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

[Leandar]

Kirk: Keep trying those controls, Mr. Sulu!

 

[Brian]

SULU: Still no change, Captain.

 

[Alienesse]

KIRK: It's got to work.

[he fiddles with Sulu's switches]

 

[Brian]

SPOCK: Fourteen seconds, thirteen, twelve...

 

[Alienesse]

KIRK: Never mind, Mister Spock, it's no use. (Sarah's flower shrivels in her hand. The Enterprise enters the nova and gets surrounded by sparkles) We're still here. Lieutenant Uhura, can you get us a visual?

 

[Brian]

APRIL: What?

 

[Alienesse]

KIRK: Where are we?

(The Enterprise is sailing serenely through this reverse negative universe)

Captain's log, stardate 6770.6. The Enterprise has passed into the most alien landscape I have ever seen. We are in some reverse universe where black stars shine in a white void. We are still in the tow of the alien ship, both of us having survived the extreme heat of the Beta Niobe nova.

 

[Brian]

SCOTTY: This is Scott calling the Captain.

 

[Alienesse]

KIRK: Yes, Scotty. How are we doing down there?

 

[Enterprise1981]

[Engineering]


SCOTTY: Well, we just had to learn to run the ship all over again. Every control is working in reverse.

 

[Alienesse]

[Bridge]


KIRK: All right. Lieutenant Uhura, we're going to contact that ship again. We need some answers.

 

[Brian]

SARAH: Captain Kirk. The Capellan flower!

 

[Leandar]

April: I'm sure Captain Kirk has other problems besides your flower, dear.

 

[Enterprise1981]

SARAH: You don't understand. Before we entered this universe it was about to die. and now it's in full bloom again.

 

[Leandar]

Kirk: How's that possible?

 

[Enterprise1981]

SARAH: It's as if it were growing younger again. I can almost feel it while I'm holding it.

 

[CoveTom]

SPOCK: Captain, the flower is not the only thing on board that is growing younger.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIRK: Explain, Spock.

 

[CoveTom]

SPOCK: Ship's chronometers are also running backward. The flow of time is reversed in this universe. The longer we stay here, the younger we will become.

 

[Alienesse]

(Sarah's flower becomes a seed)

UHURA: The alien ship is responding to our call, Captain.