If I don't report in 15 minutes, evacuate the crew.
Sir, we can't just-
There is no help for us out here. Use the auto-pilot, and get off this ship.
Aye, Captain.
You're Captain now, Mr. Kirk.
I may throw up on you.
I think these things are pretty safe.
Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull, and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles. See if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding! Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
Well I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
Yeah, well, I got no where else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.
The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean you program it to be unwinnable.
Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario.
I don't believe in no-win scenarios.
Then not only did you violate the rules, you also failed to understand the principal lesson.
Please, enlighten me.
You of all people should know, Cadet Kirk. A captain cannot cheat death.
I of all people?
Your father, Lieutenant George Kirk, assumed command of his vessel before being killed in action, did he not?
I don't think you like the fact that I beat your test...
Furthermore, you have failed to divine the purpose of the test.
Enlighten me again.
The purpose is to experience fear. Fear in the face of certain death. To accept that fear, and maintain control of oneself and one's crew. This is a quality expected in every Starfleet captain.
You are, in fact, the Mr. Scott who postulated the theory of transwarp beaming?
Scotty
That's what I'm talking about! How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a, like a grapefruit was limited to about a hundred miles. I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.
Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?
Scotty
...I'll tell you when it reappears. [clears throat] I don't know. I do feel guilty about that.
What's it like? Not to feel anger or heartbreak, or the need to stop at nothing to avenge the death of the woman who gave birth to you?
Back away from me-
You feel nothing! It must not even compute for you! You never loved her! [Spock attacks Kirk in anger]
Spock!
Doctor, I am no longer fit for duty. I hereby relinquish my command on the grounds that I have been emotionally compromised. Please note the time and date in the ship's log.
Scotty
I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!
Well congratulations, Jim, now we've got no captain and no goddamn first officer to replace him.
Yeah, we do. [Kirk sits in the Captain's chair]
Pike made him first officer.
You've gotta be kidding me!
Thanks for the support.
I sure hope you know what you're doing, Captain.
So do I. [Kirk opens a comm link] Attention, crew of the Enterprise, this is James Kirk. Mr. Spock has resigned commission and advanced me to acting Captain. I know you are all expecting to regroup with the fleet, but I'm ordering a pursuit course of the enemy ship to Earth. I want all departments at battle stations and ready in ten minutes. Either we're going down...or they are. Kirk out.
You can't even speak... [Kirk chokes out an unintelligible statement] What?
I got your gun. [shoots Ayel]
Captain, what are you doing?
Spock, showing them compassion might go a long way to promoting peace between us and the Romulans. It's logic, I thought you'd like that.
No, not really. Not this time.
Nero
I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you!
You got it. Arm phasers, fire everything we've got.
This is Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Your ship is compromised, too close to the singularity to survive without assistance, which we are willing to provide.
Captain, what are you doing?
Showing them compassion. it may be the only way to earn peace with Romulus. It's logic, Spock. I thought you'd like that.
No, not really. Not this time.
Nero
I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you!
You got it. Arm phasers, fire everything we've got!
