We're home...on Earth.
Remember.
Admiral, docking is completed.
Starfleet Commander Morrow
is on his way for inspection.
Uhura, get the medics down here!
Get them now!
You've all done remarkable service
under the most difficult conditions.
You'll be receiving
Starfleet's highest commendation.
And more importantly...
extended shore leave.
All but you, Mr. Scott. They need
your wisdom on the new Excelsior.
Report there tomorrow
as Captain of Engineering.
With all appreciation, I’d prefer
to supervise the refit of Enterprise.
I’m afraid that won't be necessary.
But, sir...
I’m sorry, Mr. Scott,
but there will be no refit.
Admiral... l don't understand.
The Enterprise is not...
Jim, the Enterprise is 20 years old.
We feel her day is over.
But we had requested...
We had hoped to take her
back to Genesis.
- That is out of the question.
- May I ask why?
in your absence, Genesis has become
a galactic controversy.
Until the Federation Council
makes policy,
you are all under orders
not to discuss with anyone
your knowledge of Genesis.
Consider it a quarantine planet...
and a forbidden subject.
To fully understand the events on which
I report, it is necessary to review
the theoretical data
on the Genesis device,
as developed by Doctors Carol
and David Marcus.
Genesis, simply put,
is life from lifelessness.
The device was to be introduced
into a pre-selected area
of a lifeless space body,
a moon or other dead form.
The device would instantaneously
cause the Genesis effect.
instead of a dead moon, a living,
breathing planet now exists,
capable of sustaining whatever life
forms we see fit to deposit on it.
So?
Speak.
Great power to control, dominate.
- Speak.
- impressive.
They can make a planet.
Oh, yes. New cities,
homes in the country.
Your woman at your side,
children playing at your feet.
And overhead, fluttering in the
breeze, the flag of the Federation!
Charming.
- Station.
- Yes, my Lord.
- Share this with no one.
- Understood, my Lord.
We are going to this planet.
Even as our emissaries negotiate
for peace with the Federation,
we will act for the preservation
of our race.
We will seize the secret
of this weapon.
The secret of ultimate power!
Success, my Lord.
The Genesus Planet
Star Date: 8210.3
We have reached the destination
planet at point 035.
Very well, Lieutenant. Helm.
Execute standard orbital approach.
Send a coded message for
Starfleet Commander, Priority One.
''Federation science vessel Grissom
arriving Genesis, Mutara Sector,''
''to begin research.
J.T. Esteban commanding.''
Aye, sir, codding them.
Dr Marcus, it's your planet.
Begin scanning, please.
This is where the fun begins, Saavik.
Just like your father, so human.
All units functional.
Recorders are on. Scanning Sector 1 .
The foliage in fully developed state
of growth. Temperature 22.2 Celsius.
Sector 2 indicating desert terrain.
Minimal vegetation. Temperature 39.4.
Sector 3, sub-tropical vegetation.
Temperature decreasing rapidly.
it’s snow.
Snow in the same sector. Fantastic!
Fascinating.
All the varieties of land and weather
known to Earth, within hours' walk.
- Metallic mass.
- Close range scan.
A photon tube.
Gravitational fields were in flux.
it must have soft landed.
in code to Starfleet:
''Captain Spock's tube located
on Genesis surface.''
Yes, sir, codding your message.
I don't believe it.
What is it?
If equipment is functioning properly,
indications are an animal life form.
- You said there wouldn't be any.
- There shouldn't be.
Cross referenced and verified.
An unidentifiable life form reading.
You wish to advise Starfleet, sir?
We don't know
what we're talking about here.
- Why don't we beam it up?
- Oh, no. You don't.
Regulations state,
''Nothing shall be beamed aboard''
''until danger of contamination
is eliminated.''
Captain, beaming down
to the surface is permitted.
If the Captain decides that the