Star Trek The Original Series Season 1 Episode 17 The Squire Of Gothos [1966]
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00:00:00Oh clear ahead Captain. Sensors indicate zero register. Forward readings Mr. Spock.
00:00:10Rev electric reading no significant change zero space density. Ahead warp factor three Mr. Sulu.
00:00:17Felony Beta-6 wants their supplies so we'll get across this void in a hurry. Void? Stardust.
00:00:25The word conjures up pictures of dims, oases, mirages, sunlight, palm trees. We're 900 light years from that kind of desert bones.
00:00:37The precise meaning of the word desert is a waterless barren wasteland. I fail to understand your romantic nostalgia for such a place.
00:00:48It doesn't surprise me Mr. Spock. I can't imagine a mirage ever disturbing those mathematically perfect brain waves of yours.
00:00:58Thank you Dr. McCoy. Moving on schedule into quadrant 904. Beta-6 is eight days distant.
00:01:09Something Mr. Spock? Unusual Captain. I'm now getting a sizable space displacement reading.
00:01:18Can you verify that navigator? No sir. Forward sweeps are negative.
00:01:22Wait, verified sir. We must be in some sort of light warp or we would have picked it up earlier.
00:01:28Put it on visual.
00:01:35Iron silica body. Planet size. Magnitude 1e. We'll be passing close.
00:01:43Inconceivable this body has gone unnoted on all our records.
00:01:48And yet, here it is. No time to investigate. Science stations gather data for computer banks.
00:01:57Uhura, notify the discovery on subspace radio.
00:02:01Strong interference on subspace, Captain. Planet must be a natural radio source.
00:02:07Let's get out of its range. We're 40 degrees to starboard, Mr. Sulu.
00:02:1240 degrees.
00:02:20Sulu!
00:02:28Mr. Spock, they're gone.
00:02:31Emergency. Full reverse power.
00:02:42Space. The final frontier.
00:02:49These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
00:02:53Its five year mission. To explore strange new worlds.
00:02:59To seek out new life and new civilizations.
00:03:04To boldly go where no man has gone before.
00:03:34Ship's log, stardate 2124.5.
00:03:54First Officer Spock reporting for Captain James Kirk.
00:03:57We are orbiting the lone, unrecorded planet in the Star Desert.
00:04:01For four hours, we have made every possible instrument sweep.
00:04:06But Captain Kirk and Helmsman Sulu remain unaccounted for.
00:04:10I've placed the ship on red alert.
00:04:13We've searched again from stem to stern.
00:04:16If they're not down on that planet, they're nowhere.
00:04:18No sign of human life on the surface, sir.
00:04:21Unless the instruments aren't functioning.
00:04:24Function is normal.
00:04:27Continue sensory sweeps.
00:04:28Lieutenant Uhura, have you checked all wave bands?
00:04:32All of them, Mr. Spock. No response.
00:04:34With due respect, sir.
00:04:36Request permission to transport to the surface immediately and carry out search.
00:04:40I second to Sal's request.
00:04:42What are we waiting for?
00:04:45The decision will be mine, Doctor.
00:04:47I have the responsibility for your safety.
00:04:50Mr. Yeager, describe your geophysical findings for the surface below.
00:04:55No detectable soil or vegetation.
00:04:58Extremely hot, toxic atmosphere swept by tornadic storms.
00:05:03Continuous volcanic eruptions.
00:05:06Deadly to any life form such as we know it without oxygen and life support systems.
00:05:12Estimate survival time of two unprotected individuals down there.
00:05:17Not very long.
00:05:20Mr. Spock, look.
00:05:22Greetings and felicitations.
00:05:33Hmm.
00:05:35Send this, Lieutenant.
00:05:38USS Enterprise to signaler on planet's surface.
00:05:42Identify self.
00:05:43Yep.
00:05:44Yep.
00:05:49Yep.
00:05:51Hurrah.
00:05:55And I believe it's pronounced tally-ho.
00:06:01Some kind of a joke, sir?
00:06:04Security control affirmative.
00:06:05I'll entertain any theories, Mr. DeSalle.
00:06:10Well, any at all.
00:06:12One thing is certain.
00:06:13Obviously, there's life on that planet.
00:06:16You're quite correct, Doctor.
00:06:20Prepare transporter room.
00:06:22Request assignment to the search party, sir.
00:06:24No, Mr. Scott.
00:06:25Neither you nor I can be spared here.
00:06:29Mr. DeSalle, you'll equip the landing party with full communications, armament, and life support gear.
00:06:35Mr. Yeager, your geophysical knowledge may be crucial down there.
00:06:40Dr. McCoy will accompany.
00:06:43If those peculiar signals are coming from Captain Kirk or Lieutenant Sulu, their rationality is in question.
00:06:52Dismissed.
00:06:52No more messages from below, sir.
00:07:12But I've locked on to the original source.
00:07:15Very good.
00:07:16Transmit coordinates to Mr. Scott.
00:07:18Once on the planet's surface, you'll establish contact with us immediately.
00:07:24Use the laser beacon if necessary.
00:07:28Ready, Scott?
00:07:30Ready, Mr. Scott.
00:07:32Activate.
00:07:32Where are your storms, Jagger?
00:08:01Atmosphere, exactly the same as ours.
00:08:20DeSalle to Enterprise.
00:08:22DeSalle to Enterprise.
00:08:27It doesn't function.
00:08:28We're cut off.
00:08:29No response.
00:08:36Keep trying with yours.
00:08:43Something's blocking the beacon.
00:08:46Gotta find open ground.
00:08:47Jager, McCoy.
00:09:02THE END
00:09:32THE END
00:10:02In the name of heaven, where are we?
00:10:29THE END
00:11:01There's no reading.
00:11:17They're like waxworks figures.
00:11:20I must say, they make a perfectly exquisite display pair.
00:11:38Well, I suppose you want them back now.
00:11:45Where are we?
00:11:51THE END
00:11:59Welcome to an island of peace on my stormy little planet of guts.
00:12:06What happened, Filmino?
00:12:08You disappeared from the bridge after Sulu.
00:12:11They've been looking for you for four hours.
00:12:13You must excuse my whimsical way of fetching you here.
00:12:18But when I saw you passing by, I simply could not resist.
00:12:22I'm Captain James Kirk of the United Starship Enterprise.
00:12:32Ah, so you are the captain of these brave lads.
00:12:36My greetings and felicitations, Captain.
00:12:38So good of you and your officers to, uh...
00:12:42Drop in, absolutely smashing.
00:12:47Who are you?
00:12:48Where do you come from?
00:12:50General Trelane, retired.
00:12:53At your services.
00:12:55My home is your home.
00:12:57We've lost contact with the ship, Captain.
00:13:07We're trapped here.
00:13:08I can't tell you how delighted I am
00:13:10to have visitors from the very planet
00:13:12that I've made my harbour in.
00:13:18Yes, but according to my observations,
00:13:21I didn't think you capable of such voyages.
00:13:24Notice the period, Captain.
00:13:29Nine hundred light-years from Earth.
00:13:31It's what might be seen through a viewing scope
00:13:34if it were powerful enough.
00:13:36Ah, yes.
00:13:37I've been looking in on the doings
00:13:39on your lively little Earth.
00:13:44And you've been looking in on the doings
00:13:46nine hundred years past.
00:13:50Oh, really?
00:13:54If I made an error in time.
00:13:57How fallible of me.
00:14:00Oh, I did so want to make you feel at home.
00:14:03I'm quite proud of the detail.
00:14:06General Trelane.
00:14:07Retired, sir.
00:14:09Just Squire Trelane now.
00:14:11And you may call me Squire.
00:14:14Yes, I rather fancy that.
00:14:16For what purpose have you imprisoned us here?
00:14:21Imprisoned?
00:14:21Nonsense.
00:14:23You're my guests.
00:14:25You see, I just finished my studies
00:14:27of your curious and fascinating society.
00:14:30You came by at the most propitious moment.
00:14:33I want to know all about your campaigns,
00:14:36your battles, your missions of conquest.
00:14:38Our missions are peaceful, not for conquest.
00:14:41When we do battle,
00:14:43it is only because we have no choice.
00:14:45Ha ha, but that's the official story, eh?
00:14:47I must ask you to let us go back to our ship.
00:14:51Oh, I wouldn't hear of it.
00:14:52You shall join me in a riposte.
00:14:55I want to learn all about your feelings on war
00:14:58and killing and conquest, that sort of thing.
00:15:01Do you know that you're one of the few predator species
00:15:04that preys even on itself?
00:15:07Not yet.
00:15:18Put it on stun.
00:15:20Not to kill De Salle.
00:15:22De Salle, did you say?
00:15:25En vrai français?
00:15:26My ancestry is French, yes.
00:15:30Ah, monsieur, vive la gloire, vive Napoleon.
00:15:35You know, I admire your Napoleon very much.
00:15:38This is Mr. De Salle, our navigator.
00:15:43Dr. McCoy, our medical officer.
00:15:46Mr. Sulu, our helmsman.
00:15:48And Carl Yeager, meteorologist.
00:15:51Welcome, good physicianer and honorable sir.
00:15:55Sir, is he kidding?
00:15:59On officer Yeager, on deutsche Soldatline,
00:16:05I spy, drei, fear, gain, vermit, the gist, gavir.
00:16:11I am a scientist, not a military man.
00:16:15Oh, come now.
00:16:16We're all military men under the skin.
00:16:20And how we do love our uniforms.
00:16:25What an interesting weapon you've got there.
00:16:36Do let me see it.
00:16:38How does this work?
00:16:54Ah, yes.
00:16:55This won't kill.
00:16:58And this will.
00:16:59Oh.
00:16:59Oh, how marvelous.
00:17:14Devastating.
00:17:16Why, this could kill millions.
00:17:17What do you start with?
00:17:24My crew, are we your next targets?
00:17:27Oh, how absolutely typical of your species.
00:17:31You don't understand something, so you become fearful.
00:17:36Now, do let me anticipate your next question.
00:17:39You want to know how I've managed all of this?
00:17:42That's correct.
00:17:44We, meaning I and others have, to state the matter briefly,
00:17:49perfected a system by which matter can be transferred to energy
00:17:53and back to matter again.
00:17:55Like the transporter system aboard the Enterprise.
00:17:58Oh, crude example of an infinitely more sophisticated process.
00:18:03You see, we not only transport matter from place to place,
00:18:09but we can alter its shape at will.
00:18:13This drawing room, did you create it?
00:18:17By rearranging matter on this planet?
00:18:20Quite.
00:18:22I see.
00:18:24How did you manage...
00:18:26Dear Captain, your inquiries are becoming tiresome.
00:18:30I want you to be happy.
00:18:32Free yourself of care.
00:18:33Let's enjoy ourselves in the spirit of Marshall Good Fellowship.
00:18:38Mom, let's go. We're getting out.
00:18:39Tut, tut, tut.
00:18:40You're being quite rude.
00:18:43You can't go.
00:18:45Apparently, you need another demonstration of my authority.
00:18:52Yes, quite.
00:18:53Now, that's a sample of the atmosphere of this planet
00:19:17outside my kindly influence.
00:19:19Now, you will behave yourself here after, won't you?
00:19:25Well, I shall be very, very angry.
00:19:38Captain's log.
00:19:40Stardate 2125.7.
00:19:43Science Officer Spock reporting for Captain Kirk.
00:19:46We've completed 14th orbit of this planet.
00:19:49Without establishing contact with our missing officers
00:19:52or the party sent to find them.
00:19:55Subspace communications remain blocked.
00:19:58However, by diverting impulse power to our sensors,
00:20:03we have made them operable.
00:20:05And we have detected one small area on the surface
00:20:08which seems relatively stable.
00:20:10Aye, it's there, Mr. Spock.
00:20:13Peaceful as Earth, but how do you explain it?
00:20:16I don't, Mr. Scott.
00:20:17It simply exists.
00:20:19Artificial, perhaps, or a freak of nature.
00:20:22But the fact remains that life can exist in that area.
00:20:25Aye, it could.
00:20:26But it couldn't move around much.
00:20:27Apply a fine-tuning on our sensors.
00:20:31Locate any life forms in that stable area.
00:20:34Even if we find any, it doesn't follow that it would be our people.
00:20:38Affirmative.
00:20:39But if the Captain is down there and alive,
00:20:42that's where he'll have to be.
00:20:44We'll attempt to transport up any living beings our sensors detect.
00:20:49Shooting in the dark, Mr. Spock?
00:20:50Or stand by and do nothing, Mr. Scott.
00:20:59And this, of course, is the ray of your battle flags and penance,
00:21:04dating back to the Crusades, to Hannibal's invaders,
00:21:08the Grecian war galleys, and the hordes of Persia.
00:21:12Can't you imagine it, Captain?
00:21:14The thousands of men marching off to their deaths,
00:21:19singing beneath these banners.
00:21:21Doesn't it make your blood run swiftly?
00:21:25Captain, where could he possibly come from?
00:21:30Who is this mania?
00:21:32Better say, what is he?
00:21:35I monitored him.
00:21:36What I found was unbelievable.
00:21:39Not a lot.
00:21:41Not in the way we define life.
00:21:43No trace.
00:21:46Zero.
00:21:46You mean, it shows he's dead.
00:21:50Doesn't even show that he exists at all.
00:21:53Alive or dead.
00:21:56Notice the wood fire, Captain?
00:21:58Burning steadily, ember bed glowing,
00:22:01and it doesn't give off any heat at all?
00:22:06Fire without heat.
00:22:09Mistaking all this for present-day Earth
00:22:11without taking into account the time differential.
00:22:16Whatever we're dealing with,
00:22:19he certainly isn't all knowledgeable.
00:22:22He makes mistakes.
00:22:27Discussing deep-laid plans, I'll wager.
00:22:30I cannot wait to see them above.
00:22:38We haven't planned...
00:22:39Tot, tot!
00:22:40Do not think that I deplore your martial virtue
00:22:44of deception and strategy.
00:22:46Quite the contrary.
00:22:47I have nothing but admiration for your host species.
00:22:51Your admiration is genuine.
00:22:54You must have respect for our sense of duty, too.
00:22:56Our ship has needed.
00:22:57We have tasks to perform.
00:22:59Oh, I can't let you go now.
00:23:02I was getting a bit bored until you came.
00:23:06You must stay.
00:23:09I insist.
00:23:11For how long?
00:23:12Until this is over, of course.
00:23:14Until what is over?
00:23:15Dear Captain, so many questions.
00:23:18Make the most of an uncertain future.
00:23:20Enjoy yourself today.
00:23:23Tomorrow may never come at all.
00:23:26Trelane, even if we wanted to stay,
00:23:28our companions are missing us.
00:23:30Yes.
00:23:31I must experience your sense of concern,
00:23:34your grief at the separation.
00:23:36There are 400 men and women aboard that ship.
00:23:40Women?
00:23:42Do you mean that you actually have members
00:23:45of the fairies of the fairies of the fairies sex among your crew?
00:23:48Oh, how charming.
00:23:53And they must be all very beautiful.
00:23:56And I shall be so very gallant to them.
00:24:00Here, let me fetch them down at once.
00:24:03No.
00:24:05No.
00:24:07This game has gone on long enough.
00:24:09Those are crucial operating personnel.
00:24:11I can do anything I want.
00:24:14I should think that you would have realized that by now.
00:24:19Captain receiving a transporter signal.
00:24:22Transporter signal?
00:24:24What does he mean?
00:24:25You must tell me.
00:24:27It means, Trelane,
00:24:29the party's over, thanks to Mr. Spock.
00:24:33Wait!
00:24:34I won't have this.
00:24:35I haven't dismissed you yet.
00:24:38Stop.
00:24:39I won't have this.
00:24:47Everyone stations.
00:24:49Report, Mrs. Spock.
00:24:50How are our scanners able to penetrate that radiation field?
00:24:54They didn't, Captain.
00:24:55Not clearly.
00:24:56We merely beamed up all life forms in a given area.
00:24:59Which means Trelane is not a life form as we know it,
00:25:01or he'd be beaming through now.
00:25:03Prepare to warp out of here at once.
00:25:04Maximum speed.
00:25:18Oh, Captain, I was so worried.
00:25:20Scotty,
00:25:22we're going to need every ounce of your engines.
00:25:23We're going to put a hundred million miles between us and that madman.
00:25:26Aye, aye, sir.
00:25:28I'm quaking,
00:25:29but I don't know whether it's with laughter or terror.
00:25:31Doctor, what was it?
00:25:33What was down there?
00:25:36Well, it was a...
00:25:37Oh, forget it.
00:25:40Look!
00:25:41We're all your weapons, Captain.
00:25:50Don't you display your weapons?
00:25:54Trelane.
00:25:56Don't fret, Captain.
00:25:58I'm only a bit upset with you.
00:26:00But this Mr. Spock you mentioned,
00:26:04the one responsible for that unseemly,
00:26:06imputed act of taking you from me.
00:26:09Which is he?
00:26:11I'm Spock.
00:26:14Surely not an officer.
00:26:17Isn't quite human, is he?
00:26:19My father is from the planet Vulcan.
00:26:23And are his natus predatory?
00:26:25Not generally.
00:26:26But there have been exceptions.
00:26:30Really?
00:26:32You will see to his punishment?
00:26:35On the contrary, I commend his actions.
00:26:38But I don't like him.
00:26:44Get off my ship.
00:26:45Oh, rot.
00:26:47You're all going back with me.
00:26:48We're not going anywhere.
00:26:50Nonsense.
00:26:50I have an absolutely enchanting sojourn on Gotha's plan for all of you.
00:26:56And you shan't spoil it for me.
00:26:59Anyway, the decor of my drawing room is much more appropriate.
00:27:03And tasteful.
00:27:05Don't you agree?
00:27:08No.
00:27:09But so much more fitting, honorable sir.
00:27:14You.
00:27:15So.
00:27:16Oh, what primitive fury.
00:27:23Why, he's the very soul of sublime savagery.
00:27:26Well, then let him go.
00:27:29We haven't even got our phasers.
00:27:33Yes, of course.
00:27:34I forget that I shouldn't frighten you too much.
00:27:37But I warn you.
00:27:38You can't provoke me again.
00:27:41Come, everyone.
00:27:43Let's forget your bad manners.
00:27:46Let's be full of merry talk and sallies of wit.
00:27:50We have victuals to delight the palate.
00:27:53And brave company to delight the mind.
00:27:57Come, doctor.
00:27:59Do partake.
00:28:00Ah, you've been, uh, quite derelict in your social duties, captain.
00:28:13You haven't introduced me to the charming contingent of your crew.
00:28:18This is General Trelane.
00:28:21This is General Trelane.
00:28:23Retired.
00:28:24But if you prefer, you may address me as the lonely squire of Goths, dear ladies.
00:28:30Lieutenant Uhura of Communications.
00:28:32Take it on one of your raids of conquest, no doubt, captain.
00:28:44No doubt.
00:28:44She has the melting eyes of the Queen of Sheba.
00:28:49The same lovely coloring.
00:28:53And this.
00:28:55Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
00:29:02Fair Helen.
00:29:03Make me a mortal with a kiss.
00:29:05Yeoman Teresa Ross.
00:29:08I believe you have met our science officer, Mr. Spock.
00:29:13You do realize, don't you, that it's in deference to the captain that I brought you here?
00:29:20Affirmative.
00:29:22Well, I don't know if I like your tone.
00:29:25It's most challenging.
00:29:27Is that what you're doing, challenging me?
00:29:29I object to you.
00:29:31I object to intellect without discipline.
00:29:35I object to power without constructive purpose.
00:29:39Oh, Mr. Spock, you do have one saving grace after all.
00:29:44You're ill-mannered.
00:29:46The human half of you, no doubt.
00:29:53Ah, come, my little wood nymph.
00:29:57Won't you dance with your sway?
00:29:59Give us some sprightly music, my dear girl.
00:30:02Oh, I don't know how to play this.
00:30:06Of course you do.
00:30:37Captain, how far do we go along with this charade?
00:30:52Until we can think our way out.
00:30:55Meanwhile, we accept this hospital.
00:31:00You should taste his food.
00:31:02Straw would taste better than his meat.
00:31:04The water a hundred times better than his brand and nothing has any taste at all.
00:31:10It may be unappetizing, Doctor, but it is very logical.
00:31:14There's that magic word again.
00:31:18Does your logic find this fascinating, Mr. Spock?
00:31:22Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
00:31:25In this case, I should think interesting would suffice.
00:31:31You don't find this unexpected, Mr. Spock?
00:31:34That his food has no taste, his wine no flavor?
00:31:38No.
00:31:39It simply means that Trillane knows all of the earth forms, but none of the substance.
00:31:45And if he's fallible, he can't be all-powerful.
00:31:50Which means he has something helping him.
00:31:53Evidently.
00:31:55A machine.
00:31:57A device.
00:32:00Something which does these things for him.
00:32:03Ah, my dear, don't we make a graceful pair.
00:32:17Except for one small detail.
00:32:21That dress hardly matches this charming scene.
00:32:25Oh!
00:32:26Ah, yes, that's more of what we want.
00:32:35The dashing warrior and his elegant lady.
00:32:39That mirror.
00:33:01It's part of his audience, his ego.
00:33:04He never wanders.
00:33:06Is it ego?
00:33:09Or something else.
00:33:11Explain.
00:33:12The mirror.
00:33:13What about it?
00:33:15You noted yourself.
00:33:16He never gets very far away from it.
00:33:18I suppose it could be vanity.
00:33:20No, no, Mrs. Spock.
00:33:21That's what it is.
00:33:26What kind of a machine could do these things?
00:33:30A machine with the ability to turn energy into matter guided by thought waves.
00:33:39It would have a very complex memory bank.
00:33:43It would be extremely sophisticated.
00:33:45Like a computer, only much more.
00:33:47Could the machine that maintains the environment in this immediate area be kept in this house?
00:33:55I think not.
00:33:57A device capable of keeping out this planet's natural atmosphere would be immense.
00:34:04Good, I agree.
00:34:05That leaves me free.
00:34:09Free, Captain.
00:34:10If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Spock, I think I can turn his lights off at the source.
00:34:24Don't be too upset by what you see, gentlemen.
00:34:32After all, his actions are those of an immature, unbalanced mind.
00:34:36I overheard that remark, Captain.
00:34:41I'm afraid I'll have to dispense with you.
00:34:43You only heard part of it.
00:34:44I've just started.
00:34:45Oh.
00:34:46Yes.
00:34:47I want you to leave my crewmen alone.
00:34:49I want you to leave my crewwomen alone, too.
00:34:51You're not to dance with him.
00:34:52I don't like it.
00:34:53Did it actually make you angry, Captain?
00:34:55I don't want you accepting his gifts, either.
00:34:56Captain, please don't.
00:34:57Why, I do believe that the dear Captain is jealous of me.
00:35:00I don't care what you believe.
00:35:02Just keep your hands off her.
00:35:03Oh, how curiously human.
00:35:05How wonderfully barbaric.
00:35:06I've had enough of your insulting attentions to her.
00:35:09Of course you have.
00:35:11After all, that's the root of the matter, isn't it?
00:35:13You fight for the attention, the admiration, the possession of women.
00:35:17If it's fighting that you want, you may have it.
00:35:22Are you challenging me to a duel?
00:35:24If you have the courage.
00:35:26Oh, this is better than I'd planned.
00:35:29I shall not shirk an affair of honor.
00:35:35A match set.
00:35:42Just like the pair that slew your heroic Alexander Hamilton.
00:35:50And Captain.
00:35:55I'd never miss.
00:35:57Captain's log, stardate 2126.1.
00:36:13Delayed report.
00:36:15The whole bridge crew are the unwilling guests of the creature who calls himself Trelane.
00:36:21We are weaponless, powerless, and our only hope of escape with the Enterprise lies in playing his games.
00:36:30I've decided to make my move with the field of honor game.
00:36:35And everything depends on my one chance with the ancient dueling pistol.
00:36:41Oh, how fascinating.
00:36:44I'm party to an actual human duel.
00:36:47Are you ready?
00:36:48Quite ready, sir.
00:36:50We shall test each other's courage, and then...
00:36:53And then we shall see.
00:36:57Enough talk.
00:36:58Let's get on with it.
00:36:59As you will, sir.
00:37:01Honor will be served, eh?
00:37:03Oh, wait.
00:37:07As the one challenged, I claim the first shot.
00:37:11We'll shoot together.
00:37:13It's my game and my rules.
00:37:16But if you need to be persuaded...
00:37:25All right.
00:37:31Captain.
00:37:33And now, Captain.
00:38:01How do you have the expression?
00:38:05My fate is in your hands.
00:38:08Yes.
00:38:09Yes.
00:38:09Let's go.
00:38:39You've ruined everything.
00:38:46Captain, subspace interference is clearing.
00:38:49Try to contact the ship.
00:38:51Oh, the remarkable treachery of this species.
00:38:55Go on, Delane. Look at it.
00:38:56It's over. Your power is blanked out. You're finished.
00:39:01You burn my wrath.
00:39:04Go back. Go back to your ship.
00:39:06All of you. And prepare your all-dead men.
00:39:12You especially, Captain.
00:39:20Delane.
00:39:21Everyone, we're getting out of here and now.
00:39:29This is the Captain. Commence beaming up. Maximum speed.
00:39:32Set course for colony beta-6.
00:39:43Ladies, sir.
00:39:46Full power acceleration for more of it, Mr. Scott.
00:39:49Full power, sir.
00:39:50Emergency warp. The earliest possible moment, Mr. Sewell.
00:39:54Standing by to warp, sir.
00:39:56Shall I make a full report to Space Fleet Command, sir?
00:40:07Not yet.
00:40:08They may trace our beam.
00:40:10Wait until we're well out of range.
00:40:12Can we know what his range is, Captain?
00:40:17We can take an educated guess at the point we first entered their solar system.
00:40:22Still no sign of pursuit. Instruments clear, sir?
00:40:26Good.
00:40:26May I take a moment to change?
00:40:38Yes, I think we might.
00:40:42Turn on your glass slippers. The ball is over.
00:40:45Gladly, Captain.
00:40:46AG section. We're reading only 4.5 here.
00:40:49You can confirm.
00:40:50The gravity is down to 0.8.
00:40:53All of exits is good and carried.
00:40:55Hard to believe it.
00:40:58It never happened.
00:40:59Captain, we're about to warp.
00:41:02Large body ahead.
00:41:12Collision course.
00:41:14Hard to port, Mr. Sewell.
00:41:25That was the planet Gothos, Captain.
00:41:31Gothos?
00:41:33Mr. Sewell, have we been going in service?
00:41:36No, sir.
00:41:36All instruments show on course.
00:41:38Gothos again, Captain.
00:41:44Hard over to Sewell.
00:41:45Cat and mouse game.
00:41:55With us is the mouse.
00:41:56There it is again, dead ahead.
00:41:5890 degrees to starboard, Mr. Sewell.
00:42:00Turning, Captain.
00:42:05Now, fearing off, please.
00:42:0690 degrees southboard, Mr. Sewell.
00:42:11Adjust.
00:42:17Turn completed.
00:42:19And still accelerating toward the planet.
00:42:21Or if toward us.
00:42:23Decelerate into orbit.
00:42:30Prepare transporter room.
00:42:31Captain, knock deeming down.
00:42:33Yes, I am, Dr. McCoy.
00:42:35I am going to see our playful Mr. Trelane.
00:42:39And whatever it takes to make him give up our ship.
00:42:43Stand by communications.
00:42:44Mr. Spock, if you don't receive a message from me within the hour,
00:42:48leave the vicinity at once.
00:42:49No turning back.
00:42:50The prisoner may approach the bench.
00:43:08Mr. Trelane.
00:43:08Any attempt at demonstrations will weigh against you with the court.
00:43:23And this time, my instrumentality is unbreakable.
00:43:31I've had enough of your games.
00:43:33Oh, the absurdity of these inferior beings.
00:43:42And now, Captain James Kirk, you stand accused of the high crime of treason against the superior authority.
00:43:51Conspiracy.
00:43:53And the attempt to foment insurrection.
00:43:55How do you plead?
00:44:00I haven't come to plead in your court, Trelane.
00:44:03I warn you, anything you might say has already been taken down in evidence against you.
00:44:09I've come for one purpose.
00:44:11To get back my ship.
00:44:12Irrelevant.
00:44:14We've made you angry with our will to survive, have we?
00:44:17Uncalled for.
00:44:19Then vent your anger on me alone.
00:44:22I was the one that led the others.
00:44:24I was the one that shot out your mirror machine.
00:44:26And did you really think that was the only medium of instrumentality at my command?
00:44:31I took that chance.
00:44:34I'm willing to pay the price for chancing wrong.
00:44:37Oh, then you do admit to the charge.
00:44:39Yes, anything.
00:44:42Just allow the Enterprise to continue its journey.
00:44:45Ah, you pompous.
00:44:49Immaterial.
00:44:52Those people have done you no harm.
00:44:54Inadmissible.
00:44:55We're living beings, not playthings for your amusement.
00:44:59Silence.
00:44:59This trial is over.
00:45:02You are guilty.
00:45:03On all counts, you are guilty.
00:45:05And according to your own laws, this court has no choice in fixing punishment.
00:45:11You will hang by the neck, Captain, until you are dead, dead, dead.
00:45:17Dead.
00:45:29Captain's log, stardate 2126.3.
00:45:38First officer Spock reporting.
00:45:40Still no word from Captain Kirk on the surface below us.
00:45:44Waiting time is almost up.
00:45:46I will soon be forced to attempt departure as per instructions.
00:45:51Until a moment ago, I didn't think it possible.
00:46:04But it was.
00:46:05I did it.
00:46:06I was angry.
00:46:07I actually experienced genuine rage.
00:46:12This experiment has been successful.
00:46:14I'm glad you weren't disappointed.
00:46:18Why, Captain, you're still angry.
00:46:20Would that I could have sustained that moment.
00:46:24Ah, no matter.
00:46:28Do you have a last request?
00:46:31Trelane, if you think I'm going to cheerfully and obediently stick my head in that noose.
00:46:36You still haven't learned.
00:46:37You have no choice.
00:46:39Oh, this is becoming quite tiresome.
00:46:54It's also very easy.
00:46:57That's your problem, Trelane.
00:47:00Everything is easy.
00:47:02It's given you a bad habit.
00:47:05You're not aware of it, but you have it.
00:47:07Hey, you don't think, Trelane, that's your problem.
00:47:13You miss opportunities, like your anger before and mine right now.
00:47:18Oh, you enjoy it.
00:47:20But you couldn't have accomplished it without me.
00:47:23And you know why?
00:47:26Because you're a bumbling, inept fool.
00:47:30Take care now.
00:47:31Here you have an opportunity to experience something really unique.
00:47:35And you're wasting it.
00:47:37You want to commit murder?
00:47:38Go ahead.
00:47:40But where's the sport in a simple hanging?
00:47:45The sport?
00:47:47Yes.
00:47:49The terror of murder.
00:47:52The suspense.
00:47:54The fun.
00:47:56Oh, I'm intrigued.
00:47:58Go ahead, Captain.
00:47:59What do you suggest?
00:48:00What do you suggest?
00:48:12A personal conflict between us.
00:48:16Not like the duel before.
00:48:20But the real thing.
00:48:23The stakes.
00:48:24A human life.
00:48:26Mine.
00:48:26Yes.
00:48:33Yes.
00:48:34Yes.
00:48:35That's the idea.
00:48:37Oh, then you approve.
00:48:39Yes.
00:48:40But you can do better than that.
00:48:44There's still not enough sport in just killing me with a sword.
00:48:48I know.
00:48:49I know.
00:48:51That will be dull.
00:48:53We'll have to have something more fanciful.
00:48:57We see.
00:49:00A hunt.
00:49:01A royal hunt.
00:49:03Predator against predator.
00:49:06Now, you may go hide in the forest.
00:49:08Anywhere you like, and I shall seek.
00:49:11How does that strike you, Captain?
00:49:15Strikes me very well.
00:49:20But you'll have to make it worth my while, Trillian.
00:49:26Why not up the stakes?
00:49:29The stakes.
00:49:31Yes.
00:49:33While we're playing our game, free my ship.
00:49:39Let it continue on its way.
00:49:41In return, I'll give you a contest you'll remember.
00:49:45Always back to your ship.
00:49:48If it will add spice to the pursuit, I accept your terms, Captain.
00:50:04Remember, you must try not to let me find you too quickly.
00:50:08Let me notify the Enterprise that it can go.
00:50:12At your convenience.
00:50:19Enterprise.
00:50:22Enterprise, this is Kirk.
00:50:23Can you hear me?
00:50:28Get the ship away as fast as you can.
00:50:32I'll try and give you the time you need.
00:50:34Can you hear me?
00:50:35Ah!
00:50:36Ah!
00:50:36Ah!
00:50:36Ah!
00:50:36Ah!
00:50:36Ah!
00:50:37Ah!
00:50:37Ah!
00:50:37Ah!
00:50:38Ah!
00:50:38Ah!
00:50:39Ah!
00:50:40Ah!
00:50:41Ah!
00:50:42Ah!
00:50:43Ah!
00:50:44Ah!
00:50:45Ah!
00:50:46Ah!
00:50:47Ah!
00:50:48Ah!
00:50:48Ah!
00:50:50Ah!
00:50:50That's a prize.
00:50:51Ah!
00:50:53Ah!
00:50:54Captain Kirk!
00:51:01You must try harder, Captain.
00:51:04This is too easy.
00:51:13Enterprise.
00:51:15Enterprise!
00:51:16Can you hear me?
00:51:16Oh, my God.
00:51:46Touché, Captain Touché.
00:51:57I must confess you scored first.
00:51:59But after all, I never played this game before.
00:52:05And now let's have at it again.
00:52:16Oh, my God.
00:52:46Oh, my God.
00:52:53Enterprise.
00:52:54Enterprise.
00:52:55Oh, my God.
00:53:02Oh, my God.
00:53:04Oh, my God.
00:53:11Oh, my God.
00:53:13Oh, my God.
00:53:14Oh, my God.
00:53:20Oh, my God.
00:53:27Oh, my God.
00:53:29Oh, my God.
00:53:36Oh, my God.
00:53:38Oh, my God.
00:53:39Oh, my God.
00:53:45Oh, my God.
00:53:46Oh, my God.
00:53:52Oh, my God.
00:53:53Oh, my God.
00:53:55Oh, my God.
00:53:56Oh, my God.
00:53:57Oh, my God.
00:53:58Oh, my God.
00:54:00Oh, my God.
00:54:01Oh, my God.
00:54:02Oh, my God.
00:54:03Oh, my God.
00:54:05Oh, my God.
00:54:06Oh, my God.
00:54:07Oh, my God.
00:54:08Oh, my God.
00:54:10Oh, my God.
00:54:11You've got a lot to learn about winning, Turlene.
00:54:12You dare to defy me.
00:54:15In fact, you've got a lot to learn about everything, haven't you?
00:54:17I'll fix you for that.
00:54:22you for that? You cheated. You haven't played the game right. I'll show you. Trelane. No.
00:54:40No. You said I could have this planet for my very own. This has gone far enough.
00:54:47But you always stop me when I'm having fun. You're disobedient and cruel. We've told
00:54:55you before. Time to come in now, Trelane. But I don't want to come in, and I won't. I'm
00:55:01a general, and I won't listen to you. Enough, Trelane. Come along. But why? I didn't do
00:55:10anything wrong. I was just playing. We said come along. But I haven't finished studying
00:55:17my predators yet. This is not studying them. If you cannot take proper care of your pets,
00:55:25you cannot have them at all. But I was winning. I was winning. They're beings, Trelane. They
00:55:33have spirit. They're superior. No. No. You saw. You'll grow up, Trelane. You'll understand.
00:55:42Now come along. Oh, but you said I could. You promised. I'd never have any fun. Stop that nonsense
00:55:54at once, or you'll not be permitted to make any more planets. Oh, but you saw. I was winning.
00:56:06I would've won. Honest. No, Trelane. No, Trelane. I would've. I would've. I would've.
00:56:20I would. I would. I would. I would. Captain, we regret that the life paths of yourself and
00:56:33your companions have been disturbed. Who are you? Who is Trelane? You must forgive our child.
00:56:43The fault is ours for indulging him too much. He will be punished. We would not have let
00:56:50him intercept you had we realized your vulnerability. Forgive us, Captain. We will maintain your life
00:56:59support conditions while you return to your ship. Please accept our apologies.
00:57:04Captain to Enterprise. Captain to Enterprise. Captain, we're receiving you. Beam me up, Mr. Spark.
00:57:28All right. We're free to go. Warping down, Captain. Now warp factor four. Approach channel's clear, Captain.
00:57:47Colony Beta-6 clears us for normal approach, sir. Normal orbit approach procedures, Mr. Silver.
00:57:53Captain. Captain. Mr. Spark. Still thinking about Trelane, is it? For the record, Captain. How do we
00:58:02describe him? Pure mentality. Force of intellect. Embodied energy. Super being. He must be classified, sir.
00:58:13God of war, Mr. Spark. Well, I hardly find that fitting. Then a small boy. And a very naughty one at that.
00:58:23It will make a strange entry in the library banks. But then he was a very strange small boy. On the other hand,
00:58:31he was probably doing things comparable to the same mischievous pranks you played when you were a boy.
00:58:37Mischievous pranks, Captain? Yes. Dipping little girl's curls in ink wells. Stealing apples from the neighbor's
00:58:46trees. Tying cans on. Forgive me, Mr. Spark. I should have known better. I shall be delighted, Captain.
00:59:16evil girl's curls. Whatire ill,omi bird, Mom. And a very naughty one at this.
00:59:20Silence in the very unexpected life.
00:59:25Stop it.
00:59:36Bruce didn't all do you, sir?
00:59:40THE END
01:00:10THE END