[Bridge]
SULU: Enemy vessel becoming visible, sir.
SULU: Enemy vessel becoming visible, sir.
"Balance of Terror" Line-by-Line!
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KIRK: Forward phasers, stand by...Fire! Fire! Stiles, can you hear me? Fire!
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[Corridor]
(Spock is walking slowly when he hears the Captain's commands over the intercom)
KIRK [OC]: Fire! Stiles, can you hear me? Fire!
(Spock turns and runs back to Phaser Control)
KIRK [OC]: Fire!
[Phaser Control]
(The room is full of purple smoke)
KIRK: Stiles, can you hear me? Fire! Stiles!
(Spock enters just as Stiles tries and fails to reach the firing button. He activates the controls and the phaser pulses hit the Romulan ship)
[Bridge]
KIRK: Mister Sulu, prepare to move in on the Romulan vessel. Ship-to-ship, Uhura. Put this on the screen.
UHURA: (still at the navigation station) Hailing frequencies open, sir.
[Corridor]
(Spock is walking slowly when he hears the Captain's commands over the intercom)
KIRK [OC]: Fire! Stiles, can you hear me? Fire!
(Spock turns and runs back to Phaser Control)
KIRK [OC]: Fire!
[Phaser Control]
(The room is full of purple smoke)
KIRK: Stiles, can you hear me? Fire! Stiles!
(Spock enters just as Stiles tries and fails to reach the firing button. He activates the controls and the phaser pulses hit the Romulan ship)
[Bridge]
KIRK: Mister Sulu, prepare to move in on the Romulan vessel. Ship-to-ship, Uhura. Put this on the screen.
UHURA: (still at the navigation station) Hailing frequencies open, sir.
(The viewscreen shows a wrecked room and just the Commander still on his feet)
KIRK: Captain. Standing by to beam your survivors aboard our ship. Prepare to abandon your vessel.
KIRK: Captain. Standing by to beam your survivors aboard our ship. Prepare to abandon your vessel.
COMMANDER [on viewscreen]: No. No, that is not our way. I regret that we meet in this way. You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend.
COMMANDER [on viewscreen]: We are creatures of duty, Captain. I have lived my life by it. Just one more duty to perform.
(He goes to the control console, turns a switch, and the whole ship explodes)
(He goes to the control console, turns a switch, and the whole ship explodes)
SPOCK: Yes, very well, thank you, Captain.
STILES: I'm alive, sir. But I wouldn't be. Mister Spock pulled me out of the phaser room. He saved my life. He risked his life after I...
KIRK: How many men did we lose, Bones?
(Kirk turns to go, and Rand enters)
RAND: We finally received an answer from Command base, sir. They say they'll support whatever decision you have to make.
(Kirk leaves)
RAND: We finally received an answer from Command base, sir. They say they'll support whatever decision you have to make.
(Kirk leaves)
(In the chapel, Angela is kneeling at the altar when Kirk enters. She stands when she sees him, tries to bring herself to attention, but ends up running into his arms and he holds her for a moment)
Kirk: It never makes any sense. We both have to know there was a reason.
Kirk: It never makes any sense. We both have to know there was a reason.
ANGELA: I'm all right.
And that's a wrap.
Thanks for helping wrap it up, leandar.
And that's a wrap. Thanks for helping wrap it up, leandar.
Congrats.
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