and time is not what we think.

♪ No time♪

Maybe memory
is as real as the present...

♪ ♪

...and no one we have
ever loved is truly gone.

♪ No time.♪

♪

[boatswain's whistle blows]

Captain on the bridge.

Dr. Korby's research on Skygowan

has revealed a large number
of uncharted planets.

How many?

Enough for a five-year mission.

ORTEGAS: I did just happen
to plot a course

to a promising M-Class planet.

If that sounds cool
to you, sir...

Hailing frequencies open,
Captain.

Yeah.

[sighs]

Is this a "hit it" situation?

Uh, it's a new future.

It's whatever kind of adventure
we want it to be.

I mean, I still
kind of like "hit it."

[laughs]

Why don't you
take us out, Erica.

As fast as you want to go.

♪ ♪

ORTEGAS:
Okay,

you asked for it.

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