All language subtitles for Star Trek The Original Series [1x20] - The Alternative Factor

Well, Mr. Spock?

Very typical, Captain.

Iron-silicon base,
oxygen-hydrogen atmosphere,

largely arid,
no discernible life.

No surprises.

Cartographic section,
begin scanning.

Tie in to visual section 988TG,
computer bank 22.

Kirk out.

About four more orbits
ought to do it, Mr. Lesley.

Then we'll wrap it up.

Lay in a course
for Starbase 200.

Aye, aye, Captain.

Captain!

Mr. Spock.

Incredible, Captain.

What was that?

What my instruments read
is totally unbelievable, Captain.

Twice, for a split second each time,

everything within range
of our instruments

seemed on the verge
of winking out.

I want facts, not poetry.

I've given the facts, Captain.

The entire magnetic field

in this solar system simply blinked.

The planet below,

the mass ofwhich we're measuring,
attained zero gravity.

That's impossible.

What you're describing...

Is nonexistence.

Standard general alert signal
from Starfleet Command, Captain.

All stations
to immediate alert status.

Captain, scanners now report
a life object on the planet's surface below

You just did
a life survey minutes ago.

How are you just
picking it up now?

Inexplicable, Captain.
This reading began

when the pulsation phenomenon
began to subside.

Well, what is it,

this object?
lts physical makeup?

A living being.
Body temperature 98.5 Fahrenheit.

Mass, electrical impulses, movement.

It is apparently human, Captain.

And its appearance coincided
with this cosmic winking out?

Almost to the second.

Explanation.

None.

Speculation.

Could this being present
any danger to the ship?

Possible.

Very possible.

Lieutenant Uhura, notify Security

to have an armed detachment
ready to beam down with us.

Let's go.

Any word from Starfleet Command,

pipe it down immediately.

Communications, priority one.

Space -- the final frontier.

These are the voyages
of the starship Enterprise.

Its five-year mission--

to explore strange
new worlds...

to seek out new life
and new civilizations...

to boldly go where no man
has gone before.

Captain's Log,
Stardate 3087.6.

While investigating
an uncharted planet,

the Enterprise and
at least this entire quadrant of space

has been subjected to violent,
unexplained stress and force.

Sensors have reported the presence
ofa human being on the planet below

who might be connected
with the phenomenon.

With my first officer
and a security team,

I have set out
in search of him.

You came!

Thank the heavens.

There's still time.

It's not too late.

We can still stop him.

But I--but I...

need...need your help.

Aah!

Nothing yet, sir.

Report on the dilithium
crystals, Captain.

Whatever that phenomenon was,

it drained almost all
ofour crystals completely.

It could mean trouble.

You have a talent
for understatement, Lieutenant.

Without full crystal power, our orbit
will begin to decay in 10 hours.

Reamplify immediately.

Any further magnetic disturbance?

Negative, Captain.

Scanners indicate situation normal.

Nothing?

Nothing.

Illogical.
An effect of such proportions

unexplainable by any established
physical laws that I'm aware of.

I have been able
to ascertain one fact--

Though the effect,
whatever it was,

was unquestioningly widespread,

it was strongest here
on the planet beneath us.

Keep checking.

Red 2 message in one minute, Captain.

Starfleet Command.

Code factor 1, sir.

Repeat.

Code factor 1.

Invasion status.

All hands, this is the captain.

Battle stations.

I repeat, battle stations.

This is no drill.

[Siren Wails]

[Intercom Whistles]
McCoy, Captain.

Kirk here.

About our patient...

Yes, Doctor, quickly.

He'll best if fandsore,
but he'll be allright.

I'll talk to him later.
Kirk out.

Message ready, Captain.

Main screen, coming up.

Kirk here. Enterprise
standing by, Commodore.

You're aware of the effect
an hour ago.

Yes, sir.

You may not be
aware of its scope.

It occurredin every quadrant
of the galaxy and far beyond.

Complete disruption of normal magnetic
and gravimetric fields,

time warp distortion,

possible radiation variations...

and all of them centering
in the general area

which you are now patrolling.

The question is,
are these natural phenomena...

or are they
mechanically created?

And if they are, by whom?
For what purpose?

Your guess, Captain.

Thank you, sir.

I have considered
all the alternatives.

My best guess is it could be
a prelude to invasion.

Exactly our consensus.

I'm giving you the job
of finding out specifically.

Aye, aye, sir.

Can you assign me
other starships as a reserve?

Negative. I'm evacuating
all Starfleet units and personnel

within 100 parsecs
of your position.

It's going to be tough
on you and the Enterprise,

but that's the job
you've drawn.

You're on your own.

I see...

You mean... we're the bait.

Goodluck.

Thank you, sir.

Maintain alert status
at all battle stations.

Aye, aye, sir.

From the top, Mr. Spock.

First, the phenomenon
came from the planet below.

Secondly, the danger
is apparently real and imminent.

Third, a closer examination of
the planet's surface would be in order.

My job, sir?

Yes.

Meanwhile, I'll talk
to our unexpected guest.

Maybe he can provide
some answers.

That's how I came to be
down there, Captain,

pursuing the devil's own spawn--

a thing I've chased
across the universe.

He's humanoid, outside,

but inside, he's a hideous,
murdering monster.

I'll get him, Captain.

I swear it.

You say this one man--

Not man!

Thing.

Thing...destroyed
your entire civilization.

To the last man,
woman, and child.

How did you escape?

I was inspecting
magnetic communications satellites.

You believe me, don't you?

Before we picked you up,

our ship sustained a number
of incredible effects.

That was he!

He's death...antilife.

He lives to destroy.

Is he the thing
that attacked you?

Yes. I give you my word.

I swear it.

We don't have any other facts,
any information.

Then you'll join me
in my holy cause.

Help me in visiting justice
and vengeance upon him.

My only cause is
the safety of my ship

and the mission we're on.

You'll beam down with me.

I'll check your story out.

Spock... find anything?

Negative, Captain.

Anything from our guest?

According to him,
there's a creature here, a humanoid.

Lieutenant Uhura
communicated that information.

I ordered reconfirmation
on our sensors.

They indicate no living
creature on this planet.

I suggest, Captain,
that you've been lied to.

Captain, you yourself said
there were no other explanations.

Why do you give credence
to this man?

I fail to comprehend
your indignation, sir.

I've simply made the logical deduction
that you are a liar.

Let's have the truth
this time.

No!

You've come back, then?

Well, don't stop.
Here I am.

Come at me again.

We'll finish it!

Can you identify that?

I'm trying, Captain.

Lazarus!

You stay here.

All personnel, security red.

Run!Run!

It'll do you no good.

I'll chase you to
the veryfires of hell!

Lazarus, what happened?

I saw it again, the thing.

It attacked me.

Let's get out of here.

Captain, readings
of the effect indicate

it centered here
on this planet,

almost on this very spot.

I told you it was a thing--

all white, black...

and empty, a terrible emptiness.

Let's get back to the ship.

He'll kill us all

if we don't kill him first!

Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill! Kill!

Captain's Log,
Stardate 3088.3.

We continue to orbit
the dead planet,

which seems to be
the source of the phenomenon

which has struck the Enterprise

and all sections
of the galaxy once again.

As for Lazarus,

the story he tells me
about the humanoid

continues to trouble me.

Any luck?

Negative, Captain.

I can no more explain
the second phenomenon

than I can the first.

If there's a shred of truth
to what Lazarus said...

That a single creature,

a humanoid could be responsible

for an effect of such magnitude?

Hard to believe.

Indeed.

The rest of his story fits.

His wounds testify
to an apparent confrontation.

Affirmative.

Assuming there is a humanoid,

a...something,

how does he do it?

He has no weapons, no power--

Captain, I know that
the occurrence of the phenomenon

coincides exactly with the moments

that Lazarus has
his alleged confrontations.

[Intercom Whistles]

Dr. McCoy asking
to see you in Sick Bay, Captain.

I don't know,Jim.

Maybe I'm imagining things,

and maybe I'm not.
You tell me.

You tell me. That's why you
brought me down here.

We both brought Lazarus here.

I treated a deep abrasion
on his forehead,

then I bandaged it,

stepped into this room
for just a moment--

Bones, get to the point.

Say he's got the constitution
of a dinosaur,

recuperative powers, ditto.

As we both know,

I'm a bright young medic
with a miraculous touch.

Why, then, when I returned,

there wasn't a trace ofthat wound
on his forehead...

not even a bruise.

It was like he had
never been injured.

Where is he?

I don't know,Jim.

This is a big ship.

I'm just a country doctor.

Hi.

Hi. Coffee?

Is that an order, Lieutenant?

I know what you mean.

We finished on
the dilithium crystals?

Yeah. Ready and waiting.

Lazarus, are you all right?

Uh, yes, sir...

but impatient.

Have you decided
to help me yet?

Is something wrong?

No. I have a ship's physician

with a strange sense of humor.

This is no joke.
I know what I saw.

[Uhura]
Bridge calling the captain.

[Spock]
Request you come to the bridge, Captain.

Find something?

Something quite extraordinary.

On my way.

Lazarus, you're with me.

Bones, if I had time, I'd laugh.

Main screen on, Lieutenant.

Screen on, sir.

Source of radiation, Captain.

How is it the scanners
didn't pick it up before?

Because it is not there.

Another riddle?

First Dr. McCoy, then you?

According to our usual
scanning procedures,

there's nothing there
that could be causing that effect.

But it is there.

Affirmative.

I confess I am somewhat
at a loss for words.

It may be described,

though loosely and inaccurately,

as a...rip in our universe.

What?

A kind of physical warp,
Captain,

where none ofour physical laws

apply with any regularity.

However, with
the dilithium crystals,

I was able to localize it.

Yes!

That's it!

The dilithium crystals.

Their power...

we could do it.

You refer to the humanoid?

Yes. We've got him, Captain.

The crystals only show
the point of radiation.

That's just it.

That's the key.

That's the way to trap him.

That's the solution.

Captain...

I beg of you.

I plead.

I demand.

Give me the crystals.

Out of the question.

Those crystals power my ship.

You fool.

There won't be any ship
if we don't kill him.

He'll destroy you all.

How?

You tell me how!

All I've heard
is double-talk, lies, threats,

accusations that don't hold water.

Tell me how it presents
a danger to my ship.

I warn you, Captain.

You'll give me the crystals.

Don't threaten me, Lazarus.

No threat intended.

Captain...

I'll have my vengeance.

Lieutenant Masters,
Captain's calling.

Masters here.

[Kirk] Lieutenant, can
you prepare an experimentation chamber?

All dilithium crystals
fullpower.

I'll check, sir.

Captain, the chamber
will be ready in 10 minutes.

My assistant and I were--

Captain!

Captain!

Lieutenant, what is it?
What's wrong?

Lieutenant?

Captain, Security reports
Lazarus missing.

Captain's Log,
Stardate 3088.7.

We are no closer
to finding an answer

to the strange phenomenon

than we were at the beginning.

Two of my crewmen were attacked,

and two dilithium crystals
are missing,

and without them,

the Enterprise cannot
operate at fullpower.

They must be found.

Fact--you said you
needed the crystals.

After you said you must have them,
they're missing.

Fact--two of my crewmen
were attacked.

And fact, Captain--
I didn't take the crystals.

I'm not the one.

Find my enemy.

Find the beast,

and you'll find the crystals.

How'd this beast get aboard my ship?

He did. Isn't that enough?

No. He didn't transport up.

A report would've been made.

We're dealing with a creature

capable of destroying worlds.

Why does he need the crystals?

For what reason?

For the same reason that I do.

Listen to me.

He's humanoid.

Why, he...

he can pilot a spaceship.

He can compute formulas
to destroy races.

He can steal energy
for his vehicle

so he can escape from me.

Are you deafas well as blind?

Sit down.

The crystals certainly aren't here.

There's an unexplained
radiation source on the planet.

Obviously some connection.

We'll check it out.

Organize a search party immediately.

Mr. Lazarus will
beam down with us.

Thank you, Captain.

You may not have reason
to thank me,

depending on what we find.

What do you believe now,
Captain?

I believe the missing crystals
aren't in your ship.

Mr. Spock?

Unable to locate
the source of radiation.

Why not? You had it
spotted on the Enterprise!

It has simply
disappeared, Captain.

I want this terrain checked.

Look for footprint,
movement--anything.

Call if you spot anything.

Don't be afraid
to use your weapons.

[Thunder]

[Hissing]

[Thunder]

[Hissing]

[Hissing Stops]

Captain, look out!

Aah!

[Thud]

He's coming out of it now.

Uh, the thing...

the thing...

It's all right.

You're on board the Enterprise.

The rock, I--

How's your head?

Aches.

You saved my life.
I want to thank you.

Why shouldn't I?

I have some questions
I want to ask you.

Not now, Jim.

It's necessary.

Go ahead.

It's all right.

This is a computer report

of the evidence you gave

at your first screening.

It calls you a liar, Lazarus.

There's no planet at the location

you said you came from.

There never has been.

If you want help from us,

you better start telling the truth.

You wouldn't believe me
if I told you.

Try us.

All right.

I distorted a fact

in the interest
of self-preservation,

for my holy cause.

I needed help,

not censure,

freedom, not captivity
for being a madman.

I was afraid that's
what you'd call me

if I told you the truth.

I'll have the truth now.

My planet...

my Earth...

or what's left of it,

is down there beneath us.

What are you saying?

My spaceship...

is more than just that.

It's a time chamber...

a time ship...

and I...

I am a time traveler.

And this thing you search for

is a time traveler, too?

Oh, yes.

He's fled me across all the years...

all the empty years to a dead future...

on a murdered planet he destroyed.

Help me!

Give me the tools I need to kill him!
The crystals!

Don't let him get away!

You've been hurt. I know.

I sympathize with you,

but I've got 430 men
to worry about.

Where are those crystals?

I told you.

He's got them. He took them.

The thing...

He's got to rest,Jim.

And get that muscleman

out of my sick bay.

Dismissed.

He's in a lot of pain.

Sometimes pain can drive a man
harder than pleasure.

I'm sure you know that, Doctor.

Well, don't worry.
He's not going anywhere,

not this time.

Oh...

What have we got, Mr. Spock?

A magnetic effect which produces
a winking-out phenomenon,

a mysterious,
unidentified source

of radiation on the planet,

Lazarus, a walking powder keg,

your rip in the universe,

a so-called murdering humanoid--

True, Captain,
but more significant to me

is the fact that
our ship's instruments

are designed to locate and identify

any object in our universe,

be it energy or matter.

But by using those instruments,

you were unable to identify

the source of the radiation.

Correct... which would
seem to be impossible.

Are the instruments in order?

Perfect working condition.

Then what you say
leads obviously...

to one alternative.

The source of radiation
is not from our universe.

Nor in our universe, Captain.

It came from outside.

Outside...

Yes...

That would explain a lot.

Another universe...

perhaps in another dimension...

occupying the same space
at the same time.

Possible existence
of a parallel universe

has been scientifically
conceded, Captain.

All right.

What would happen if...

another universe,

say a minus universe,

came into contact
with a positive universe

such as ours?

Unquestionably a warp,

a distortion of physical laws

on an immense scale.

Which is what
we've been experiencing.

The point where
they come into contact,

couldn't that be described as...

a hole?

Indeed.

I point out that a hole
in the universe

or in a simple container

can either allow
the contents to escape...

Or what is outside to enter.

The invasion that
Commodore Barstow suspected.

There has been no evidence

of a large-scale invasion.

But a small-scale
invasion, Mr. Spock?

What is your analysis

of the mental state
of Lazarus?

Difficult, Captain.

One moment, paranoid,

the next, calm, mild, rational.

Almost as if he were...two men.

Yes, two men.

Different, but identical.

And a hole in the universe.

No, not a hole.

A door.

Through which

these two beings

are somehow enabled to pass.

Take a look at Lazarus.

One minute he's
at the point of death,

the next, he's alive,
well, strong as a bull.

The cut on his forehead.

First he has it,
then it's gone,

then he has it again.

Which is physically
impossible for one man.

Quite right.

Unquestionably,
there are two of him.

But what's going on?

This leaping from
universe to universe...

this wild talk about
a murdering creature

who destroys civilizations--

What's the purpose?

Jim, madness has no purpose...

or reason...

but it may have a goal.

He must be stopped, held...

destroyed if necessary.

I don't follow you.

Two parallel universes--
project this--

one positive,
the other negative...

or, more specifically,

one matter...

the other antimatter.

Do you know what you're saying?

Matter and antimatter
have a tendency

to cancel each other out...

violently.

Precisely.

Under certain conditions,

when two identical particles

of matter and antimatter meet...

Like Lazarus...

Identical...

Like both Lazarus...

only one is matter
and the other antimatter.

If they meet...

Annihilation,Jim.

Total, complete...

absolute annihilation.

Of everything that exists...

everywhere.

[Beep]

The energizer's shorted.

Get out of here.
Sound the alarm.

Come on. You, too, Lieutenant.

I've got to stay--

The whole thing might blow!

[Coughing]

[Siren Wails]

Engineering calling Bridge.

Fire!

Fire in the energizing circuits...

[Siren Wails]

Fire, Captain. Engineering.

Situation critical.

All available personnel,
on the double.

Spock, with me.

Report.

Controlled, but it couldn't
have started by itself.

Lazarus--
a trick to get the crystals.

Sir, you shouldn't be in here.

Oh, I didn't know.

He's probably beaming down.
I'm going after him.

Organize a security detail.

Follow me as soon as you can.

Spock to Bridge.

I'll get you now.

I have a threshold.

Run, run...

I'll get you now.

[Siren Wails]

Energize.

It's done.

Finished, finished.

It's done.

It's done.

It's done, it's done.

Lazarus...

No! Don't!

Not you!

No!

Welcome, Captain.

I wasn't expecting you.

No...

him.

Yes, him.

You understand?

Not completely.

This is a parallel universe?

Of course.

Antimatter?

Here, yes.

And if identical
particles meet...

The end of everything.

Civilization, existence--

All gone.

I tried to stop him, Captain.

That's why I took
your dilithium crystals.

He has two more.

That's very bad, Captain.

If he comes through

at a time of his own choosing...

Well, I think if we hurry

and you will help me,

he can yet still be stopped.

There's little time left.

He meant to come through.

When you accidentally
passed through,

it drained his crystals.

It'll take him
about 10 minutes to re-energize

with the equipment
aboard his ship.

That should give us enough time.

Exactly what did I pass through?

That's hard to explain, Captain.

I call it an alternative warp.

It's sort of a negative
magnetic corridor

where the two
parallel universes meet.

It's sort of a safety valve.

It keeps eternity from blowing up.

This, uh, corridor...

Is it what caused
the magnetic effect,

the winking-out phenomenon?

Precisely, Captain...

but not because of its existence...

because...

because my foe entered.

The corridor is like a prison

with explosives at the door.

Open the door,

and the explosives might go off.

Stay inside...

And the universe is safe.

Both universes, Captain...

yours and mine.

Surely Lazarus must realize
what would happen

if you should meet face-to-face

outside the corridor.

Of course he knows, Captain,

but he's mad.

You heard him.
He's lost his mind.

When our people found a way

to slip through the warp

and prove another universe,

an identical one, existed,

it was too much for him.

He could not live
knowing that I lived.

He became obsessed

with the idea of destroying me.

The fact that it meant
his own destruction

and everything else...

meant nothing to him.

So you're the terrible thing,

the murdering monster...

the creature?

Yes, Captain.

Or he is.

It depends on
your point of view,

doesn't it?

It's ready, Captain.

If we can force him
into the corridor while I'm waiting,

we can put an end to this.

If he comes through

at a time of his own choosing

and breaks into
this universe to find me--

I understand.

What do you want me to do?

Find him.

Force him through his threshold,

while I'm waiting for him,

into the corridor...

and I'll hold him there.

You can't hold him forever.

Can't l, Captain?

You destroy his ship.

If I destroy his ship,

won't yours also be destroyed?

It will.

And your door will be closed.

Yes, and so will his.

You'll be trapped inside
that corridor with him

forever...

at each other's throats
throughout time.

Is it such a large price to pay

for the safety of two universes?

I'm ready.

Send him to me.

I'll be waiting.

Lazarus.

Stand back.

No! No!

No, I'm not ready!

I'm not ready!

Aah!

Take these crystals
to the Enterprise.

We must destroy
that ship completely.

What of Lazarus?

And what of Lazarus?

[Siren Wails]

Activate phaser banks.

Phaser banks activated.

Stand by to fire.

Phasers standing by, sir.

Fire phasers.

All right, Mr. Lesley,
let's get out of here.

Ahead warp factor 1.

Warp 1, sir.

Everything's all right, Mr. Spock...

for us.

There is, of course,

no escape for them, sir.

There is, of course,

no escape.

How would it be...

trapped forever

with a raging madman at your throat

until time it selfcame to a stop?

For eternity.

How would it be?

Captain...

the universe is safe.

For you and me.

But what of Lazarus?

What of Lazarus?