Star Trek The Original Series Season 1 Episode 20 Court Martial [1966]
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00:00:00Ion Storm. One crewman is dead. Ship's damage is considerable. I have ordered a non-scheduled
00:00:09layover on Starbase 11 for repairs. A full report of damages was made to the commanding
00:00:16officer of Starbase 11, Commodore Stone.
00:00:20Maintenance section 18. The section is working on the Intrepid. Reschedule. The Enterprise
00:00:31is on priority one. That makes three times you read it, Jim. Is there an error? No. But
00:00:45the death of a crewman, regulations kept. Any extract from your ship's computer log confirming
00:00:56this loan deposition? Kirk to Enterprise. Bridge here. Go ahead, Captain. Where's Mr. Spock
00:01:04with that computer log extract? We should have been there ten minutes ago, sir. Kirk out. It's
00:01:10a great pity. The service can't afford to lose men like Lieutenant Commander Finney. I agree.
00:01:15I waited until the last possible moment. We were on red alert. The storm got worse.
00:01:22I had to jettison the pod. What took you so long, Mr. Spock? Captain, I believe I...
00:01:40I'll take that. Jamie. There you are. I just wanted one more look at you. The man who killed
00:01:58my father. That's not so. He was my friend. Your friend. You hated him all your life and
00:02:05that's why you killed him. That's why you killed him. You murder! You murder! You murder! You murder!
00:02:12Mr. Spock, would you please? Miss Finney, come with me, please. Captain Kirk. You
00:02:34say you jettisoned the pod after the red alert? You have my sworn deposition. Then, Captain,
00:02:41I must presume you have committed willful perjury. This extract from your computer log says you
00:02:47jettisoned the pod before going to red alert. Consider yourself confined to the base. Official
00:02:54official inquiry will determine whether a general court-martial is in order.
00:03:01Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission,
00:03:07to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.
00:03:32Space. The Malesia...
00:03:43Space. The Malesia...
00:03:45Star Wars.
00:03:49Space exposing hacking a place to size.
00:03:53The Malesia...
00:04:02Captain's Log, Stardate 2948.5
00:04:16Starship Enterprise remains in orbit around Starbase 11
00:04:20Full repairs in progress
00:04:22I have been ordered to stand by on Starbase 11
00:04:27Until the inquiry into the death of Lieutenant Commander Finney can be conducted
00:04:31I am confident of the outcome
00:04:34Timothy, I haven't seen you since the Volcanian Expedition
00:04:38Well, I see our graduating class from the Academy is well represented
00:04:47Oregon, fellow
00:04:49How you doing, Mike?
00:04:55I'll get by, Jim
00:04:56I understand you're laying over for repairs
00:05:00Big job
00:05:02A couple of days
00:05:04Be moving out then
00:05:05In a hurry, you see me go?
00:05:08Oh, I just wondered how long it would take you to get a new records officer
00:05:12You can talk plainer than that
00:05:15I can
00:05:17But I think the point's been made
00:05:19Ben was a friend of ours
00:05:22Come on, Jim, let's go
00:05:23Go on, finish
00:05:24Ben was a friend of yours
00:05:30And
00:05:30Jim
00:05:32Go on
00:05:34I'm waiting to hear the rest
00:05:36Why don't you tell us
00:05:38What would be the point?
00:05:45You've already made up your minds
00:05:47Excuse me, boat
00:05:55If you have any doubt
00:06:10That was indeed Captain James Kirk of the Enterprise
00:06:13Yes, I know
00:06:15Are you a friend of his?
00:06:17In these trying times, one of the few
00:06:19Dr. Leonard McCoy
00:06:23And you?
00:06:24Ariel Shaw
00:06:25And I'm a friend, too
00:06:28An old one
00:06:29All of my old friends look like doctors
00:06:32All of his look like you
00:06:35Well, you might as well join me for a drink
00:06:38With this inquiry coming up
00:06:40He's going to need all the friends he can get
00:06:42Recording, inquiry
00:06:51Matter, Captain Kirk, James T
00:06:54Subject, circumstances of death
00:06:56Lieutenant Commander Finney, Benjamin
00:06:59This inquiry to determine whether a general court-martial should be convened against Captain Kirk
00:07:05on charges of perjury and culpable negligence
00:07:10Ready
00:07:13Let us begin with your relationship with Commander Finney
00:07:18You knew him for a long time, didn't you?
00:07:22Yes
00:07:23He was an instructor at the academy
00:07:25When I was a midshipman
00:07:27But that didn't stand in the way of our beginning a close friendship
00:07:30His daughter, Jamie, who was here last night, was named after me
00:07:34It's common knowledge that something happened to your friendship
00:07:37It's no secret
00:07:38We were assigned to the same ship some years later
00:07:42I relieved him on watch once
00:07:45And found a circuit open to the atomic matter piles that should have been closed
00:07:50Another five minutes, could have blown up the ship
00:07:53Ships, nomenclature, specify
00:07:56United Starship Republic, number 1371
00:08:01Continue
00:08:04I closed the switch
00:08:07And logged the incident
00:08:09He drew a reprimand and was sent to the bottom of the promotion list
00:08:14And he blamed you for that?
00:08:17Yes
00:08:17He had been at the academy for an unusually long time as an instructor
00:08:23As a result, he was late in being assigned to a starship
00:08:28The delay, he felt, looked bad on his record
00:08:31My action, he believed, made things worse
00:08:33Comment
00:08:34Service record of Lieutenant Commander Finney to be appended this inquiry
00:08:39Noted
00:08:40Now let's get into the specifics of the storm, Captain
00:08:45Weather scan indicated an ion storm dead ahead
00:08:49I sent Finney into the pod
00:08:51Why Finney?
00:08:54His name was at the top of the duty roster
00:08:55If he blamed you
00:08:56He may have blamed me that he never rose to command a ship
00:08:58But I don't assign jobs in the basis of who blames me
00:09:01It was Finney's turn and I assigned him
00:09:04He had just checked in with me
00:09:08From the pod when we hit the leading edge of the storm
00:09:12Not too bad at first
00:09:15I signaled a yellow alert
00:09:19Then we began encountering pressure, variance, stress, force satin, the works
00:09:25I finally signaled a red alert
00:09:28Finney knew he had a matter of seconds
00:09:32I gave him those seconds
00:09:36And more
00:09:37But
00:09:41Apparently it wasn't enough
00:09:43Then why, Captain, does the computer log from your ship
00:09:48Made automatically at the time
00:09:50Indicate that you were still on yellow alert when you jettisoned and not on red?
00:09:57I don't know
00:09:58There's been a mistake
00:10:02It would seem so
00:10:03Could the computer be wrong?
00:10:06Mr. Spark is running a survey right now
00:10:09But the odds are next to impossible
00:10:11Stop recording
00:10:14Now look, Jim
00:10:19Not one man in a million could do what you and I have done
00:10:26Command a starship
00:10:28A hundred decisions a day
00:10:32Hundreds of lives
00:10:33Staked on you making every one of them right
00:10:35You played out, Jim
00:10:38Exhausted
00:10:40Is that the way you see it?
00:10:42That's the way my report will read if you cooperate
00:10:44Physical breakdown
00:10:45Possibly even mental collapse
00:10:48Possibly
00:10:49I'd be admitting that a man died because
00:10:51Admit nothing
00:10:52Say nothing
00:10:53Let me bury the matter here and now
00:10:56No starship captain has ever stood trial before
00:10:59And I don't want you to be the first
00:11:01But if what you suspect is true, then I'm guilty
00:11:03I should be punished
00:11:04I'm thinking of this surface
00:11:06I won't have it smeared
00:11:09By what?
00:11:11Commodore Stone
00:11:12All right
00:11:14By an evident perjurer
00:11:17Who is either covering up his bad judgment
00:11:20His cowardice
00:11:21Or something
00:11:21That's as far as you go, sir
00:11:23I'm telling you I was there
00:11:25On the bridge
00:11:27I know what happened
00:11:28I know what I did
00:11:28It's in the transcript
00:11:30And computer transcripts don't lie
00:11:33I'm telling you, captain
00:11:36Either you accept a permanent ground assignment
00:11:38Or
00:11:38The whole disciplinary way
00:11:42The Starfleet command is going to light right on your neck
00:11:45So that's the way we do it now
00:11:46Sweep it under the rug
00:11:47And me along with it
00:11:48Not in your life
00:11:50I intend to fight
00:11:51Then you draw a general court
00:11:54Draw it?
00:11:55I demand it
00:11:56And right now, Commodore Stone
00:11:57Right now
00:11:58Captain's log, stardate 2948.9
00:12:14The officers who will comprise my court-martial board
00:12:18Are proceeding to Starbase 11
00:12:20Meanwhile, repairs on the Enterprise are almost complete
00:12:24For real
00:12:33Dr. Mackay, I said you were here
00:12:43I should have felt in the air
00:12:44Like static electricity
00:12:46Flattery will get you everywhere
00:12:49It's been
00:12:58How long has it been?
00:13:03Four years, seven months, and an odd number of days
00:13:06Not that I'm counting
00:13:08You look marvelous
00:13:09We haven't changed a bit
00:13:11Things have changed for you, haven't they?
00:13:15Well, you've heard about that, haven't you?
00:13:19I'm a lawyer in the judge advocate's office, remember?
00:13:22I remember
00:13:23Let's forget
00:13:24We have a lot of lost time to make up for it
00:13:27You're taking it very lightly
00:13:31The confidence of an innocent man
00:13:33Are you?
00:13:35No
00:13:35That's not what the rumors indicate
00:13:37No
00:13:38That's not talk shop
00:13:42Jim, this could ruin you
00:13:45Will you take some advice?
00:13:47I never could talk you into anything
00:13:50All right, fire away
00:13:55The prosecution will build its case
00:14:00On the basis of Kirk versus the computer
00:14:02Now, if your attorney tries to defend on that basis
00:14:06You won't have a chance
00:14:08Well, what are the choices there?
00:14:11Well, that's up to your attorney
00:14:12And that's why he's got to be a good one
00:14:14You, perhaps
00:14:16No
00:14:17I'm busy
00:14:19Well
00:14:21A girl with your ability
00:14:23Should be able to handle two cases at once
00:14:26Jim, be serious
00:14:27You're not an ordinary human
00:14:30You're a starship captain
00:14:32And you've stepped into scandal
00:14:34If there's any way they can do it
00:14:37They'll slap you down hard and permanently
00:14:39For the good of the service
00:14:41You still haven't made any recommendations?
00:14:46Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law
00:14:49If anyone can save you, he can
00:14:51He'll be paying you a visit
00:14:54Jim, I've got to go
00:14:57For real?
00:15:00You still haven't told me
00:15:02How you know so much
00:15:03About what the prosecution's going to do
00:15:05Because Jim Kirk, my dear old love
00:15:11I am the prosecution
00:15:16And I have to do my very best
00:15:19To have you slapped down hard
00:15:21Broken out of the service
00:15:24In disgrace
00:15:27You Kirk?
00:15:53Yes
00:15:53What is all this?
00:15:59I figured we'd be spending some time together
00:16:01So I moved in
00:16:02I hope I'm not crowding you
00:16:05What's the matter?
00:16:06Don't you like folks?
00:16:07Oh, I like them fine
00:16:09But a computer takes less space
00:16:11A computer?
00:16:13I got one of these in my office
00:16:15Contains all the precedents
00:16:18A synthesis of all the great legal decisions
00:16:22Written throughout time
00:16:24I never use it
00:16:27Why not?
00:16:28I've got my own system
00:16:29Books, young man
00:16:31Books, thousands of them
00:16:33If time wasn't so important
00:16:35I'd show you something
00:16:36My library
00:16:37Thousands of books
00:16:39What would be the point?
00:16:41This is where the law is
00:16:42Not in that homogenized
00:16:44Pasteurized
00:16:45Synthesized
00:16:46Do you want to know the law?
00:16:49The ancient concepts
00:16:50In their own language?
00:16:52Learn the intent
00:16:53Of the men who wrote them
00:16:54From Moses
00:16:56To the tribunal
00:16:57Of Alpha 3
00:16:59Books
00:17:00You have to be either
00:17:04An obsessive crackpot
00:17:05Who's escaped from his keeper
00:17:07Or a Samuel T. Cogley
00:17:08Attorney at law
00:17:09Right on both counts
00:17:11Need a lawyer?
00:17:13I'm afraid so
00:17:14This court is now in session
00:17:25I have appointed
00:17:33As members of this court
00:17:34Space Command
00:17:36Representative
00:17:37Lindstrom
00:17:38Starship Captain
00:17:40Fresnofsky
00:17:42And Chandra
00:17:43Captain Kirk
00:17:47I direct your attention
00:17:49To the fact
00:17:50That you have a right
00:17:50To ask for
00:17:51Substitute officers
00:17:52If you feel
00:17:53That any of these
00:17:54Named harbor prejudiced
00:17:56Attitudes to your case
00:17:57I have no objection sir
00:17:59Do you consent
00:18:01To the service
00:18:01Of Lieutenant Shaw
00:18:02As prosecuting officer
00:18:04And to myself
00:18:06As president of the court
00:18:07I do sir
00:18:11All right clerk
00:18:12Charge
00:18:18Culpable negligence
00:18:20Specification
00:18:21In that
00:18:22On star date
00:18:232945.7
00:18:26By such negligence
00:18:28Captain Kirk
00:18:29James T
00:18:30Did cause
00:18:31Loss of life
00:18:32To wit
00:18:33The life
00:18:34Of records officer
00:18:35Lieutenant Commander
00:18:36Finney
00:18:37Benjamin
00:18:37To all recorded charges
00:18:39And specifications
00:18:40What is the plea?
00:18:48Not guilty
00:18:49I call Mr. Spock
00:19:04I call Mr. Spock
00:19:04Box
00:19:21Serial number
00:19:22S
00:19:23179-276
00:19:26Sp
00:19:27Service rank
00:19:28Lieutenant Commander
00:19:30Position
00:19:31First officer
00:19:33Science officer
00:19:34Current assignment
00:19:36USS Enterprise
00:19:38Commendations
00:19:40Volcanian Scientific
00:19:42Legion of Honor
00:19:43Awards of valor
00:19:45Twice decorated
00:19:47By Starfleet
00:19:48Command
00:19:48Mr. Spock
00:19:50As a first officer
00:19:52You know a great deal
00:19:53About computers
00:19:54Don't you?
00:19:55I know all about them
00:19:57It is possible
00:19:58For a computer
00:19:59To malfunction
00:20:00Is it not?
00:20:01Affirmative
00:20:02Do you know
00:20:03Of any malfunction
00:20:04Which has caused
00:20:05An inaccuracy
00:20:06In the Enterprise
00:20:06Computer?
00:20:08Negative
00:20:08That answer
00:20:10Is based on
00:20:11Your mechanical survey
00:20:12Of the Enterprise
00:20:13Computer
00:20:14Ordered by the
00:20:15Defendant
00:20:15Prior to this
00:20:16Trial
00:20:17Is it not?
00:20:18Affirmative
00:20:18Now the
00:20:19Star
00:20:20But the computer
00:20:21Is inaccurate
00:20:22Nevertheless
00:20:23Why do you say that?
00:20:26It reports
00:20:27That the
00:20:28Jettison button
00:20:28Was pressed
00:20:29Before the red alert
00:20:30In other words
00:20:32It reports
00:20:33That Captain Kirk
00:20:34Was reacting
00:20:35To an extreme
00:20:36Emergency
00:20:37That did not
00:20:38Then exist
00:20:39And that
00:20:40Is impossible
00:20:41Is it?
00:20:42Were you watching him
00:20:44The exact moment
00:20:45He pressed
00:20:46The jettison button?
00:20:47No
00:20:47I was occupied
00:20:49The ship
00:20:50Was already
00:20:50On yellow alert
00:20:52Then how can you
00:20:53Dispute the finding
00:20:54Of the log?
00:20:56I do not
00:20:57Dispute it
00:20:58I merely state
00:21:00That it is wrong
00:21:01Oh?
00:21:03On what do you
00:21:04Base that statement?
00:21:05I know the Captain
00:21:06He is in
00:21:08Please instruct
00:21:08The witness
00:21:09Not to speculate
00:21:10Lieutenant
00:21:12I am half
00:21:13Volcanian
00:21:14Volcanians
00:21:16Do not speculate
00:21:17I speak
00:21:18From pure logic
00:21:20If I let go
00:21:21Of a hammer
00:21:22On a planet
00:21:23That has a
00:21:24Positive gravity
00:21:25I need not
00:21:26See it fall
00:21:27To know
00:21:28That it has
00:21:29In fact
00:21:29Fallen
00:21:30I do not
00:21:31See what that
00:21:32Has to
00:21:32Gentlemen
00:21:32Human beings
00:21:34Have characteristics
00:21:36Just as
00:21:37Inanimate objects
00:21:38Do
00:21:38It is impossible
00:21:40For Captain Kirk
00:21:42To act out of
00:21:43Panic
00:21:44Or malice
00:21:46It is not
00:21:47His nature
00:21:48In your opinion
00:21:50Yes
00:21:54In my opinion
00:21:57Thank you
00:21:59Your witness
00:22:00Mr. Cogner
00:22:01No questions
00:22:02You may stick down
00:22:05I now call
00:22:11The personnel
00:22:12Officer
00:22:12For the Enterprise
00:22:13Service rank
00:22:17Ensign
00:22:17Position
00:22:18Personnel
00:22:19Officer
00:22:20Current
00:22:21Assignment
00:22:22USS Enterprise
00:22:24In the course
00:22:25Of your duties
00:22:26As personnel
00:22:27Officer
00:22:27Of the Enterprise
00:22:28You would be
00:22:30Familiar with
00:22:30The service
00:22:31Records of
00:22:32All aboard
00:22:32Yes ma'am
00:22:34With reference
00:22:35To records
00:22:36Officer Finney
00:22:37Was there
00:22:38In his service
00:22:39Record
00:22:40A report
00:22:41Of disciplinary
00:22:42Action
00:22:42For failure
00:22:43To close a
00:22:44Circuit
00:22:44Yes ma'am
00:22:45Was the charge
00:22:47In that instance
00:22:48Based upon
00:22:48A log entry
00:22:49By the officer
00:22:50Who relieved him
00:22:51Yes ma'am
00:22:53And who
00:22:54Was that officer
00:22:55Ensign James
00:22:59T. Kirk
00:23:00Louder please
00:23:01For the court
00:23:02Ensign James
00:23:04T. Kirk
00:23:05Now the
00:23:06Captain Kirk
00:23:07Who sits
00:23:08In this courtroom
00:23:09Yes ma'am
00:23:15Thank you
00:23:16Do you wish
00:23:17To cross examine
00:23:18Mr. Cogner
00:23:19No questions
00:23:21You may step down
00:23:23I now call
00:23:33Dr. McCoy
00:23:34To the stand
00:23:34Service
00:23:37Frank
00:23:38Lieutenant
00:23:39Commander
00:23:39Physician
00:23:40Ship Surgeon
00:23:42Current
00:23:43Assignment
00:23:43USS Enterprise
00:23:45Commendations
00:23:47Legion of Honor
00:23:49Awards of Valor
00:23:50Decorated by
00:23:52Starfleet
00:23:53Surgeon
00:23:53Doctor you are
00:23:55On the record
00:23:56An expert
00:23:57In psychology
00:23:58Especially space
00:24:00Psychology
00:24:00Patterns which
00:24:01Develop in the
00:24:02Close quarters
00:24:03Of a ship
00:24:03During long
00:24:04Voyages in deep
00:24:05Space
00:24:06I know something
00:24:08About it
00:24:09You have just
00:24:10Heard the testimony
00:24:11Of your own
00:24:12Personnel officer
00:24:13That it was an
00:24:15Action of the
00:24:16Then ensign
00:24:16Kirk
00:24:17Which placed
00:24:18An unerasable
00:24:19Blot on the
00:24:20Record of the
00:24:21Ben Lieutenant
00:24:22Finney
00:24:23Psychologically
00:24:24Doctor
00:24:25Is it possible
00:24:27That Lieutenant
00:24:27Finney blamed
00:24:28Kirk for the
00:24:29Incident
00:24:29It's possible
00:24:31He could have
00:24:33Hated Kirk
00:24:34Down through the
00:24:35Years
00:24:36Blamed him
00:24:37For being
00:24:37Passed over
00:24:38For promotion
00:24:39Blamed him
00:24:40For never being
00:24:41Given a command
00:24:42Of his own
00:24:43Correct
00:24:43Correct
00:24:44Now let us
00:24:46Hypothesize
00:24:47Doctor
00:24:48Is it normal
00:24:49For a person
00:24:50To return
00:24:51Affection
00:24:52For hatred
00:24:52No
00:24:53Do we not
00:24:54Tend to at
00:24:54First resent
00:24:56And then
00:24:56Actively dislike
00:24:58The person
00:24:58Who hates us
00:24:59Wait a minute
00:25:00I don't quite
00:25:01Follow you
00:25:02Hypothetically
00:25:03Would not
00:25:05Captain
00:25:05Smith
00:25:06Begin to
00:25:07Hate
00:25:07Lieutenant
00:25:08Commander
00:25:08Jones
00:25:09Once he
00:25:10Learned that
00:25:11Lieutenant
00:25:12Commander
00:25:12Jones
00:25:13Hated and
00:25:14Detested
00:25:14Him
00:25:15Oh yes
00:25:16I suppose
00:25:17It could happen
00:25:18Then I ask
00:25:19You
00:25:20Is it not
00:25:21Possible
00:25:22That Captain
00:25:22Kirk
00:25:23Became aware
00:25:24Of Lieutenant
00:25:24Commander
00:25:25Finney's
00:25:25Hatred toward
00:25:26Him
00:25:26And perhaps
00:25:28Even involuntarily
00:25:29Began to
00:25:31Reciprocate
00:25:32Not Captain
00:25:33Kirk
00:25:33Any normal
00:25:35Human doctor
00:25:36Is it possible
00:25:37But he's not
00:25:38That kind
00:25:39Of a man
00:25:39Is it
00:25:40Theoretically
00:25:41Possible
00:25:42Doctor
00:25:42Yes
00:25:45It's possible
00:25:47Thank you
00:25:49Your witness
00:25:51Mr. Codley
00:25:52No questions
00:25:55You may step
00:25:57Down
00:25:58Mr. Codley
00:26:05You have
00:26:07Listened to
00:26:07Testimony
00:26:08From three
00:26:08Witnesses
00:26:09And in
00:26:10Neither
00:26:10Instance
00:26:11Have you
00:26:11Availed
00:26:11Yourself
00:26:12Of your
00:26:12Right
00:26:13To
00:26:13Cross
00:26:13Examine
00:26:14Have you
00:26:15Abrogated
00:26:16That right
00:26:16Well sir
00:26:19The truth is
00:26:21I've been
00:26:21Holding back
00:26:22Till we get
00:26:22This preliminary
00:26:23Business out
00:26:24Of the way
00:26:24I'd like to
00:26:25Call Captain
00:26:26Kirk to the
00:26:27Stand
00:26:27James G. Kirk
00:26:33Serial number
00:26:34SC
00:26:35937-0176
00:26:39CEC
00:26:40Service rank
00:26:41Captain
00:26:42Position
00:26:43Starship
00:26:44Command
00:26:45Current
00:26:46Current
00:26:46Assignment
00:26:46USS Enterprise
00:26:48Commendation
00:26:50Palm
00:26:51Leave
00:26:51Of
00:26:51Axan
00:26:52Arp
00:26:52Peace
00:26:52Mission
00:26:53Grand
00:26:54Kite
00:26:54Order
00:26:54Of
00:26:55Tactics
00:26:55Class
00:26:56Of
00:26:57Excellence
00:26:57Fronteras
00:26:59Ribbon
00:26:59Of
00:27:00Commendation
00:27:00Classes
00:27:02First
00:27:02And
00:27:02May it
00:27:03Please
00:27:03The court
00:27:04The court
00:27:05Recognizes
00:27:06Counsel
00:27:06For the
00:27:06Prosecution
00:27:07The prosecution
00:27:08Conceives
00:27:09The inestimable
00:27:10Record
00:27:10Of Captain
00:27:11Kirk
00:27:11Mr.
00:27:13Cogley
00:27:14I wouldn't
00:27:15Want to
00:27:15Slow the
00:27:16Wheels
00:27:16Of
00:27:16Progress
00:27:17But then
00:27:18On the
00:27:19Other
00:27:19Hand
00:27:19I wouldn't
00:27:21Want those
00:27:21Wheels
00:27:22To run
00:27:22Over my
00:27:23Client
00:27:23In their
00:27:24Unbridled
00:27:25Haste
00:27:25Continue
00:27:31Awards
00:27:33Of
00:27:33Valor
00:27:34Medal
00:27:34Of
00:27:35Honor
00:27:35Silver
00:27:36Palm
00:27:37With
00:27:37Cluster
00:27:38Starfleet
00:27:39Citation
00:27:40For
00:27:40Conspicuous
00:27:41Gallantry
00:27:42Karagite
00:27:43Order
00:27:44Of
00:27:44Heroism
00:27:45Stop
00:27:45I think
00:27:46That's
00:27:47Enough
00:27:47I wouldn't
00:27:48Want to
00:27:49Slow things
00:27:49Up
00:27:50Too
00:27:50Much
00:27:50Thank
00:27:51You
00:27:52Now
00:27:54Captain
00:27:54Despite
00:27:55What these
00:27:55Machines
00:27:56Indicate
00:27:57Was
00:27:58There
00:27:58Indeed
00:27:59A red
00:27:59Alert
00:27:59Before you
00:28:01Jettisoned
00:28:02The pod
00:28:02Yes sir
00:28:04There was
00:28:04Please
00:28:06Tell us
00:28:07About it
00:28:08Firstly
00:28:11I'm at
00:28:11Loss
00:28:12To explain
00:28:12The errors
00:28:13And the
00:28:14Extract
00:28:15From the
00:28:15Computer
00:28:16Log
00:28:16We were
00:28:18In an
00:28:18Ion
00:28:19Storm
00:28:19Everyone
00:28:21Here in
00:28:22This court
00:28:22Knows the
00:28:22Dangers
00:28:23Involved
00:28:23I was
00:28:25In
00:28:25Command
00:28:26The
00:28:28Decisions
00:28:28Were
00:28:29Mine
00:28:29No one
00:28:29Else
00:28:29Charges
00:28:32Of
00:28:32Malice
00:28:32Have
00:28:33Been
00:28:33Raised
00:28:33There
00:28:34Was
00:28:34No
00:28:34Malice
00:28:35Lieutenant
00:28:37Commander
00:28:38Finney
00:28:38Was
00:28:39A member
00:28:40Of
00:28:40My
00:28:40Crew
00:28:40And
00:28:41That's
00:28:41Exactly
00:28:41The way
00:28:42He
00:28:42Was
00:28:42Treated
00:28:43It
00:28:45Has
00:28:45Been
00:28:45Suggested
00:28:46That
00:28:46I
00:28:46Panicked
00:28:47On
00:28:47The
00:28:47Bridge
00:28:48And
00:28:49Jettisoned
00:28:50The
00:28:50Ion
00:28:51Pod
00:28:51Prematurely
00:28:52That
00:28:53Is
00:28:53Not
00:28:53So
00:28:54You
00:28:56Have
00:28:56Heard
00:28:57Some
00:28:57Of
00:28:57The
00:28:57Details
00:28:58Of
00:28:58My
00:28:58Record
00:28:59This
00:29:00Was
00:29:00Not
00:29:00My
00:29:00First
00:29:01Crisis
00:29:01It
00:29:03Was
00:29:03One
00:29:03Of
00:29:03Many
00:29:03During
00:29:05It
00:29:05I
00:29:07Did
00:29:07What
00:29:08My
00:29:08Experience
00:29:08And
00:29:09Training
00:29:09Required
00:29:10Me
00:29:10To
00:29:10Do
00:29:11I
00:29:12I
00:29:12Took
00:29:12The
00:29:13Proper
00:29:13Steps
00:29:14In
00:29:15The
00:29:15Proper
00:29:15Order
00:29:15I
00:29:16Did
00:29:16Exactly
00:29:16What
00:29:17Had
00:29:17To
00:29:17Be
00:29:17Done
00:29:18Exactly
00:29:20When
00:29:20It
00:29:20Should
00:29:20Have
00:29:20Been
00:29:20Done
00:29:21You
00:29:22Did
00:29:22The
00:29:22Right
00:29:22Thing
00:29:23But
00:29:24Would
00:29:25You
00:29:25Do
00:29:25It
00:29:26Again
00:29:26Given
00:29:30Given
00:29:30Given
00:29:30The
00:29:30Same
00:29:31Circumstances
00:29:32I
00:29:34Would
00:29:35Do
00:29:35The
00:29:35Same
00:29:35Thing
00:29:35Without
00:29:36Hesitation
00:29:36Because
00:29:39The
00:29:39Steps
00:29:39I
00:29:39Took
00:29:40In
00:29:42The
00:29:42Order
00:29:42I
00:29:42Took
00:29:42Them
00:29:43Were
00:29:45Absolutely
00:29:45Necessary
00:29:46If
00:29:47I
00:29:47Were
00:29:47To
00:29:48Save
00:29:48My
00:29:48Ship
00:29:48And
00:29:51Nothing
00:29:52Is
00:29:56No
00:30:06Witness
00:30:06Miss
00:30:07Shaw
00:30:07The
00:30:14Prosecution
00:30:15Does
00:30:15Not
00:30:16Wish
00:30:16To
00:30:16Dishonor
00:30:17This
00:30:17Man
00:30:17But
00:30:18Facts
00:30:19Are
00:30:19Facts
00:30:19I
00:30:20Must
00:30:20Invite
00:30:21The
00:30:21Attention
00:30:21Of
00:30:22The
00:30:22Court
00:30:22And
00:30:23Captain
00:30:24Kirk
00:30:24To
00:30:25This
00:30:25Visual
00:30:25Extract
00:30:26From
00:30:26The
00:30:27Enterprise
00:30:27Computer
00:30:28Log
00:30:28Playback
00:30:30What
00:30:36You
00:30:36Were
00:30:36About
00:30:37To
00:30:37See
00:30:37Is
00:30:38Precisely
00:30:39What
00:30:39Took
00:30:39Place
00:30:40On
00:30:40The
00:30:40Enterprise
00:30:41Bridge
00:30:41During
00:30:42The
00:30:43Iron
00:30:43Storm
00:30:44Meteorology
00:30:51Reports
00:30:51I
00:30:52On
00:30:52Storm
00:30:52Upcoming
00:30:53Captain
00:30:53I
00:30:54Need
00:30:54Somebody
00:30:54In
00:30:54The
00:30:54Part
00:30:55For
00:30:55Reading
00:30:55Mr.
00:30:57Finney
00:30:57Is
00:30:57Top
00:30:58Of
00:30:58Duty
00:30:58Roster
00:30:58Captain
00:30:59Lieutenant
00:31:00Attention
00:31:02Commander
00:31:03Finney
00:31:03Report
00:31:04To
00:31:04Pod
00:31:04For
00:31:04Reading
00:31:05On
00:31:05Ion
00:31:05Plates
00:31:06Message
00:31:07Received
00:31:07Officer
00:31:09Posted
00:31:09Captain
00:31:10Standby
00:31:17To
00:31:17Alert
00:31:17Status
00:31:18Mr.
00:31:18Spock
00:31:18Acknowledged
00:31:19Approaching
00:31:21Ion
00:31:21Storm
00:31:22Sir
00:31:22Ion
00:31:23Ion
00:31:23Ion
00:31:24Ion
00:31:24Ion
00:31:24Ion
00:31:24Walk
00:31:25Back
00:31:25To
00:31:25One
00:31:25Mr.
00:31:26Hanson
00:31:26Work
00:31:27One
00:31:27Says
00:31:28Ion
00:31:28Ion
00:31:28Ion
00:31:28Ion
00:31:28Ion
00:31:29Ion
00:31:29Ion
00:31:30Ion
00:31:30Ion
00:31:30Ion
00:31:30Ion
00:31:30Ion
00:31:31Ion
00:31:31Ion
00:31:31Ion
00:31:32Reverse.
00:31:42Stop.
00:31:45Go forward with magnification on the panel.
00:31:53Freeze that.
00:31:58Captain Kirk is now signaling a yellow alert.
00:32:03Go forward, normal view.
00:32:07Call from the pod, sir.
00:32:09Tie in.
00:32:11Vinnie here, Captain. Ion readings in progress.
00:32:14Make it fast, Ben. I may have to go to red alert.
00:32:17Affirmative.
00:32:22Hold your course, Mr. Hanson.
00:32:23Aye, aye, sir.
00:32:25That drove vibrations. Force two, Captain.
00:32:35Force three. Engineering. Then Ion pod.
00:32:38Aye, aye, sir.
00:32:40Engineering.
00:32:41One third more thrust.
00:32:43Working.
00:32:46Ion pod.
00:32:48Stand by to get out of there, Ben.
00:32:49Aye, aye, sir.
00:32:53Force five, sir.
00:32:55Steady as she goes, Mr. Hanson.
00:32:56Freeze that.
00:32:58If the court will notice, the log plainly shows the defendant's finger pressing the jettison button.
00:33:12The condition signal reads yellow alert, not red alert, but simply yellow alert.
00:33:21When the pod containing Lieutenant Commander Finney was jettisoned, the emergency did not as yet exist.
00:33:28But that's not the way it happened.
00:33:43Captain's log stardate 2949.9.
00:33:49The evidence presented by the visual playback to my general court-martial was damning.
00:34:01I suspect even my attorney has begun to doubt me.
00:34:05Computers don't lie.
00:34:07Are you suggesting that I did?
00:34:09I'm suggesting that maybe you did have a lapse.
00:34:12It was possible, you know, with the strain you were under.
00:34:15There's still time to change our plea.
00:34:19I could get you off.
00:34:25Two days ago, I'd have staked anything on my judgment.
00:34:28You did. Your professional career.
00:34:31I spent my whole life training for decisions just like that one.
00:34:37My whole life.
00:34:38Is it possible that when the moment came...
00:34:49No.
00:34:51I know what I did.
00:34:54You can pull out if you want to.
00:34:56There's no place to go except back to court and hear the verdict.
00:35:00Kirk here.
00:35:01Captain.
00:35:03I've run a complete Megalite survey on the computer.
00:35:06I'll tell you what you found. Nothing, right?
00:35:08You sound bitter, Captain.
00:35:10Not bitter enough to forget to thank you for your efforts.
00:35:14Further instructions?
00:35:16No.
00:35:18It's not all bad, Mr. Spock.
00:35:21Who knows?
00:35:23You may be able to beat your next captain at chess.
00:35:25Kirk out.
00:35:27Chess.
00:35:29Chess.
00:35:31Chess.
00:35:33Chess.
00:35:35Chess.
00:35:37Chess.
00:35:39Chess.
00:35:41Chess.
00:35:43Jamie.
00:35:46This is Lieutenant Commander Finney's daughter.
00:35:48Is Finney-
00:35:49Mr. Cutley.
00:35:51Make him take a ground assignment.
00:35:54I realize it wasn't his fault.
00:35:57I won't make any trouble.
00:35:59Make him change his please.
00:36:01It's too late for that, Jamie.
00:36:03But I'm glad you don't blame me anymore for what happened.
00:36:05I was just so upset that night.
00:36:07I'm sorry.
00:36:09Don't say anymore.
00:36:10But I have to.
00:36:12I never realized how close you and Dad had been
00:36:15until I read through some of the papers he wrote.
00:36:19Letters to Mother and me.
00:36:22I don't know how I ever could have thought that you...
00:36:26Mr. Cogley,
00:36:29ruining Jim won't change what's happened.
00:36:32That's very commendable, Miss Finney,
00:36:34but most unusual.
00:36:37After all, Captain Kirk
00:36:38is accused of causing your father's death,
00:36:41and the evidence would indicate his guilt.
00:36:44I was just thinking of Jim.
00:36:46I know, and I thank you.
00:36:49I have to go and change. You ready?
00:36:52No,
00:36:54but I may be getting ready.
00:37:01Bishop, half level right.
00:37:05Well, I have to see it to believe it.
00:37:07Explain.
00:37:09You're about to lop off the Captain's professional head,
00:37:12and you're sitting here playing chess with a computer.
00:37:14That is true.
00:37:16Mr. Spock, you're the most cold-blooded man I've ever known.
00:37:21Why, thank you, Doctor.
00:37:24I've just won my fourth game.
00:37:28That's impossible.
00:37:29Observe for yourself.
00:37:30Rook to King's Pawn 4.
00:37:35Bishop,
00:37:36half level right.
00:37:38Now, this is the computer's move.
00:37:42And now mine.
00:37:49Checkmate.
00:37:50Mechanically, the computer is flawless.
00:37:57Therefore, logically,
00:37:58its report of the Captain's guilt is infallible.
00:38:01I could not accept that, however.
00:38:04So you tested the program bank.
00:38:06Exactly.
00:38:07I programmed it myself for chess some months ago.
00:38:10The best I should have been able to obtain was a draw.
00:38:13Well, why are you just sitting there?
00:38:18Transporter room, stand by.
00:38:19We're beaming down.
00:38:36Board is now in session.
00:38:37The board will entertain motions before delivering its verdict.
00:38:48Counsel for the prosecution?
00:38:51Sir, the prosecution rests.
00:38:55Counsel for the defense?
00:38:59Sir,
00:39:05the defense rests.
00:39:07Mr. Cogley.
00:39:17Mr. Cogley.
00:39:19Sir,
00:39:20some new evidence has just been brought to my attention.
00:39:23And I'd like to ask the court to...
00:39:25Objection.
00:39:26Counsel for the defense has rested his case.
00:39:30Of what nature is this evidence?
00:39:32I can't tell you.
00:39:33I have to show you, sir.
00:39:34Mr. Cogley is well known for his theatrics.
00:39:37Is saving an innocent man's career a theatric?
00:39:41Counsels will kindly direct their remarks to the bench.
00:39:45I'd be delighted to, sir.
00:39:47Now that I've got something human to talk about, right, sir, human rights.
00:39:53The Bible, the code of Hammurabi and of Justinian, Magna Carta, the Constitution of the United States, fundamental declarations of the Martian colonies, the statutes of Alpha 3.
00:40:10Gentlemen, these documents all speak of rights, rights of the accused to a trial by his peers, to be represented by counsel, the rights of cross-examination.
00:40:27But most importantly, the right to be confronted by the witnesses against him, a right to which my client has been denied.
00:40:38Your Honor, that is ridiculous.
00:40:40We produced the witnesses in court.
00:40:42My learned opponent had the opportunity to see them, cross-examine them.
00:40:46All but one, the most devastating witness against my client, is not a human being.
00:40:54It's a machine, an information system, the computer log of the Enterprise.
00:41:00And I ask this court adjourn and reconvene aboard that vessel.
00:41:05I protest, Your Honor.
00:41:06And I repeat, I speak of rights.
00:41:10A machine has none.
00:41:12A man must.
00:41:14My client has the right to face his accuser.
00:41:18And if you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine.
00:41:25Indeed, you have elevated that machine above us.
00:41:30I ask that my motion be granted more than that, gentlemen.
00:41:36In the name of a humanity fading in the shadow of the machine, I demand it.
00:41:44I demand it!
00:41:54Captain's log, stardate 2950.1.
00:41:57After due consideration, General Court Marshal has reconvened on board the Enterprise.
00:42:04How many games of chess did you win from the computer, Mr. Spock?
00:42:10Five in all.
00:42:12May that be considered unusual?
00:42:14Affirmative.
00:42:15Why?
00:42:16I personally programmed the computer for chess months ago.
00:42:21I gave the machine an understanding of the game equal to my own.
00:42:26The computer cannot make an error.
00:42:30And assuming that I do not either, the best that could normally be hoped for would be stalemate after stalemate.
00:42:37And yet, I beat the machine five times.
00:42:42Someone, either accidentally or deliberately, adjusted the programming and therefore the memory banks of that computer.
00:42:54Could that have had an effect on the visual playback we saw?
00:43:00Object.
00:43:01In fact, the witness would be making a conclusion.
00:43:05Sustained.
00:43:07Hypothetically, Mr. Spock.
00:43:10Hypothetically, Ms. Shaw.
00:43:12If what you suggest had been done, it would be beyond the capabilities of most men.
00:43:19Is that true?
00:43:21Affirmative.
00:43:21What man aboard ship would it not be beyond?
00:43:27The captain, myself, and the records officer.
00:43:31Mm-hmm.
00:43:32And at the moment, you have no records officer.
00:43:36Affirmative.
00:43:37Until he was lost.
00:43:39Our records officer was Lieutenant Commander Finney.
00:43:43Captain Kirk.
00:43:45Will you tell the steps you took to find Mr. Finney after the storm?
00:43:50I instituted a phase one search.
00:43:54Describe a phase one search.
00:43:56It's a painstaking, thorough attempt in and around the ship to find a man who's presumably injured and unable to respond.
00:44:04It presupposes, does it not, that a man wishes to be found.
00:44:10I beg your pardon?
00:44:11If you start a search for a man, you assume, don't you, that he wants to be found?
00:44:17He's not hiding.
00:44:19Yes.
00:44:21On a ship of this size, could a man evade such a search?
00:44:30Possibly.
00:44:34Gentlemen, I submit to you that Lieutenant Commander Ben Finney is not dead.
00:44:43Mr. Cogley, we are waiting for proof of the extraordinary statement you made in the briefing room.
00:44:48And you shall have it.
00:44:50But first, I need the cooperation of this court, conducting an experiment.
00:44:55Captain Kirk?
00:44:56Gentlemen, for the purposes of this experiment, it will be necessary for all personnel, except for members of the court and the command crew, to leave the ship.
00:45:05Mr. Cogley, I am ordering all others to report to the transporter, including myself, sir.
00:45:11This court is by no means adjourned, Mr. Cogley.
00:45:13I have an errand to shore of vital importance to the purpose of this court, and I will return.
00:45:18Very well.
00:45:20Thank you, sir.
00:45:23Captain, are you maintaining an engine crew aboard?
00:45:25Our impulse engines have been shut down.
00:45:27We'll maintain orbit by momentum.
00:45:28And when the orbit begins to decay?
00:45:31We hope to be finished long before that.
00:45:45Ready, Mr. Spock?
00:45:47Affirmative, Captain.
00:45:49Gentlemen, this computer has an auditory sensor.
00:45:53It can, in effect, hear sounds.
00:45:56By installing a booster, we can increase that capability on the order of one to the fourth power.
00:46:02The computer should be able to bring us every sound occurring on the ship.
00:46:08All personnel have left the ship as ordered, sir.
00:46:12Dr. McCoy?
00:46:15All right, Mr. Spock?
00:46:23All right, Mr. Spock?
00:46:53We'll use this white sound device to mask out each person's heartbeat so that it will be eliminated from the sounds we are hearing.
00:47:03First, the captain.
00:47:09Mr. Spock?
00:47:10And lastly, myself.
00:47:36Mr. Spock, that's all of us, except for the crewman in the transporter room.
00:47:45Mr. Spock, eliminate his heartbeat.
00:47:50That accounts for everyone.
00:47:52To, we sit on our own Western community.
00:48:08Mr. Spock, are you ready for the cut?
00:48:11Mr. Spock?
00:48:12Mr. Spock.
00:48:15Mr. Spock, will we go through the honey business machine?
00:48:19Finney.
00:48:30Localize that.
00:48:39B-deck.
00:48:41In or near engineering.
00:48:44Seal off B-deck. Sections 18Y through 23D.
00:48:47Acknowledged.
00:48:49So Finney is alive.
00:49:03It would seem so.
00:49:05Commodore, this is my problem.
00:49:07I would appreciate it if no one left the bridge.
00:49:13Sam Cogley had gone ashore to bring Jamie Finney on board.
00:49:17We both felt that Jamie's presence would make Finney easier to handle in the event Finney really were alive.
00:49:23Ben!
00:49:28Ben Finney!
00:49:29Mr. Spock, encountering variance.
00:49:40Drop the site.
00:49:41What does that mean?
00:49:42The orbit is beginning to decay.
00:49:47Ben, where are you?
00:49:48Ben!
00:49:49Ben!
00:49:49Hello, Captain.
00:50:07Captain.
00:50:09Nothing to say, Captain.
00:50:12I'm glad you're alive.
00:50:19You mean you're relieved because you think your career is saved.
00:50:25But you're wrong.
00:50:36Ben!
00:50:37Ben, it's not too late.
00:50:42We can help you.
00:50:44Mike, you helped me all along.
00:50:46Kept me down.
00:50:47Robbed me of my own command.
00:50:50I'm a good officer.
00:50:52As good as you.
00:50:53I've watched you for years.
00:50:58The great Captain Kirk.
00:51:07They told you to do it to me.
00:51:10You all conspired against me.
00:51:13You ruined me.
00:51:14But you won't do it anymore.
00:51:17Put the phaser down, Ben.
00:51:32Oh, I wouldn't kill you, Captain.
00:51:36Your own death would mean too little to you.
00:51:39But your ship.
00:51:41What about my ship?
00:51:43It's dead.
00:51:44I've killed it.
00:51:45I tapped out your primary energy circuits.
00:51:54Mr. Slough, what's our orbit status?
00:51:58You can, Captain.
00:51:59Variants at second level, depreciating unusually fast.
00:52:04You're out of power.
00:52:06I know this ship, too.
00:52:08The Enterprise should have been mine.
00:52:11You kept me from it.
00:52:14Ben.
00:52:14Why kill innocent people?
00:52:21Innocent?
00:52:24Officers and gentlemen.
00:52:27Captains all.
00:52:29Except for Finney.
00:52:32And his one mistake.
00:52:35A long time ago.
00:52:37But they don't forget.
00:52:39I logged the mistake, Ben.
00:52:41Blame me, not them.
00:52:42But they are to blame.
00:52:44All of them.
00:52:47I was a good officer.
00:52:51I really was.
00:52:54I love the service more than any man ever did.
00:52:58Mr. Spock, running out of time.
00:53:02Gentlemen, if you'll please hurry to the transporter room.
00:53:05Mr. Spock.
00:53:07The court has not yet reached a verdict.
00:53:09We will hear this witness out.
00:53:11Very well, sir.
00:53:16It's not too late.
00:53:17You can be helped.
00:53:19But if you kill all those people...
00:53:22Or shouldn't I?
00:53:25They killed me, didn't they?
00:53:28It's a fair trade.
00:53:31Is Jamie included in that deal?
00:53:36What do you mean?
00:53:37She's on board by now.
00:53:42Yes, she's on board.
00:53:44Why did you do that?
00:53:47Why did you bring her here?
00:53:48Why did you bring her here?
00:54:07Why did you bring her here?
00:54:21Ah!
00:54:21Ah!
00:54:51Beaten and sobbing, Finney told me where he had sabotaged the prime energy circuits.
00:54:57The damage he had caused was considerable, but not irreparable.
00:55:00With luck, I would be able to effect repairs before our orbit decayed completely.
00:55:21I'll return, Mr. Spock, of 14 points and rising.
00:55:51Activate port impulsations.
00:55:54One-third power.
00:55:56One-third power.
00:55:57Arians fading.
00:56:07Orbit stabilizing.
00:56:20All secure, sir.
00:56:37All secure, sir.
00:56:46Unless the prosecution has an objection, I rule this court be dismissed.
00:56:53Absolutely no objection, sir.
00:57:03How long will it be this time before I see you again?
00:57:15At the risk of sounding like mystic, that depends on the stars.
00:57:27Sam Cogley asked me to give you something special.
00:57:33It's not a first edition or anything.
00:57:35Just a book.
00:57:37Sam says that makes it special, though.
00:57:40I didn't have much of a chance to thank him.
00:57:42He's busy on a case.
00:57:45He's defending Ben Finney.
00:57:47He says he'll win.
00:57:48He says he'll win.
00:57:49I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
00:57:53Do you think it would cause a complete breakdown of discipline if a lowly lieutenant kissed a starship captain on the bridge of his ship?
00:58:03Let's try.
00:58:19See?
00:58:20No change.
00:58:21Discipline goes on.
00:58:23And so must the Enterprise.
00:58:25Goodbye, Jim.
00:58:28Goodbye, Reed.
00:58:30Better luck next time.
00:58:33I had pretty good luck this time.
00:58:36I lost, didn't I?
00:58:38She's a very good lawyer.
00:59:06Obviously.
00:59:07Indeed, she is.
00:59:08THE END
00:59:38THE END
01:00:08THE END