"The Counter-Clock Incident" Line-by-Line

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: At a speed that should be impossible to achieve. Something on the order of warp thirty six.

 

[LeadHead]

April: No natural object has ever been recorded traveling at that speed.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SPOCK: I believe it is not a natural object, but a ship.

 

[Leandar]

Kirk: But who would have the technology to build a ship that could travel at such a speed?

 

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: No known race, Captain. Nevertheless, it will contact us in one point four minutes.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Hard about, Helmsman. Change course for twenty four mark seven.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SPOCK: Correction, Captain. The ship was on a collision course only by coincidence. It is apparently heading for the heart of the Beta Niobe nova.

 

[CoveTom]

KIRK: That's a course of self destruction. Lieutenant Uhura, open hailing frequencies. I want to talk to that ship's captain.

 

[Vanyel]

Uhura: Captain, that ship is not responding.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: All right, if they won't talk, we'll slow them down. Mister Sulu, put a tractor beam on that ship.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SULU: Tractor beam on and operating, Captain.

 

[LeadHead]

Arex: We're having a small effect on the ships speed, Captain. It has dropped to a speed of Warp 32.

 

[CoveTom]

UHURA: Captain, they are making visual contact.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Put it on the screen, Lieutenant.

A blonde woman appears on screen, she speaks in an unknown language. The screen goes blank

I've never heard that language before.

 

[CoveTom]

APRIL: Nor I.

 

[LeadHead]

Kirk: Run that message through the universal translator, Lieutenant Uhura. Perhaps it can tell us what language she is speaking in.

 

[CoveTom]

UHURA: Captain, the universal translator has the answer. The woman is speaking the same universal language we speak, but she is speaking in reverse.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: Lieutenant, let's hear that tape backward, which should sound forward to us.

 

[CoveTom]

UHURA: Yes, sir. On the screen.

 

[Captain Robert April]

KARLA [on viewscreen]: I am on a priority mission. Your beam is slowing my progress. Release my ship at once or I am doomed.