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Captain Plug, star date 6563 .4. A nascent singularity has been reported

the uninhabited Cressida system.

The Federation has assigned a gravitational wave engineer to the

our investigation.

Are we there yet?

Not yet.

Are we close?

Let's check off.

Approaching Cressida to NASA.

Take us out of warp, Mr. Zulu.

Hi, sir. Switching to impulse.

What? Places?

I'm detecting a significant gravimetric field, sir. Stronger than we

anticipated. There's no guarantee it's a black hole.

Sensors confirm a massive shift in the system.

The event horizon has consumed planets three through eight.

In ten days?

It is possible an interphasic rift has been the structure of space -time in

region.

I'd say that's our cue to hightail it, Adi.

No! Jim!

Captain, we are here to study the effects of singularities on space -time.

all due respect, we nearly lost the captain to a dimensional kill zone like

a year ago.

It's got to bridge.

Captain, it's taken everybody else of our engine to maintain this position.

Understood. Just hold her together, Scotty. Tamara?

How long do you need to finish your assessment?

Six hours.

Minimum. Captain, an unusual reading nearby. What kind of reading?

Lieutenant, I'm attempting to extrapolate the data into audible sound.

That's no engine.

Oh, hurry.

Can you speed it up?

I'm gonna heart beat.

Confirmed. One set of life signs on Cressida 2's moon.

The moon's destabilizing, sir.

Fuck. Can we get a transporter lock on that lifeline?

Still detecting faint life -size.

I think we can rule out the moon.

Silou, magnify the primary hull.

Affirmative.

The ship's wave signature is out of phase from when we last encountered it.

And life support has been re -established.

Life support?

There was no one left alive on board.

There is no one.

Spock, this time, if anything happens while I'm away, I shall secure the

of the Enterprise.

Ching.

Captain, I must protest.

I should be investigating that rift.

Your protest is noted.

If that ship fades away with me in it, I'm going to come back and haunt the

whole lot of you.

Energize.

Kirk to Enterprise.

The bridge is empty.

It was filled with dead crewmen the last time I was here.

Captain, maybe we can examine the ship's logs.

Figure out what happened.

Transferring.

It's got to come.

Somebody's been souping up the engines.

Should make at least warp 15 now.

Warp 15?

Cutting in, Captain.

Go ahead, Bones.

You should have listened when I said we should hightail it out of here.

Why? Come see for yourself.

On my way.

What is it, Doctor?

Space, the final frontier.

These are the voyages of the starship

Enterprise.

Its continuing 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, supplemental.

We've returned from the Defiant, at least some version of the Defiant, with

cryonically preserved man on board.

A familiar man.

Jim.

He's you.

That's possible.

A clone, maybe? I did a full DNA scan. No genetic drift.

He's you, all right, just much older.

I don't understand.

Let's give him room to wear a glass.

Bones, how long to de -ice him?

Not sure. I'll let you know when I do.

Captain. My research theorizes that rogue singularities can pass through

realities, move from universe to universe.

Spock, what do the logs show?

They are encrypted.

But, from what we've managed to decipher, apparently the Defiant

so -called black hole as it phased into our reality.

The ship, however, is unable to complete its transfer.

So she's stuck.

Half here, half there.

And you say she can manage Warp 15?

Aye. According to the engineering logs, her instance had been modified over a

long period of time.

But we just saw her a year ago.

Time is not an absolute, Captain.

It is, as Einstein surmised, relative.

In whatever space the Defiant has been, time obviously moved more rapidly.

But if the man we found was the only one alive on the ship, then who overhauled

the engines?

He insisted on seeing everyone.

Scotty.

Come.

Is that any of you?

Last time I looked in the mirror.

Whenever that was.

How are you so young?

But you left me.

I thought I'd never see you or the Enterprise ever again.

You were mistaken.

That would never happen.

I don't expect a hug.

Is this really necessary?

It is for now.

Jim?

Javi?

Javi Samara?

Mr. Samara arrived a few days ago.

I'd given up hope of seeing you.

All of you.

A long time ago.

You're him.

How?

No clue.

I thought I was abandoned.

Nobody was abandoned.

As you could see for yourself.

What's the last thing you remember before we... Before you thought we'd

you?

You were beaming me back to the Enterprise.

And for a moment, everything was transparent.

And then you were gone.

And I was back on the defiant.

I managed to reactivate life support right before my oxygen ran out.

That's not possible.

Unless... A divergence field.

Such a phenomenon is purely hypothetical.

That's the only plausible explanation, Mr. Spock.

Two defiants. Two Jim Kirk.

I don't know where our defiant went, but when it was in interphasic space, it

must have been duplicated, and so was the captain.

How long?

Based on physiological age, 60 -odd years.

217.

Perhaps 218.

I was put in cryo most of that time.

Put in cryo?

How could you be put in cryo?

Bridge to Captain Kirk.

Kirk here. Go ahead, Saru.

Captain, a Klingon vessel has just entered the system.

Go to yellow alert.

Fine. You and Scott have to get to the nuclear electronics lab. Run a full

subspace scan on the Defiant.

Find me some answers.

Tomorrow.

V -7 battlecruiser, Captain. They're holding position off our port bow.

The Klingons are instructing us to leave the sector. They claim salvage rights

are redefined. Any record of a Klingon claim to the crest of the system?

Nonsense.

Send the following reply from Enterprise.

The Federation recognizes no such... I don't know,

sir, but that phaser blast went right through their shield.

Their power grid's offline and they've lost attitude control.

They're being drawn into the black hole.

Then we get a tractor beam on them.

What's your part, Captain?

Where did that phaser fire come from? Well, it didn't come from us, sir,

for sure.

Well, if we didn't fire...

There's no one on board Aurora

Open a channel to that ship

It's

good to see you all of you

Patch me through to the defiant.

Tiberius!

Jim, what are you doing?

They didn't leave me.

Don't trust them, Jim.

Please.

Another Kirk?

How many of us are there?

I am the protector of James Kirk.

I am James Kirk.

There was an anomaly. Your entire ship, including your version of me, is a copy.

We didn't know he existed until now.

You're telling the truth, Ty.

Tiberius?

Given the extended time frame involved, it's possible the Defiance computer

developed rudimentary multitronic circuits.

Artificial intelligence.

I saved your life.

I took care of you.

Kept me sane.

Yes, we have been closest friends.

Don't leave your friend for them.

Tiberius, if Jim is your friend...

Why did we find him unconscious in cryostasis?

We wandered for over two centuries.

He would have died if I hadn't preserved him until I could get him home.

I am home.

Thanks to you.

Jim, don't leave me.

Ty, please.

Send my friend back.

Captain, the Defiant's weapons are charging.

Red alert.

Guy, don't do this.

Torpedo detonation. 500 meters up our starboard bow.

Trying to get our attention.

Mission accomplished.

Charge phaser bank.

Phaser's ready.

Fire. No!

You can't give him the power!

It feeds the dark!

The dark!

Let's get you back to sickbay.

Captain? I'll explain later.

If I can, she'll get us out of here. Wait.

The black hole is event -arising. It's expanded.

Confirmed. The defiant torpedo compromised our position.

If we move, we're drawn in.

You're trapped, Enterprise.

Lieutenant, can the defiant leave the system?

No. That would require further expansion of the rig, sir. You hear that,

Tiberius?

You can't fire on us without hurting your captain. We can't fire on you

risking my crew.

Why don't we call it truth?

Share resources, knowledge.

Maybe we all leave here safely.

I'm not interested in your safety after what you did to my friend.

Your friend is in pain.

Why? I did what I needed to to save him.

When I found him, he was as young as you.

Now, he's a shadow of his former self.

Take care.

A shadow can be larger than the man that casts it.

Close channel.

Spot.

Mr. Marr's hypothesis was correct.

The Defiant is a precise duplicate of the vessel we previously encountered, as

is the other James Kirk.

He is, for all intents and purposes, real.

Sir, we can't stay here too long.

We're being bombarded by Hawking radiation.

Dr. Scott, can we allocate more power to the shield grid?

Aye, but I found something I think it should be.

Meet me in the sickbay.

Sulu, you have the compass.

Captain?

I need you here on the bridge studying the rift, Avi.

Anyone can get us out of here on a wing and a prayer.

It's you.

You think it's the answer?

Answer to what?

Where's your patient?

My patient is with Dr.

McKenna. There's nothing physically wrong with him. He's just old.

And this wee devil, we found it in the Defiant Clio tube.

It is forbidden to remember.

Know you are safe.

The dark will send us home.

It is forbidden to remember.

Know you are safe.

The dark will fulfill your directive.

Fascinating. A subliminal transceiver.

A brainwashing device.

Probably triggered a pain response whenever the captain... The other

tried to remember something.

Something he'd been told to forget.

But he's away from it now.

Well, he's been conditioned, Jim. The effects are long -lasting.

I could synthesize the Theragin derivative to help him overcome it, but

need to know more about this device.

Aye.

It's almost as if Tiberius is trying to protect the old man.

Jim, are you listening to yourself?

Old man, my patient, our guest?

What happened to...

Captain or Jim. How would you feel, Bones?

Seeing another you, an older you, standing right in front of you.

Years of pain, loss, loneliness.

On your face, in your eyes.

Bridge to Captain Kirk.

Kirk here, Tulu.

to decrypt some of the defiant's visual logs. On our way.

Ship's log, Cernate.

Unknown.

I've managed to re -establish life support.

But I think the Enterprise is gone.

There's enough food and power on the ship for an entire crew.

It should last me indefinitely.

Defiant personnel, all dead, deserve proper burials.

It seems only fitting I take them to the transport room and beam them into

space.

Ship's log.

Stargate.

My friends left me

here.

I'm reprogramming the ship's computer.

Giving it a new prime directive.

He's developing a personality.

I tell him stories. I play chess.

He's imprinting on me.

31 years.

47 parsecs of... of nothing!

Jim, it's all right.

We'll break through.

We'll get you home.

It's just a matter of time.

What is it?

Just remembering something.

Home.

I treasured when I was young.

Is this the hill?

Is this the kirk?

And I with sobs did pray.

Oh, let me be awake, my God.

Or let me sleep.

Always.

The ancient mariner.

Drift in a wasteland.

And yet you survived.

You call this surviving?

four months to carry them.

Every crewman to carry every crewman on the ship down.

Remember, after his ordeal,

The old mariner was given a second chance to remind others not to lose

or hope.

Counselor.

How is he?

As we can only imagine.

All those years.

Alone.

Everything that defines you and gives you purpose torn away.

Your sole companion, a computerized reimagining of yourself.

One man.

Two minds.

And one of those minds was tampering with the other.

struggling with a deep sense of betrayal, in the past from his ship and

and now in the present from his only friend for the last 60 years.

How do we help him?

Help us.

He needs to know that even though he lost all those years,

he hasn't lost who he is.

What would you need to hear most if you were him?

Because, sir, you are.

If you need anything, just call.

Reminiscing?

Reconnecting.

When memories are all you have, they either fade away completely or take on

much significance.

Well, no one could accuse Avi Samara of being insignificant when we were 15

years old.

16.

She rebuilt that biplane for our birthday.

The Grim Reaper.

Nearly plowed that cornfield with our skulls when the seatbelts broke.

I used to yell, how far are we going?

And she would yell, all the way.

You don't realize how rich your life is until all the comfort structure,

family, friends are ripped away.

It's like being thrown into prison.

You know you'll never see your shipmates again.

You never find someone to love.

Someone to have your back.

Find a way home.

Years go by and you finally realize.

Are you even a captain when you have no crew?

Are you a leader if no one is following?

You know your crew wouldn't leave you.

Not intentionally.

But the decades pass, and they never come back.

And you can't even replace them.

You can't integrate into a new society. There are no societies.

No planets, no sun, no galaxies.

Nothing but endless light years of void.

only friend is a voice.

Tiberius, when does a machine become conscious?

I don't know.

When there's no one around to say it can't.

I never said he couldn't.

So he did.

And now he's as self -aware as he is invincible.

If he's self -aware, perhaps he can be reasoned with.

He caught me reprogramming the chess simulator once so that I could beat him.

Teach him what it's like to lose.

He didn't like that much.

He's hiding something.

Something you'd never agree to. Something so horrific that you could

it.

The dark.

What is the dark?

Try. Remember.

It's... It's...

It's...

Bridge to Captain Kirk. The Defiance engines are beginning to generate a warp

field. Power level... 12.

Has she moved?

No, sir. But the rift is starting to emit some sort of... dark matter.

Dark matter?

The dark!

The dark!

Keep me posted, Captain Kirk.

Years.

Years of nothing but black.

Suggests new engine design.

Power to open a rift home.

Year 51.

Computer.

Ascension.

Carrying.

Controlling. He needs a sedative.

Event horizon.

Shared realities.

Two black holes must not merge.

Trap it!

Trap it!

The blood pressure's going through the roof.

The

other

side of the portal, Captain.

Thousands of times larger.

Tiberius.

Determined to blast through the rift.

Disruption of space to that extreme would likely manifest the additional

singularity. If they merge, destroy the entire sector.

I pleaded with him.

Tried to shut him down.

The Defiance computer must have drained the oxygen enough to incapacitate him.

Then... Beamed him into that cryotube. Fed him that subliminal lullaby.

Sir, I analyzed the device. I reckon it was obstructing more than we thought.

I think he discovered part of the computer's kill code algorithm.

Are you saying you can shut down Tiberius?

Not from here.

We could get the Larry a right wallop, but... But we cannot control the Defiant

without someone on the Defiant.

I can't send him back.

So, for now, a wallop will have to do.

Thank you.

Spock, find me the rest of that kill code.

I'll be on the bridge.

How is it with you, Davi?

He's an incredible engineer.

That's not what I meant.

You remember.

We each chose our separate paths.

Nothing's changed.

With enough time.

Some things do.

But... Someone has to stop Tiberius.

I suppose you think that has to be you.

Please, Doctor, no more lectures.

Too old.

Good thing you're still strong as an ox and as stubborn as a mule.

That subliminal conditioning could have given you one wail of a stroke.

I've been called a lot of animals in my time, but never all at once.

Spock, tell me you got a plan to defeat that evil twin.

Not an appropriate description, Doctor.

A computer lacks the capacity for evil. It knows only logic.

Look here, you green -blooded gu - A computer lacks the capacity for a lot of

things.

For 200 years, Jim thought we abandoned him in that void.

He was angry with us. Hell, he probably hated us. But after all that time, he

was able to forgive.

Because he's human.

Tiberius doesn't get that, Spock.

At the end of the day, he's just a machine.

An intelligent machine with no mercy and no understanding. If that's not evil, I

don't know what is.

If you will excuse me, Doctor, I must complete my analysis of the evil twin.

That it?

Captain, the Defiant has escaped the portal.

On screen.

Sir? On my signal.

Ship to ship. Aye, Captain.

Tiberius, those two black holes merge.

You can kiss every sun, planet, and creature in this vector goodbye.

We're experiencing undertow from both singularities.

Sulu, we need to ride the face of that gravitational wave just under the crest.

I'm a native San Franciscan, sir. I was born on a surfboard.

Just don't hit the planet.

I give it my best ride.

Full stop.

Where are you, Kirk?

Send my friend back.

Save his life.

Tiberius, close the portal, please.

I'll come back.

You want him back?

Why don't you put your money where your ship is?

How about a game of chess?

You win, you get him back. Do what you want with us.

But if you lose, tow us to safety.

And we figure out a way to close the rift together.

What'll it be?

Game? Or no game?

Agreed.

Bishop to rook level two.

Your move.

Queen to king's level one.

That will result in checkmate of your king within seven moves.

We'll see.

Knight to king's level one.

Queen to queen's level three.

That makes no sense.

Seems perfectly obvious to me.

What have you done?

Your queen has lost her head.

You cheated. You cheated when you brainwashed your friend.

I would love not.

Please tell me he is not dead.

No, just a bad headache.

A Trojan horse program.

You never intended to send him back.

How long before the defiant auto -diagnostic restarts the computer?

Usually about an hour.

Uhura, all senior officers to the briefing room. Aye, sir.

You too, come on.

All

senior

officers, Captain.

I don't know how long our engines can maintain this position before we're

pulled into interphasic space or that bloody black hole.

The Defiant's got power to burn. Am I right? Far as I can tell. She

recrystallizes her dilithium at four times her highest rate.

You're thinking the Defiant might be able to close the rift.

Block it so we don't get stuck in the backwash. Tiberius will never do that.

Currently, Tiberius is unable to do anything.

I have successfully determined the memory purge subroutine, Captain.

Utilizing that, one could delete the AI and manually pilot the Defiant back into

the portal. I know that ship.

And Tiberius. I'm the logical one to go.

You're in no shape for something like that. I can manage, Bone. No doubt.

She'll be busy captaining the Enterprise.

Are you mad? Anyone who goes through that rift is a dead man. I don't want

command of the Enterprise.

She's not my ship anymore.

She's always been your ship.

You know her like the lines on your fate, gray in your hair.

Love her as much as I do.

Maybe more now.

You didn't cause this to happen.

It was my decision to leave the Defiant last.

You spent a lifetime paying for that division.

Between the Tholians and the portal, I was lucky.

You weren't.

No more arguments.

I'm going. Cut them. You don't need an expert to handle the engines while you

helm the ship.

I'd be on it. They'll need you here, Scotty. I've studied the data, Mr.

Recovered. I can do it. But if you don't know how to do it... No but.

I've been building engines since I was twelve.

Samara, you're with me.

Thank you, Captain.

Transport room in 20 minutes, gentlemen.

Six minutes.

Spock, go talk some sense into him. To what end, Doctor?

You and I both know he will not change his mind.

Samara and I will tow the Enterprise to a safe distance.

Then we'll enter the rift.

And seal it.

After that... Captain.

Don't do this.

You just take good care of the Enterprise.

Captain.

And take care of yourself.

For a long time.

Jim.

I can't convince you not to do this, can I?

Not this time, Art.

The kill code sequence.

Once inserted, input your override sequence.

What are you doing?

Giving the Enterprise the best chance she's got.

Her real captain of the con.

This will only last a minute or two.

Time is of the essence.

Are you with me?

All the way.

Energize.

Power up the engine.

I'll lay in a course for the portal.

My God. Dark matter.

It's breaking down the interpathic barrier.

Break for tractor beam. Let's kill the Enterprise free.

No.

Tiger, there's no other way.

I know you can think.

Can you not also feel the people who created your programming?

The programming from which you were born.

Ideals, mercy, forgiveness, stored in your mind. They mean nothing if you

destroy those who share them. They left you.

Abandoned you to wander the emptiness of space alone with no hope.

But I saved you.

We gave each other hope.

Jim, we're out of time.

I don't want to put you back in cryo, Jim.

Don't force me.

Jim, life support is starting down.

I'm sorry, my friend. Stop.

Please stop, Jim. I'm sorry.

Please, don't jam on me.

Enterprise to Defiant.

Kirk here.

I know how hard that was for you, Captain.

You had no choice.

As for my senior officers, on the other hand... They were acting under my

orders, Captain.

It's a little late for a court -martial.

Gravitational wake is increasing.

Activate tractor beam.

Enter private.

Prepare to be towed.

Hold power to the engines.

Scotty, get us out of here. Hold on to your bustle. We're making a run for it.

Full impulse.

Is the Enterprise safe?

Yes, sir. She's free.

All right.

Once more into the breach, dear Avi.

Captain, they're entering the rift.

Scotty, transport him. With his interference, not a player.

Wait. What are you doing?

We can't risk this happening again, Harvey.

There's only one way to seal the rift permanently.

This is a one -way trip, Harvey. It always was.

I killed the autopilot, so I have to stay.

You don't.

No. Kirk to Enterprise.

Scan for a pattern -enhancing beacon.

What?

One last gift from Tibby.

No. I never forgot you, Avi. I never will.

Tim.

She's safe.

Send me back.

Send me back.

Take care, Avi.

See you on the other side.

He's all alone.