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Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Line-by-Line

(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.)
 
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.
 
Computer: Destruct sequence engaged. Awaiting final code for thirty second countdown.
 
KIRK: Computer, this is Captain James Kirk of the USS Enterprise. Begin thirty-second countdown. Code zero, zero, zero, destruct zero.
 
:eek:

COMPUTER: Thirty seconds. twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty seven, (break) twenty five seconds,
 
KIRK: From five to zero, no command in the universe can prevent the computer from fulfilling its destruct orders.
 
BELE: I agree!

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