Admiral. Over here.
Dr. Marcus, come in, please.
Oh, my God.
Please acknowledge signal. Please...
Commander Uhura, this is Lieutenant Saavik.
We're all right. Please stand by. Out.
Oh, sir, it was Khan.
We found him on Ceti Alpha V.
Easy. Easy.
He...
he put creatures in our bodies
to control our minds.
It's all right. You're safe now.
Made us say lies...
do things...
but we beat him.
He thought he controlled us, but he did not.
The Captain was strong.
Captain...
where's Dr. Marcus?
Where are the Genesis materials?
He couldn't find them.
Even the data banks were empty.
Erased?
He tortured those people.
But none of them would tell him anything.
He went wild.
He slit their throats.
He wanted to tear the place apart, but he was late.
He had to get back to the Reliant
in time to blow you to bits.
Where's Reliant's crew? Dead?
Marooned on Ceti Alpha V.
He's completely mad, Admiral.
He blames you for the death of his wife.
I know what he blames me for.
The escape pods are all in place.
Where's the transporter room?
Did he make it down here?
It was not my impression.
He spent most of his time
trying to wring the information out of the people.
Anything?
The unit's been left on,
which means nobody remained to turn it off.
Those people back there
bought escape time for Genesis with their lives.
This is not logical.
These coordinates are deep inside Regula,
a planetoid we know to be lifeless.
If Stage Two is completed,
it was going to be underground.
It was going to be underground, she said.
Stage Two of what?
Kirk to Enterprise.
Spock here.
Captain Spock, damage report.
Admiral, if we go by the book,
like Lieutenant Saavik,
hours could seem like days.
I read you, Captain. Let's have it.
The situation is grave, Admiral.
We won't have main power for six days.
Auxiliary power has temporarily failed.
Restoration may be possible in two days.
By the book, Admiral.
Meaning you can't even beam us back?
Not at present.
Captain Spock...
if you don't hear from us within one hour,
your orders are to restore what power you can,
take the Enterprise to the nearest starbase,
and alert Starfleet command.
Sir, we won't leave you behind.
Uhura, if you don't hear from us,
there won't be anybody behind. Kirk out.
Well, gentlemen, you can stay here, or...
If it's all the same, Admiral,
we'd like to share the risk.
Right. Let's go.
Saavik?
Go? Where are we going?
Where they went.
Suppose they went nowhere?
Then this will be your big chance
to get away from it all.
Admiral.
Genesis, I presume.
[Rattling]
Phasers down!
You!
Where's Dr. Marcus?
I'm Dr. Marcus.
Jim!
Is that David?
Mother, he killed everybody we left behind.
Oh, of course he didn't.
David, you're just making this harder.
I'm afraid it's even harder
than you think, Doctor.
Please...
don't move.
Chekov?
I'm...
sorry, Admiral.
Your Excellency, have you been listening?
I have indeed, Captain.
You have done well.
I knew it. You son of a bitch!
Don't move, anybody!
Captain?
We are waiting.
What's the delay?
All is well, sir.
You have the coordinates to beam up Genesis.
First things first, Captain.
Kill Admiral Kirk.
Sir, it is difficult. I...
I try to obey, but...
Kill him.
I...
Aah!
[High-Pitched Tone]
Kill him, Terrell, now!
Aah!
[High-Pitched Tone]
Aah!
God sakes!
What is it?
Khan, you bloodsucker!
You'll have to do your own dirty work now.
Do you hear me? Do you?
Kirk.
Kirk, you're still alive, my old friend.
Still, "old friend."
You've managed to kill just about everyone else.
But like a poor marksman,
you keep missing the target!
Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral.
Oh, no!
They can't take it.
Khan?
Khan, you've got Genesis,
but you don't have me.
If you're going to kill me, Khan,
you're going to have to come down here!
I've done far worse than kill you.
I've hurt you,
and I wish to go on hurting you.
I shall leave you as you left me...
as you left her...
marooned for all eternity
in the center of a dead planet.
Buried alive.
Khan!
This is Lieutenant Saavik calling Enterprise.
Can you read us?
This is Lieutenant Saavik. Calling Enterprise.
Can you read us?
He's coming around.
Can you read us?
It's no use, Admiral.
They're still jamming all channels.
If the Enterprise followed orders, she's long since gone.
If she couldn't obey, she's finished.
So are we, it looks like.
I don't understand. Who's responsible for all this?
Who is Khan?
Well, it's a long story.
We appear to have plenty of time.
Is there anything to eat?
I don't know about anybody else, but I'm starved.
How can you think of food at a time like this?
First order of business... survival.
There is food in the Genesis cave,
enough to last a lifetime...
if necessary.
We thought this was Genesis.
This?
It took the Starfleet corps of engineers
10 months in space suits to tunnel out all this.
What we did in there, we did in a day.
David, why don't you show
Dr. McCoy and the lieutenant
our idea of food?
We can't just sit here.
Oh, yes, we can.
This is just to give us something to do, isn't it?
Come on.
Admiral?
As your teacher Mr. Spock is fond to say,
I like to think that there always are possibilities.
I did what you wanted.
I stayed away.
Why didn't you tell him?
How can you ask me that?
Were we together?
Were we going to be?
You had your world, and I had mine.
And I wanted him in mine,
not chasing through the universe with his father.
Actually...
he's a lot like you...
in many ways.
Please tell me what you're feeling.
There's a man out there I haven't seen in 15 years
who's trying to kill me.
You show me a son that would be happy to help.
My son.
My life that could have been...
and wasn't.
What am I feeling?
Old.
Worn-out.
Let me show you something
that will make you feel young
as when the world was new.
Impulse power restored.
Excellent.
More than a match for poor Enterprise.
You did all this in a day?
The matrix formed in a day.
The life forms grew later
at a substantially accelerated rate.
Jim! This is incredible!
Have you ever seen the like?
Can I cook or can't I?
Where is she?
Sir, may I ask you a question?
What's on your mind?
The Kobayashi Maru, sir.
You're asking if we're playing out that scenario?
On the test, sir.
Will you tell me what you did?
I would really like to know.
Lieutenant, you're looking at the only Starfleet cadet
who ever beat the no-win scenario.
How?
I reprogrammed the simulation
so it was possible to rescue the ship.
What?
He cheated.
Changed the conditions of the test.
Got a commendation for original thinking.
I don't like to lose.
Then you never faced that situation...
faced death.
I don't believe in the no-win scenario.
Kirk to Spock.
It's two hours. Are you ready?
Right on schedule. Just give us your coordinates,
and we'll beam you aboard.
All right.
I don't like to lose.
We were immobilized.
Captain Spock said it would be two days.
You go by the book.
Spock, you know Dr. Marcus.
Of course.
Hello, Mr. Spock.
I'm taking them to sickbay.
By the book?
By the book. Regulation 46a...
"If transmissions are being monitored during battle...
no uncoded messages on an open channel."
You lied.
I exaggerated.
Hours instead of days.
Now we have minutes instead of hours.
They're inoperative below C-Deck.
What is working around here?
Not much, Admiral. We have partial main power.
That's it?
Best we can do in two hours.
Admiral on the bridge.
Battle stations.
Tactical.
Uh-oh.
She can still outrun us and outgun us,
But there is the Mutara Nebula at 153 mark 4.
Scotty, can we make it inside?
The energizer's bypassed like a Christmas tree,
so don't give me too many bumps.
No promises. On your way.
Trouble with the nebula, sir,
is all that static discharging gas
clouds our tactical display.
Visual won't function, and shields will be useless.
Sauce for the goose, Mr. Saavik.
The odds will be even.
Alley clear, sir.
Repairing second.
Ready to fire away 1.
There she is!
There she is.
Ahh.
Not so wounded as we were led to believe.
So much the better.
Estimating nebula penetration in 2.2 minutes.
Reliant is closing.
If they go in there, we'll lose them.
Explain it to them.
That was close.
They just don't want us going in there.
One minute to nebula perimeter.
Why are we slowing?
We daren't follow them into the nebula, sir.
Our shields would be useless.
They are reducing speed.
Uhura, patch me in.
Aye, sir.
You're on, Admiral.
This is Admiral Kirk.
We tried it once your way, Khan.
Are you game for a rematch?
Khan.
I'm laughing at the superior intellect.
Full impulse power.
No, sir!
You have Genesis. You can have whatever you...
Full power!
Damn you!
I'll say this for him... he's consistent.
We are now entering the Mutara Nebula.
Emergency lights.
Oh!
Tactical.
Inoperative.
Raise the shields.
As I feared, sir... not functional.
I'm reducing speed.
Target, sir.
Phaser lock inoperative, sir.
Best guess, Mr. Sulu. Fire when ready.
Oh!
Aft torpedoes, fire!
Hold your course.
Phasers starboard!
Aah!
Fire!
Damage, Mr. Scott.
Admiral, I've got to take the mains off the line.
It's radiation...
Scotty.
Joachim.
Yours...
is a superior...
I shall avenge you.
Could you use another hand, Admiral?
Man the weapons console, Mr. Chekov.
Spock.
Sporadic energy readings, port side aft.
Could be an impulse turn.
He won't break off now.
He followed me this far. He'll be back.
But from where?
He's intelligent, but not experienced.
His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Full stop.
Full stop, sir.
Z minus 10,000 meters.
Stand by photon torpedoes.
Torpedoes ready, sir.
Look sharp.
Fire.
Aah!
Fire.
- Aah! - Aah!
Aah!
Uhura...
send to Commander, Reliant.
Prepare to be boarded.
Aye, sir.
Commander, Reliant. This is Enterprise.
Surrender and prepare to be boarded.
Enterprise to Reliant.
You are ordered to surrender your vessel.
Respond.
Reliant. Come in, Reliant.
You are ordered to surrender your vessel.
Enterprise to Reliant.
You are ordered to surrender your vessel. Respond.
No, Kirk.
The game's not over.
To the last I will grapple with thee.
Admiral.
Scanning an energy source on Reliant.
A pattern I've never seen before.
It's the Genesis wave.
What?
They're on a build-up to detonation.
How soon?
We encoded four minutes.
We'll beam aboard and stop it.
You can't.
Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes
or we're all dead.
[Uhura] No response, Admiral.
Scotty.
Mr. Sulu, get us out of here. Best possible speed.
Aye, sir.
Are you out of your Vulcan mind?
No human can tolerate the radiation in there!
As you are so fond of observing, Doctor,
I am not human.
You're not going in there.
Perhaps you're right.
What is Mr. Scott's condition?
Well, I don't think that he...
I'm sorry, Doctor.
I have no time to discuss this logically.
Remember.
Spock! Get out of there!
Spock!
Spock, get out of there!
Time, from my mark.
2 minutes, 10 seconds.
Engine room...
what's happening?
Spock! Scotty...
Good God, man! Get out of there!
No! Don't!
Spock! Spock!
Don't!
Time.
3 minutes, 30 seconds.
Distance from Reliant.
4,000 kilometers.
We're not going to make it, are we?
No.
No, you can't get away.
From hell's heart, I stab at thee.
For hate's sake,
I spit my last breath at thee.
Sir, the mains are back on line.
Bless you, Scotty. Go, Sulu!
My God, Carol, look at it.
Engine room.
Well done, Scotty.
Jim...
I think you'd better get down here.
Bones?
Better hurry.
Saavik, take the con.
No! You'll flood the whole compartment.
He'll die.
Sir, he's dead already.
It's too late.
Spock!
Ship...
out of danger?
Yes.
Don't grieve, Admiral.
It is logical.
The needs of the many outweigh...
The needs of the few...
Or the one.
I never took the Kobayashi Maru test...
until now.
What do you think of my solution?
Spock...
I...
I have been...
and always shall be...
your friend.
Live long...
and prosper.
No.
We are assembled here today
To pay final respects to our honored dead.
And yet it should be noted
that in the midst of our sorrow,
this death takes place in the shadow of new life,
the sunrise of a new world,
a world that our beloved comrade
gave his life to protect.
He did not feel
this sacrifice a vain or empty one,
and we will not debate his profound wisdom
at these proceedings.
Of my friend, I can only say this...
of all the souls I have encountered in my travels,
his was the most...
human.
Honors...
Hup.
[Playing Amazing Grace]
[Knock On Door]
Come.
I don't mean to intrude.
No, not at all.
I should be on the bridge.
Can I talk to you for a minute?
I poured myself a drink. Would you like it?
Lieutenant Saavik was right.
You never have faced death.
No, not like this.
I haven't faced death.
I've cheated death.
I've tricked my way out of death
and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity.
I know nothing.
You knew enough to tell Saavik
that how we faced death
is at least as important as how we face life.
Just words.
But good words.
That's where ideas begin.
Maybe you should listen to them.
I was wrong about you...
and I'm sorry.
Is that what you came here to say?
Mainly.
And also that I'm...
proud.
Very proud...
to be your son.
Captain's Log. ? Stardate 8141.6.
Starship Enterprise departing for Ceti Alpha V
to pick up the crew of U.S.S. Reliant.
All is well.
And yet I can't help wondering
about the friend I leave behind.
"There are always possibilities, " Spock said.
And if Genesis is indeed
life from death...
I must return to this place again.
He's really not dead...
as long as we remember him.
It's a far, far better thing I do
than I have ever done before.
A far better resting place I go to
than I have ever known.
Is that a poem?
No.
Something Spock was trying to tell me
on my birthday.
You OK, Jim?
How do you feel?
Young.
I feel young.
[Spock] Space, the final frontier.
These are the continuing voyages
of the starship Enterprise.
Her ongoing mission,
to explore strange, new worlds,
to seek out new life forms and new civilizations,
to boldly go where no man has gone...
before.