1 00:00:30,291 --> 00:00:33,468 Last season on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds... 2 00:00:33,642 --> 00:00:35,296 Do you really still believe our futures 3 00:00:35,470 --> 00:00:36,558 are written in stone? 4 00:00:36,732 --> 00:00:38,038 All I know is that 5 00:00:38,212 --> 00:00:40,344 I'm not ready to let you go. 6 00:00:40,518 --> 00:00:42,564 Everything that happened to me 7 00:00:42,825 --> 00:00:43,825 was so I could do this. 8 00:00:43,869 --> 00:00:45,001 No, this is... Marie... 9 00:00:45,175 --> 00:00:46,568 It's my destiny. 10 00:00:46,785 --> 00:00:48,874 You, of all people, can understand that. 11 00:00:49,136 --> 00:00:51,505 You have to tell me why things are so weird with you and Spock. 12 00:00:51,529 --> 00:00:53,638 Spock and I made it very clear with each other... no labels, 13 00:00:53,662 --> 00:00:57,579 no complicated expectations, just fun times. 14 00:00:57,753 --> 00:00:59,363 Is this 15 00:00:59,537 --> 00:01:01,235 a "hit it" situation? 16 00:01:01,409 --> 00:01:03,193 It's a new future. 17 00:01:03,367 --> 00:01:05,674 It's whatever kind of adventure we want it to be. 18 00:01:14,117 --> 00:01:17,773 - Captain's personal log. - Stardate 2491.5. 19 00:01:18,033 --> 00:01:20,515 We're at the end of a routine mission on Tulaxar... 20 00:01:20,776 --> 00:01:23,996 our 15th in a row... and if I'm being honest, 21 00:01:24,170 --> 00:01:26,564 this may well be my favorite part. 22 00:02:20,357 --> 00:02:22,272 Were you followed? 23 00:02:22,446 --> 00:02:24,274 - No, sir. - And the meds? 24 00:02:24,448 --> 00:02:26,668 Handed off more than enough to save the planet. 25 00:02:26,841 --> 00:02:28,017 Any issues being discovered? 26 00:02:28,278 --> 00:02:29,453 Nothing I couldn't handle. 27 00:02:29,627 --> 00:02:31,238 Four of the ones she drank with 28 00:02:31,499 --> 00:02:33,240 might need a day or two to sleep it off. 29 00:02:33,414 --> 00:02:35,155 Lightweights. 30 00:02:36,852 --> 00:02:37,591 Captain, we are in position. 31 00:02:37,766 --> 00:02:39,071 Ready to beam you up 32 00:02:39,376 --> 00:02:40,614 - on your order. - Copy that, Number One. 33 00:02:40,638 --> 00:02:42,466 You know what? 34 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:44,425 We... 35 00:02:46,253 --> 00:02:48,341 we might ride a little more. 36 00:02:48,603 --> 00:02:50,779 If you say so, Captain. 37 00:02:50,953 --> 00:02:54,174 You know, just to be safe. 38 00:02:54,435 --> 00:02:56,785 Hyah. 39 00:03:13,410 --> 00:03:14,629 Welcome back, Captain. 40 00:03:14,890 --> 00:03:16,084 I can take your saddle, if needed. 41 00:03:16,108 --> 00:03:17,108 Well, I, 42 00:03:17,153 --> 00:03:18,763 prefer to carry my own gear. 43 00:03:18,937 --> 00:03:20,591 But thanks, Spock. 44 00:03:20,765 --> 00:03:22,202 But you knew that already. 45 00:03:22,376 --> 00:03:23,725 I felt it important to be here 46 00:03:23,899 --> 00:03:25,339 as soon as you returned to the ship. 47 00:03:25,466 --> 00:03:27,946 You wanted to see me in my outfit, didn't you? 48 00:03:28,860 --> 00:03:30,253 Perhaps. 49 00:03:35,867 --> 00:03:38,348 Follow me to my quarters, Mr. Spock. 50 00:03:38,522 --> 00:03:41,003 These boots are hard to take off alone. 51 00:03:42,874 --> 00:03:44,789 Six months, Chris, nonstop. 52 00:03:44,963 --> 00:03:47,009 That's a lot of missions in a row. 53 00:03:47,183 --> 00:03:48,576 I'm just worried the crew 54 00:03:48,793 --> 00:03:50,510 is starting to feel the strain, that's all. 55 00:03:50,534 --> 00:03:53,972 Look, they came to Enterprise to see things, to... 56 00:03:54,146 --> 00:03:56,410 do things. 57 00:03:56,671 --> 00:03:59,413 And the more you see and do in the moment, 58 00:03:59,587 --> 00:04:03,199 the less you have to think about the past, right? 59 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:07,595 We all need weekends once in a while. 60 00:04:07,856 --> 00:04:09,423 Even you. 61 00:04:10,206 --> 00:04:11,816 Understood, Number One. 62 00:04:11,990 --> 00:04:15,690 Not to mention, as much as I enjoy having the conn, 63 00:04:15,864 --> 00:04:18,649 I wouldn't mind a little time on-planet once in a while. 64 00:04:18,910 --> 00:04:20,476 Next mission, I promise. 65 00:04:20,651 --> 00:04:22,871 That might be sooner than you think. 66 00:04:23,045 --> 00:04:26,353 Admiral April is on his way to see you. 67 00:04:29,399 --> 00:04:30,574 I told you, Bob, 68 00:04:30,748 --> 00:04:32,924 I'm not looking for a promotion. 69 00:04:33,098 --> 00:04:34,404 Well, regardless of intent, 70 00:04:34,578 --> 00:04:36,537 you're being considered for one. 71 00:04:36,711 --> 00:04:38,539 To commodore. 72 00:04:38,713 --> 00:04:40,409 And that, as we both know, 73 00:04:40,584 --> 00:04:42,499 is a stepping stone. 74 00:04:44,327 --> 00:04:48,113 Look, I felt the same way when I was captain. 75 00:04:48,288 --> 00:04:49,568 You just need to think about it. 76 00:04:49,724 --> 00:04:52,335 Really think. 77 00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:55,382 You just might surprise yourself. 78 00:04:57,558 --> 00:04:59,473 How long do I have to consider? 79 00:04:59,647 --> 00:05:02,084 We'll need an answer when you get back from the next mission. 80 00:05:02,258 --> 00:05:04,216 Where are you sending us? 81 00:05:07,176 --> 00:05:09,178 This is a fun one. 82 00:05:11,702 --> 00:05:12,921 Really? 83 00:05:15,967 --> 00:05:17,487 You haven't heard the constant noises? 84 00:05:17,621 --> 00:05:19,841 Scotty acts like every time I steer the ship, 85 00:05:20,015 --> 00:05:23,279 it makes his job harder, so he added endless beeping 86 00:05:23,453 --> 00:05:26,282 to literally make my job harder. 87 00:05:28,371 --> 00:05:29,938 Are you listening? 88 00:05:31,069 --> 00:05:35,073 Sorry. I just have to get prepared for my mentee training. 89 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:38,990 Right, your new Academy cadet. 90 00:05:39,164 --> 00:05:40,340 When I got to Enterprise, 91 00:05:40,557 --> 00:05:42,690 I didn't know anything about anything, 92 00:05:42,864 --> 00:05:44,300 and all of you helped me. 93 00:05:44,561 --> 00:05:46,365 I just want to pass that on to the next person. 94 00:05:46,389 --> 00:05:50,350 I've been practicing my Vulcan with Spock to improve it. 95 00:05:56,704 --> 00:05:58,532 Taz Nyota Uhura dwi-mâsh. 96 00:05:58,706 --> 00:06:00,751 Tan-fi bo-shish ner gab-no-vet âs 97 00:06:00,925 --> 00:06:02,076 dwoz nufezh po nen lhi-de-mosh. 98 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:04,320 Please do not speak Vulcan. 99 00:06:04,494 --> 00:06:06,583 Your accent is improper. 100 00:06:06,757 --> 00:06:10,718 I thought I got that right. 101 00:06:11,632 --> 00:06:13,721 I am fully versed in all human dialects. 102 00:06:13,895 --> 00:06:16,550 That is all that is required for us to communicate. 103 00:06:18,290 --> 00:06:20,467 Right. Let me start again. 104 00:06:20,728 --> 00:06:24,122 I am Ensign Uhura, but you can call me Nyota, if you like. 105 00:06:24,296 --> 00:06:25,936 I was at the Academy just a few years ago, 106 00:06:26,037 --> 00:06:27,778 so I know exactly how you must feel. 107 00:06:28,039 --> 00:06:31,695 You are several years older than I am, 108 00:06:31,869 --> 00:06:33,436 and since you are human, it is unlikely 109 00:06:33,610 --> 00:06:35,003 you know how I feel. 110 00:06:35,351 --> 00:06:36,546 Were you present for the K'thoniadisaster? 111 00:06:36,570 --> 00:06:38,006 Or the FFakishaconflict? 112 00:06:38,963 --> 00:06:40,574 That all happened after I left. 113 00:06:40,835 --> 00:06:42,445 Your Vulcan is poorly pronounced, 114 00:06:42,706 --> 00:06:45,143 your time at the Academy was completely different than mine. 115 00:06:45,317 --> 00:06:48,190 It appears we do not have many shared experiences at all. 116 00:06:59,941 --> 00:07:02,073 This is an unusual mission. 117 00:07:02,247 --> 00:07:04,685 We are to face a category ten interstellar squall, 118 00:07:04,859 --> 00:07:06,659 something we rarely see in the Alpha Quadrant. 119 00:07:06,730 --> 00:07:08,297 I-I've seen one once, 120 00:07:08,471 --> 00:07:10,908 a long time ago, but not from this close. 121 00:07:11,082 --> 00:07:14,869 I think I was in a phone box at the time. 122 00:07:15,043 --> 00:07:17,785 Such distortions are often briefly occurring. 123 00:07:18,046 --> 00:07:20,570 This one has appeared around the star Ithaxus. 124 00:07:20,744 --> 00:07:22,137 No explanation. 125 00:07:22,485 --> 00:07:23,897 Doesn't look like it's safe for us to get near it. 126 00:07:23,921 --> 00:07:25,314 Any inhabited planets 127 00:07:25,488 --> 00:07:26,848 nearby we should be worried about? 128 00:07:26,924 --> 00:07:27,924 None. 129 00:07:28,056 --> 00:07:29,187 Thank goodness. 130 00:07:29,536 --> 00:07:31,165 And that's the key element of this mission. 131 00:07:31,189 --> 00:07:32,713 No one we have to protect. 132 00:07:32,930 --> 00:07:35,890 We are here to observe an unusual stellar display. 133 00:07:36,064 --> 00:07:37,108 That is all. 134 00:07:37,282 --> 00:07:38,327 It sounds like 135 00:07:38,501 --> 00:07:40,024 we're going to the theater. 136 00:07:40,284 --> 00:07:41,808 Minus the Playbill. 137 00:07:41,983 --> 00:07:43,375 A theater that would likely tear 138 00:07:43,550 --> 00:07:44,831 our ship into small particles of subspace 139 00:07:44,855 --> 00:07:46,248 should we get too close. 140 00:07:46,553 --> 00:07:48,052 Come on, Mr. Spock. Where's your sense of adventure? 141 00:07:48,076 --> 00:07:49,773 Perhaps I did not clearly state the part 142 00:07:49,947 --> 00:07:52,341 about being torn into small particles of subspace. 143 00:07:53,168 --> 00:07:58,129 Interstellar storms are like space-time gone wild, 144 00:07:58,303 --> 00:08:01,176 the very stuff of the universe. 145 00:08:01,437 --> 00:08:02,786 Don't you think a glimpse 146 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,006 is worth a little risk? 147 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:08,096 See? Now, that's the spirit. 148 00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:26,897 Keep us at arm's length, Erica. 149 00:08:27,071 --> 00:08:28,899 Aye, sir. 150 00:08:29,073 --> 00:08:30,553 Very long arms. 151 00:08:30,814 --> 00:08:32,599 I wish we could get closer, though. 152 00:08:32,773 --> 00:08:35,340 It's absolutely stunning. 153 00:08:35,515 --> 00:08:36,690 I understand the feeling. 154 00:08:36,864 --> 00:08:40,084 To actually see something like this. 155 00:08:41,259 --> 00:08:43,827 Digital data is more relevant. 156 00:08:44,915 --> 00:08:46,438 Sensors are active. 157 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,068 - Data is cogent. - If you had to give up 158 00:08:48,092 --> 00:08:49,652 seeing this kind of thing all the time, 159 00:08:49,703 --> 00:08:51,226 would you miss it? 160 00:08:51,487 --> 00:08:54,011 Every day. 161 00:08:55,143 --> 00:08:56,579 Yeah. 162 00:09:08,025 --> 00:09:10,158 Sir, I'm getting a comm signal. 163 00:09:10,332 --> 00:09:12,639 - Location, Nyota? - The signal's erratic, 164 00:09:12,813 --> 00:09:16,556 but it seems to be coming from inside the storm. 165 00:09:16,730 --> 00:09:18,035 It's a mayday, sir. 166 00:09:18,209 --> 00:09:20,777 A ship is stuck inside the storm? 167 00:09:20,951 --> 00:09:22,518 That's what the signal's saying. 168 00:09:22,692 --> 00:09:24,041 Take us closer, Erica. 169 00:09:24,215 --> 00:09:25,565 But keep your foot on the brakes. 170 00:09:25,739 --> 00:09:26,914 Understood, Captain. 171 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:34,138 Not now, Scotty. 172 00:09:56,770 --> 00:09:58,728 Deeper scans suggest signal origin 173 00:09:58,902 --> 00:10:00,382 is a buoy inside of the storm. 174 00:10:00,730 --> 00:10:02,384 - A buoy? - It's a starship distress buoy, 175 00:10:02,558 --> 00:10:04,125 but I can't get a lock on the signal. 176 00:10:04,299 --> 00:10:06,127 Any sign of the source of the buoy? Any ships? 177 00:10:06,301 --> 00:10:08,303 Scanning, Captain. 178 00:10:13,961 --> 00:10:15,761 The storm is undergoing exponential expansion. 179 00:10:15,789 --> 00:10:17,094 You think? 180 00:10:17,442 --> 00:10:19,282 - Reverse course, Erica, fast. - Already on it. 181 00:10:52,913 --> 00:10:54,392 We have life support. 182 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:57,004 Unfortunately, that is the extent of the good news. 183 00:10:57,178 --> 00:10:59,789 No weapons functionality. Zero. 184 00:10:59,963 --> 00:11:01,182 Long-range comms are down. 185 00:11:01,443 --> 00:11:02,574 Transporters are offline. 186 00:11:02,749 --> 00:11:04,881 Not sure when they'll be fixed, or if. 187 00:11:05,055 --> 00:11:07,188 We have only the barest amount 188 00:11:07,449 --> 00:11:09,581 of impulse power. For now. 189 00:11:09,843 --> 00:11:11,932 - Warp? - Out of the question. 190 00:11:12,106 --> 00:11:13,498 Look, our problem is, 191 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:15,152 we lost all our iridium. 192 00:11:15,326 --> 00:11:17,241 Without it, we can't ignite the warp engines. 193 00:11:17,415 --> 00:11:19,113 We're basically stuck here. 194 00:11:19,287 --> 00:11:20,723 And do we know where "here" is? 195 00:11:20,984 --> 00:11:22,396 All we've been able to determine is, 196 00:11:22,420 --> 00:11:23,700 the stellar storm somehow pulled 197 00:11:23,857 --> 00:11:25,293 the ship into a warp field. 198 00:11:25,554 --> 00:11:27,474 The stars aren't lining up to give us a location, 199 00:11:27,556 --> 00:11:29,447 but we think it's just the main computer coming back on line. 200 00:11:29,471 --> 00:11:30,994 Okay. 201 00:11:32,213 --> 00:11:34,493 Deploy a locator and send out a mayday. Let's use a flare. 202 00:11:34,650 --> 00:11:36,347 - On it. - Short-range scans 203 00:11:36,521 --> 00:11:38,393 suggest we can only extrapolate our position. 204 00:11:38,567 --> 00:11:40,177 Of the four planets scanned so far, 205 00:11:40,351 --> 00:11:41,351 three are M-class. 206 00:11:41,483 --> 00:11:42,789 Inhabited? Anyone who 207 00:11:42,963 --> 00:11:44,723 - might give us a hand? - Impossible to tell, 208 00:11:44,790 --> 00:11:46,444 given our current sensor capabilities. 209 00:11:46,706 --> 00:11:49,273 But we have detected iridium on the nearest M-class planet... 210 00:11:49,447 --> 00:11:51,512 a few hours' journey with our current impulse engines. 211 00:11:51,536 --> 00:11:53,340 And one of our shuttles is still functional enough 212 00:11:53,364 --> 00:11:55,366 to get us to the surface, I think. 213 00:11:57,325 --> 00:11:58,587 Well, Number One, 214 00:11:58,761 --> 00:12:01,677 you wanted a mission on a strange new world. 215 00:12:01,851 --> 00:12:03,592 Looks like you got one. 216 00:12:04,811 --> 00:12:06,421 Curie, this is Enterprise. 217 00:12:06,595 --> 00:12:08,595 You are now entering the planet's upper atmosphere. 218 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,730 Heading towards the last known iridium location. 219 00:12:10,904 --> 00:12:13,036 The land mass is quite choppy down there. 220 00:12:13,210 --> 00:12:14,850 We're five-by-five. We might have to land 221 00:12:14,908 --> 00:12:16,126 pretty far from the signal. 222 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:18,259 There aren't any closer options. 223 00:13:22,453 --> 00:13:24,368 The iridium's over there. 224 00:13:33,203 --> 00:13:36,424 Near what is definitely a volcano. 225 00:13:51,439 --> 00:13:54,268 I'm detecting life signs. 226 00:13:55,922 --> 00:13:57,401 What kind of life signs? 227 00:13:57,575 --> 00:13:59,186 Large. 228 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:01,928 Taller than us? 229 00:14:02,102 --> 00:14:03,277 Much taller. 230 00:14:07,585 --> 00:14:11,938 Is there a way around that? 231 00:14:13,156 --> 00:14:14,331 No. 232 00:14:14,505 --> 00:14:16,507 We want the iridium, 233 00:14:16,681 --> 00:14:20,207 we have to get past that. 234 00:14:27,823 --> 00:14:29,216 Great news. 235 00:14:33,785 --> 00:14:35,178 I've got a fix on the creature. 236 00:14:35,352 --> 00:14:36,919 That's not the problem. It's... 237 00:14:37,093 --> 00:14:39,182 trying to do something about it. 238 00:14:39,356 --> 00:14:41,228 - Can't you just stun it? - Well, if I had 239 00:14:41,402 --> 00:14:43,883 phasers, sure... 240 00:14:44,057 --> 00:14:45,493 I might be able to send a bolt 241 00:14:45,754 --> 00:14:47,427 of electricity, but I don't want to kill the laddie. 242 00:14:47,451 --> 00:14:50,237 We should probably determine what it can withstand first. 243 00:14:51,455 --> 00:14:53,153 What are you doing? 244 00:15:03,076 --> 00:15:04,381 Why did you just shoot it? 245 00:15:04,555 --> 00:15:06,296 Wha... I was on stun. 246 00:15:06,557 --> 00:15:08,037 And you saw. Nothing happened. 247 00:15:08,255 --> 00:15:09,335 The laddie may be a wee bit 248 00:15:09,386 --> 00:15:10,692 stronger than we anticipated. 249 00:15:10,997 --> 00:15:12,717 "Laddie"? You think that's what I talk like? 250 00:15:12,781 --> 00:15:14,501 - That's totally what you talk like. - Fine. 251 00:15:18,265 --> 00:15:19,919 Something's just grabbed the ship. 252 00:15:40,591 --> 00:15:42,506 Space. 253 00:15:43,638 --> 00:15:45,640 The final frontier. 254 00:15:47,555 --> 00:15:51,298 These are the voyages of the stars hip Enterprise. 255 00:15:52,473 --> 00:15:55,171 Its five-year mission: 256 00:15:55,345 --> 00:15:58,348 to explore strange new worlds... 257 00:15:59,567 --> 00:16:02,874 to seek out new life 258 00:16:03,049 --> 00:16:05,616 and new civilizations... 259 00:16:06,617 --> 00:16:10,621 to boldly go where no one has gone before. 260 00:17:38,187 --> 00:17:39,754 Where did they come from? 261 00:17:40,146 --> 00:17:41,862 - Unclear, Captain. - Our sensors are functioning 262 00:17:41,886 --> 00:17:43,236 below normal parameters. 263 00:17:43,627 --> 00:17:44,454 They seem to have attached some kind 264 00:17:44,628 --> 00:17:46,369 of energy tendrils. 265 00:17:46,630 --> 00:17:48,086 They are similar to our tractor beams, but the style 266 00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:49,310 is one I am not familiar with. 267 00:17:49,416 --> 00:17:50,696 Do we have any weapons? Shields? 268 00:17:50,765 --> 00:17:51,983 No, the shields are still 269 00:17:52,375 --> 00:17:54,160 not functioning, Captain, and Scotty cannot 270 00:17:54,334 --> 00:17:56,553 repair the weapons without iridium. 271 00:17:56,727 --> 00:17:57,946 We-we are crippled. 272 00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,184 They're literally towing us away. 273 00:17:59,208 --> 00:18:00,368 Do we have impulse? Anything? 274 00:18:00,557 --> 00:18:02,037 No, using impulse engines 275 00:18:02,298 --> 00:18:04,258 would be like trying to free ourselves from a boat 276 00:18:04,431 --> 00:18:06,346 using a pair of flippers. 277 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:07,738 Small flippers. 278 00:18:08,043 --> 00:18:09,643 Flippers that could be lost at any time. 279 00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:11,307 Comms are still functioning, sir. 280 00:18:11,568 --> 00:18:12,830 As is our universal translator. 281 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:14,397 Does anyone recognize that ship? 282 00:18:14,571 --> 00:18:15,703 I do not, 283 00:18:15,964 --> 00:18:16,791 and it does not exist in our database. 284 00:18:16,965 --> 00:18:18,662 Hail them, Nyota. 285 00:18:19,010 --> 00:18:20,640 Let's try the friendly approach first. We don't have much else 286 00:18:20,664 --> 00:18:22,101 - to work with. - Hailing them, sir. 287 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:23,667 This is Captain Christopher Pike 288 00:18:23,928 --> 00:18:25,147 of the starship Enterprise. 289 00:18:25,321 --> 00:18:26,844 You seem to have... 290 00:18:28,019 --> 00:18:32,154 you seem to have accidentally taken hold of our ship. 291 00:18:33,286 --> 00:18:34,286 Anything? 292 00:18:34,374 --> 00:18:37,028 They're responding, sir. 293 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,250 I am Battle Commander Cassell. 294 00:18:41,424 --> 00:18:43,383 We didn't attach our tethers by accident. 295 00:18:43,557 --> 00:18:45,646 We seized your damaged ship as salvage. 296 00:18:45,820 --> 00:18:50,129 Your ship and its resources are now our property. 297 00:18:51,173 --> 00:18:52,653 Still nothing from the ship. 298 00:18:52,827 --> 00:18:54,655 Scotty said he'd come right back. 299 00:18:54,829 --> 00:18:56,918 He didn't. Typical. 300 00:18:57,092 --> 00:18:58,267 I don't like it. 301 00:18:58,528 --> 00:19:00,400 We may be on our own, at least for now. 302 00:19:01,052 --> 00:19:03,098 We need to get a better idea of what we're facing. 303 00:19:03,272 --> 00:19:04,621 What about the new... 304 00:19:04,795 --> 00:19:06,014 vaporization thingy? 305 00:19:06,188 --> 00:19:07,929 You know what it's called. 306 00:19:08,103 --> 00:19:09,757 Scotty's not even here to get annoyed. 307 00:19:09,931 --> 00:19:10,971 Just makes me feel better. 308 00:19:11,062 --> 00:19:12,412 The phasers have been modified 309 00:19:12,586 --> 00:19:15,154 with a contained disintegration function. 310 00:19:15,328 --> 00:19:18,244 We need to get a clear shot at that copse of trees. 311 00:19:18,418 --> 00:19:21,464 Maybe we can see the "laddie" that's hiding behind it. 312 00:19:21,638 --> 00:19:22,726 Commander Cassell, 313 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:25,251 we are members of Starfleet. 314 00:19:26,687 --> 00:19:29,429 Any actions against us will be seen 315 00:19:29,603 --> 00:19:31,779 as actions against the United Federation of Planets. 316 00:19:31,953 --> 00:19:33,737 We aren't familiar with your Starfleet 317 00:19:33,998 --> 00:19:37,132 or Federation, but if you're in league with the Dol'drm, 318 00:19:37,306 --> 00:19:39,178 we will destroy you. 319 00:19:44,008 --> 00:19:45,096 What? 320 00:19:45,401 --> 00:19:46,721 Be careful what you say, Captain. 321 00:19:46,881 --> 00:19:48,491 If they are not familiar with Starfleet, 322 00:19:48,665 --> 00:19:50,319 it is possible that they are pre-warp. 323 00:19:50,493 --> 00:19:52,428 They may be seizing our ship to learn about our technology, 324 00:19:52,452 --> 00:19:54,584 which is strictly against our prime directive. 325 00:19:54,758 --> 00:19:56,195 They have the ship, Spock. 326 00:19:56,369 --> 00:19:57,889 Right now talking is our only way out. 327 00:19:57,935 --> 00:19:59,415 Allow me to scan it further. 328 00:19:59,676 --> 00:20:01,635 Perhaps you could stall. 329 00:20:03,289 --> 00:20:06,640 We are not familiar with the Dol'drm. 330 00:20:06,814 --> 00:20:08,337 We're new to this region of space, 331 00:20:08,511 --> 00:20:10,296 and if you don't know the Federation, 332 00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:11,862 we also don't know you. 333 00:20:12,036 --> 00:20:13,342 We are at war, Captain, 334 00:20:13,690 --> 00:20:16,040 with a terrible and destructive enemy, 335 00:20:16,215 --> 00:20:18,129 and as part of our wartime covenants, 336 00:20:18,304 --> 00:20:21,220 we have seized your ship as scrap for our war effort. 337 00:20:21,394 --> 00:20:23,613 If you are not aligned with the Dol'drm, 338 00:20:23,787 --> 00:20:25,833 you will be released when we return home. 339 00:20:26,007 --> 00:20:27,967 You can't just take our ship without consequences. 340 00:20:28,183 --> 00:20:31,273 And yet you have shown us none. This discussion is over. 341 00:20:31,447 --> 00:20:33,275 Commander, we do have weapons, 342 00:20:33,536 --> 00:20:35,843 and Starfleet has more... a lot more. 343 00:20:36,017 --> 00:20:37,690 Do you really want us to turn all of them on you 344 00:20:37,714 --> 00:20:39,325 just to prove our point? 345 00:20:43,459 --> 00:20:44,982 Why don't you come aboard? 346 00:20:47,681 --> 00:20:49,813 I can show you myself, and we can discuss ways 347 00:20:49,987 --> 00:20:52,120 that the Federation can help you. 348 00:20:54,905 --> 00:20:56,690 I don't think this will be useful. 349 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,476 But if you have weapons to show us, personally, 350 00:21:00,650 --> 00:21:01,999 I'll come on board to see them. 351 00:21:02,217 --> 00:21:03,914 That-That's not exactly what I said. I... 352 00:21:04,088 --> 00:21:05,307 End communication. 353 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:08,876 Okay, not ideal. 354 00:21:15,578 --> 00:21:17,319 You sure this is going to work? 355 00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:20,235 Not in the slightest. 356 00:21:22,150 --> 00:21:24,021 Well, at least we're talking. 357 00:21:24,195 --> 00:21:26,328 I am afraid our circumstance is... 358 00:21:27,634 --> 00:21:29,794 slightly more complicated than we realized, Captain. 359 00:21:29,897 --> 00:21:31,855 I have determined our current location. 360 00:21:32,987 --> 00:21:36,033 Scans have revealed that we are in the Sol system. 361 00:21:36,207 --> 00:21:37,513 Sol? 362 00:21:37,687 --> 00:21:39,559 Spock, this doesn't make any sense. 363 00:21:39,733 --> 00:21:41,430 Three M-class worlds? 364 00:21:41,648 --> 00:21:44,085 The stellar storm created an incredible amount of energy, 365 00:21:44,259 --> 00:21:46,217 far beyond what our ship is capable of. 366 00:21:46,392 --> 00:21:50,352 However, where it sent us is less relevant than when. 367 00:21:52,136 --> 00:21:55,879 Currently, we are 65 million years in the past. 368 00:21:59,796 --> 00:22:03,539 The planet Commander Cassell is dragging us toward is Mars. 369 00:22:03,713 --> 00:22:05,411 Mars? 370 00:22:06,499 --> 00:22:10,111 Then that would mean the planet that Una flew the shuttle to... 371 00:22:13,375 --> 00:22:15,421 Is Earth, Captain. 372 00:22:35,615 --> 00:22:37,312 So, according to Enterprise, we can't harm 373 00:22:37,486 --> 00:22:39,923 any native life because doing so could wreck the future. 374 00:22:40,097 --> 00:22:42,056 Unfortunately, the dinosaurs do not share 375 00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:46,277 our temporal prohibitions when it comes to eating us. 376 00:22:48,149 --> 00:22:49,759 I have an idea. 377 00:22:49,933 --> 00:22:51,650 But I don't think either of you are gonna like it. 378 00:22:51,674 --> 00:22:52,893 We are way 379 00:22:53,067 --> 00:22:55,199 - past that. - Yeah. 380 00:22:55,374 --> 00:22:56,549 What you got, boss? 381 00:22:58,202 --> 00:22:59,421 They have never heard 382 00:22:59,595 --> 00:23:01,205 of Starfleet or the Federation 383 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:02,816 because neither will exist 384 00:23:03,077 --> 00:23:04,470 for millions of years. 385 00:23:04,731 --> 00:23:06,036 It may be challenging 386 00:23:06,254 --> 00:23:08,299 to form a shared frame of reference, Captain. 387 00:23:08,474 --> 00:23:10,606 It shouldn't be that different from any first contact 388 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:12,216 with a pre-warp species. 389 00:23:12,434 --> 00:23:14,784 Except you invited her on board your starship. 390 00:23:15,655 --> 00:23:17,091 Yeah, there is that. 391 00:23:17,352 --> 00:23:19,485 Look, by the time our present comes around, 392 00:23:19,659 --> 00:23:21,443 Mars has been lifeless for eons. 393 00:23:21,617 --> 00:23:23,314 I'm going to wager that nothing we say here 394 00:23:23,576 --> 00:23:25,055 is going to change the future, 395 00:23:25,273 --> 00:23:27,710 so long as she doesn't leave the ship with anything material. 396 00:23:27,884 --> 00:23:30,409 Alternatively, any single one of our actions 397 00:23:30,583 --> 00:23:32,715 could result in our future never occurring. 398 00:23:32,976 --> 00:23:34,891 Okay, so out of an abundance of caution, 399 00:23:35,152 --> 00:23:36,415 we'll keep her from... 400 00:23:36,589 --> 00:23:37,720 Everything? 401 00:23:37,981 --> 00:23:39,418 It feels like you're not helping. 402 00:23:39,592 --> 00:23:41,942 That's odd. 403 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,033 Scanners seem to have detected something on the hull. 404 00:23:46,207 --> 00:23:48,383 Possible hull breach on Deck Seven. 405 00:23:48,557 --> 00:23:49,819 We're on Deck Seven. 406 00:23:49,993 --> 00:23:52,082 No adjustment in air temperature. Strange. 407 00:23:52,256 --> 00:23:53,040 Where? 408 00:23:53,214 --> 00:23:54,737 Corridor. 409 00:24:03,006 --> 00:24:04,878 Commander Cassell. 410 00:24:14,061 --> 00:24:15,671 I'm Captain Pike. 411 00:24:15,845 --> 00:24:17,760 You are... short. 412 00:24:17,934 --> 00:24:20,981 Our-our planet's a little heavier than yours. 413 00:24:21,155 --> 00:24:23,984 Hence this unpleasant artificial gravity on your ship? 414 00:24:24,158 --> 00:24:26,160 - Too unpleasant? We can adjust. - No need. 415 00:24:26,334 --> 00:24:28,336 We're obviously considerably stronger than you are. 416 00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:29,859 How did you get inside our ship? 417 00:24:30,033 --> 00:24:31,600 We phased through your wall. 418 00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:35,474 Do you not have phasing technology? 419 00:24:35,648 --> 00:24:38,825 Well, no, but we have transporters which allow us... 420 00:24:39,086 --> 00:24:41,436 Which we can gladly discuss at a later juncture. 421 00:24:41,610 --> 00:24:44,395 Allow me to introduce our science officer Spock, 422 00:24:44,570 --> 00:24:48,574 Dr. M'Benga, and our engineer Mr. Scott. 423 00:24:50,663 --> 00:24:51,925 Forgive me if I don't. 424 00:24:52,186 --> 00:24:53,555 My guards are under standing orders 425 00:24:53,579 --> 00:24:55,232 to kill anyone who comes too close. 426 00:24:55,494 --> 00:24:56,886 Okay. 427 00:24:58,105 --> 00:25:00,499 I assure you, that won't be necessary, Commander. 428 00:25:00,673 --> 00:25:02,936 - You're here as our guests. - We're here as your captors 429 00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:05,547 to see your weaponry, Captain Pike. 430 00:25:05,721 --> 00:25:07,041 Commander, you are not our enemy. 431 00:25:07,201 --> 00:25:09,464 That assessment is mine to make. 432 00:25:09,725 --> 00:25:12,380 You would do the same in my position, would you not? 433 00:25:15,992 --> 00:25:17,951 Our transporter typically sweeps our visitors 434 00:25:18,125 --> 00:25:19,300 for health and safety. 435 00:25:19,561 --> 00:25:21,607 Would you permit me to examine you? 436 00:25:21,781 --> 00:25:24,740 To ensure you haven't brought any pathogens aboard 437 00:25:24,914 --> 00:25:28,309 and that you can handle any you might find aboard as well. 438 00:25:28,483 --> 00:25:30,920 Well, I am confident our biological prophylaxis 439 00:25:31,094 --> 00:25:33,749 will keep all parties safe. 440 00:25:33,923 --> 00:25:35,751 However, given I also trained in medicine, 441 00:25:35,925 --> 00:25:38,362 I am curious to see what technology you have. 442 00:25:39,494 --> 00:25:42,541 After that, we will see your weapons systems. 443 00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:52,072 Stun? 444 00:25:52,246 --> 00:25:56,511 Your plan is to get close and just use stun? 445 00:25:56,772 --> 00:25:58,426 - That is correct. - I'll remind you, 446 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,428 we tried it. It didn't faze it one bit. 447 00:26:00,602 --> 00:26:02,014 I mean, we could just disintegrate it, 448 00:26:02,038 --> 00:26:03,387 if it wasn't for, you know, 449 00:26:03,605 --> 00:26:05,346 the whole "destroy the entire future" part. 450 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,740 I'm going to get close enough so it opens its mouth, 451 00:26:07,914 --> 00:26:10,743 shoot in its soft palate, and hope it works. 452 00:26:11,004 --> 00:26:13,243 And that it doesn't decide you're maybe a delicious snack 453 00:26:13,267 --> 00:26:14,587 with several more yummies nearby? 454 00:26:14,747 --> 00:26:16,067 We'll kill it if it gets to that. 455 00:26:16,096 --> 00:26:17,401 Don't. 456 00:26:17,663 --> 00:26:19,118 We genuinely don't know the future effects 457 00:26:19,142 --> 00:26:20,448 of anything we might do here. 458 00:26:23,016 --> 00:26:25,932 I'll stun, and then we run. 459 00:26:26,106 --> 00:26:26,933 Crazy. 460 00:26:27,107 --> 00:26:28,456 Dangerous. 461 00:26:28,717 --> 00:26:30,937 Maybe even insane. But I'm kind of impressed. 462 00:26:31,111 --> 00:26:32,416 Is that weird? 463 00:26:46,126 --> 00:26:47,867 Hey! Dinosaur! 464 00:26:48,041 --> 00:26:50,347 You there! 465 00:27:28,255 --> 00:27:30,518 Did it eat her? 466 00:27:30,692 --> 00:27:31,867 It's not chewing. 467 00:27:33,826 --> 00:27:36,306 It's asleep. Stun worked! 468 00:27:39,614 --> 00:27:41,442 And you didn't kill him. 469 00:27:41,703 --> 00:27:43,009 Nice work. 470 00:27:43,183 --> 00:27:47,143 Let's move. Before she wakes up. 471 00:27:47,317 --> 00:27:49,232 - She? - Yeah. 472 00:27:49,406 --> 00:27:51,800 It's not a "laddie," it's a "lassie." 473 00:27:56,370 --> 00:27:58,807 There are many different types of people on this ship. 474 00:27:58,981 --> 00:28:00,061 In this room alone, we have 475 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,724 humans, Vulcans and Tellarites. 476 00:28:02,898 --> 00:28:04,180 As members of Starfleet, we've encountered 477 00:28:04,204 --> 00:28:05,205 countless other species. 478 00:28:05,466 --> 00:28:06,989 We come from different planets, 479 00:28:07,163 --> 00:28:08,730 but we have ways to work together. 480 00:28:08,948 --> 00:28:12,299 And none of these countless species wish to destroy you? 481 00:28:12,473 --> 00:28:15,432 Members of the Federation, no. 482 00:28:15,606 --> 00:28:17,826 But I get the feeling others do? 483 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,610 Well, those that don't like us 484 00:28:19,872 --> 00:28:21,545 aren't against just one of us, they're against all of us. 485 00:28:21,569 --> 00:28:23,397 Our unity is our best deterrent. 486 00:28:23,571 --> 00:28:25,616 Again, because of your weapons? 487 00:28:26,748 --> 00:28:28,924 Federation members do bring weapons to the table, 488 00:28:29,098 --> 00:28:31,971 but that same unity means we often do not have to use them. 489 00:28:32,232 --> 00:28:34,408 I must admit, I have difficulty imagining 490 00:28:34,582 --> 00:28:36,671 such an alliance as this. 491 00:28:36,845 --> 00:28:38,717 Many worlds working together. 492 00:28:38,978 --> 00:28:39,979 Technically, we... 493 00:28:40,153 --> 00:28:41,850 we don't just work together, we... 494 00:28:42,024 --> 00:28:43,523 we pick up a lot of stuff from each other. 495 00:28:43,547 --> 00:28:45,288 None of those others 496 00:28:45,462 --> 00:28:48,378 are concerned that you'll turn their weapons against them? 497 00:28:48,552 --> 00:28:50,772 Sometimes it's just recipes. 498 00:28:50,946 --> 00:28:52,905 Or... 499 00:28:53,079 --> 00:28:54,689 music. Whatever we share, 500 00:28:54,863 --> 00:28:56,822 it tends to add up 501 00:28:57,083 --> 00:28:58,649 to more than the sum of its parts. 502 00:28:58,824 --> 00:29:00,739 I only know my world 503 00:29:00,913 --> 00:29:02,088 and the Dol'drm. 504 00:29:02,262 --> 00:29:03,916 "Alien" to me means evil. 505 00:29:04,090 --> 00:29:05,221 Humans 506 00:29:05,482 --> 00:29:06,882 have a way of saying, when it comes 507 00:29:07,006 --> 00:29:08,877 to facing an enemy, the carrot or the stick. 508 00:29:09,051 --> 00:29:11,053 What is a carrot? 509 00:29:11,227 --> 00:29:13,403 Is it a weapon of some sort? 510 00:29:13,577 --> 00:29:15,797 I imagine it is more persuasive than a stick. 511 00:29:15,971 --> 00:29:17,625 Yeah, it is, 512 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:19,298 but not in the way that you're thinking. 513 00:29:19,322 --> 00:29:20,628 No, you eat a carrot. 514 00:29:20,802 --> 00:29:22,151 It's a reward. 515 00:29:22,325 --> 00:29:24,197 It helps to form an alliance. 516 00:29:24,371 --> 00:29:26,590 No, the stick is the only weapon. 517 00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,942 So you're benevolent until that no longer works, 518 00:29:30,116 --> 00:29:31,944 and only then are you hostile? 519 00:29:32,118 --> 00:29:34,642 It's a strategy of sorts. 520 00:29:34,816 --> 00:29:35,948 I'm happy to say 521 00:29:36,209 --> 00:29:37,993 we have no issues of contamination. 522 00:29:38,167 --> 00:29:39,778 You clearly dedicate many resources 523 00:29:39,952 --> 00:29:41,083 to this medical facility. 524 00:29:41,257 --> 00:29:43,477 Frankly, it's something of a wonder 525 00:29:43,651 --> 00:29:46,001 to see so few occupied beds or injuries. 526 00:29:46,175 --> 00:29:47,742 Captain Pike, 527 00:29:48,090 --> 00:29:51,572 perhaps I have been too quick to judge you and your crew. 528 00:29:51,746 --> 00:29:53,704 It appears you are not the enemies 529 00:29:53,966 --> 00:29:55,663 we perceived you to be. 530 00:29:55,837 --> 00:29:57,186 Glad to hear it. 531 00:29:58,013 --> 00:30:00,233 But appearances can be deceiving. 532 00:30:00,407 --> 00:30:02,191 Do you have this saying, too? 533 00:30:02,365 --> 00:30:04,541 Take me to your weapons systems, 534 00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:08,067 and then I may better understand what this alliance 535 00:30:08,241 --> 00:30:09,938 with its many points of view 536 00:30:10,112 --> 00:30:12,158 and carrots and sticks has to offer. 537 00:30:14,595 --> 00:30:16,553 Of course. 538 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:18,793 Phasers and photon torpedoes are your ship's primary weapons? 539 00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:20,688 But not the part most used. 540 00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:23,909 I assume you are referring to defensive systems? 541 00:30:24,083 --> 00:30:26,346 You mentioned the use of shields. 542 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,000 Our shields are damaged. 543 00:30:28,174 --> 00:30:30,219 Given time, our engineering station 544 00:30:30,393 --> 00:30:33,309 or our science station will find ways of repairing our systems. 545 00:30:33,483 --> 00:30:36,573 What is the main purpose of your science station? 546 00:30:36,747 --> 00:30:38,488 Is it to assess the vulnerability 547 00:30:38,662 --> 00:30:39,925 of potential enemies? 548 00:30:43,145 --> 00:30:44,799 Science allows us a broad understanding 549 00:30:45,060 --> 00:30:47,220 of every culture we encounter so we can share strengths 550 00:30:47,367 --> 00:30:49,388 and compensate for each other's respective weaknesses. 551 00:30:49,412 --> 00:30:51,092 Understanding other cultures has allowed us 552 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,503 to advance faster than if we were alone. 553 00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:56,811 I am sorry for your loss? 554 00:30:57,638 --> 00:30:59,640 You used the word "alone." 555 00:30:59,814 --> 00:31:01,033 Our people 556 00:31:01,424 --> 00:31:04,471 have ten individual words for such a state, 557 00:31:04,645 --> 00:31:06,734 differentiated by emotional inflection. 558 00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:08,518 I'm sorry, I don't follow. 559 00:31:08,692 --> 00:31:11,782 Your translating machine used the word "widower." 560 00:31:13,349 --> 00:31:15,525 And so my condolences. 561 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,273 Our captains are not permitted relationships during war. 562 00:31:24,447 --> 00:31:29,975 They leave us vulnerable, too hesitant to sacrifice. 563 00:31:30,149 --> 00:31:32,368 And we have always been at war. 564 00:31:33,282 --> 00:31:35,632 Well, isn't love part of what we fight for? 565 00:31:38,679 --> 00:31:40,899 If not that, then... 566 00:31:42,117 --> 00:31:44,685 Have you ever seen my homeworld of Mars? 567 00:31:47,427 --> 00:31:49,733 We are not familiar with the current condition of Mars. 568 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:51,561 If the ship's scanners are repaired, 569 00:31:51,735 --> 00:31:53,694 will you pull it up on-screen? 570 00:31:54,782 --> 00:31:56,044 Please. 571 00:32:03,269 --> 00:32:05,184 - It's beautiful. - Yes. 572 00:32:05,358 --> 00:32:08,491 But there is something more important for you to see. 573 00:32:08,665 --> 00:32:11,755 Turn the planet view 173 degrees. 574 00:32:17,848 --> 00:32:19,502 Valles Marineris. 575 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,245 That crater was caused when the Dol'drm crashed a ship 576 00:32:23,419 --> 00:32:27,336 onto the surface and fed on our world. 577 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,122 The only way to stop them was 578 00:32:30,296 --> 00:32:33,255 to tear away the very land around them. 579 00:32:33,429 --> 00:32:35,170 The invaders died. 580 00:32:35,388 --> 00:32:40,610 But that crater and two million lives is the price we paid. 581 00:32:41,263 --> 00:32:43,483 - That's horrible. - That's why your discussions 582 00:32:43,657 --> 00:32:45,180 of cultures, of science, 583 00:32:45,354 --> 00:32:47,748 although kind and hopeful, 584 00:32:47,922 --> 00:32:49,228 are not relevant. 585 00:32:49,445 --> 00:32:52,187 What we need to do is destroy the Dol'drm 586 00:32:52,361 --> 00:32:54,320 before they devour the rest of our planet 587 00:32:54,494 --> 00:32:56,235 and turn it all into a red wasteland. 588 00:32:56,409 --> 00:32:58,430 Well, have you ever tried communicating with the Dol'drm? 589 00:32:58,454 --> 00:33:00,282 We cannot. They are insects. 590 00:33:00,543 --> 00:33:03,503 They do not speak or reason as we do. 591 00:33:03,677 --> 00:33:07,202 They simply feed and move forward. 592 00:33:07,376 --> 00:33:08,856 You may have other options. 593 00:33:09,030 --> 00:33:12,555 Some on our planet argued this. 594 00:33:12,729 --> 00:33:15,341 They believed there were other ways to deal with them. 595 00:33:15,515 --> 00:33:17,908 As they talked, we died. 596 00:33:18,083 --> 00:33:20,650 There's only one thing that's ever worked. 597 00:33:20,824 --> 00:33:22,304 Force. 598 00:33:23,131 --> 00:33:24,959 What if we could offer you something 599 00:33:25,133 --> 00:33:26,482 that would work without weapons? 600 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:30,834 Something only Starfleet's resources can provide? 601 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,578 The Federation have met maybe 602 00:33:35,752 --> 00:33:38,233 65 different insectoid species. 603 00:33:38,407 --> 00:33:41,236 Of those, 17 of them don't use sonic communication, 604 00:33:41,410 --> 00:33:42,629 like us. 605 00:33:42,803 --> 00:33:44,544 This is where xenoanthropology helps. 606 00:33:44,718 --> 00:33:46,304 We've been able to design multiple systems 607 00:33:46,328 --> 00:33:48,026 that work for creatures who communicate 608 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,289 using light, touch or, 609 00:33:50,463 --> 00:33:52,856 in one particularly difficult case, smell. 610 00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:57,122 Which stunk. 611 00:33:57,296 --> 00:34:00,908 But it did allow us, eventually, to speak with them. 612 00:34:01,996 --> 00:34:03,519 Fascinating. 613 00:34:03,693 --> 00:34:05,130 You keep insisting it's impossible 614 00:34:05,304 --> 00:34:07,393 to communicate with the Dol'drm. 615 00:34:07,654 --> 00:34:09,458 If we find out we can, maybe we could find a way 616 00:34:09,482 --> 00:34:10,642 to stop them without weapons. 617 00:34:10,786 --> 00:34:12,485 What if we could end your war? 618 00:34:12,659 --> 00:34:15,835 What if we could offer them something? 619 00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:18,404 Isn't it worth a brief consideration? 620 00:34:20,841 --> 00:34:22,408 Brief. 621 00:34:25,715 --> 00:34:27,456 You have an update? 622 00:34:27,674 --> 00:34:29,913 As more systems come on line, the introduction of variables 623 00:34:29,937 --> 00:34:32,025 still generates a consistent outcome. 624 00:34:32,286 --> 00:34:34,178 Quantum entanglement has Enterprise firmly anchored 625 00:34:34,202 --> 00:34:35,768 65 million years in the past. 626 00:34:35,943 --> 00:34:37,050 You're saying we're stuck here? 627 00:34:37,074 --> 00:34:39,641 Yes. And also no. 628 00:34:39,815 --> 00:34:40,880 The nature of quantum entanglement 629 00:34:40,904 --> 00:34:42,080 could theoretically snap us 630 00:34:42,341 --> 00:34:43,361 right back to the moment we left. 631 00:34:43,385 --> 00:34:44,386 Well, that seems good. 632 00:34:44,647 --> 00:34:46,388 However, to do so would require 633 00:34:46,562 --> 00:34:48,129 the power equivalent of a supernova, 634 00:34:48,303 --> 00:34:50,304 the very same amount that sent us here. 635 00:34:50,478 --> 00:34:52,612 Without it, we are trapped in the past. 636 00:34:52,786 --> 00:34:54,179 - Less good. - Indeed. 637 00:34:55,876 --> 00:34:56,916 Captain, Commander Cassell 638 00:34:57,051 --> 00:34:58,357 and her guard have left the lab. 639 00:34:58,531 --> 00:34:59,967 - Where did they go? - I don't know. 640 00:35:00,272 --> 00:35:01,553 They just phased through the floor and were gone. 641 00:35:01,577 --> 00:35:03,405 - Engineering. - Pike to Engineering. 642 00:35:03,579 --> 00:35:04,928 What's happening down there? 643 00:35:05,233 --> 00:35:06,843 That tall, scary Martian lady 644 00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:08,734 just came right through the bulkhead and took it. 645 00:35:08,758 --> 00:35:10,543 - We couldn't stop her. - Took what? 646 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:15,113 The ship's primary antimatter fuel cell. 647 00:35:15,287 --> 00:35:17,027 Cassell's location keeps moving. 648 00:35:17,202 --> 00:35:19,291 Deck Ten. 649 00:35:19,465 --> 00:35:21,423 Deck Nine. 650 00:35:21,684 --> 00:35:24,339 Deck Eight. She's headed for her egress point. 651 00:35:29,344 --> 00:35:30,344 I'm not armed. 652 00:35:30,432 --> 00:35:32,782 I just want to talk. 653 00:35:34,567 --> 00:35:35,785 We were helping you, 654 00:35:36,046 --> 00:35:38,310 and now you're taking our fuel cell? Why? 655 00:35:41,922 --> 00:35:45,099 Captain... 656 00:35:45,273 --> 00:35:47,884 I have been nothing but honest with you. 657 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:49,799 And consistent. 658 00:35:50,060 --> 00:35:52,628 You, however, have not been equally truthful. 659 00:35:52,802 --> 00:35:53,882 What are you talking about? 660 00:35:53,977 --> 00:35:55,588 You spoke to me of Starfleet, 661 00:35:55,762 --> 00:35:57,503 of all that you've achieved. 662 00:35:57,677 --> 00:36:01,550 It was easy to get a sense of your respect for your values, 663 00:36:01,724 --> 00:36:05,641 your deep feeling for those you have fought for and loved. 664 00:36:05,815 --> 00:36:07,730 With these things you were frank. 665 00:36:07,904 --> 00:36:10,994 You also spoke to me of where you are from. 666 00:36:11,821 --> 00:36:14,389 But you failed to explain when. 667 00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:16,391 Your Federation doesn't exist. 668 00:36:16,565 --> 00:36:18,176 - That's not entirely true. - Yet. 669 00:36:18,350 --> 00:36:20,482 It doesn't exist yet. 670 00:36:22,397 --> 00:36:23,485 You showed me your computer 671 00:36:23,790 --> 00:36:25,400 so I could speak with the Dol'drm. 672 00:36:25,574 --> 00:36:28,098 It was simple to understand from there 673 00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:30,579 how you determine time with it. 674 00:36:30,753 --> 00:36:34,757 Your Federation won't exist for millions of years. 675 00:36:34,931 --> 00:36:38,108 And by then my civilization will be gone. 676 00:36:38,283 --> 00:36:39,719 I'm sorry. 677 00:36:39,893 --> 00:36:41,111 Our regulations... 678 00:36:41,329 --> 00:36:43,026 they forbid me from telling you that. 679 00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:45,377 But that doesn't mean that we can't find a way 680 00:36:45,638 --> 00:36:47,727 - out of this for both of us. - Captain. 681 00:36:48,554 --> 00:36:51,383 I understand you are trying to save your people. 682 00:36:51,557 --> 00:36:53,863 As I am doing for mine. 683 00:36:54,037 --> 00:36:57,389 But we live now, not in the future. 684 00:36:58,607 --> 00:37:00,566 Your ship's given us exactly what we need 685 00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:02,698 to win our war. 686 00:37:04,352 --> 00:37:06,136 I'm sorry. 687 00:37:06,311 --> 00:37:07,877 Commander... 688 00:37:44,523 --> 00:37:47,569 This wreckage is apparently the source of the iridium. 689 00:37:48,918 --> 00:37:51,704 And that's, like, an alien spaceship. 690 00:37:51,878 --> 00:37:53,793 On Earth. 691 00:37:53,967 --> 00:37:58,972 65 million years before us. 692 00:37:59,146 --> 00:38:01,931 I have to say this out loud to believe it. 693 00:38:02,105 --> 00:38:05,544 Those burns... a weapon did that. 694 00:38:05,718 --> 00:38:07,285 It was shot down. 695 00:38:07,459 --> 00:38:09,896 Our Martian friends? 696 00:38:11,593 --> 00:38:13,116 The iridium's inside. 697 00:38:13,465 --> 00:38:15,684 No life signs, but there might be an engine compartment. 698 00:38:15,858 --> 00:38:17,251 Wait here. 699 00:38:43,103 --> 00:38:44,626 All these cryobeds? 700 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,063 I think this was a colony ship. 701 00:38:54,767 --> 00:38:57,770 Must have all died on impact. 702 00:39:05,604 --> 00:39:06,822 Reflexes. 703 00:39:06,996 --> 00:39:09,129 They must all be dead. 704 00:39:10,173 --> 00:39:11,392 If they were settlers, 705 00:39:11,653 --> 00:39:14,177 I'm not sure if I should feel sad or... 706 00:39:15,614 --> 00:39:16,963 relieved. 707 00:39:18,443 --> 00:39:21,054 Whatever the reason they were in cryosleep, 708 00:39:21,228 --> 00:39:24,449 they were shot down and died on a planet far from home, 709 00:39:24,710 --> 00:39:26,276 headed who knows where. 710 00:39:26,451 --> 00:39:28,627 They may be different from us, but... 711 00:39:29,845 --> 00:39:32,108 they wanted to survive, too. 712 00:39:34,328 --> 00:39:35,895 Iridium fuel pod. 713 00:39:36,069 --> 00:39:37,505 The only one that wasn't damaged. 714 00:39:37,679 --> 00:39:38,941 Let's hope Scotty and Pelia 715 00:39:39,202 --> 00:39:40,029 can jury-rig it to the Enterprise. 716 00:39:40,203 --> 00:39:41,422 Can we go now, please? 717 00:39:41,596 --> 00:39:43,119 This place is giving me the creeps. 718 00:39:43,293 --> 00:39:44,773 Yeah. 719 00:40:11,844 --> 00:40:13,976 You just punched it. 720 00:40:14,150 --> 00:40:17,980 Yeah, well, I didn't have time to shoot it in the mouth, did I? 721 00:40:19,982 --> 00:40:22,637 Well, if you two are finished just standing here... 722 00:40:25,031 --> 00:40:27,773 Hey, I've managed to hook up the backup antimatter pod. 723 00:40:27,947 --> 00:40:29,557 You gotta hurry up with that iridium. 724 00:40:29,731 --> 00:40:32,212 Yeah, yeah, we're coming. Geez. 725 00:40:51,361 --> 00:40:53,712 You punched a dinosaur? 726 00:40:55,278 --> 00:40:56,671 Well, 727 00:40:56,932 --> 00:40:58,238 I'm sure it had it coming. 728 00:41:01,807 --> 00:41:03,243 What is it? 729 00:41:03,591 --> 00:41:06,855 It's just, I broke my hand and I don't feel any pain. 730 00:41:07,029 --> 00:41:09,118 Well, how is that possible? 731 00:41:09,292 --> 00:41:10,555 It isn't. 732 00:41:10,816 --> 00:41:12,731 The truth is, 733 00:41:12,905 --> 00:41:15,124 I've felt different for a while now. 734 00:41:15,298 --> 00:41:17,257 I-I've always had elevated strength and reflexes, 735 00:41:17,518 --> 00:41:19,259 but now it's-it's almost like 736 00:41:19,433 --> 00:41:21,696 my whole body feels more attuned. 737 00:41:22,610 --> 00:41:23,916 And your mind? 738 00:41:24,090 --> 00:41:25,483 Confused. 739 00:41:25,657 --> 00:41:29,574 Look, I carry recessive augmented DNA, right? 740 00:41:29,748 --> 00:41:31,445 Now, is it possible that somehow 741 00:41:31,619 --> 00:41:36,363 all I've been through has activated those recessive genes? 742 00:41:36,537 --> 00:41:39,627 Are you going to try and take over the galaxy now? 743 00:41:40,541 --> 00:41:41,890 I don't know. 744 00:41:42,238 --> 00:41:45,459 Hey. You may be carrying enhanced warrior genes, 745 00:41:45,633 --> 00:41:48,462 but it's not who you are. 746 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,945 I've got to go. 747 00:41:57,471 --> 00:42:00,169 Iridium is installed and ready to function, 748 00:42:00,343 --> 00:42:02,520 as long as we don't want to double-check it. 749 00:42:02,694 --> 00:42:03,912 Do we need to double-check it? 750 00:42:04,173 --> 00:42:05,760 We need to get a fix on that Martian ship. 751 00:42:05,784 --> 00:42:08,090 Are you concerned or are you worried, Mr. Scott? 752 00:42:08,264 --> 00:42:09,265 Just worried, sir. 753 00:42:09,439 --> 00:42:10,789 Good man. 754 00:42:10,963 --> 00:42:12,573 Bridge is coming back on line. 755 00:42:12,747 --> 00:42:14,923 - Long-range sensors? - Reinitializing. 756 00:42:15,184 --> 00:42:16,751 - Time? - 15 seconds. 757 00:42:16,925 --> 00:42:18,207 Every second could be getting Commander Cassell 758 00:42:18,231 --> 00:42:19,972 closer to detonating that antimatter. 759 00:42:20,146 --> 00:42:21,732 Well, I can't get power to the ship's systems 760 00:42:21,756 --> 00:42:23,236 any faster, Captain. 761 00:42:25,064 --> 00:42:26,944 - Screens are working, Chris. - Great. How about 762 00:42:27,022 --> 00:42:29,851 - long-range comms? - On and functioning, sir. Orders? 763 00:42:30,025 --> 00:42:31,984 Connect the Martian ship. 764 00:42:32,245 --> 00:42:33,376 Hailing them. 765 00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:35,553 And initializing ship-to-ship visuals. 766 00:42:35,727 --> 00:42:37,287 Commander Cassell, this is Captain Pike 767 00:42:37,380 --> 00:42:38,991 of the USS Enterprise. 768 00:42:40,340 --> 00:42:42,516 I should have told you where... 769 00:42:42,690 --> 00:42:44,649 when we're from. 770 00:42:44,910 --> 00:42:46,801 I should have been honest, because then you might have 771 00:42:46,825 --> 00:42:48,185 believed me about everything else. 772 00:42:48,217 --> 00:42:50,045 There are other ways of solving conflict. 773 00:42:50,219 --> 00:42:51,743 I understand how you... 774 00:42:52,221 --> 00:42:53,962 Captain, you have lost crew mates? 775 00:42:54,136 --> 00:42:56,225 - Friends? - Yes. Many. 776 00:42:56,399 --> 00:42:58,706 Imagine those losses a thousandfold. 777 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,623 Imagine a wound on your planet that will never heal. 778 00:43:02,797 --> 00:43:06,453 A memorial to millions of dead etched in rock and blood. 779 00:43:06,627 --> 00:43:10,849 I know you believe that what you're doing is right. 780 00:43:11,023 --> 00:43:13,547 But I have seen a future where species can coexist. 781 00:43:13,721 --> 00:43:15,288 And I have seen one on your computers 782 00:43:15,462 --> 00:43:18,465 where my homeworld is a barren red wasteland. 783 00:43:19,945 --> 00:43:22,184 Can you tell me the Dol'drm are not responsible for that? 784 00:43:22,208 --> 00:43:23,775 No, I can't. 785 00:43:23,949 --> 00:43:26,125 But I can tell you that if you use our technology 786 00:43:26,299 --> 00:43:29,345 to change the future, millions of lives may be lost. 787 00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:32,087 And millions of lives may be saved. 788 00:43:32,261 --> 00:43:34,699 The lives of my people. 789 00:43:34,873 --> 00:43:37,266 Isn't that what a captain does? 790 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,442 Save her people? 791 00:43:40,313 --> 00:43:43,359 Wouldn't you? 792 00:43:43,533 --> 00:43:45,753 She shut off her comms. 793 00:43:46,014 --> 00:43:47,454 And they're not responding to hails. 794 00:43:47,625 --> 00:43:48,713 - Engines? - Half-impulse. 795 00:43:48,887 --> 00:43:50,236 Erica, plot an intercept course. 796 00:43:50,410 --> 00:43:51,970 We're gonna try to stop them from using 797 00:43:52,020 --> 00:43:53,345 - our antimatter. - The only question is, 798 00:43:53,369 --> 00:43:54,849 where are they planning to use it? 799 00:43:55,023 --> 00:43:56,784 They don't have warp. Where is this enemy planet? 800 00:43:56,808 --> 00:43:58,046 Long-range sensors are fully operational. 801 00:43:58,070 --> 00:44:00,115 Extrapolating their course. 802 00:44:01,073 --> 00:44:02,964 They are headed for the fifth planet in the system. 803 00:44:02,988 --> 00:44:05,207 - Jupiter? - No, this planet is much smaller. 804 00:44:05,468 --> 00:44:06,731 Similar to Mars. 805 00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:08,839 At a distance of 480 million kilometers from Sol 806 00:44:08,863 --> 00:44:10,711 and 120 million kilometers from the Martian solar rotation. 807 00:44:10,735 --> 00:44:13,015 But there's no fifth planet like that in our solar system. 808 00:44:13,172 --> 00:44:16,915 The planet is populated by billions of life-forms. 809 00:44:17,089 --> 00:44:19,047 An arachnid species. 810 00:44:19,787 --> 00:44:23,791 That's what we found crashed on Earth, with the iridium. 811 00:44:25,097 --> 00:44:26,537 The fifth planet of our solar system 812 00:44:26,664 --> 00:44:27,926 is the Dol'drm homeworld. 813 00:44:28,100 --> 00:44:29,797 Captain, the Martian warship is approaching 814 00:44:29,971 --> 00:44:32,278 the fifth planet at high impulse. 815 00:44:32,452 --> 00:44:34,236 On screen. 816 00:44:36,325 --> 00:44:37,675 We will be in firing range 817 00:44:37,936 --> 00:44:39,304 of the Martian ship in less than one minute. 818 00:44:39,328 --> 00:44:40,408 Phasers aren't working yet. 819 00:44:40,547 --> 00:44:41,940 We just need to disable 820 00:44:42,157 --> 00:44:43,898 the Martian ship. Can we try a tractor beam? 821 00:44:44,159 --> 00:44:45,267 - There's not enough power at this range. - Photon torpedoes? 822 00:44:45,291 --> 00:44:46,335 We need something. 823 00:44:46,509 --> 00:44:47,772 - Checking. - Captain, 824 00:44:48,033 --> 00:44:49,793 my calculations indicate that if the Martians 825 00:44:49,861 --> 00:44:51,403 detonate our antimatter pod at their current proximity, 826 00:44:51,427 --> 00:44:53,560 they will be unable to escape the explosion. 827 00:44:54,561 --> 00:44:56,955 It's her only way to guarantee a kill shot. 828 00:44:57,129 --> 00:44:58,809 She's gonna sacrifice her ship and her crew 829 00:44:58,913 --> 00:45:00,262 to destroy the planet. 830 00:45:00,567 --> 00:45:02,177 Captain, I think we have enough power 831 00:45:02,351 --> 00:45:03,633 - to fire one photon torpedo. - As soon as we're in range. 832 00:45:03,657 --> 00:45:05,180 The Martian ship just activated 833 00:45:05,354 --> 00:45:07,008 a missile launcher. 834 00:45:10,142 --> 00:45:12,013 They have deployed the antimatter. 835 00:45:22,545 --> 00:45:24,045 Can we shoot it down without detonating it? 836 00:45:24,069 --> 00:45:25,263 Yes, but we're still not in range. 837 00:45:25,287 --> 00:45:26,419 Spock, how long to impact? 838 00:45:26,593 --> 00:45:28,160 - 30 seconds. - Erica, 839 00:45:28,464 --> 00:45:29,833 give it everything you've got. Push it right to the edge. 840 00:45:29,857 --> 00:45:31,337 - We have to get in range. - Aye, sir. 841 00:45:31,424 --> 00:45:33,034 Come on, baby. You've got this. 842 00:45:33,208 --> 00:45:34,775 - 20 seconds to impact. - Erica? 843 00:45:34,949 --> 00:45:36,168 Pegging the red line, sir. 844 00:45:36,342 --> 00:45:38,300 There's a reason for those lights. 845 00:45:38,474 --> 00:45:40,433 - Shut them off, Scotty. - Sir, we're in range. 846 00:45:40,607 --> 00:45:42,217 Locking photon torpedo on target. 847 00:45:42,478 --> 00:45:43,760 - 12 seconds to impact. - Target locked. 848 00:45:43,784 --> 00:45:45,177 We've got it, sir. 849 00:45:48,702 --> 00:45:50,312 Captain. 850 00:45:50,486 --> 00:45:52,837 Fire, sir? 851 00:45:57,493 --> 00:45:59,278 Do not fire. Repeat, do not fire. 852 00:45:59,452 --> 00:46:02,063 - But, sir... - Captain, that planet's about to be destroyed 853 00:46:02,237 --> 00:46:03,412 by our technology. 854 00:46:03,673 --> 00:46:05,414 Our future's at stake. We must fire. 855 00:46:05,588 --> 00:46:07,852 You heard my order. Hold fire, stand down photon torpedo. 856 00:46:08,026 --> 00:46:09,636 Chris, our future notwithstanding, 857 00:46:09,897 --> 00:46:12,508 we can't just sit here and let that entire planet be destroyed. 858 00:46:12,682 --> 00:46:14,597 In our future... 859 00:46:15,468 --> 00:46:17,775 there is no fifth planet. 860 00:46:17,949 --> 00:46:19,428 Three seconds. 861 00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,910 Two. One. 862 00:46:57,249 --> 00:46:58,816 I'm sorry. 863 00:47:05,648 --> 00:47:07,259 That blast wave's gonna hit us. 864 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,827 But I think I can outrun it. 865 00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:11,654 No. We should not run. 866 00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:13,569 We need to head into the blast wave. 867 00:47:13,743 --> 00:47:15,136 Head into that? 868 00:47:15,310 --> 00:47:17,150 You saw what just happened to the Martian ship. 869 00:47:17,225 --> 00:47:19,837 We may be able to use it to send us back to our time. 870 00:47:20,011 --> 00:47:22,032 The antimatter explosion, combined with the explosion 871 00:47:22,056 --> 00:47:24,078 of the planet's core, has created the necessary energy 872 00:47:24,102 --> 00:47:26,102 to free Enterprise from this temporal anchor point, 873 00:47:26,191 --> 00:47:27,888 snapping the quantum entanglement 874 00:47:28,062 --> 00:47:29,629 back to the exact point we came from. 875 00:47:29,803 --> 00:47:31,979 Before the blast wave tears our ship apart? 876 00:47:32,153 --> 00:47:33,546 Unknown. 877 00:47:33,894 --> 00:47:37,289 But it is our only option if we intend to go home. 878 00:47:38,943 --> 00:47:40,770 Erica, come about. 879 00:47:40,945 --> 00:47:42,947 Take us straight into the blast wave. 880 00:47:43,121 --> 00:47:45,732 Spock, if you have any calculations, now's the time. 881 00:47:46,515 --> 00:47:48,996 Helm, come to course 1-4-7, mark 2. 882 00:47:50,998 --> 00:47:52,347 Roger that. 883 00:47:52,521 --> 00:47:55,655 Everybody, hang on to something. 884 00:47:55,829 --> 00:47:57,135 Anything. 885 00:47:58,745 --> 00:48:00,355 Everything. 886 00:48:54,453 --> 00:48:56,020 After running multiple simulations, 887 00:48:56,194 --> 00:48:58,413 I determined that a fragment from the Dol'drm planet 888 00:48:58,587 --> 00:49:00,154 is the Chicxulub asteroid. 889 00:49:00,328 --> 00:49:02,287 Theone that hit Earth 890 00:49:02,461 --> 00:49:03,897 65 million years ago? 891 00:49:04,245 --> 00:49:07,596 And led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. 892 00:49:07,770 --> 00:49:09,076 Does that mean... 893 00:49:09,337 --> 00:49:10,469 Yes. 894 00:49:10,773 --> 00:49:12,775 The remaining debris, less than four percent 895 00:49:12,950 --> 00:49:14,212 of the planet's original mass, 896 00:49:14,386 --> 00:49:16,066 eventually became part of the asteroid belt 897 00:49:16,170 --> 00:49:17,606 as we have come to know it. 898 00:49:17,780 --> 00:49:19,300 Furthermore, the absence of the planet 899 00:49:19,347 --> 00:49:20,987 caused a gravimetric shift in the system, 900 00:49:21,088 --> 00:49:22,742 moving Mars further from the sun. 901 00:49:22,916 --> 00:49:25,832 Its atmosphere cooled to become the Mars we know today. 902 00:49:26,006 --> 00:49:29,749 Earth also cooled, ushering in the Cenozoic Era, 903 00:49:29,923 --> 00:49:31,620 and eventually... 904 00:49:31,794 --> 00:49:33,971 The evolution of humanity. 905 00:49:36,103 --> 00:49:39,411 Even I remember a part of that. 906 00:49:39,672 --> 00:49:41,979 So, we only exist 907 00:49:42,153 --> 00:49:45,330 because of what we did? 908 00:49:45,504 --> 00:49:48,898 I think we might exist because of what we didn't do. 909 00:49:49,073 --> 00:49:52,380 The Martians had to take our weapons. 910 00:49:52,554 --> 00:49:56,645 And we had to let them destroy the Dol'drm planet. 911 00:49:57,995 --> 00:50:00,127 Because they always have. 912 00:50:01,563 --> 00:50:03,174 We were always there. 913 00:50:04,349 --> 00:50:06,481 So we were never in danger of changing anything? 914 00:50:06,655 --> 00:50:08,353 O-Or were we? 915 00:50:08,527 --> 00:50:10,050 What about Commander Cassell? 916 00:50:10,224 --> 00:50:13,184 Did she destroy her own planet? 917 00:50:19,451 --> 00:50:21,018 I think... 918 00:50:21,801 --> 00:50:23,803 we could all use a night off. 919 00:50:25,935 --> 00:50:28,155 Yeah, I heard it. 920 00:50:28,329 --> 00:50:30,070 Let's go before he changes his mind. 921 00:50:32,333 --> 00:50:34,205 You're all dismissed. 922 00:50:37,773 --> 00:50:39,166 Thank you. 923 00:50:48,175 --> 00:50:50,830 Commander Cassell. 924 00:50:53,441 --> 00:50:55,001 She just wanted to save her own people. 925 00:50:55,095 --> 00:50:57,793 I would have done exactly the same thing. 926 00:50:57,967 --> 00:50:59,534 And now they're all gone, 927 00:50:59,795 --> 00:51:02,494 without a trace of their ever having existed. 928 00:51:02,755 --> 00:51:05,192 Not entirely. 929 00:51:06,802 --> 00:51:10,371 I ran Cassell's DNA through our database. 930 00:51:11,111 --> 00:51:13,070 It appears that Martian DNA is present 931 00:51:13,244 --> 00:51:16,073 in innumerable species throughout the galaxy. 932 00:51:16,247 --> 00:51:17,770 They escaped? 933 00:51:17,944 --> 00:51:19,380 Some, at least. 934 00:51:19,641 --> 00:51:22,209 The commander may not have survived, 935 00:51:22,383 --> 00:51:23,906 but her people did. 936 00:51:24,081 --> 00:51:26,344 And the Dol'drm? 937 00:51:27,823 --> 00:51:32,001 If their planet had remained in the system, 938 00:51:32,176 --> 00:51:35,962 entire histories would be erased. 939 00:51:36,136 --> 00:51:38,921 Trillions of lives. 940 00:51:40,140 --> 00:51:42,447 Evolutions undone. 941 00:51:42,621 --> 00:51:44,405 Yeah, but... 942 00:51:46,015 --> 00:51:49,106 I didn't know that in the moment that I made that call. 943 00:51:51,630 --> 00:51:54,241 It was a hunch... it was a good one, but... 944 00:51:54,415 --> 00:51:55,851 but I had no data. 945 00:51:56,025 --> 00:51:59,290 You, more than anyone that I know, 946 00:51:59,464 --> 00:52:03,294 have thought about the past and the future a great deal. 947 00:52:05,296 --> 00:52:07,994 But most of us live in the now. 948 00:52:10,083 --> 00:52:11,606 I guess... 949 00:52:12,607 --> 00:52:15,654 never slowing down, never stopping... 950 00:52:17,395 --> 00:52:20,093 it's been quieter than being in my head. 951 00:52:20,963 --> 00:52:23,966 A bit of unsolicited advice. 952 00:52:26,534 --> 00:52:29,189 Find a way to make peace with both. 953 00:52:46,032 --> 00:52:48,861 A Princess of Mars. 954 00:52:49,688 --> 00:52:51,690 Who knew that book would be so prophetic? 955 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,347 "I have ever been prone to seek adventure 956 00:52:56,608 --> 00:52:59,045 "and to investigate and experiment, 957 00:52:59,219 --> 00:53:03,180 where wiser men would have left well enough alone." 958 00:53:05,573 --> 00:53:07,358 Love this book. 959 00:53:08,402 --> 00:53:10,162 My father... he-he always laughed at the idea 960 00:53:10,404 --> 00:53:13,451 of Martians existing before Federation terraforming. 961 00:53:14,626 --> 00:53:17,716 If I could just go back and tell him now. 962 00:53:17,890 --> 00:53:21,198 I think one time-travel adventure a day is enough. 963 00:53:21,372 --> 00:53:24,418 And this one needs to stay a secret. 964 00:53:24,592 --> 00:53:25,941 Thought you'd say that. 965 00:53:26,246 --> 00:53:27,658 Well, if it were up to me, everyone would know 966 00:53:27,682 --> 00:53:29,007 that the Enterprise was responsible 967 00:53:29,031 --> 00:53:30,424 for humanity's origin. 968 00:53:30,729 --> 00:53:33,122 But the Federation Council might want us to pause 969 00:53:33,297 --> 00:53:36,256 before we rush in to amend history books. 970 00:53:36,430 --> 00:53:38,215 So, what do we say? 971 00:53:39,041 --> 00:53:40,478 The truth. 972 00:53:41,261 --> 00:53:44,003 We lost contact with your ship for a few moments. 973 00:53:44,264 --> 00:53:47,572 Then the solar storm collapsed, exploded and vanished. 974 00:53:47,746 --> 00:53:51,228 By the time the ensuing gamma-ray burst had dissipated, 975 00:53:51,402 --> 00:53:54,318 communication with the Enterprise was reestablished. 976 00:53:54,579 --> 00:53:56,668 And what about... 977 00:53:57,495 --> 00:54:01,238 us answering our own Mayday 978 00:54:01,412 --> 00:54:06,939 from a subspace buoy we deployed 65 million years ago? 979 00:54:07,113 --> 00:54:09,898 One sent here by a storm that we created 980 00:54:10,072 --> 00:54:13,554 after it sent us back in time. 981 00:54:15,817 --> 00:54:17,297 Chris, 982 00:54:17,471 --> 00:54:19,517 everything happened as it was meant to. 983 00:54:19,691 --> 00:54:22,084 That much is clear. 984 00:54:22,259 --> 00:54:23,782 So don't overthink it. 985 00:54:26,393 --> 00:54:28,221 What about the promotion? 986 00:54:28,395 --> 00:54:31,137 Had any time to consider? 987 00:54:32,573 --> 00:54:35,402 Yeah. 988 00:54:35,576 --> 00:54:37,448 I saw the past, present and future 989 00:54:37,709 --> 00:54:41,669 in a way that I never thought possible. 990 00:54:43,323 --> 00:54:45,369 I want to focus on my now, 991 00:54:45,543 --> 00:54:49,111 and that's here with Enterprise. 992 00:54:49,286 --> 00:54:51,592 I'm not ready for the promotion. 993 00:54:53,115 --> 00:54:54,856 But... 994 00:54:55,770 --> 00:54:57,990 I know someone else who is. 995 00:54:58,817 --> 00:55:01,123 I... That's... 996 00:55:01,907 --> 00:55:03,169 Chris. 997 00:55:03,430 --> 00:55:06,346 You don't have to say anything. 998 00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:08,522 So I'll say it. 999 00:55:08,696 --> 00:55:12,570 To Commander Una Chin-Riley. 1000 00:55:12,744 --> 00:55:14,104 Congratulations on your promotion. 1001 00:55:14,223 --> 00:55:16,051 You more than deserve it. 1002 00:55:16,225 --> 00:55:18,184 One step closer to captain 1003 00:55:18,358 --> 00:55:21,448 and your own starship. 1004 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,149 Cadet. 1005 00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:28,934 I wanted to see how you're feeling 1006 00:55:29,108 --> 00:55:32,111 after your first real adventure on the Enterprise. 1007 00:55:32,285 --> 00:55:35,157 I have learned that Starfleet is not what I expected. 1008 00:55:35,332 --> 00:55:37,551 It can surprise you. 1009 00:55:37,725 --> 00:55:40,293 My family was disappointed that I was not placed 1010 00:55:40,554 --> 00:55:41,947 at the Vulcan Science Academy. 1011 00:55:42,208 --> 00:55:44,819 I thought this would be a good alternative. 1012 00:55:44,993 --> 00:55:46,908 Well, it very well could be. 1013 00:55:47,082 --> 00:55:48,519 It is not. 1014 00:55:48,780 --> 00:55:51,260 I now understand why my parents were disappointed. 1015 00:55:51,435 --> 00:55:52,653 This is a chaotic place. 1016 00:55:52,958 --> 00:55:55,003 It likely helps that Spock is part human. 1017 00:55:55,177 --> 00:55:56,614 I, however, am not. 1018 00:55:56,788 --> 00:55:58,485 Thank you for your questions, Ensign, 1019 00:55:58,659 --> 00:56:01,314 but any further are not necessary. 1020 00:56:05,100 --> 00:56:06,100 Honestly? 1021 00:56:06,232 --> 00:56:08,495 She might just be very Vulcan. 1022 00:56:08,669 --> 00:56:10,192 That's all. 1023 00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:12,630 It's gonna be a long year. 1024 00:56:12,804 --> 00:56:15,720 Come on. La'An and Una and I are gonna talk about dinosaurs. 1025 00:56:15,894 --> 00:56:18,070 Way more worth your time. 1026 00:56:21,334 --> 00:56:22,422 Scotty. 1027 00:56:22,596 --> 00:56:24,816 Are you gonna... 1028 00:56:25,686 --> 00:56:27,253 Say sorry? 1029 00:56:27,471 --> 00:56:29,536 You wrench jockeys are kind of sensitive, aren't you? 1030 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,300 Frickin' engineers. 1031 00:56:31,562 --> 00:56:33,477 Bloody pilots. 1032 00:56:45,314 --> 00:56:47,229 So... 1033 00:56:47,404 --> 00:56:50,537 are you guys gonna tell us about the dinosaurs? 1034 00:56:50,711 --> 00:56:51,711 Yeah. 1035 00:56:53,758 --> 00:56:55,586 Come on. 1036 00:56:58,850 --> 00:57:03,855 It was... something. 1037 00:57:05,987 --> 00:57:09,121 We've seen a lot of strange new worlds, 1038 00:57:09,295 --> 00:57:13,560 but we'll never see something like this again. 1039 00:58:13,098 --> 00:58:16,884 Captioning sponsored by CBS. 1040 00:58:17,145 --> 00:58:21,367 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org