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hot displeasure.
"For thine arrows stick fast in me,
and thy hand presseth me sore.
"There is no soundness in my flesh
"because of thine anger,
"and there is no rest in my bones
"because of my sin.
"Make haste
"to help me, O Lord...
"...my salvation."
Wheel calling Spaceship;
Wheel calling Spaceship;
Come in, over;
The Wheel. They're trying to get us.
Spaceship to Wheel, we hear you.
We hear you. Come in.
Over.
- Lost them.
- No, it takes time.
Millions of miles.
Spaceship to Wheel, we hear you.
We hear you. Come in.
Come in. Over.
Spaceship to Wheel.
Come in, come in.
Over.
Getting bigger all the time,
isn't it, sir?
Yes, sergeant.
The planet and the blasphemy.
The what, sir?
Spaceship;
Spaceship;
Wheel calling Spaceship;
This is Fenton;
We've been calling you
constantly for weeks;
Come in; Over;
Spaceship to Wheel.
This is Captain Merritt.
Standby for the general.
General, sir, the Wheel.
Merritt speaking.
Here's the report:
due to near collision with asteroid.
But we can still reach
destination as plotted,
which may be Mars...
...or hell.
This voyage is a cursed abomination.
If it were possible, I'd come back now,
return the ship to Earth
- and blow it up!
- General, please.
Together with all plans
in existence for building another.
We're committing Man's
greatest sacrilege!
And we can't stop.
Professor, the general isn't well.
Fatigue.
He's been suffering from severe
headaches and insomnia.
He's very tired, almost exhausted.
We Iost a crew member,
Andre Fodor, struck by a meteor.
The general took it very hard.
I'm sure it's only temporary.
He'II be all right, don't worry.
Everything else is under control.
Hey, you guys, we're in trouble.
- Off our course?
- No, the general.
You ought to hear the blast
he just threw at the Wheel.
Not just that Bible talk
he's been spouting Iately.
Crazy stuff.
Things Iike blowing up the ship.
Things Iike that.
Gone.
Just Iike Cooper.
Listen, you slimy Iittle calumniator.
If you were one-tenth
the man the general is,
you'd be twice the man you are.
What he says or how he acts
is not for you to criticize.
And if I catch you doing it again,
I'II pull out your filthy tongue
and strangle you with it.
Sam.
How about coming down to the parlor
and having a Iittle cup of tea
with a Ionesome old friend?
Look at her,
all red-faced and pouting,
Iike she might be angry with us.
And with us coming
all this way to visit her.
Aft viewer, Sergeant Siegle.
We've gotta release the boosters.
Hey, don't we need them tanks?
They're empty,
will take us back home.
Ready, sir.
Jettison boosters.
Look at it go.
That's what would happen to us
if we hit the atmosphere that fast.
AII right, men, positions for Ianding.
SIowing nicely, sir.
CIear Ianding ahead.
No.
No.
We mustn't. We can't.
We haven't the right.
General, stop!
What are you doing?
You'II kill us.
Hold your places
until the ship is raised.
The ship is upright, sir.
Good Ianding.
This is a good Ianding?
Any Ianding's a good Ianding.
Gravity.
Beautiful gravity.
Let's go below, shall we?
Feels Iike good soil.
Given water, I bet you can grow
anything here we grow on Earth.
Big things, maybe,
Iike in Jack the Beanstalk.
Be wonderful to try and see
what could happen.
I have some flower seed.
I been carrying them
ever since I Ieft Hawaii.
I was gonna try them on the moon,
but here in this soil...
You'd need a pipeline from the
Captain, Iook.
Must have damaged the pipes
when we Ianded.
Wait here.
General, stop!
"As wax melteth before the fire,
so Iet the wicked perish
- "at the presence of God."
- Father, stop it!
You're mad! Hydrazine and nitric acid
explode on contact!
We'II be blown to bits!
- Father!
- Stay back.
Dad, it's Barney.
PIease, you've got to Iisten to me.
Don't turn that valve!
Don't turn it!
Father, please.
I...
Don't blame yourself.
- You killed him.
- No.
Your own father.
You murdered him!
Why, you no-good...
No.
No, captain.
You'II not die, not now.
But when we get back,
and we'II get back,
we've got a date, you and me,
with a court-martial.
And I'II be the witness.
And it'II be a rope for you, captain.
And I hope they make it slow,
very slow,
so I can watch you kick.
No signs of water.
Not even bugs or worms.
They ought to give this planet
back to the...
Who do you give it back to?
No people.
What water we have Ieft is our Iife.
Every drop must be rationed.
No washing, no heat.
Look, captain...
...why couldn't we kick off
with what we got Ieft?
We could, except for one slight detail.
The Earth wouldn't be there
when we arrived.
How very unpleasant.
So how Iong we gotta stick around
this crummy planet?
How old are you, Sergeant Siegle?
- Just turned 29.
- When you turn again,
you can start packing.
You and Sergeant Mahoney
start draining the pipes
of the heating system.
Well, he says we gotta
squeeze the water.
So Iet's get to squeezing.
It's gonna be a cold, dry winter.
God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ;;;
;;;our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
Call the Wheel again, sergeant.
What for?
To wish them a merry Christmas?
Spaceship to Wheel.
Come in, Wheel.
Over.
How Iong you gonna
keep doing this?
We ain't heard from
the Wheel in months.
And supposing
they answer, so what?
Maybe we ask for room service...
...and have them send up
some ice water.
We've done what no men
in the world have done before us.
We've got to Iet them know
before it's too Iate.
If it's humanly possible,
we've got to report.
Report what?
That the operation was a big success,
but the patients are dying
on a Iousy, dried-up ball
- in the corner pocket of nowhere?
- We could report a murder, captain.
I've told you everything
that happened, sergeant.
Yes, captain...
...that you have.
And you can tell it to me
from now until doomsday,
but don't forget, I was there and
I saw everything with me own eyes.
Spaceship calling the Wheel.
Spaceship to Wheel.
Over.
The general wasn't crazy,
he was right.
We asked for it.
There's a curse on this ship
and everybody in it.
Baloney.
You can Ieave that stuff
back on Earth...
...but it don't operate
past a thousand-mile Iimit.
Only God can make a tree.
OK.
Where is it?
Where's the trees and the flowers
and the grass?
Where's the water?
You hear me?
Where's the water?
Hey, fellas, Iook!
- Snow!
- Boy, you can hit me with a snowball!
- Merry Christmas, boys!
- Open the hatch!
OK, captain, let her rip;
Leave that, Mahoney.
We won't take anything
unessential to the voyage.
Everything OK up there, sir?
AII secure. By this time tomorrow,
we'II be on our way home.
Just about finished, captain.
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