isn't time,
Doctor.
I must decipher
those obelisk's symbols.
They're a highly
advanced form
of cipher writing.
You've been trying
to do that
since we started back
to that planet -- 58 days.
I'm aware of that,
Doctor.
I'm also aware
when we arrive at the planet,
we'll have barely four hours
to effect rescue.
I believe those
symbols are the key.
You won't read them
by killing yourself.
You've hardly eaten
or slept for weeks.
If you don't let up,
you're going to collapse.
I'm not hungry, Doctor.
And under stress,
we Vulcans can do
without sleep for weeks.
Well, your Vulcan
metabolism is so low
it can hardly
be measured,
and as
for the pressure,
that green ice water
you call blood --
My physical condition
is not important, Doctor.
That obelisk is.
Well, my diagnosis
is exhaustion
brought on from overwork
and guilt.
You're blaming yourself
for crippling this ship
Just as we blamed you.
Well, we were wrong.
So were you.
You made
a command decision.
Jim would have done
the same.
My prescription
is rest. Now.
Do I have to call
the security guards
to enforce it?
[Laughing]
Miramanee.
Come here.
Miramanee.
Each time
your arms hold me
is as joyous
as the first.
I'm happy.
I'm so happy.
If it weren't
for the dreams,
my mind would be
completely at peace.
I thought you no longer
had the dreams,
that you no longer
saw the strange lodge
which moves
through the sky.
They've come back.
They were gone
for a while,
but they've come back,
and l...
see faces, too.
Very dim.
I feel ...
I should know -- know them.
I feel ...
my place is with them,
not here.
I don't deserve
this happiness.
I have a gift
for you.
Gift?
What?
It may make you happy.
Wait.
These last few weeks,
my love for Miramanee
grows stronger
with each passing day.
However, the dreams return
every night ...
fragments of memories.
I can almost
get hold of them,
and then ...
I bear your child.
You.
A canal ...
and with it we'll
bring the water
from the lake
right to the lodge.
And we can expand
the system.
See?
And irrigate
the fields
and double
the food supply.
And with the power
of the lamp ...
Lamp?
Lamp.
Which turns night
into day,
we can cook
twice as much food,
and as you taught us ...
pre ...
Preserve.
Preserve.
Preserve.
For times off a mine.
That is why you made
the lamp, Kirok,
so that I would never know
when it was night,
and I would be
forever cooking.
No, that's not why
I made the lamp at all
to keep you
forever cooking.
[Thunder And Wind]
It's only the wind ...
and the thunder.
I act like
a stupid child.
I have nothing
to fear.
You are here.
It is time.
Time?
To go to the temple.
The people will be waiting.
Why?
To save them.
But it's only
the wind.
The wind
can't harm them.
The wind is only
the beginning.
Soon the sky
will darken,
the lake will go wild,
and the earth
will tremble.
Only you can save us.
But I can't
do anything
about the wind
or the sky.
If we don't go now,
it will be too late.
You must go
inside the temple
and make the blue flame
come out.
I don't know how
to get inside
the temple.
But you are a god.
Kirok!
Kirok!
Why are you not
at the temple, Kirok?
Soon the ground
will begin to tremble.
The people need
your help.
We'll go to the caves.
It'll be safe there.
The caves?
Surely a legend
can do more than that
for his people.
When the ground trembles,
the caves are not safe.
If you do not rouse
the temple spirit,
we will all die.
There is nothing
you cannot do, my husband.
Well, what do you
wait for, God?
Your robes?
Take care of Miramanee,
I am Kirok!
I have come!
I am Kirok!
I prescribed sleep.
You prescribed rest,
Doctor.
The symbols on the obelisk
are not words.
They are
musical notes.
Musical notes? You mean
it's nothing but a song?
In a way, yes.
Other cultures, among them
certain Vulcan off shoots,
use musical notes
as words.