Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Page #5

-Mr Scott, you're amazing.

-There's nothing amazing about it.

l know this ship

like the back of my hand.

All right. Look at it this way,

we'll get a good workout.

Yeah, or a heart attack.

Get Mr Scott to sickbay.

Jim, this is going to take me forever.

Where's Spock?

l believe I have found a faster way.

Bones?

You two go ahead.

l'll wait for the next car.

We're not splitting up.

-lt appears we're too heavy.

-Must be all those marsh melons.

Spock, the booster rockets.

lf I activate them now, Captain,

we'll be propelled upward

at an unbelievable rate.

Fire the rockets!

Captain, please come back down. . .

Hit the brakes!

l'm afraid I overshot the mark

by one level.

Nobody's perfect.

Spock.

Emergency channel open.

To anyone within the sound of my voice,

this is Captain James T. Kirk

of the Federation Starship Enterprise.

lf you read me, acknowledge.

Acknowledge.

Enterprise, this is Starfleet Command.

We read you. Over.

A hostile force has taken control

of our vessel

and put us on a direct course

with the Great Barrier.

Our coordinates are 0-0-0. . .

-Mark 2.

-. . .mark 2.

Request emergency assistance.

Acknowledge.

Understood, Enterprise. We are

dispatching a rescue ship immediately.

Roger, StarfIeet.

Plot course zero-zero-zero, mark two.

But Captain, that course will take us

into the Barrier as well.

Where Kirk goes, we follow.

l trust your message was received.

You can't expect us to stand by while

you take the ship into the Great Barrier.

What you fear is the unknown.

The people of your planet

once believed their world was flat.

Columbus proved it was round.

They said the sound barrier could never

be broken. lt was broken.

They said warp speed

could not be achieved.

The Great Barrier is the ultimate

expression of this universal fear.

lt's an extension of personal fear.

Captain Kirk, I so much want

your understanding.

l want your respect.

Are you afraid to hear me out?

l'm afraid of nothing.

Wait outside.

l'm sure you have many questions.

Here, amidst the stars

of our own galaxy,

we shall seek the answers together.

Easy. Easy. Easy, Scotty. Easy.

You're back with us.

Uhura, I had the strangest dream.

l dreamt that a madman

had taken over the Enterprise.

Scotty, dear, he's not a madman.

-He's not?

-No.

Sybok has simply put us in touch

with feelings that we've always been

afraid to express.

-l have to get back to the transporter.

-No, no, no. Scotty! Scotty.

There's so much I want to tell you.

Maybe you could wait

till l'm a wee bit stronger.

l don't think I could take it

in my present condition.

Or yours.

Sha'Ka'Ree.

"The Source."

"Heaven."

"Eden."

Call it what you will.

The Klingons call it "Qui'Tu."

For the Romulans, it's "Vorta Vor."

The Andorian word is. . .

ls unpronounceable.

Still, every culture in existence

shares this common dream

of a place from which creation sprang.

For us, that place will soon be reality.

The only reality I see is

that l'm a prisoner on my own ship.

What is this power you have

to control the minds of my crew?

l don't control minds. I free them.

How?

By making you face your pain,

and draw strength from it.

Once that's done, fear cannot stop you.

Sounds like brainwashing to me.

-Your pain is the deepest of all.

-What?

l can feel it. Can't you?

Leonard.

lt's some kind of trick.

Leonard.

Father?

-Oh, my God, don't do this to me.

-Leonard.

l'm here. l'm with you, Dad.

The pain.

Stop the pain.

l've done everything I can do.

You've got to hang on.

l can't stand the pain.

Help me.

All my knowledge, and I can't save him.

You've done all you can.

The support system will keep him alive.

You call this alive?

Son,

-release me.

-l can't do that, Dad.

But how?

How can I watch him suffer like this?

You're a doctor.

l'm his son.

Why did you do it?

To preserve his dignity.

That wasn't the worst of it.

-No.

-Was it?

-No!

-Share it.

Not long after, they found a cure.

A goddamn cure!

So if you hadn't killed him,

he might have lived.

No! I loved my father. I released him !

Then you did

what you thought was right.

Yes. No! Yes!

Release this pain. Release it!

This pain has poisoned your soul

for a long time.

Now you've taken the first step.

The other steps we'll take together.

Each man's pain is unique.

l hide no pain.

-l know you better than that.

-Do you?

-Spock, don't.

-lt's all right, Captain.

Proceed.

-What is this?

-l believe we are witnessing my birth.

Sarek, your son.

So human.

Spock?

-What have you done to my friends?

-l've done nothing.

This is who they are.

Didn't you know that?

No, I didn't.

-Now learn something about yourself.

-No. I refuse.

-Jim, try to be open about this.

-About what?

That l've made

the wrong choices in my life?

That I turned left

when I should have turned right?

l know what my weaknesses are.

l don't need Sybok to take me

on a tour of them.

lf you'd just unbend and allow yourself. . .

-And be brainwashed by this con man?

-l was wrong.

-This con man took away my pain.

-Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor.

You know that pain and guilt

can't be taken away

with the wave of a magic wand.

They're the things we carry with us,

the things that make us who we are.

lf we lose them, we lose ourselves.

l don't want my pain taken away.

l need my pain !

Sybok, this is the Bridge.

We're in approach of the Great Barrier.

Captain, l'm afraid

you'll have to remain here.

Spock, Dr McCoy, come with me.

-Spock?

-l cannot go with you.

-Why not?

-l belong here.

l don't understand.

Sybok, you are my brother,

but you do not know me.

l am not the outcast boy

you left behind those many years ago.

Since that time, I have found myself,

and my place.

l know who I am.

And I cannot go with you.

l guess you'd better count me out, too.

-Then I'll see you on the other side.

-Wait!

You know we'll never make it

through the Great Barrier.

But if we do, will that convince you

that my vision was true?

-Your vision?

-Given to me by God.

He waits for us on the other side.

You are mad.

Am l?

We'll see.

They say no ship can survive this.

l say they're wrong.

l say that danger is an illusion.

We have no instrument readings.

-ls it there or isn't it?

-Mr Sulu, full ahead.

Full ahead. Aye.

ls it possible?

Fascinating.

Are we dreaming?

lf we are, then life is a dream.

lnstruments back online.

lncredible. There is a power source

emanating from the planet

like nothing I have ever seen.

Sha'Ka'Ree.

Qui'Tu.

Vorta Vor.

Eden.

About the ship. . .

-The ship needs its captain.

-No special conditions?

No conditions.

What makes you think

l won't turn us around?

Because you, too, must know.

Well, if we're going to do it,

we're going to do it by the book.

Mr Chekov, you take the conn.

Mr Sulu, standard orbital approach.

Uhura, alert the shuttlecraft to stand by.

Sybok, Spock, Dr McCoy,

come with me.

The rest of you remain onboard

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