Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Line-by-Line

COMPUTER: Voice and code verified and correct. Sequence two complete.

 

(Just a comment on the story:
I always thought that the Cheronians having invulnerable force fields was a cop-out in the writer's part.
It pretty much reduced the crew to the role of observers watching these 2 jerks. Also, it prevented Kirk from delivering a couple well deserved punches to the face of the 2 of them.)

 

KIRK: Mr. Scott.

 

SCOTT: This is Lieutenant Commander Scott, chief engineering officer of the USS Enterprise. Destruct sequence number three, code one B, two B, three.

 

Computer: Voice and code one B, two B, three verified and correct. Destruct sequence completed and engaged. Awaiting final code for thirty second countdown.

 

KIRK: Mr. Spock, has the ship returned to the course set for it by my orders?

 

SPOCK: Negative, Captain. We are still headed directly for Cheron.

 

Computer: Destruct sequence engaged. Awaiting final code for thirty second countdown.

 

COMPUTER: Thirty seconds. twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty seven, (break) twenty five seconds,

 

KIRK: Let's see you prevent the computer from fulfilling my commands.

 

Computer: Twenty seconds.

 

KIRK: From five to zero, no command in the universe can prevent the computer from fulfilling its destruct orders.

 

COMPUTER: Fifteen seconds,

 

KIRK: You can use your will to drag this ship to Cheron. But I command the computer. Mine is the final command.

I'll just add my opinion that this is a really moronic gamble by Kirk.

 

Computer: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,

 

BELE: I agree!

(Actually, I don't think he's bluffing. He's desperate. At this point, he's lost control of the ship.
I think he really would have allowed the ship to self destruct rather than let it be hijacked.

But, really, I think this is the writers struggling to put the main cast back into the show so they can do something other than just sit there while the 2 Cheronians rant at each other.)

 

Kirk: Computer. This is Captain James Kirk of the USS Enterprise. Code one, two, three continuity. Abort destruct order. Repeat code one, two, three continuity. Abort destruct order.

 

COMPUTER: Destruct order aborted. Destruct order aborted.

 

KIRK: Mister Spock, is this ship headed for Ariannus?