Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Page #4

You say you are due for retirement.

May I ask, do your hands shake?

-Objection!

-I was nervous.

No.

You were incompetent.

You were incompetent!

Whether deliberately or as a result

of age combined with drink,

-the court will have to determine.

-My God, man! I tried to save him!

I tried to save him.

I was desperate to save him.

He was the last best hope

in the universe for peace.

The witness is excused.

There we have it, citizens.

We have finally established

the particulars of the crime,

and now we come to the architect

of this tragic affair,

James Tiberius Kirk.

What would

your favourite author say, Captain?

"Let us sit upon the ground

"and tell sad stories

of the death of kings."

Tell us your sad story, Kirk.

Tell us that you planned to take revenge

for the death of your son.

-That's not true.

-Objection!

Captain Kirk has not been identified

as the assassin.

Sustained.

I offer into the record

this excerpt

from the Captain's personal log.

I've never trusted Klingons,

and I never will.

I have never been able to forgive them

for the death of my boy.

Again. Again!

I've never trusted Klingons,

and I never will.

I have never been able to forgive them

for the death of my boy.

Are those your words?

Those words were spoken by me.

Objection!

My client's political views

are not on trial here.

On the contrary!

Captain Kirk's views and motives

are indeed

at the very heart of the matter.

This officer's record

shows him to be an insubordinate,

unprincipled,

career-minded opportunist,

with a history of violating

the chain of command

whenever it suited him!

Continue.

Indeed, the record shows

that Captain Kirk

once held the rank ofAdmiral,

and that Admiral Kirk was broken

for taking matters into his own hands

in defiance of regulations of the law.

Do you deny being demoted

for these charges?

Don't wait for the translation!

Answer me now!

I cannot deny it.

-You were demoted?

-Yes.

-For insubordination?

-On occasion, I have disobeyed orders.

And were you obeying

or disobeying orders

when you arranged the assassination

of Chancellor Gorkon?

I didn't know about the assassination

until we boarded the ship.

You still deny the Enterprise

fired on Kronos One?

-Well...

-Your Honours, please!

And you still deny your men beamed

aboard and shot the Chancellor?

Objection!

I cannot confirm or deny actions

I did not witness.

Captain Kirk,

are you aware

that as the captain of a starship,

you are required to be responsible

for the actions of your men?

I am.

And if it should be proved

that members of your crew

did, in fact,

carry out such an assassination...

Jim, they're setting us up.

Your Honours...

Do not answer!

Captain Kirk,

you will answer the question.

As captain,

I am responsible for the conduct

of the crew under my command.

Your Honours, the State rests.

Send to Commander Enterprise.

"We stand ready to assist you.

Captain Sulu, U.S.S. Excelsior. "

It is the determination of this court

that the prisoners are guilty as charged.

I wish to note for the record

that the evidence against my clients

is entirely circumstantial.

I beg the court to consider this

when pronouncing its sentence.

So noted.

Captain James T. Kirk,

Dr Leonard McCoy,

in the interest of fostering amity

for the forthcoming peace talks,

the sentence of death is commuted.

It is the judgement of this court

that, without possibility of reprieve

or parole,

you be taken from this place

to the dilithium mines

on the penal asteroid of Rura Penthe,

there to spend

the rest of your natural lives.

Rura Penthe?

Known throughout the galaxy

as the aliens' graveyard.

Better to kill them now

and get it over with.

Lieutenant, the torpedo hit

once again, please.

Hold.

It is Enterprise.

-We fired.

-That is not possible.

All weapons visually accounted for, sir.

An ancestor of mine maintained

that if you eliminate the impossible,

whatever remains, however improbable,

must be the truth.

What exactly does that mean?

It means that if we cannot

have fired those torpedoes,

someone else did.

Well, they did not fire on themselves,

and there were no other ships present.

There was

an enormous neutron energy surge.

Not from us!

A neutron surge that big

could only be produced by another ship.

Kronos One?

Too far away.

Very near us. Possibly beneath us.

If there were a ship beneath us,

the Klingons would have seen her.

Would they?

-A bird-of-prey.

-A bird-of-prey.

Cloaked?

A bird-of-prey cannot fire

when she's cloaked.

All things being equal, Mr Scott,

I would agree.

However, things are not equal.

This one can.

We must inform Starfleet Command.

Inform them of what,

a new weapon that is invisible?

Raving lunatics,

that's what they'll call us.

They'll say that we're so desperate

to exonerate the Captain

that we'll say anything.

And they would be correct.

We have no evidence,

only a theory

which happens to fit the facts.

Assuming you're right, Mr Spock,

why would they fire

on their own president?

Indeed.

This ship will be searched

from bow to stern.

Lieutenant Valeris, you'll be in charge.

-Aye, sir.

-I do not understand.

If there was a ship underneath us,

surely the assassins

beamed aboard from that vessel,

not Enterprise.

You're forgetting something,

Mr Chekov.

According to our databanks,

this ship fired those torpedoes.

If we did, the killers are here.

If we did not,

whoever altered the databanks is here.

In either case,

what we are looking for is here.

What are we looking for, sir?

Lieutenant?

Two pairs of gravity boots.

This is the gulag Rura Penthe.

There is no stockade, no guard tower,

no electronic frontier.

Only a magnetic shield

prevents beaming.

Punishment means exile

from prison to the surface.

On the surface, nothing can survive.

Work well and you will be treated well.

Work badly and you will die.

Oh, my God.

The universal translator's

been confiscated.

I'm sorry?

He's definitely on about something, Jim.

If this is your spot, we'll move on.

He wants your obedience

to the brotherhood of aliens.

-He's got it.

-And your coat.

I'm afraid not. Besides, it wouldn't fit.

Thanks.

This will help keep you warm.

I'm Martia.

You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume.

How'd you know that?

We don't get many

presidential assassins.

-We didn't kill Gorkon.

-Of course not,

-but there is a reward for your death.

-It figures.

We've been set up all along.

Somebody up there

wants you out of the way.

-Nothing in here.

-Nothing here.

-Any progress?

-None.

We have a crew of 300

turning their own quarters inside out,

but the killers may still be among them.

Surely they have disposed

of these boots by now.

Would it not have been logical

to have left them on Gorkon's ship?

Even logic must give way to physics.

Gravity had not been restored

by the time they escaped.

Without the boots,

they would have floated off

the Klingon transporter pads.

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