You will know the future, Captain Kirk.
-You have been such men!
You've known
and created such beauty.
You've watched your race evolve
from cruelty and barbarism...
throughout your enormous life,
and yet now you would do this to us?
The flowers of my past.
I hold the nettles of the present!
- I am Flint now, with my needs.
- What needs?
Tonight I have seen
something wondrous,
something I've waited for,
labored for.
Nothing must endanger it. At last,
Rayna's emotions have stirred to life.
Now they will turn to me in
this solitude which I preserve.
[Rayna]
No.
- Rayna!
- You must not do this to them.
I must.
What will you feel for him
after we are gone?
All emotions are in play,
Mr. Flint.
You harm us,
she hates you.
Give me back my ship.
Your secret is safe with us.
That's why you delayed
the processing of the ryetalyn.
You realized what was happening.
You kept us together, Rayna and me,
because you knew I could
bring her emotions alive.
And now you’re just going
to take over!
I shall take what is mine
when she comes to me.
We are mated, Captain,
alike, immortal.
You must forget your feelings
in this matter,
which is quite
impossible for you.
Impossible!
Impossible from the beginning.
You used me.
I can't love her,
but I do love her.
- And she loves me.
- No!
Captain, your primitive impulses
will not alter the circumstances.
Stay out of this.
We're fighting over a woman.
No, you're not,
for she is not.
I c-c-cannot be
the cause of this.
I will not be
the cause of this!
Please, stop!
Stop! I choose...
where I want to go,
what I want to do.
I choose!
I choose.
- Rayna!
- No.
Do not order me.
No one can order me!
She's human.
Down to the last blood cell,
she's human.
Down to the last thought, hope,
aspiration, emotion, she’s human!
For the human spirit
is free.
You have no power of ownership.
She's free to do as she wishes.
Gentlemen, I urge you to stop.
There is a danger.
No man beats me.
I don't want to beat you.
This is no test of power.
Rayna belongs to herself...
and she claims
the human right of choice...
to be as she wills,
to do as she wills,
to think as she wills.
That's what I've worked for.
Rayna, come with me.
Stay.
I...
was not human.
Now...
I love.
I love.
You can't die!
- What happened?
- She loved you, Captain.
And you, too, Mr. Flint,
as a mentor,
even as a father.
There was not enough time
for her to adjust...
to the awful power and contradictions
of her newfound emotions.
She could not bear
to hurt either of you.
The joys of love
made her human,
and the agonies of love
destroyed her.
Spock.
The epidemic is reduced
and no longer a threat.
The Enterprise is on course
513 mark 7, as you ordered.
A very old
and lonely man,
and a young and lonely man.
We put on a pretty
poor show, didn't we?
If only I could forget.
Jim.
Oh, thank heaven,
sleeping at last.
Your report, Doctor.
Oh, those, uh, tricorder
readings on Mr. Flint...
are finally correlated:
He's dying.
You see, Flint,
in leaving earth...
with all of its complex fields
within which he was formed,
sacrificed immortality.
He'll live the remainder
of a normal life span, then die.
On that day, I shall mourn.
Does he know?
Yes, I told him myself. He intends
to devote the remainder of his years...
and great abilities to the improvement
of the human condition.
And who knows what
he might come up with.
Indeed.
Well, I guess that's all.
I can tell Jim later or you can.
Considering
his opponent's longevity,
truly an eternal triangle.
You wouldn't understand that,
would you, Spock?
You see, I feel sorrier for you
than I do for him...
because you'll never know the things
that love can drive a man to :
the ecstasies,
the miseries,
the broken rules,
the desperate chances,
the glorious failures,
the glorious victories.
All of these things
you'll never know...
simply because the word "love"
isn't written