Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

James T. Kirk:
[eulogizing Spock] We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted, in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most . . . [voice breaks] human.

[Captain Terrell meets Khan and his followers]

Khan:
Uh, Captain! Captain. Save your strength, Captain. These people had sworn to live and die at my command two hundred years before you were born! Do you mean he [refers to Chekov] never told you the tale? To amuse your Captain, no? Never told you how the Enterprise picked up the Botany Bay, lost in space from the year 1996 with myself and the ship's company in cryogenic freeze?

Capt. Terrell:
I've never even met Admiral Kirk!

Khan:
'Admiral?' 'Admiral!' 'Admiral'... Never told you how Admiral Kirk sent 70 of us into exile in this barren sandheap, with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us.

Chekov:
[furious] You lie! On Ceti Alpha V there was life! A fair chance --

Khan:
[shouts] THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!!! [walks back to Chekov and calms voice] Ceti Alpha VI exploded six months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet, and everything was laid waste. Admiral Kirk never bothered to check on our progress! It was only the fact of my genetically-engineered intellect that allowed us to survive. On Earth . . . (grins wistfully). . . two hundred years ago . . . (sighs nostalgically). . . I was a prince . . . with power over millions.

Chekov:
[angrily] Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!!

[after Reliant's prefix code has been received]

Spock:
Reliant's prefix number is one-six-three-zero-nine.

Lt. Saavik:
I don't understand.

Kirk:
You have to learn why things work on a starship.

Spock:
Each starship has its own unique combination code.

Kirk:
To prevent an enemy from doing what we're attempting. Using our console to order Reliant to lower her shields.

Spock:
Assuming he hasn't changed the combination. He is quite intelligent.

[James Kirk has just seen Clark Terrell commit suicide and Pavel Andreievich Chekov collapse in agony.]

Kirk:
Khan, you bloodsucker! You're gonna have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me? Do you?

Khan Noonien Singh:
Kirk! You're still alive, my old friend!

Kirk:
Still --"old friend!" You've managed to kill just about everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target!

Khan:
Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral. [beams up Genesis components]

Kirk:
Khan . . . Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me! You were going to kill me, Khan; you're going to have to come down here! You're going to have to come down here!

Khan:
I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on . . . hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet . . . buried alive . . . [voice drops to a menacing whisper] . . . buried alive.

Kirk:
[exploding with rage, able to stand no more] KHHHHAAAAAAAAN!!!

Lt Saavik:
[to Kirk] On the test, sir. Will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know.

Dr Leonard McCoy:
Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Star Fleet cadet who ever beat the "No-Win" scenario.

Saavik:
How?

James Kirk:
I reprogrammed the simulation so that it was possible to save the ship.

Saavik:
What?!

David:
[chuckles] He cheated!

Kirk:
Changed the conditions of the test . . . got a commendation for original thinking . . . I don't like to lose.

Saavik:
Then you've never faced that situation . . . faced death.

Kirk:
I don't believe in a "no-win" scenario. [pulls out his communicator] Kirk to Spock.

Spock:
[on communicator] Spock here, Admiral.

Kirk:
Captain Spock, it's two hours. Are you ready?

Spock:
[on communicator] Right on schedule, Admiral. Just give us your co-ordinates and we'll beam you aboard.

Kirk:
All right. [to a completely dumbfounded Saavik] I don't like to lose. [bites an apple]

Saavik:
[still arguing WHILE beaming aboard the Enterprise] But the damage report! We were immobilized! Captain Spock said it would be two days!

Kirk:
Come, come, Lieutenant. You of all people go by the book!

Saavik:
By the book?

Kirk:
By the book! Regulation Forty-Six A: "If transmissions are being monitored during battle --"

Saavik:
: [astonished] "-- no uncoded messages on an open channel!" [looking at Spock] You lied!

Spock:
I exaggerated.

Kirk:
Hours instead of days; now we have minutes instead of hours!

Joachim:
[not just as subordinate to superior but as son to father as well] We're all with you, sir . . . but consider this. We are free. We have a ship, and the means to go where we will. We have escaped permanent exile on Ceti Alpha V. You have proven your superior intellect, and defeated the plans of Admiral Kirk. You do not need to defeat him again.

Khan Noonien Singh:
He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him round the Moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition's flames before I give him up! [No one responds.] Prepare to alter course.

[Kirk hails Khan]

Kirk:
This is Admiral Kirk. We tried it once your way, Khan -- are you game for a rematch? [Khan sits there silently shocked.] Khan . . . [mockingly]. . . I'm laughing at the "superior intellect." [voice dissolves into an inaudible chuckle]

Khan Noonien Singh:
[barely able to restrain his passionate anger] Full impulse power.

Joachim:
NO!! You have Genesis! You can have whatever --

'Khan:
[grabs Joachim in anger]FULL POWER, [shoves him aside] DAMN YOU!

Leonard McCoy:
Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there!

Spock:
As you are so fond of observing, Doctor, I am not human.

McCoy:
[grabs Spock by the shoulder] You're not going in there!

Spock:
Perhaps you're right. What is Mr. Scott's condition?

McCoy:
Well, I don't think he's --

Spock:
[nerve pinches McCoy] Sorry, Doctor, but I have no time to discuss this logically. [grabs Scotty's gloves and mind melds with McCoy] Remember.

[seeing Spock lying immobilized in the radiation-filled chamber, Kirk runs towards it]

McCoy:
NO!! You'll flood the whole compartment!

Kirk:
He'll die . . .

Scott:
Sir! He's dead already.

McCoy:
[stricken] It's too late.

Kirk:
Spock!

Spock:
[climbs slowly to his feet and walks over to Kirk] Ship. . . out of danger?

Kirk:
Yes.

Spock:
Don't grieve, Admiral. It's logical. The needs of the many outweigh . . .

Kirk:
-- the needs of the few . . .

Spock:
-- or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test, until now. What do you think of my solution? [He kneels.] I have been . . . and always shall be . . . your friend. [He places his hand on the chamber glass, and his voice is a whispered broken husk.] Live long and prosper!

Kirk:
[places his hand against the glass as Spock slumps and dies] No. . . .

David:
Lieutenant Saavik was right: You never have faced death.

Kirk:
No, not like this. I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and -- patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing . . . [But he cannot bring himself to complete his complaint, "I know nothing of death."]

David:
You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.

Kirk:
Just words.

David:
But good words! That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them. [hesitant] I was wrong about you . . . and I'm sorry.

Kirk:
Is that what you came here to say?

David:
Mainly. And also that I'm proud . . . very proud . . . to be your son.

[Kirk hails Khan]

James Kirk:
This is Admiral Kirk. We tried it once your way, Khan, are you game for a rematch? Khan, I'm laughing at the "superior intellect."

Khan Noonien Singh:
Full impulse power!

Joachim:
No, sir! You have Genesis! You can have whatever...

Khan:
[grabs Joachim in anger] FULL POWER! [shoves him aside] DAMN YOU!

Lenoard McCoy:
Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there!

Spock:
As you are so fond of observing, Doctor, I am not human!

James T. Kirk:
[shocked at the sight of a familiar face] Khan.

Khan:
You still remember, Admiral. I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember you.

Kirk:
What is the meaning of this attack? And where's the crew of the Reliant?

Khan:
Surely I have made my meaning plain. I mean to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I deprived your ship of power and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life. But I wanted you to know first who it was who had beaten you.

[Montgomery Scott has just seen Peter Preston die in front of Admiral Kirk and Doctor McCoy]

Montgomery Scott:
Why? Why?!

Kirk:
[referring to Khan's motive] He wants to kill me for passing sentence on him fifteen years ago. And...he doesn't care who stands between him and his vengeance.

David Marcus:
Every time we have dealings with Starfleet, I get nervous. We are dealing with something that... could be perverted into a dreadful weapon. Remember that overgrown Boy Scout you used to hang around with? That's exactly the kind of man...

Carol Marcus:
Listen, kiddo, Jim Kirk was many things, but he was never a Boy Scout!

McCoy:
Go? Where are we going?"

Kirk:
Where they went.

McCoy:
Suppose they went nowhere?

Kirk:
Then this'll be your big chance to get away from it all.

Leonard McCoy:
This is not about age. It's about you flying a god-damn computer console when you want to be out there hopping galaxies!

James T. Kirk:
Spare me your emotions and poetry, please. We all have our assigned duties.

McCoy:
Oh! You're hiding! Hiding behind rules and regulations.

Kirk:
Who am I hiding from?

McCoy:
From yourself, Admiral.

Kirk:
Don't mince words, Bones. What do you really think?

McCoy:
Jim, I'm your doctor and I'm your friend. Get back your command. Get it back before you turn into part of this collection.

Carol Marcus:
Please tell me what you're feeling.

James T. Kirk:
There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years. He's trying to kill me. You show me a son that'd be happy to help him. My son. My life that could have been but wasn't. What am I feeling? Old, worn out.

James T. Kirk:
Spock!

Spock:
Ship, out of danger?

Kirk:
Yes.

Spock:
Don't grieve, Admiral. It's logical. The needs of the many outweigh—

Kirk:
The needs of the few?

Spock:
—or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?

Kirk:
Spock!

Spock:
I have been, and always shall be, your friend. Live long and prosper! [slumps and dies]

Kirk:
No!

Leonard McCoy:
Are you okay, Jim? How do you feel?

James T. Kirk:
Young. I feel young!

Khan Noonien Singh:
Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space.

Khan Noonien Singh:
[last words] No. No, you can't get away. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

About:
I’ve always wanted to make a movie with submarines and destroyers and people torpedoing each other—a sort of case of arrested development—but I thought, ‘Oh, OK, this is about the Navy. I know how to do this. … And Khan, because I’d seen that episode ‘Space Seed,’ and I thought, ‘Oh, that guy must be pretty angry by now.'