Snowflake Challenge #6
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snowynightChallenge #6
Share your favourite piece of original canon. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Let me share a moment in Star Trek: the original series movieverse.
Star Trek III: the Search for Spock begins with Spock's funeral. Then Doctor McCoy has an apparent mental breakdown. Spock's father comes with an alarming news: Kirk has to bring back Spock's soul and body to Vulcan so he can rest.
Problem: Spock's body is on Genesis, which the Federation has forbidden anyone's access on this planet. If Kirk has to fulfil the promise, he will throw his career and future away.
Conversation between Kirk and his superior:
KIRK: You don't have to believe! I'm not even sure I believe. But even if there's a chance that Spock has an eternal soul ...then it's my responsibility.
MORROW: Yours?
KIRK: As surely as if it were my very own! Give me back the Enterprise! With Scotty's help I could...
MORROW: No, Jim! The Enterprise would never stand the pounding and you know it.
KIRK: Then I'll find a ship. I'll hire a ship.
MORROW: Out of the question, my friend! The Council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis! Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behaviour and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself! Do you understand me, Jim?
KIRK: I hear you. ...I had to try.
MORROW: Of course.
KIRK: Thanks for the drink.
MORROW: Any time.
(as Kirk leaves he is joined by Sulu and Chekov)
SULU: The word, sir?
KIRK: The word ...is no. I am therefore going anyway.
Contrary to popular culture perception, Kirk is a rule abiding officer who loves his job (and pretty much only has his job now). He knows what he has to give up for something he doesn't quite understand. He is willing to throw everything away, because Spock's soul is his responsibility, as surely as if it were his very own!
That's why Kirk/Spock (Star Trek: the Original Series) is my eternal ship.
Share your favourite piece of original canon. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Let me share a moment in Star Trek: the original series movieverse.
Star Trek III: the Search for Spock begins with Spock's funeral. Then Doctor McCoy has an apparent mental breakdown. Spock's father comes with an alarming news: Kirk has to bring back Spock's soul and body to Vulcan so he can rest.
Problem: Spock's body is on Genesis, which the Federation has forbidden anyone's access on this planet. If Kirk has to fulfil the promise, he will throw his career and future away.
Conversation between Kirk and his superior:
KIRK: You don't have to believe! I'm not even sure I believe. But even if there's a chance that Spock has an eternal soul ...then it's my responsibility.
MORROW: Yours?
KIRK: As surely as if it were my very own! Give me back the Enterprise! With Scotty's help I could...
MORROW: No, Jim! The Enterprise would never stand the pounding and you know it.
KIRK: Then I'll find a ship. I'll hire a ship.
MORROW: Out of the question, my friend! The Council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis! Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behaviour and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself! Do you understand me, Jim?
KIRK: I hear you. ...I had to try.
MORROW: Of course.
KIRK: Thanks for the drink.
MORROW: Any time.
(as Kirk leaves he is joined by Sulu and Chekov)
SULU: The word, sir?
KIRK: The word ...is no. I am therefore going anyway.
Contrary to popular culture perception, Kirk is a rule abiding officer who loves his job (and pretty much only has his job now). He knows what he has to give up for something he doesn't quite understand. He is willing to throw everything away, because Spock's soul is his responsibility, as surely as if it were his very own!
That's why Kirk/Spock (Star Trek: the Original Series) is my eternal ship.
