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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 6770.3.

The Enterprise is on course
for the planet Babel,

where ambassadors
from all Federation planets

are waiting to honor the
Enterprise's distinguished passenger,

Commodore Robert April,
first captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise,

and for the past 20 years,
Federation Ambassador-at-large.

Now 75 years old,

Commodore April has
reached mandatory retirement age.

No matter where I've traveled
in the galaxy, Jim,

this bridge is more like home
than anywhere else.

Yes, Commodore, I know the feeling.

To me she was always like my child.

I was there
in the San Francisco Navy Yards

when her unit components were built.

Jim, I didn't realize
how many of the tools I use in Sickbay

were designed by Sarah.

As the first medical officer
aboard a ship equipped with warp drive,

I'm afraid I had to
come up with new ideas all the time.

Your modesty is unnecessary,
Mrs. April.

Your achievements as a pioneer doctor
in space are well known.

And it's nice to know the lady
is as intelligent as she is beautiful.

Much like the flower she carries.

Oh, Doctor, flattery will get you
everywhere.

But I'm afraid my flower is dying.

It's a native of Capella IV, isn't it?

Yes, but it has a life span
of only a few hours.

This morning it was a seedling,
within a few hours it will be dead.

Excuse me, Captain.

You asked to be notified when we made
visual contact with the Beta Niobe nova.

Thank you, Mr. Spock.

Mrs. April, you're about to see another
of the galaxy's most beautiful sights,

the Beta Niobe's supernova.

It is beautiful,

but also very deadly.

We're traveling at a safe distance
from the nova, Mrs. April.

Beta Niobe. You were present when
the star first started its explosion, Jim.

- Yes, we were, Commodore.
- Captain.

Sensors are picking up
an unidentified object

traveling at an incredible speed,

presently on collision course
with the Enterprise.

Put the ship on Red Alert.

How fast is it traveling, Mr. Spock?

At a speed
that should be impossible to achieve.

Something on the order of warp 36.

No natural object has ever been
recorded as traveling at that speed!

I believe it is not a natural object,
but a ship.

But who would have the technology

to build a ship
that could travel at such a speed?

No known race, Captain.

Nevertheless, it will
contact us in 1.4 minutes.

Hard about, helmsman.
Change course for 24 mark 7.

Correction, Captain.

The ship was on a collision course
only by coincidence.

It is apparently heading
for the heart of the Beta Niobe nova.

That's a course of self-destruction.

Lieutenant Uhura,
open hailing frequencies.

I want to talk to that ship's captain.

Captain, that ship is not responding.

All right, if they won't talk,
we'll slow them down.

Mr. Sulu, put a tractor beam
on that ship.

Tractor beam on
and operating, Captain.

We're having a small effect
on other ship's speed, Captain.

It has dropped to a speed of warp 32.

Captain, they are making visual contact.

Put it on the screen, Lieutenant.

- I've never heard that language before.
- Nor I.

Run that message through the
universal translator, Lieutenant Uhura.

Perhaps it can tells us
what language she is speaking in.

Captain, the universal translator
has the answer.

The woman is speaking the same
universal language we speak,

but she is speaking in reverse.

Lieutenant, let's hear
that tape backward,

which should sound forward to us.

Yes, sir, on the screen.

I am on a priority mission.
Your beam is slowing my progress.

Release my ship at once,
or I am doomed.

Open hailing frequencies
again, Lieutenant.

Tell her she is endangering her life
if she remains on her present course.

No use, sir. She's refusing to answer.

- Captain.
- Yes, Scotty, what is it?

Captain, the engines are buckling!

- We cannot keep up at this speed.
- Mr. Arex, what is our speed?

Now at warp 11, Captain.

Mr. Spock, how long
until the alien vessel makes contact

with the Beta Niobe nova?

Three minutes, 42.7 seconds.

Give me
three-and-a-half minutes, Scotty.

Still increasing speed, Captain.

Warp 14.

Warp 15.

I have no choice.
I have to release the tractor beam.

I can't destroy this ship and 430 people
to save one person.

Mr. Sulu, release our beam.

- Sir, I can't release the tractor beam.
- What do you mean, Mr. Sulu?

Our controls are inoperative.
The ship isn't responding like it should.

Go to manual override.

Not responding, sir.

We've gotta release that beam,

or we're gonna follow that ship
into the nova!

Our speed is now warp 20

and the other ship will contact the nova
in one minute, 58.3 seconds.

I'm sorry, Commodore, Mrs. April.

It looks as though
we may not reach Babel.

As starship personnel, we were always
prepared to give our lives, Captain.

We are still
starship personnel, Captain.

There's still one chance.

After that ship enters the nova,
it should burn up,

and break contact
with our tractor beam.

Mr. Spock, how long
will we have to apply full braking power

and execute course change?

We are up to warp 22
and increasing, Captain.

We shall have 42.85 seconds
to correct our course

after the alien ship enters the nova.

- You heard that, Mr. Sulu.
- Aye, aye, sir.

Mr. Scott, we're going to apply
full braking power in a minute.

Aye, Captain.
Our engines are almost gone.

They've only lasted this long
at this speed

because the alien vessel is pulling us
with our own tractor beam.

The alien vessel will contact Beta Niobe
in 52.3 seconds, Captain.

Contact in 39 seconds,

38, 37...

...13, 12, 11 ...

Get ready
to execute course change, Mr. Sulu.

Yes, sir.

Now, Mr. Sulu!

Something's wrong, Captain!

We are still being pulled
by the alien ship!

Impossible! It should have been
destroyed instantly.

Apparently it was not, Captain.

Our tractor beam
is still connected to her.

And we are still increasing speed.

Contact with the nova in 35.18 seconds.

That other ship may have been able
to survive the heat of a nova,

but the Enterprise can't.

Mr. Scott, how about
that full braking power?

We're as badly off as before, Captain.

We have no control of the ship as long
as that alien lassie has us in tow.

Contact in 20 seconds.

Keep trying those controls, Mr. Sulu!

Still no change, Captain.

It's got to work!

14 seconds, 13, 12...

Never mind, Mr. Spock, it's no use.

We're still here.

Lieutenant Uhura, can you
get us a visual?

- What?
- Where are we?

Captain's Log, Stardate 6770.6.

The Enterprise has passed into the
most alien landscape I have ever seen.

We are in some reverse universe
where black stars shine in a white void.

We are still in the tow of the alien ship,

both of us having survived the
extreme heat of the Beta Niobe nova.

This is Scott, calling the Captain.

Yes, Scotty,
how are we doing down there?

Well, we just had to learn
to run the ship all over again.

Every control is working in reverse.

All right, Lieutenant Uhura,

we're going to contact that ship again.

- We need some answers.
- Captain Kirk! The Capellan flower!

I'm sure Captain Kirk has other
problems besides your flower, dear.

You don't understand.

Before we entered this universe,
it was about to die

and now it's in full bloom again.

How is that possible?

It's as if it were growing younger again.

I can almost feel it while I'm holding it.

Captain,

the flower is not the only thing on board
that is growing younger.

Explain, Spock.

Ship's chronometers
are also running backward.

The flow of time
is reversed in this universe.

The longer we stay here,
the younger we will become.

The alien ship
is responding to our call, Captain.

Your interference
almost cost me my life.

I can understand her now, without
the aid of the universal translator.

Apparently our brains
are also working in reverse, Captain,

so we can now
understand her language.

That is why the ship seems to be
operating in the reverse to us.

I am Captain James T. Kirk
of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

We tried to prevent you
from entering the Beta Niobe nova.

We assumed your ship would burn up.

I had to return
to my own universe, Captain Kirk.

Who are you? How did you
come to be in our universe?

I am an explorer of space.

I was caught unaware
when Amphion, previously a dead star,

went nova and came to life.

I was pulled into the star.

But instead of burning up,
I passed into a universe

where everything operates
in reverse to my universe.

- Our universe?
- Yes.

My theory is that two stars going nova
in the same place in both universes

created a gateway
which I passed through.

In her universe, a nova is a dead star
which comes to life!

And when the explosions of a nova
in her universe

and one in our universe occur together,

it's possible
to travel between the two universes.

Then we must return the same way,
through the two novas.

That would be impossible, Captain.

Amphion is no longer nova,
it has begun its life as a star.

I suggest you set a course
to follow my ship.

Perhaps our scientists
can help solve your problem.

We have little choice.

Captain's Log, supplemental.

We are proceeding to Karla Five's
planet, Arret.

Gentlemen, I'm sure none of us mind

growing younger
instead of older for a change.

It pleases me, Jim.

If we stay here long enough,

I'll no longer be
at the mandatory retirement age.

Nevertheless, we must return home
and I am open to suggestions.

It is logical that we must reproduce
the conditions that brought us here.

Two novas must occupy
the same space in both universes

in order to create a
gateway for us to travel through.

One star dying in our universe,
and one star being born here

would recreate the correct conditions.

That would take
a remarkable coincidence, Mr. Spock.

Captain, we are approaching Arret.

Karla Five is asking if you are prepared
to beam down to the planet.

Tell Karla Five that Mr. Spock,

Commodore April and myself
will be beaming down.

Yes, sir.

Karla Five has given us coordinates

to beam down
to her son's laboratory, Captain.

Her son?

We don't have time for children's games
right now, Scotty, but beam us down.

Aye, sir.

May I introduce my son, Karl Four.

- My honor to meet you, gentlemen.
- Most logical.

If the flow of time is reversed,

then one is born at an old age,
and dies in infancy.

Your descendants are born before you

and your ancestors are born after you.

- Then the young child in the playpen...
- My father, Captain.

We could remain forever awed

with the differences
between our universes, Karla Five,

but we must discover a way to return
to our positive matter universe.

Exactly the problem
I have been working on

since Karla informed me
of your troubles, Captain Kirk.

This is a map of our galaxy.

Our home solar system is here.

You entered our universe
through the Amphion nova, here.

We need to coordinate this
to our own universe.

- Can we do that, Spock?
- Yes, Captain.

Apparently the two universes
occupy the same space,

but in different dimensions.

Assuming Beta Niobe and Amphion
occupy the same space,

we can determine
if there are any other novas

occupying the same space
in both universes.

Correct, Commodore.

Now if you'll watch the star map,
you'll see the Milky Way.

Here is Beta Niobe. And here is Earth.

It corresponds exactly with Arret.

By superimposing both star maps,

we will see where two stars occupy
the same place in both universes.

The red spheres indicate
where two stars are in the same space.

No pair are novas in both universes.

If stars begin as dead stars here,

then we could
bring one to life, prematurely.

Yes, we could act as a midwife
giving birth to a star.

Then we would have two novas
in the same position

and theoretically return home.

But I had to pass through the novas at
my ship's top speed to avoid burning up.

Your ship isn't capable of such a speed.

That's true, Captain.

You are welcome
to use my ship, Captain.

I have a crew of 430, Karla Five.

Your ship is suitable
for only a few people.

We can't use her ship
to transport us, Captain,

but we could use it as an unmanned
ship with our tractor beam attached.

It could work.

That's how we arrived here
in the first place.

It should work, yes.

But any miscalculation
anywhere along the way

and we'll be plunging tail first
into a supernova.

Captain's Log, Stardate 6770.1.

Time continues to flow backward for us.

We have set course for a dead star
in this anti-matter universe

that corresponds
with the nova Minara in ours.

We're being pulled
by Karla Five's unmanned vessel,

which is equipped
with enough positive matter armament

to ignite the dead star into life.

We just might
get you to Babel after all, Commodore.

I'll be glad to get home,
but not necessarily to Babel.

It only means the end of my career, Jim.

Message coming in from Arret, Captain.

I want to wish you luck, Captain.

Whether you succeed or fail,
the outcome will remain unknown to me.

Yes, Karla Five.

We'll burn to a crisp
or escape into our own universe.

Either way,
you'll never hear from us again.

Thank you
for the sacrifice of your vessel.

It is a small sacrifice, Captain Kirk.

Success.

Tractor beam working properly, Captain.

We're meeting the speed of
Karla Five's unmanned vessel, Captain.

How much time
before the youngest crew member

returns to the time of birth?

Eighteen minutes, 37 seconds
in real time.

But long before that
we shall all be children.

And, Captain, that also means

we are losing our knowledge
at an alarming rate.

It is possible we will soon be unable
to operate the Enterprise.

How is our course, Mr. Sulu?

I don't know. What am I doing here?

- What is all this equipment?
- He's too young, Captain.

Mr. Arex, take over for him.

Lieutenant Uhura,
report to navigation console.

I'm sorry, sir.
I don't understand all this equipment.

- What do I do with these controls?
- Never mind.

Spock, can you fill in
for Sulu and Uhura?

Yes, Captain.

- But who will fill in for you?
- What do you mean?

At what age
did you become a starship captain?

And when did you enter
Starfleet Academy?

I see what you mean.

As a Vulcan, I age the slowest.

I will be capable of assuming command
longer than anyone else.

But even I will become too young
to know what to do.

Captain's Log, supplemental.

We have 11 minutes of real time
left to reach the dead star,

but all around
my crew are turning into children,

unable to operate the ship.

Ten minutes, 14.21 seconds, Captain.

We shall arrive
with only moments to spare.

We will need to disconnect the
tractor beam at the appropriate time.

Tractor beam?

- How do we do that, Spock?
- Captain, I must assume command.

You are no longer able
to command the Enterprise.

Whatever you say.

What shall I do?

Mr. Spock, as long as I am aboard,
I am senior officer.

I hate to pull rank,

but you will be capable
of command only for a few minutes,

not long enough to complete the
maneuvers necessary to take us home.

You are correct, of course.

- Commodore April, command is yours.
- Commodore?

I'm Captain April, Mr. Spock.

Robert, we're the only adults
on the bridge.

They're all teenagers and children.

Make sure
no harm comes to them, Sarah.

We have to ignite that dead star
if we're going home.

Mr. Spock, you are still capable
of following orders?

- Yes, Captain.
- Very good.

Assume your post
at the navigation console.

The dead star
is directly ahead, Captain,

12 degrees south of galactic plane.

- Arm Karla Five's vessel, Spock.
- Vessel armed, Captain.

Nine seconds to impact.

8, 7...

3, 2...

Hang on, we're going
right into the heart of the nova.

We did it! We're home again!

We're all right. We're home.

The reverse aging process
has stopped.

But the Enterprise crew,
they're all children.

They can enter the transporter.

It retains a memory
of their original molecular structure.

But what about us?

We don't have to use the transporter.

We can remain young,
live our lives over again.

You could
command a starship once more.

What a blessing to be able to live
one's life over again,

if the life you've led
has left you unfulfilled.

No, Sarah,
I don't want to live it all over again.

I couldn't improve one bit
on what we've had together.

Oh, Robert.

We've received a message
from the Federation

that might bring you some cheer.

Lieutenant Uhura, would you relay it
to Commodore April and his wife?

In view of Commodore April's
heroic actions

aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise
this stardate,

we are reviewing
his mandatory retirement,

and will consider his appeal to remain
Federation Ambassador-at-large.

Well, good.

Just because someone is 75 years old

doesn't mean they're ready
to stop giving service to the galaxy!

Arriving at Babel in one hour,
15 minutes, Captain.

I see your flower has blossomed again.

Yes, our trip into the negative universe
gave it a second life.

It gave all of us a second life.