The ship he took, the one we broke onto. That was the Vengeance, Dreadnought class.
[ There are too many eerie similarities here to brush aside. That said, Jim's smile is lopsided and humorless, quick to fall after hitching up. ]
He would have blasted us apart if Spock hadn't thought ahead. [ He sits forward, hands draped together. ] The Khan I know is every bit as ruthless as yours, his entire focus is getting his crew back and murdering anyone who tries to stop him. He attacked part of Section thirty-one in London to get a Daystrom Conference to convene to discuss a plan of action. He wanted a chance at killing Marcus, turned up and shot the entire room. [ Lips tighten for a moment. ] He murdered Admiral Pike there.
I didn't know many of the details when I applied to Marcus to go after Khan, or 'John Harrison' at the time. He tasked me to take seventy-two new torpedoes onto the edge of the Neutral Zone, to fire them at Khan's hiding place on Kronos and report back. Instead, Spock, Uhura and myself went there directly to apprehend and take him back for judgment, but we didn't get a chance. The Klingons would have killed us when Khan attacked them, discovered we had the torpedoes and came quietly back to the brig. He gave me coordinates to find out why he'd done what he had and I sent Scotty to find out what was going on.
Khan had put his people inside the torpedoes with the use of cryotubes in an attempt to smuggle them out and Admiral Marcus had wanted to get rid of the augments while provoking the Klingons into open war, so that worked out nicely for him. Our ship had been sabotaged, we dropped out of warp in enemy space as bait. When we got back up to speed, he caught up with us at warp, disabled our engines and refused to spare anyone on board. That's when Scotty reset the controls on Vengeance and bought us more time. I flew over there with Khan to take the ship and once we stunned him he got right back up, beat us down and crushed the Admiral's head in his bare hands ... right in front of his daughter Carol, who'd been trying to help us.
Khan negotiated with Spock for the warheads and beamed us back over. Spock had already armed the torpedoes and they went off, but he'd had Bones put Khan's crew safely out of the way in medbay. That's when the Enterprise started to fall, dragged down by Earth's gravitational pull. I headed to engineering with Scotty as the ship started to come apart. Fixed the injectors.
[ Sitting back, he looks up from where his attention's tilted off to the side near her shoulder. ]
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[ There are too many eerie similarities here to brush aside. That said, Jim's smile is lopsided and humorless, quick to fall after hitching up. ]
He would have blasted us apart if Spock hadn't thought ahead. [ He sits forward, hands draped together. ] The Khan I know is every bit as ruthless as yours, his entire focus is getting his crew back and murdering anyone who tries to stop him. He attacked part of Section thirty-one in London to get a Daystrom Conference to convene to discuss a plan of action. He wanted a chance at killing Marcus, turned up and shot the entire room. [ Lips tighten for a moment. ] He murdered Admiral Pike there.
I didn't know many of the details when I applied to Marcus to go after Khan, or 'John Harrison' at the time. He tasked me to take seventy-two new torpedoes onto the edge of the Neutral Zone, to fire them at Khan's hiding place on Kronos and report back. Instead, Spock, Uhura and myself went there directly to apprehend and take him back for judgment, but we didn't get a chance. The Klingons would have killed us when Khan attacked them, discovered we had the torpedoes and came quietly back to the brig. He gave me coordinates to find out why he'd done what he had and I sent Scotty to find out what was going on.
Khan had put his people inside the torpedoes with the use of cryotubes in an attempt to smuggle them out and Admiral Marcus had wanted to get rid of the augments while provoking the Klingons into open war, so that worked out nicely for him. Our ship had been sabotaged, we dropped out of warp in enemy space as bait. When we got back up to speed, he caught up with us at warp, disabled our engines and refused to spare anyone on board. That's when Scotty reset the controls on Vengeance and bought us more time. I flew over there with Khan to take the ship and once we stunned him he got right back up, beat us down and crushed the Admiral's head in his bare hands ... right in front of his daughter Carol, who'd been trying to help us.
Khan negotiated with Spock for the warheads and beamed us back over. Spock had already armed the torpedoes and they went off, but he'd had Bones put Khan's crew safely out of the way in medbay. That's when the Enterprise started to fall, dragged down by Earth's gravitational pull. I headed to engineering with Scotty as the ship started to come apart. Fixed the injectors.
[ Sitting back, he looks up from where his attention's tilted off to the side near her shoulder. ]
There you have it.