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

[Alienesse]

UHURA: Yes, sir.

 

[Brian]

(Transporter Room)

SCOTT: Karla Five has given us coordinates to beam down to her son's laboratory, Captain.

 

[Leandar]

Kirk: Her son? We don't have time for children's games right now Scotty, but beam us down.

 

[Brian]

SCOTT: Aye, sir.

 

[LeadHead]

Laboratory

There is a baby in a playpen and a man at a computer console

Karla: May I introduce my son, Karl Four.

 

[Brian]

KARL: My honor to meet you, gentlemen.

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Most logical. If the flow of time is reversed, then one is born at an old age, and dies in infancy. Your descendants are born before you and your ancestors are born after you.

 

[Brian]

KIRK: Then the young child in the playpen..

 

[LeadHead]

Karla: My father, Captain.

 

[Brian]

KIRK: We could remain forever awed with the differences between our universes, Karla Five, but we must discover a way to return to our positive matter universe.

 

[LeadHead]

Karl: Exactly the problem I have been working on since Karla informed me of your troubles, Captain Kirk. This is a map of our galaxy. Our home solar system is here. You entered our universe through the Amphion nova, here.

 

[Brian]

KIRK: We need to coordinate this to our own universe. Can we do that, Spock?

 

[LeadHead]

Spock: Yes Captain. Apparently the two universes occupy the same space, but in different dimensions.

 

[Enterprise1981]

APRIL: Assuming Beta Niobe and Amphion occupy the same space, we can determine if there are any other novas occupying the same space in both universes.

 

[Brian]

SPOCK: Correct, Commodore. Now if you'll watch the star map, you'll see the Milky Way. Here is Beta Niobe, and here is Earth. It corresponds exactly with Arret. By superimposing both star maps, we will see where two stars occupy the same place in both universes. The red spheres indicate where two stars are in the same space. No pair are novas in both universes.

 

[Enterprise1981]

APRIL: If stars begin as dead stars here then we could bring one of them to life prematurely.

 

[Brian]

KIRK: Yes, we could act as a midwife giving birth to a star. Then we would have two novas in the same position and theoretically return home.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KARLA: But I had to pass through the novas at my ship's top speed to avoid burning up. Your ship isn't capable of such a speed.

 

[Leandar]

Spock: That's true, Captain.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KARLA: You are welcome to use my ship, Captain.