Starship Enterprise Re-christening Ceremony

instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from

us.

But that's not who we are.

We are here today to re-christen the USS

Enterprise and to honor those who lost their lives

nearly one year ago.

When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain's Oath,

words I didn't appreciate at the time.

Now, I see them as a call for us to remember

who we once were

and who we must be again.

And those words-

Space,

the final frontier.

These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.

Her five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds,

to seek out new life and new civilizations,

to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Yes, sir.

Punch it.

Well, at least we're moving again.

If you think you're safe at warp,

you're wrong.

Lieutenant Uhura, contact Starfleet.

Tell them we were pursued into the neutral zone by an unmarked Federation ship.

Comms are down, sir.

Permission to come on the bridge.

Dr. Marcus.

He's gonna catch up with us, and when he does,

the only thing that's gonna stop him

destroying this ship is me, so you have to let me talk to him.

Carol, we're at warp. He can't catch up with us.

Yes, he can. He's been developing a ship

that has advanced warp capabilities and I-

Captain, I'm getting a reading I don't understand.

Where are we?

We're 237,000 kilometers from Earth.

Damage report.

Weapons are down. We're defenseless, sir.

Sir, we have a bulkhead breach.

How bad's the damage?

Major hull damage, Captain.

You know this by now, I swear, last time I ask.

But these wormholes we go through,

they're not always there, right?

No, sir. They can only form between two open gates.

What's with the worm part? The worm thing, I, I, I don't get that.

Uh, that's just a metaphor.

Right, I knew that.

Imagine the galaxy is an apple.

We burrow our way through the apple like a worm, crossing from one

side to the other instead of going around the outside.

Okay.

Now, of course, the diameter of the apple

is just a two-dimensional representation

of spacetime and, well, the hole isn't really a hole, per se,

but an

interdimensional conduit...

Colonel?

I'll be all right.

Oh!

I know, I know.

What are you doing?

Lightspeed skipping.

How do you know how to do that?

Yeah, well, Ray's not here, is she?

Now, I see them as a call for us to remember-

Last jump, maybe forever

... who we once were-

Hold on!

... and who we must be again.

And those words-

Space,

the final frontier.

These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.