from you.
I cannot come.
If I go back,
I will die.
- What are you waiting for? Hurry!
- How much time do we have?
- Scotty, how much time is there?
- You've got to come aboard now.
Come on, Spock. Now!
Something's wrong.
What's the matter?
Why can't he get through?
I don't know,
unless it's because...
they originally went through
the portal together.
Spock, McCoy,
you can't get through...
unless you both come back
at the same time.
- Scotty.
- [ Scott ] Orders or no,
- I'm beaming you up first.
- No! Wait!
[Kirk]Spock, McCoy, hurry through
the portal. Time is running out.
[ Whirring ]
He had his escape planned.
I'm glad he made it.
[ Communicator Chirps ]
Kirk to Enterprise.
There's no further need
to observe me, Doctor.
As you can see, I've returned
to the present in every sense.
But it did happen, Spock.
Yes, it happened.
But that was
5,000 years ago.
And she is dead now.
Dead and buried.
Long ago.
- Scotty, are you there?
- [ Scott ] Now or never, Captain.
Beam us aboard and go to maximum
warp as soon as we're there.
Kirk out.[Kirk]
Captain's Log : Star date 5928.5.
The Enterprise has received
a distress call...
from a group of scientists
on Camus 11,
who are exploring the ruins
of a dead civilization.
Their situation is desperate.
Two of the survivors are
the expedition surgeon, Dr. Coleman,
and the leader of the expedition,
Dr. Janice Lester.
- What's wrong with her?
- Exposure to radiation.
What form of radiation was it?
Nothing I've ever encountered.
[Moaning]
Janice.
You must remain absolutely quiet.
Those are doctor's orders,
not mine.
- [Tricorder Whistling]
- [Spock] Captain.
Tricorder picking up
very faint life readings.
Approximately 700 meters from here.
Help will have to be immediate.
[ Moaning ]
Perhaps your presence
will quiet her.
I hoped I wouldn't see you again.
I don't blame you.
The year we were together
at Starfleet...
is the only time in my life
I was alive.
I never stopped you from
going on with your space work.
Your world of starship captains
doesn't admit women.
- It isn't fair.
- No, it isn't.
And you punished and tortured me
because of it.
I loved you.
We could've roamed among the stars.
We'd have killed each other.
It might have been better.
[High-Pitched Tone]
[Kirk]
Space -- the final frontier.
These are the voyages of
the starship Enterprise.
Its five-year mission--
to explore strange new worlds,
to seek out new life
and new civilizations,
to boldly go
where no man has gone before.
[ Laughs ]
You had your chance,
Captain Kirk.
You should've smothered
the life in me.
Then they would have said
Dr. Janice Lester...
died of radiation poisoning
in the line of duty.
Why didn't you do it?
You always wanted to.
Didn't you?
You had the strength to do it.
But you were afraid.
You were always afraid.
Now Janice Lester
takes the place of Captain Kirk.
I already possess
your physical strength.
Only this Captain Kirk...
is not afraid to kill.
- [ Moans ]
- Now you'll know...
the indignity of being a woman.
[ Moaning Continues ]
For you this agony will
soon pass, as it has for me.
Quiet. Quiet!
Believe me,
it's better to be dead...
than to live alone
in the body of a woman.
- It's better to be dead--
- [Thump]
[Footsteps Approaching]
Dr. McCoy, your report.
We were too late, Jim.
There's nothing could be done.
[Kirk]
Was it radiation as suggested?
No, I believe it was celebium,
however, Dr. Coleman disagrees.
To be specific is essential.
The treatment of celebium is--
Dr. McCoy!
Did you notice any unusual symptoms
while we were gone?
[Kirk] Nothing at all.
She was unconscious all of the time.
Dr. Lester is near death.
Perhaps the shock of knowing
what happened to her staff...
is part of her problem.
I'm sure it is.
Beaming her up to the Enterprise
will be less harmful than waiting.
Uh, I don't know.
I-I'm not sure.
[Communicator Beeping]
Captain