Star Trek Page #5

Fencing.

Pre-jump.

Shuttle commander, you are clear

from USS Enterprise ...

Gentlemen, we're approaching the drop zone.

You have one shot

to land on that platform.

They may have defenses, so pull your chute

as late as possible.

Remember, the Enterprise won't be able to

beam you back until you've turned off that drill.

Good luck.

Away team is entering the atmosphere, sir.

Approaching the platform

at 5 800 m.

Kirk to Enterprise.

Distance to target 5 000 m.

Pull the chute.

- 2 000 m.

- Pull your chute, Olson.

No, not yet. Not yet.

- 1 500 m.

- Open the chute!

- Olson, pull your chute!

- 1 000 m.

Olson!

Olson is gone, sir.

Kirk has landed, sir.

Gimme your hand.

Olson had the charges.

I know.

- What do we do?

- This.

The jamming signal's gone. Transport

abilities are reestablished.

Transporter control is reengaged sir.

Check all gravitational sensors. I wanna

know what they were doing to the planet.

Aye, Commander. Captain. Sorry, captain.

The drill's been sabotaged sir but

we have reached the planet's core.

Launch red matter.

Kirk to Enterprise. They just launched something

at the planet through the hole they just drilled.

- Do you copy Enterprise?

- Yes, sir.

Captain, gravitational sensors

are off the scale.

If my calculations are correct,

they're creating a singularity

... that will consume the planet.

They're creating a black hole

at the center of Vulcan?

Yes.

How long does the planet have?

Minutes, sir. Minutes.

Alert Vulcan command center to

signal a planet wide evacuation

all channels, all frequencies.

-Wait. - Maintain standard orbit.

Yes, sir.

Where are you going?

To evacuate the Vulcan High Council.

Their task is to protect our cultural history,

- My parents will be among them.

- Can't you beam them out?

That is impossible. They will

be in the Katric ark.

I must get them myself.

- Chekov, you have the con.

- Aye.

Kirk to Enterprise.

Beam us out of here.

Stand by, locking on your signal.

- Retract the drill. Let's move out

- Yes, sir.

Fold up.

I can't lock on to them. Don't move.

Don't move!

Sulu.

Sulu.

Hold on.

I've gotcha.

Now pull my chute.

Kirk to Enterprise!

We're falling without a chute!

- Beam us up!

- I'm sorry I can't lock on to your signal.

- Beam us up!

- You're moving too fast.

I can do that. I can do that!

- Take the con.

- Aye, sir.

The black hole's expanding. We won't reach

minimum safe distance if we don't leave immediately.

Move. Move... I can do that.

I can do that. Move. Move...

Give me manual control, I can lock on.

Beam us up!

- Enterprise, where are you?

- Hold on. Hold on! Hold on!

Now! Now! Now! Do it now!

Now! Now! Now!

Hold on. Hold on. Compensating

gravitational pull. Aaand...

Gotcha.

- Thanks.

- No problem.

Clear the pad. I'm beaming to

the surface.

The surface of what?

What, you're going down there?

Are you nuts?

- Spock, you can't do that.

- Energize.

- Spock? - The planet has only

seconds left. We must evacuate.

Mother, now.

Spock to Enterprise.

Get us out now.

Locking on to you. Don't move.

Stay right where you are.

Transport in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...

- Mother!

- I'm losing her! I'm losing her! ...

I've lost her! I've lost her.

Acting captain's log, star date 2258.42.

We have had no word from captain Pike.

I have therefore classified him a hostage

of the war criminal known as Nero

Nero, who has destroyed my home planet

and most of its 6 billion inhabitants.

While the essence of our culture has been saved

in the elders who now reside upon this ship ...

I estimate no more than

I am now a member of

an endangered species.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

What do you need.

Tell me. Tell me.

I need everyone ...

- ... to continue performing admirably.

- OK.

You must have a lot of questions for me.

I only have one for you.

I need the subspace frequencies of

Starfleet's border protection grids.

Specifically those surrounding Earth.

Christopher, answer my question.

No, you answer for the genocide you just

committed against a peaceful planet.

No, I prevented genocide.

In my time, where I come from,

this is a simple mining vessel.

I chose a life of honest labor.

to provide for myself and the wife

who was expecting my child.

I was off planet doing my job

while your Federation did nothing.

And allowed my people to burn

while their planet broke in half.

And Spock, he didn't help us.

He betrayed us.

No, no... you're confused. You're misinformed.

Romulus hasn't been destroyed.

It's out there right now. You're blaming the

Federation for something that hasn't happened...

It has happened! I watched it happen!

I saw it happen!

Don't tell me it didn't happen!

And when I lost her.

I promised myself retribution.

And for 25 years I planned my

revenge against the Federation.

And forgot what it was like to

live a normal life.

I did not forget the pain.

It's a pain that every surviving

Vulcan now shares.

My purpose, Christopher,

is to not simply avoid the destruction

of the home that I love

but to create a Romulus that

exists free of the Federation.

You see only then will she be truly saved.

That is why I will destroy all the

remaining Federation planets.

Starting with yours.

Then we have nothing left to discuss.

You will give me the frequencies to

disable Earth's defenses.

Centaurian slugs. They latch

on to your brain stem...

and release a toxin that will

force you to answer.

Frequencies please, sir.

Christopher Pike, captain of

the USS Enterprise ...

As you wish.

Have you confirmed that Nero

is heading for Earth?

Their trajectory suggests no

other destination, captain.

Thank you, lt.

Earth may be his next stop, but

we have to assume

every Federation planet's a target

Out of the chair.

Well, if the Federation is the target,

why didn't they destroy us?

Why would they? Why waste a weapon?

We obviously weren't a threat.

That is not it. He said he wanted me to see

something. The destruction of my home planet.

How the hell did they do that, by the way?

And where did the Romulans get

that kind of weaponry?

The engineering comprehension necessary

to artificially create a black hole

may suggest an answer.

Such technology could theoretically

be manipulated

to create a tunnel through space-time.

Damn it man, I am a doctor, not physicist.

Are you actually suggesting

they're from the future?

If you eliminate the impossible, what ever

remains, however improbable

must be the truth.

How poetic.

Then what would an angry future

Romulan want with captain Pike?

As captain he does know details

of Starfleet's defenses.

What we need to do is catch

up to that ship,

disable it, take it over and get Pike back.

We are technologically outmatched in every

way. A rescue attempt would be illogical.

Nero's ship would have to drop

out of warp for us to overtake it.

Then what about assigning engineering

crews to try and boost our warp yield?

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