I should be on the bridge.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

I poured myself a drink. Would you like it?

Lieutenant Saavik was right. You never have faced death.

No, not like this. I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death... and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing.

You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.

Just words.

But good words. That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them. I was wrong about you... and I'm sorry.

Is that what you came here to say?

Mainly. And also that I'm... proud. Very proud to be your son.