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Last time on Star Trek Phase Two.

Will you marry me?

Of course.

What kind of an idiot puts his ship in a self -destruction orbit?

Perhaps we should ask what kind of circumstance requires it. He's not

He's James T. Kirk.

Have you?

Hey! Goddamn bloodworms. Regular bloodworms.

Sir, there's no blood in this man's body.

None at all.

I should have you all arrested for insubordination.

They're all dead.

Everyone's dead.

You'll see.

You're next.

All of you.

You're next.

Starfleet!

Starfleet Command has just ordered us to destroy the Copernicus.

No, sir.

I will not assume command of this ship.

They're coming through!

Now, our conclusions.

Captain, our position is not secure.

Got it. Those repulsor fields on the Copernicus.

Would the mission team be safe inside?

Aye, for a while.

It was tricky.

I think I can flex through.

Spock, we're going to beam you and your team over. Captain, you cannot.

Listen, Spock, we're going to send you to the cargo bay inside the repulsor

feed. Captain, do not be... Shut up, Spock. And stand by to beam. That's an

order.

Lock it on.

I've got them.

Mission team ready.

Energize.

Energize them.

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.

Commander Spock, first officer of the Enterprise.

What is your status?

There's 16... 15 of us left. We started with

133.

Michael Blodgett, Starfleet Medical Research Division.

Thank God you're here.

We weren't sure if our signal had gotten out.

Forgive me. I'm Dr. Jenny Yar.

Commander Blodgett, Dr. Yar.

You have violated the Regulin quarantine, a Code 9 breach.

Our mission was authorized.

A classified research operation to see if we could find a way to securely

neutralize plasmacytes. And we found the answer.

It's an extraordinary breakthrough.

Obviously.

It's vital we get this information to the Enterprise.

Plasmacytes bind hemoglobin into chains. When they reach critical mass, they

animate. They transmute. They...

Turn into blood worms. Yes, we've seen.

Mr. Spock, the repulsors are surrounded.

What's left of the Copernicus crew?

Plasma sites become blood worms in four days.

We've been here three.

Three and a half.

The Copernicus will burn up in less than six hours.

That was Captain Tyler's idea in case...

No one received our signal.

Great soul.

We don't have that long.

The repulsors are failing.

112 minutes.

That's why you have to get started now, Commander Spock.

Started? With the rescue, of course.

Commander Blodgett, this is a Code 9 breach.

Rescue is not an option.

That doesn't apply here.

We found a way to neutralize plasma sites.

This is the cure.

Back to Enterprise.

They've lived with this research for years.

And I'm trying to sort it out in an hour.

I mean, their experiments work.

But they still miss something.

What?

Look, this process breaks up the hematic chains.

I mean, the bloodworms dissolve before forming, but it will most certainly kill

the patient.

Bones, it shuts down the body's oxygen transport systems.

I mean, this so -called cure is just too damn dangerous.

Compared to the alternative?

Starfleet gave you a direct order. Starfleet doesn't know a thing about

We'll both be in breach.

It won't be the first time. Jim, I can't guarantee this will work.

Bones, tell me you can't do this and I'll stop pushing. The problem is

contamination. I mean...

As fast as we suppress the formation of the worms, new wavicles reinfect.

So you've got to keep suppressing and suppressing and suppressing.

That's probably where they screwed up.

Repulsors aren't enough. You need isolation, complete isolation.

Wait a minute.

Fontana!

Fontana! Get the hell in here!

We're going to need artificial blood.

transfusers, oxypumps, sterilizers, thermal reduction.

We're going to neutralize the infection on the Copernicus.

Then beam the patient, direct the sickbay. We'll have a three -minute

transfuse. Complete blood replacement.

Start synthesizing pneumatic plasma.

We'll lower their body temperatures and pump them with nitroglycerin. That'll

buy us extra time.

And we're going to need injection transfusers. We've got to complete each

in... 60 seconds.

90 at the outside. I mean, we've got three minutes, but let's not push it.

And we're going to need time for verification.

What are you waiting for?

And a recovery team.

Grab anyone who can tell the difference between a saline solution and a bowel

movement. You got that?

And one more thing.

Kirk to Spock.

Spock here.

Captain, you'll have to rescue Dr. Yar and I first.

You must be joking.

Starfleet regulations, order 238.

I know the order.

Then you know it mandates that in situations of dire emergency, the

important Starfleet personnel must be evacuated first. Captain, there are

here in very bad shape.

And unfortunately, Mr. Blodgett has Starfleet regulations on his side.

he and Dr. Yar know about this plasma flight infestation.

It's too important to lose.

Dr. McCoy will coordinate the efforts from here.

Where's Dr. McCoy?

The transporter room.

What the hell do you think you're doing?

This isn't negotiable, Jim.

Those people need a doctor who knows what he's doing.

I'm in.

Bones, I can order you not to go. You're not the only one who can disobey an

order. You want to save him?

So do I.

Now let me do my goddamn job.

Fine.

Good luck.

Thank you.

Energize.

Energizing.

It was the logical thing to do.

Captain's lodged to our date, supplemental.

Dr. McCoy has beamed over to the Copernicus to treat the survivors.

If he is not successful, we will lose both ships.

Lieutenant Uhura.

Ensign Jameson.

I think you should know, some of the crew, they're concerned.

They think the captain should reconsider the rescue operation.

They do?

They're just worried.

If the Copernicus, with all of their precautions, could become infected, what

could happen to us?

Listen, gentlemen.

This ship, this captain...

We don't leave people behind.

Not if there's any chance that they can be saved. And there is a chance. A good

one.

Please don't tell anyone who has concerns.

The captain would do the same for them, too.

I understand.

Remember, gentlemen, we're explorers.

Risk is what we do.

But the captain, he'd give his own life before he'd endanger this crew.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

McCoy to sickbay.

Stand by to receive Yar and Blodgett.

Pleasant site levels are dropping.

Energize on my mark.

Now just relax.

As soon as the magnetic chains are neutralized, you'll beam over for

transfusion. Okay?

Dr. Yar, what controls these creatures in their native environment?

There aren't any controls.

These things aren't native to anywhere.

They were created by the ancient Regulans as a weapon.

With no controls? No antidotes?

They were a doomsday weapon.

They destroyed the regulants and anyone else who approached.

Well, they got the doomsday part right.

Time.

Enterprise, go.

Repulsor field.

We have 60 minutes.

15.

It'll be close.

We'll make it through this, I promise.

Whatever it takes, no matter what.

Off you go.

Targeting phasers.

Hold your fire, Mr. Kark.

Ship to ship.

Klingon vessel,

this is Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.

Do not attack.

For your own safety, do not attack.

Enterprise, I accept your surrender.

Prepare to be boarded.

Captain Kark. He doesn't listen very well, does he?

He's a Klingon.

Kark! The Enterprise is involved in a rescue operation.

The Copernicus is infected with... bloodworms.

Bloodworms? Rescue?

Impossible.

You lie, Kirk.

Every race in the galaxy knows the danger of bloodworms.

Destroy that ship immediately.

If you do not do it, I will.

Lock disruptors on target.

Prepare to fire.

Kirk, you fool!

You Klingon bastard, hold your fire.

We can destroy each other here and now. Is that what you want?

It is a good way to die.

Copernicus found a way to neutralize the bloodworm infection. We're beaming

survivors aboard this ship even as we speak.

Then you are dooming your own ship as well.

I shall be happy to destroy the Enterprise next.

Show him. Open the channel.

Look for yourself, Captain.

Koi to Sigma.

Energize on my mark.

I admire your courage.

It is almost clean on.

What if this plan succeeds?

If it succeeds.

We will have to destroy them.

We cannot let the Earthers have this advantage.

Why not just destroy them now?

Because there is more to this than meets the eye.

There's an old saying when you have a Klingon by the tail.

Klingons have tails?

Don't do it, Spock.

Any application of energy on the bloodworms could shatter into waveicles.

To infect the next victim.

Insidious, Doctor.

According to Dr. Yar's research, the bloodworm form is an aberration.

It occurs with an interruption of the plasma site's ability to catalyze.

If we could repair that interruption, it would neutralize the danger posed by

the plasma sites.

Or they might become something even more dangerous.

Damn it.

McCoy to Kirk.

Kirk here.

Jim, we've got a problem.

We're not going to have enough artificial blood.

We exhausted our stores to be our own wounded.

I never expected I'd have to replace the blood of 21 people.

We've got enough for 12.

If we stretch, 15.

Bones, I'm not leaving six people behind.

Jim, you're going to have to ask for blood donors.

I see.

All decks, this is the captain speaking.

We're going to need blood donors to help the Copernicus.

I'll need 72 volunteers.

Make that 71.

Report to sickbay.

Seventy.

Permission to leave the bridge, sir?

Sixty -nine.

Sixty -eight.

Sixty -seven.

Sixty -six.

Permission granted, but somebody take the count.

Miller? Aye, sir.

Steady as she goes They

are desperate They will all

die Then I shall enjoy watching

Lieutenant? Captain.

The Copernicus log is triple encoded, sir. I don't know how much of it I'll be

able to reconstruct.

Perhaps Mr. Spock would be more successful.

I want some answers.

Who authorized your mission?

Captain Kirk, this is beyond your authority.

It's strictly need to know. This is my ship, and I need to know.

It's a Section 31 operation.

Section 31, covert operation.

Counter -operation.

Preparedness. The Klingon threat.

This is the Enterprise, and I'll deal with the Klingon. Captain Kerr, can you

imagine what would happen if the Klingons spread bloodworms throughout

Federation space?

Yes. The destruction of red -blooded lifeforms on a catastrophic scale.

Our mission was to find a way of controlling and containing plasma sites,

specifically in the case of open hostilities.

I have found no evidence of that in the Copernicus log, sir.

Captain, something disturbs you.

You disturb me, Commander.

When it looked as if we might not survive, I ordered the ship's log wiped

the main computer destroyed.

Everything. We didn't want to take the chance of our research falling into

hands. Captain, this is the last copy.

Captain, that's a priority blue medical research log.

You don't know what it's worth. What this operation cost.

Oh, I know what it cost.

It cost the life of Lieutenant Mikhail Hodel.

I want copies of this for Spock and McCoy, both science and medical, and

else on the ship who needs to know.

Security, take these two to their quarters and see to it that they stay

Come on, Dr. McCoy, we're next.

No. You and Ensign Kirk will go next.

Dr. McCoy, you will be needed on the Enterprise to manage the recovery of

team. Now, wait a minute, Spock.

If anything happens to that young man, the Captain will have... Doctor, my

Vulcan physiology requires special attention.

As much as it pains me to say this, you are the best qualified to treat me.

He sure knows how to swear, doesn't he?

I thought we were going to need a Vulcan death grip or something.

There's no such thing as a Vulcan death grip.

Is there?

We are not allowed to tell.

Don't you dare give me any Vulcan blood.

Shut up.

We have 13 minutes left.

You and Peter have to... You and Ensign Kirk. No! I'm the security guy. I go

last. No.

Stop it! Stop trying to protect me, Spock. You're not my uncle.

Ensign, your courage is admirable, but I am a Vulcan. I have greater physical

strength. Mr. Spock, your Vulcan blood will take twice as long to process. You

have to go now. Alex, you can't... Argument over. Now lie down.

You must have learned your bedside manner from Dr.

McCoy. Take that as a compliment.

That was not fair, Alex.

You can yell at me later.

Now lie down before you fall down.

You too, sir.

Here.

Take this.

Don't let them get you.

I won't.

In a few more minutes we'll both be home.

I love you.

Enterprise, on my mark.

Standing by.

Thank you.

I need to take care of Spock, too.

have injected the hypo.

You're going to have to monitor me by remote.

I won't be able to... Oh, God!

Enterprise, the repulsor field is failing.

Stay with me.

They are going to lose him.

That is their weakness.

They are always overreaching.

Enterprise, stay with me.

We're watching you, Lieutenant.

As soon as telemetry shows you're clear, we'll beam you over.

Where's Alex?

Yeah. Stay with me, Peter.

Alex, I'm here.

It's just another minute.

Enterprise, I'm almost there.

Oh, God.

Alex!

Enterprise.

The repulsor field has failed.

Somebody do something!

Scotty.

I've got no safe place to put him down, Captain.

Peter!

Alex!

Don't go!

I'm so sorry, I... Alex!

I thought I had more time.

Somebody help him!

I guess I'm going to need this after all.

Hang on, Freeman. You're almost there.

Alex!

Alex!

Freeman, don't do it. This isn't the answer.

Alex, please!

Peter!

Alex, don't go!

Alex!

Peter, I love you.

I love you, too.

Alex, please!

You can't give up.

Alex!

Alex!

Alex!

Hang on for just a moment longer.

Freeman!

Shut that thing off.

Alex! Shut that goddamn thing off.

Alex!

Bones, how are you feeling?

Like Scotty after Chorley's.

I am fine, too.

He's hurting pretty badly, Jim.

Peter.

It's my fault he's dead.

If I hadn't have gone, there would have been one less person to rescue.

He'd still be alive.

I shouldn't have gone.

Peter, you did your job.

And you were right.

I was trying to protect you.

You're the only family I have left.

Alex was my family.

You were never there.

You were always out in space somewhere.

I have no family.

I should have found a way.

You did your job.

Oh, Spock is right.

The Enterprise.

The crew.

You.

You're my family.

You're all that I've ever had.

If it had been you... If it had been me, Jim, you would not have done anything

different.

Captain? Kirk,

you've seen the evidence.

Do you believe me now?

You have not solved anything, Kirk.

You have made it worse.

Your Federation will use the Blood Worms as a weapon.

I have to destroy you.

I will make you a trade, Captain.

You will give me a copy of your data files.

And I will not destroy your ship.

Or I give you my files and you destroy my ship anyway.

Kirk, I trust you about as much as you trust me.

So, it appears I have an Earth to buy the tail.

I cannot hang on.

And I cannot let go.

We cannot destroy the Copernicus.

If we use phasers or photon torpedoes to destroy her, it will generate a very

large cloud of wavicles.

Conceivably, they could find their way to another ship, or even a planet.

Wouldn't they burn up once they entered the tail from the red star?

The red giant isn't hot enough.

The wavicles will use the energy of the star to reproduce at an incredible rate.

The star will become a gigantic incubator.

Forever. So?

This is what your starfic research has created, Kirk.

Death for everyone.

And you call Klingons warmongers.

You do have a solution, don't you, Spock?

Both. The plasmacytes are not a disease.

They are a diseased life form.

The healthy form of the wavicle is benign.

It uses oxygen only as a catalyst for transformation.

The particle form is an interruption.

Jim, there is a...

the plasmacytes. A binding mechanism would reboot the catalyst back to its

ancestral state and allow them to complete their natural life cycle.

But Dr. Yar did not have time to complete the synthesis.

We can manufacture the catalytics.

Fontana's already working on it.

Not a difficult process.

But the plasmacytes will only be able to access the catalytic elements in a

human bloodstream.

It would require a volunteer.

It would be a suicide mission, Jim.

No, I'm not going to authorize it.

Jim, I'm running out of boxes to think outside of.

Less than two hours ago, you were prepared to destroy the Copernicus.

This is one instead of .1.

It's still one too many, Spock. Nevertheless, logic compels that we...

with your logic, Spock.

Are you volunteering?

My blood is unsuitable, Doctor.

Yours, however... Gentlemen, stop.

We have a volunteer.

No, absolutely not. Stop being my uncle and be my captain.

Not this way. If I don't go, someone else will have to go instead.

I should be the one to do this.

Let me be with Alec. Peter, you're speaking from grief.

That's irrational.

Captain, I've examined him. He's physically and mentally fit.

Jim, we are running out of time.

Give it to me.

Don't do it, Fontana.

Quiet, and I'll declare you unfit for duty.

You sanctimonious bastard.

Accident of birth.

You're still not going. Jim, there is one other thing you should know.

This is the part of the law Lieutenant Uhura could not decret.

Garg, have I earned enough of your trust to ask you to hold your fire just a

little while longer?

Carg, I'm going to introduce you to a human concept.

We call it trust.

Kyle. Shut down the weapon systems.

That's an order.

Ah, trust.

A condition necessary for betrayal.

This is Mackle Blodgett and Jenna Yar.

The two officers responsible for this entire situation.

Captain, what are you doing?

You want to give me one good reason why I shouldn't share your information with

the Klingons?

It would neutralize our advantage.

It would give them a weapon.

This isn't a weapon the Klingons want. It's dishonorable.

Honor?

Among Klingons?

More honor, apparently, than among some humans.

Your mission had absolutely nothing to do with ending the plasma -sized

infestation.

The Copernicus was headed for Klingon space.

Stand by to fire!

Carl, hold your fire.

You need to hear all this.

Captain, the Klingons started this war.

a big, big mistake.

They underestimated us.

There will be consequences.

Consequences?

If we don't do this, they will.

Do what?

Say it.

Use the blood worms to end the Klingon threat once and for all. Genocide?

You're insane.

I'm the sanest one here, Doctor.

If you're not with us, you're with the Klingon.

Are you getting all this, Kark?

It looks as if you want me to destroy your ship.

What is it you're trying to prove here, Kirk?

This is what blind hatred looks like.

Is it going to solve anything?

Is it going to end our bloodworm problem?

When the Copernicus hits the flare, the bloodworms are going to be released at a

galactic scale.

And we have the only defense.

And the crew of the Copernicus.

And all those that have died.

Is this what they died for?

Garg, are you courageous enough to trust an Earthman again?

I propose peace.

Klingons do not make peace.

And how is that working for you, Garg?

How many ships have you lost?

How many friends, colleagues, family members?

How is that working for the Empire these days?

Gargant is a far greater challenge.

We must work together to solve this problem.

Are you as great as your legend says you are?

You appeal to my vanity, Kirk.

I like that.

You are audacious, Captain.

I like that, too.

But there is still no reason to trust you or any other Earther.

A reason.

A reason.

I'll give you a reason.

Here it is, Dr. Yar.

Here it is.

The cure.

So save it.

Because all it's going to take is one person sacrificing himself to save us

One volunteer.

Who's it going to be?

Who's it going to be, Kark?

Because I sure as hell don't see one damn Klingon volunteering.

Is that your challenge?

You are just looking for another way to save your nephew.

You can't do this, Kirk. I won't let you.

A repulter jar, Captain.

Yes.

Plasmacin.

Everybody, you see what I have here?

Tell him to back off, Kirk.

Everybody stand down. That's an order.

What do you want, Blodgett?

Starfleet doesn't have the courage to use these on the Klingon.

I do.

If my thumb comes off this button, you'll all have bloodworms crawling up

guts. Well, thank you for finally telling the truth about the Copernicus'

mission. Kirk, how would you have reacted if you'd known this from the

beginning? Do you even... have to ask.

We will bring your blood worms back to you.

It will be a mutual suicide pact.

You son of a bitch!

You killed all those people!

You killed Alex!

Put that phaser down.

That's an order.

He shoots me, there'll be the Copernicus all over again.

I'm fully prepared to destroy this shit if that's what it takes to stop you.

Peter, let Starfleet handle this.

Starfleet? His mission was authorized by Starfleet. Not the Starfleet we serve,

Peter.

Stand aside, sir.

Ensign Kirk, I will not allow you to lower yourself to that man's level.

Peter, you don't want to do this.

Hatred isn't real to me either.

And we don't want the Enterprise infected with it any more than we want

infected with bloodworms.

This isn't about the Enterprise.

This is for Alex.

You're right.

It is.

You knew him better than anyone.

That's what he'd want for you?

To murder?

To kill in his name?

He wanted... He only wanted...

how much you loved me.

And I know how much it hurts.

I'm sorry.

God, I'm sorry. I should have told you.

I should have told you sooner.

Damn you!

Damn you!

Hey, what are you doing?

Security.

Get this bastard off my bridge.

You.

Captain Kirk.

I believe I've solved the problem of your plasma sites.

Be me over to the Copernicus.

I went along with it because I wanted to solve the mystery of the plasma sites.

It has to end here, now, all of it. I'm going to stop all of this.

Damn it, Gar. We can save you.

So someone else can die? No.

Ensign Kirk, I'm so sorry about your loss, but this is my responsibility, not

yours.

The plasmacites are thick.

I can heal them.

I have a daughter.

When you get back to Earth, will you tell her everything?

Don't leave anything out.

I just ask one thing.

That she remember me.

Jenna Natasha Yar.

Scotty, I wanted to beam over to think about this.

Enterprise, are you monitoring?

We're watching.

it doesn't hurt it

doesn't

hurt it doesn't hurt at all

It is a sparkle dancer.

Well, I'll be damned.

Beautiful.

The High Command will not believe this.

Set a course for home. That's stupid.

Fascinating.

Are you going to have me court -martialed?

No.

Because I'm your nephew?

Peter, I don't need to be fair.

I need to be smart.

When you make a mistake, it's not a reason to quit.

It's a lesson to learn.

Are you learning, Peter?

Are you going to have me transferred off the Enterprise?

What do you want?

I want to stay.

Here.

Where Alec served.

Good.

Because I want you to stay.

In ancient times, when a warrior fell in battle, they'd put him on a boat with

his sword and his shield, and they'd send him off in flames.

Godspeed, McHale Hotel.

Godspeed.

Godspeed, Alex.

Godspeed.

I loved... so much.

And it hurts, Uncle Jim.

So much.

I know, Peter.

I know.

Gentlemen, space is not the final frontier.

The final frontier is the human soul.

Space is where we'll meet the challenge.

Check off.

Land of course.

It's Kyle.

Take us out.