long
and prosper.
The weapons, gentlemen.
In case he fails.
Colonel!
No!
Let's hear what he has to say.
We may find it useful.
Stop there, Vulcan.
State your purpose.
- I come in peace to propose peace.
- Are you surrendering?
I'm doing what I consider
best for all of us.
If you choose to regard
that as surrender,
I accept your definition.
One of those
peace lovers, Colonel.
Why are you doing this?
Do you speak for the others?
No, I speak for myself
because I abhor violence.
But if you accept the solution
I offer, they, too, will accept it.
How can I be sure? I think you’re
trying to trick me, Vulcan.
I think that while
you're here talking peace,
the others are
preparing to attack.
No, Colonel. They are at
their base awaiting an answer.
How can I believe that?
No one talks peace unless
he's ready to back it up with war.
He talks peace if it is
the only way to live.
Then tell me, what do you have
to gain if we accept?
Nothing but the knowledge that
I have done what I believe in.
And what do I get out of it?
I fight for gain, Vulcan.
What do I gain here?
Your life and the lives
of the others.
You said yourself, Colonel, that
we have common cause-- to survive.
Together we can.
But not by warring.
- Why don't we kill him?
- No!
He's our means
to finish them all!
Colonel, surely you accept
the logic of this.
- What is your answer?
- You are very persuasive, Vulcan.
I'd like to come out of this
with a whole skin.
Perhaps I can convince
my associates...
that it would be
to their advantage also.
Your Surak is a brave man.
Men of peace
usually are, Captain.
On Vulcan, he is revered
as the father of our civilization.
The father image holds
much meaning for us.
You show emotion, Spock?
I deeply respect what
he has accomplished.
[Kirk]I hope he accomplishes
something here, and soon.
- [Man Screaming]
- Surak?
[Surak]
Help me, Spock!
[Surak]
Spock, help me!
[Green]Mr. Spock,
your friend wants you.
He seems to be hurt.
[Surak]
Spock! Help me, Spock!
Spock! Help me!
[Green]
You can't let him suffer.
They're trying to goad us
into attacking, Captain.
They expect us to act rashly.
- Yes, I know that.
- Help me, Spock!
He was aware of what
might happen when he went.
- [Screaming]
- I should never have let him go.
You had no choice,
Captain.
[Screaming]
- You could not have stopped him.
- How can you ignore that?
A Vulcan would not cry out so.
Whether he's a Vulcan
or not, he's in agony.
I am not insensitive
to it, Captain.
Help me, Spock!
But you can just listen
to it and do nothing.
- [Screaming]
- I can't.
Captain, that is what
they are waiting for.
They're waiting for us
to attempt a rescue.
I can’t just
let him stay there.
Perhaps we can
rescue him, Mr. Spock.
Now, I suggest that
we do whatever they want.
Do what they want, sir?
Not the way they want it,
however.
We must first
convince them...
that they have provoked us
to recklessness.
James, I do not mean
to presume upon your authority.
What I propose is that
I circle around to their rear...
while you two provide
a frontal assault.
It should be sufficiently
violent to cover whatever I do.
- And what will you do?
- Slip into their camp and free him.
- No.
-James, James.
Remember, I was something
of a backwoodsman.
I doubt that you could do
what I was bred to.
I can't let you risk it,
Mr. President.
I am no longer president.
Mr. Spock, any comment?
[Surak]
Help me, Spock!
- No, sir.
- One matter further, gentlemen.
We fight on their level.
With trickery,
brutality, finality.
We match their evil.
I know, James.
I was reputed to be a gentle man.
But I was
commander in chief...
during the four bloodiest years
of my country's history.
I gave orders that sent...
a hundred thousand men
to their death...
at the hands
of their brothers.
[ Sighs ]
There is no honorable way to kill,
no gentle way to destroy.
There is nothing good