understanding.
I want your respect.
Are you afraid to hear me out?
- I'm afraid of nothing.
- Wait outside.
I'm sure you have many questions.
Here, amidst the stars
of our own galaxy,
we shall seek the answers together.
Easy, Scotty.
You're back with us.
I dreamt that a madman
had taken over the Enterprise.
- He's not a madman.
- He's not?
Sybok has put us in touch with feelings
we've always been afraid to express.
- I have to get to the transporter.
- Scotty!
- There's so much I want to tell you.
- Wait till I'm a wee bit stronger.
I don't think I could take it
in my present condition...or yours.
Sha Ka Ree.
The Source.
Heaven.
Eden.
Call it what you will.
The Klingons call it Qui Tu.
The Romulans, Vorta Vor.
In Andorian it is unpronounceable.
Still, every culture shares
this common dream.
A place from which creation sprang.
For us it will soon be reality.
My only reality is that
I'm a prisoner on my own ship.
What is this power you have
to control the minds of my crew?.
I don't control minds... I free them.
How?.
By making you face your pain
and draw strength from it.
Once that's done, fear cannot stop you.
It sounds like brainwashing to me.
Your pain is the deepest of all.
I can feel it, can't you?
Leonard.
This is some kind of trick.
Leonard.
Father?.
My God! Don't do this to me.
Leonard.
I'm here. I'm with you, Dad.
The pain. Stop the pain.
I've done everything I can do.
You've got to hang on.
I can't stand the pain.
Help me.
All my knowledge and I can't save him.
You've done all you can.
The support system will keep him alive.
- You call this alive?
- Son...
- Release me.
- I can't do that, Dad.
But how can I watch him suffer
like this?
You're a doctor.
I'm his son.
Why did you do it?
To preserve his dignity.
- That wasn't the worst of it, was it?
- No!
Share it.
Not long after, they found a cure.
A goddamn cure.
- If you didn't kill him, he'd have lived.
- I released him!
- You did what you thought was right.
- Yes! No!
Release this pain!
This pain has poisoned your soul
for a long time.
Now you've taken the first step.
The other steps we'll take together.
Each man's pain is unique.
I hide no pain.
- I know you better than that.
- Do you?
- Spock, don't.
- It's all right, Captain.
Proceed.
- What is this?
- I believe we are witnessing my birth.
Sarek, your son.
So human.
Spock?.
- What have you done to my friends?
- Nothing. This is who they are.
- Didn't you know that?
- No, I didn't.
- Now learn something about yourself.
- No, I refuse.
- Jim, try to be open about this.
- About what?
How I made wrong choices in my life?
Turning left instead of right?
I don't need Sybok to take me
on a tour of my weaknesses.
To be brainwashed by a conman!
- This conman took away my pain.
- With the wave of a magic wand?
The things we carry with us
make us who we are.
If we lose them, we lose ourselves.
I don't want my pain taken away.
I need my pain.
Captain, you remain here.
Spock, Dr McCoy, come with me.
- Spock?.
- I cannot go with you.
- Why not?
- I belong here.
- I don't understand.
- Sybok...
You are my brother,
but you do not know me.
I am not the outcast boy
you left behind many years ago.
I found myself and my place,
and I know who I am.
I cannot go with you.
You'd better count me out, too.
- Then I'll see you on the other side.
- Wait!
We'll never make it
through the Great Barrier.
If we do, will that convince you
that my vision was true?
It was given to me by God.
He waits for us on the other side.
You are mad.
Am l?
We'll see.
They say no ship can survive this.
They're wrong. Danger is an illusion.
We have no instrument readings.
- Mr Sulu, full ahead.
- Full ahead, aye.
- Is it possible?
- Fascinating.
Are we dreaming?
If we are, then life is a dream.
Instruments are back on line.
Incredible.
There is a power source emanating
from the planet like nothing I've seen.
- Sha Ka Ree.