TO THE ENTERPRISE

Jaylah: The digging machines uncovered a tunnel that goes into the crater. That's how I got out.

Captain James T. Kirk: Oh, so that'll be our way in. An away team will beam to the other side of the tunnel, follow it to Krall's base, get inside the building and break out the crew.

Chekov: Uh, Captain, we cannot lock onto anyone inside the crater in order to beam them out.

Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Oh, I could rig up pulse beacons as pattern enhancers. That'd get the signal out of the crater.

Chekov: All right.

Captain James T. Kirk: How many people can the Franklin transport at a time?

Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Uh, with a wee bit of modification, 20 max, but I'm not sure how long it would hold out.

Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, Mr. Chekov, Jaylah, you're with me on the away team. Mr. Scott, modify that transporter and then do everything you can to get this ship operational.

Commander Spock: Captain, Mr. Chekov's technical acumen makes him more valuable aboard the Franklin with Mr. Scott. It is thereby logical that I would replace him.

Captain James T. Kirk: Why is that logical, Mr. Spock? You just got back on your feet.

Commander Spock: Lieutenant Uhura is in that facility, Jim.

Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: I'll keep an eye on him.

Captain James T. Kirk: Understood.

Jaylah: But his soldiers are everywhere. We won't pass unseen.

Commander Spock: What we require is a diversion.

Captain James T. Kirk: [coming up with something] I think I have an idea.

Krall: This is Abronath. It was used by the Ancient Ones as a weapon. But when they could not control its deadly power, they split it into two and ejected the halves into space, hoping it would be lost forever.

[a door closes, separating Uhura and Ensign Syl from Sulu]

Krall: But I am grateful. I have spent lifetimes searching for it, only to have you find it for me. The poetry of fate. The world that I was born into is very different from yours, Lieutenant. We knew pain. We knew terror. Struggle made us strong. Not peace. Not unity. These are myths the Federation would have you believe.

Lieutenant Uhura: Those are strong words. You might even believe them, but there's something else going on with you. Something underneath.

[another door closes, separating them from Ensign Syl]

Ensign Syl: Uhura!

Lieutenant Uhura: Wait. What are you doing with her? You already got what you wanted! Let her go! Syl!

Ensign Syl: [Krall inserts the bio-weapon into the room] No, please!

Lieutenant Uhura: Let her go!

Krall: [removing the agent after Syl is killed] Manas, it's time.