personal responsibility in this matter, -
- but I am obliged to confirm my
esteemed colleagues legal interpretation.
What is the position of
the Romulan government?
I must concur with my colleagues.
You can't believe that Kirk assassinated
the Chancellor of the High Council.
Mr President.
I don't know what to believe.
I'm waiting for your answer, sir.
This President is not above the law.
Mr President, Starfleet command
is here from San Francisco.
- Mr President.
- Mr President.
Bill, Admiral Cartwright,
please sit down.
Mr President, we cannot allow
Federation citizens to be abducted.
I'm constrained to observe
Interstellar Law.
Sir, would you please
take a look at this.
We prepared Operation Retrieve
based on the danger of terrorism -
- between the Klingon empire
and the Federation.
We can go in, rescue the hostages -
- and get out in 24 hours with
acceptable losses.
- We have the technology...
- Yes, yes.
But suppose you precipitate
a full-scale war?
Then, quite frankly,
we can clean their chronometers.
Mr President, they are vulnerable.
There will never be a better time.
The longer we wait, the less accessible
the hostages will be.
I'll bear that in mind. Thank you,
gentlemen, that's all for now.
Mr President.
Sir...
Those men have literally
saved this planet.
And now they're going to save it again.
By standing trial.
Report back on the double.
Do you read?
- We're to report back at once.
- We can't abandon Kirk and McCoy.
400 years ago, on Earth, workers
who felt their livelyhood threatened -
- flung their wooden shoes called
"sabots" into the machines to stop them.
Hence the word "sabotage".
We experience technical malfunction.
All back-up systems inoperative.
Excellent. I mean... too bad.
Mr President, I have been named
chancellorin my father's place.
Madam Chancellor,
you have my condolences on your loss.
I assure you
that this shameful deed will not...
Let us come to the point. You want
this conference to go forward.
I will attend in one week,
on one condition.
We will not extradite the prisoners,
and you will not attempt to rescue them.
We would consider any such attempt
an act of war.
We hope you'll be our guest
here on Earth.
After recent events, you will
understand if I prefer a neutral site.
And in the interest of security, let us
keep the location secret for now.
As you wish, Madam Chancellor.
Attack them now, while we still can.
Attack or be slaves in their world.
We can take whole by force,
what they propose to divide.
War is obsolete, General.
As we are in danger of becoming.
Better to die on our feet
than live on our knees.
That wasn't what my father wanted.
Your father was killed
for what he wanted.
The peace process will go forward.
Kirk...
Kirk will pay for my father's death.
It is as I said, Mr Spock.
Inventory registers every torpedo.
Yet the data banks insist we fired.
- One computer is lying.
- A computer doesn't lie!
Precisely. Therefore we must inspect
each torpedo visually.
That could take hours!
And if they're all there?
Then someone forged an entry
in the data banks.
Gorkon's daughter has been named
Chancellor. It was on the news.
I'll bet that bitch killed her father.
- Her own father?
- It is an old story, sir.
They don't place the same value on life
as we do, you know that.
Take my word,
she did not shed one bloody tear.
Hardly conclusive,
since Klingons have no tear-ducts.
Lieutenant, any response from Starfleet
since our dispatch?
Yes, sir.
And?
Commander Uhura is experiencing
technical difficulties, sir.
Curious. Very well.
For 24 hours, we will agree
this conversation didn't take place.
- A lie?
- An omission.
In 24 hours we won't have a clue
where Captain Kirk is.
- I know precisely where he will be.
- You do? Where?
Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk...
It's a damn show trial.
The Enterprise fired on Kronos One
without provocation.
The Chancellor and his advisors...