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The USS Enterprise answers a distress call from Majalis, rescuing a child destined to become the spiritual leader of an advanced society. But as Captain Pike rekindles a past romance with a mysterious diplomat, he uncovers a harrowing secret behind the utopia’s peace—one that forces him to question the cost of paradise.
This morally complex episode is a powerful allegory on sacrifice, ethics, and the hidden pain beneath perfection—evoking the philosophical roots of classic Star Trek.
📺 Original air date: June 9, 2022
📡 Streaming on: Paramount Plus
🎭 Starring: Anson Mount, Lindy Booth, Huse Madhavji
🌌 Genre: Sci-Fi • Philosophical Drama • Ethical Dilemma
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This morally complex episode is a powerful allegory on sacrifice, ethics, and the hidden pain beneath perfection—evoking the philosophical roots of classic Star Trek.
📺 Original air date: June 9, 2022
📡 Streaming on: Paramount Plus
🎭 Starring: Anson Mount, Lindy Booth, Huse Madhavji
🌌 Genre: Sci-Fi • Philosophical Drama • Ethical Dilemma
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00:00Previously on Star Trek Strange New Worlds
00:27You saw the future
00:28I know exactly how and when my life ends
00:31And I didn't just see it, I felt it every agonizing second
00:35Don't throw your life away, Chris
00:36I made a choice
00:37I accepted my fate
00:39What if you're wrong?
00:40What if your fate is what you make it?
00:43I hear you speak 12 languages
00:4537
00:45I found early that if I wanted to be understood
00:48It's best to communicate in someone's own tongue
00:50So I learned them
00:51Doctor, I need to check your emergency medical transporter
00:55For systems integration of excess power usage
00:57Please stop messing around in here
00:59Hemmer's diagnostic shows you're keeping something in the pattern buffer
01:03Okay, my daughter
01:06Hi, Dad
01:07You can't imagine what it's like to watch a child with her
01:10Somewhere there's a planet that has the discovery I need
01:14Captain's log, Stardate 1943.7
01:22We have arrived at the Magellan system
01:24A minor star cluster at the edge of Federation space
01:27I was last here ten years ago
01:30On a rescue mission
01:31When a pulsar nearly kills you, you tend not to forget
01:35Our mission today is a routine cartographic survey
01:38I expect it will be a lot quieter
01:41Captain?
01:43Can I do a hurrah?
01:48You all right?
01:50Oh, it's nothing
01:52Just a little sore after combat training
01:54Ah, right
01:55You're on rotational with Lieutenant Noonien Singh this week
01:58Lesson one of security
02:01A Rigelian tiger pounces with no warning
02:05Yeah
02:05I learned that one all right
02:08Well, I've come to understand the law
02:09And it has a lot to teach
02:11Although
02:12Keep your eye out for Lesson 7
02:16What's Lesson 7?
02:26Nice of you to join us, Cadet
02:28Did you find your break restful?
02:30Super restful, thanks for asking
02:32Lesson 2 of security
02:34There are no breaks in security
02:36Because threats never take breaks
02:39Captain, we're receiving a distress call
02:42From a non-Federation shuttle
02:43They say they're under attack
02:44From who?
02:46Scans indicate a small combat cruiser
02:48Light armaments
02:49Non-Federation ID
02:50Shields up and take us closer, are we?
02:52Okay
02:53Ensign Shankar, hail that cruiser
03:13No response, sir
03:15Then give me an open channel
03:17This is Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise
03:19You are committing an act of aggression
03:21As the other vessel has appealed to us for help
03:24I am obliged by both Federation law
03:26And my own conscience to intervene
03:27I order you to stand down
03:28Damage?
03:34Negligible
03:35Shield integrity is only down 0.02%
03:37Red alert and evasive maneuvers
03:41Aye, Captain
03:42Captain, they appear to be making an attack run at us
03:46It's the little dog with the most to prove
03:48Sir?
03:49It's an expression
03:50You think you can take out their weapons
03:52Without blowing them to smithereens?
03:53Charge phasers
03:54Minimum capacity
03:56Charging?
03:57They're locking phasers again, Captain
03:58Fire
03:59Apologies, Captain
04:07I was trying to graze them
04:09But they fired and changed course right into our weapons
04:11I think they got the hint
04:12Fireing three times on a Starfleet ship
04:17If it wasn't our business before it is now
04:19Sir?
04:20Shuttle is hailing us
04:21Requesting immediate evacuation
04:23Their life support systems are failing
04:24Prepare to beam them aboard
04:26Let's go meet our guests
04:27Deck six
04:32Lieutenant Pike?
04:49And Laura?
04:51You know her, Captain?
04:54Or should I call you Lieutenant?
05:07Space
05:08The final frontier
05:12These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise
05:18Its five-year mission
05:22To explore strange new worlds
05:25To seek out new life
05:29And new civilizations
05:32To boldly go
05:36Where no one has gone before
05:38Can you wait?
05:39Mr.
05:39War
05:58I love you
05:59To understand my economy
06:00I love you
06:01To nog
07:04Depending on how you look at it.
07:08Well, allow me to welcome you all to Enterprise.
07:11Your new uniform is...
07:15very yellow.
07:19Oh, it's gold, technically, because I'm a captain.
07:24So...
07:25Well, on behalf of Majalas, we thank you for your help, Captain Pike.
07:30Uh, this is my number one.
07:34Una, Lieutenant Commander Una Tim Riley.
07:39Allow me to take you to the ready room to debrief.
07:41But first, I must insist you take us to your medical facility.
07:46Of course, right away.
07:47Chief Kyle will escort you down.
07:48Uh, sorry, are you the boy's father?
07:50Strictly in a biological sense.
07:52When King Gridley turned,
08:02the wizard Pollux pushed him right over the cliff.
08:05Daddy, you just read me the same exact chapter twice in a row.
08:09I did?
08:13Darling?
08:16You know how I've been keeping your pattern in the transporter buffer,
08:19so you don't keep getting sicker?
08:21Yes.
08:21Well, I can't keep you out of there for very long.
08:27And sometimes it's hard to keep track of the details.
08:31Sometimes you put me back in when I don't notice.
08:34So how long have you really been reading to me?
08:38A while.
08:40I put the transport system on a timer.
08:43It says not to be disruptive.
08:44When will it...
08:51Come.
08:57Doctor, we've got people coming in with possible injuries.
09:07First Servant is a very special child.
09:11A holy figure.
09:13Chosen at birth by lottery to embody our maxim.
09:18Science, service, sacrifice.
09:21He's forsworn his own family
09:23because everyone on Majalus is his family.
09:33Okay.
09:34Uh, what were you doing on that moon?
09:37On that moon is an ancient retreat
09:39for the First Servant's studies.
09:41Elder Gamal and I were returning him to Majalus
09:44when the ship attacked us
09:45and demanded we surrender the child.
09:48And you have no idea who they were?
09:50The closest inhabitable planet
09:52is occupied by descendants
09:54of a long-abandoned alien colony.
09:56Still, our two worlds have coexisted
09:58peacefully for centuries.
10:04I believe it is possible
10:05they were after a ransom.
10:08In two days, I will be overseeing
10:10the First Servant's ascension to the throne.
10:13It's a sacred ceremony.
10:14If outsiders knew about that,
10:19they would also know Majalus would pay anything
10:22for the child's safe return.
10:24We should send a landing party
10:25to investigate the crashed ship.
10:27There is a chance, however slight,
10:29your attacker survived.
10:31An investigation won't be necessary.
10:33All I ask is you return us peacefully to Majalus.
10:35An investigation is not only necessary,
10:37it is required.
10:41Captain Pike.
10:43My people didn't join the Federation.
10:47We've always handled things for ourselves.
10:50Please, let us handle this.
10:54Starfleet regulations requires us
10:56to investigate any vessel that attacks us.
10:59But they're without your cooperation, I'm afraid.
11:02Sorry.
11:02If you insist,
11:04I'm coming too.
11:07With or without your cooperation.
11:23It's showing a slight reduction
11:25in cerebral blood flow.
11:27Consistent with head trauma.
11:29Next time the hole falls on you,
11:34try not to block it with your head.
11:37Theo.
11:39Do you have anything to eat?
11:40Does this look like a mess hole?
11:45Ah, please keep that butcher's knife
11:47away from the first servant.
11:48It's a subdermal scalpel.
11:50I know what it is.
11:51All I needed was for you to scan him.
11:52That's all.
11:53May I?
11:56It's okay, Naz.
11:59How about it?
12:10There.
12:12Just wanted to check that his quantum bioimplants
12:14are functioning.
12:17He has quantum bioimplants?
12:18He didn't show up on my scan.
12:20That's not surprising,
12:21considering the state of the sabatoire.
12:23This is a state-of-the-art medical facility.
12:25Maybe to you.
12:26In my clinic,
12:27healing begins at a subatomic level.
12:29It's true.
12:29My implants rebuild biological functions
12:31using quantum mechanics.
12:34What is that?
12:37Echo.
12:38You're a doctor.
12:40I was.
12:41Until I became the father
12:43of the first servant.
12:44Now he's my only patient.
12:45This scanner is rudimentary,
12:47but still pretty interesting.
12:49He's improving.
13:00I'd still like to keep him here
13:01for observation.
13:03So in theory,
13:05your implants might realign peptide bonds
13:07within any degraded protein.
13:10At the bare minimum.
13:12If this is true,
13:13disease and suffering
13:14will be things of the past.
13:15On Majalas,
13:18we have a saying.
13:19Let the tree that grows
13:21from the roots of sacrifice
13:22lift us where suffering cannot reach.
13:26We have no disease of any kind.
13:27We have no disease of any kind.
13:28We have no disease of any kind.
13:29We have no disease of any kind.
13:30We have no disease of any kind.
13:31We have no disease of any kind.
13:32We have no disease of any kind.
13:33We have no disease of any kind.
13:34We have no disease of any kind.
13:35We have no disease of any kind.
13:36We have no disease of any kind.
13:37We have no disease of any kind.
13:38We have no disease of any kind.
13:39We have no disease of any kind.
13:40We have no disease of any kind.
13:41We have no disease of any kind.
13:42We have no disease of any kind.
13:43We have no disease of any kind.
13:44We have no disease of any kind.
13:45We have no disease of any kind.
13:46We have no disease of any kind.
13:47We have no disease of any kind.
13:48We have no disease of any kind.
13:49Live signs?
14:01No readings.
14:03Nothing's in here.
14:10Let's sweep the area.
14:12Be alert for any surprises they left behind.
14:19I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
14:24Congratulations, you just flunked Lesson 3 of security.
14:29Let your Tricorder do the investigating.
14:32Some Klingon ships are equipped with the Scuttle system.
14:34Even their lightest touch could trigger an auto-destruct sequence.
14:43I don't think we're in any danger of blowing up.
14:46They wiped their databanks.
14:48That runs out fast, Cadet.
14:49Next time, be more careful.
14:52Crash site is secure, Lieutenant Spock.
14:58Looks like they've beamed out.
15:02The technology here is consistent with the colony I told you about.
15:19This does not appear to be a part of the ship's functions.
15:26Do you recognize it?
15:28No.
15:29But I recognize this.
15:41What am I looking at?
15:41What am I looking at?
15:45An oath coin.
15:46An oath coin.
15:46An oath coin.
15:47Lanarian guards are given one when they swear to protect the life of the First Servant.
15:51It's the highest of our military honors.
15:53Look.
15:55To deface a sacred symbol, it's forbidden.
16:01I have to entertain the possibility that one of our guards has betrayed his oath and joined forces with the alien colonists in trying to kidnap the First Servant.
16:09The boy is in great danger.
16:16Frankly, so am I.
16:17You can all stay in the Enterprise for as long as you need.
16:21I have duties on Majelis.
16:24Peaceful transition of power, it's the cornerstone of our society.
16:27Any disruption now would create widespread panic.
16:30Then I'll send you with armed escorts.
16:32We're a private people.
16:35Foreign representatives aren't welcome.
16:37But a friend.
16:45We can have friends, right?
17:07After your speech at the opening ceremony, you have the tree planting at the Sky Garden.
17:23And then, you have the Festival of Gratitude all evening.
17:27That's quite a schedule.
17:28See why I couldn't stay away?
17:31I need to add something to the agenda.
17:33Please bring in the guards.
17:37You ready to shake the tree and see what falls out?
17:42Am I?
17:44Here we go.
17:54Elder Gamal.
17:56A word in private.
18:07Do you recognize this?
18:13No.
18:16My analysis indicates it is a kind of neural dampener designed to reduce the brain's electrical activity.
18:22We found it in the record of the ship.
18:25As I said, I've never seen this.
18:28Based on its size, logic suggests your attackers may have intended to use it on the boy.
18:32Can I see it?
18:36I'd rather you didn't.
18:41You must be the science officer.
18:44I am.
18:44Do you know the speed of propagation of subspace radio signals and long-range communications?
18:49I believe it is roughly 52,000 times the speed of life.
18:58Really?
18:59Wow, that's super slow.
19:02No wonder you have to use subspace relays.
19:04At those distances, the signals would degrade long before they were received, even when radially polarized.
19:09I do not know many your age who grasp radial polarization.
19:13I'm interested in it because I thought it would be fun to have a friend across the galaxy.
19:18I once worked on my own subspace frequency.
19:20I bet I could generate one by rewiring this biobed.
19:23That would be an impressive feat.
19:25Though Dr. Mabenga might object.
19:31Pardon me, Mr. Spock.
19:33The boy needs his rest.
19:35There's a big day tomorrow.
19:36You don't mind.
19:38It is the eve of the first servant's ascension to the throne.
19:43In our most sacred time, it is important to remind ourselves of the sanctity of our calling.
19:49So I ask that you renew your vows.
19:53Present your coins.
20:00Will you uphold your covenant to Majalus
20:02and faithfully defend the life of the first servant?
20:07You hold your oath and your bond in your hand.
20:17Kier, the case is damaged.
20:20Your coin, what happened?
20:21It's nothing.
20:24An accident.
20:28May I take a closer look?
20:29Let's go look.
20:48Oh.
20:50Oh, oh.
20:52It is aha.
20:54Yeah.
20:55It is Aha.
20:57No!
20:59No!
21:01This way.
21:05Rana!
21:27Rana!
21:37It's not unstun.
21:41Here?
21:43We just want to talk.
21:47Good.
21:49Now tell me.
21:51Why were you on that ship?
21:53To fulfill my oath.
21:55And to renounce everything this floating house stands for.
22:01Long live the first servant!
22:19Careful cadet, remember to chew.
22:21Oh right, you're on rotation with Lieutenant Noonien Singh.
22:25Word gets around.
22:27Tell her from me, you deserve a full hour.
22:29You can tell me yourself, Lieutenant.
22:31I would.
22:33But I'm, uh, conflict averse.
22:37Take a look at these data chips.
22:41Are these from the crash site?
22:43I may have liberated them.
22:45But isn't taking them without permission against protocol?
22:47Lesson six of security knew when to bend the rules.
22:49You're right.
22:51Starfleet wouldn't approve of how I acquired these.
22:53So I can't put them through the ship's translator.
22:55Fortunately for me, I don't have to.
22:57Following proper procedure would take weeks.
22:59You want me to translate all of these?
23:03Well, you're a linguist, aren't you?
23:05I see no signs there was ever any head trauma.
23:07To reconstitute the molecular structure of damaged tissue.
23:11It's revolutionary.
23:12May I ask a hypothetical?
23:13Doctor to doctor.
23:14No.
23:15No.
23:16No.
23:17No.
23:18No.
23:19No.
23:20No.
23:21No.
23:22No.
23:23No.
23:24No.
23:25No.
23:26No.
23:27No.
23:28No.
23:29No.
23:30No.
23:31No.
23:32No.
23:33No.
23:34No.
23:35No.
23:36No.
23:37No.
23:38No.
23:39No.
23:40No one's stopping you.
23:42Say I had a patient with mast cell signal chemium.
23:46Eleven-year-old female.
23:48Could quantum bio implants reverse cellular degranulation?
23:53Even in late stages?
23:54I'm a jealous it could be reversed.
23:56And if I ever had such a patient, could I send them Yahweh?
24:01I'm afraid not.
24:03It is illegal to share our technologies with unaffiliated races.
24:07The federation has similar policies.
24:10Not when it comes to medical intubations.
24:13Perhaps one day an alliance between our worlds could serve itself.
24:18You sure you don't want to get checked out by a doctor?
24:30I'm okay Chris, really.
24:33I just...
24:36I knew him.
24:38Here.
24:39For years.
24:40He would have killed you.
24:42He almost did.
24:44That's exactly it.
24:45I mean, what if there are others who feel the same way he did?
24:48That I thought I knew.
24:52I feel like there's no one I can trust.
24:55I'm gonna put a guard out here just to be safe.
24:58You don't have to do that.
25:01I didn't save you from a pulsar just to let you get killed.
25:04I meant you could come in with me instead.
25:34I have a confession to make.
25:53That first time we met.
25:56I may have been hitting on you.
25:58Just a little.
25:59Oh, you definitely were.
26:09Yeah, I'm not.
26:11It's pretty crazy we met again.
26:16It does seem unlikely.
26:21I did think about you every now and then.
26:25Yeah, me too.
26:25I thought, I wonder what ever happened to that Majolan girl who couldn't fly a shuttle.
26:36Stop it.
26:38I knew how to fly it.
26:40Yeah.
26:41Yeah, I just flew it into the wrong place.
26:44I don't know, I felt like we recognized something in each other.
26:55It was a shame that we never got to follow through with that.
26:59Was I wrong?
27:01I mean, I wasn't expecting this.
27:03Hmm.
27:06But it's rare to know what's in your future.
27:07Yeah, it is rare.
27:14Some of us get a glimpse, though.
27:17What do you mean?
27:19Oh.
27:22In some years,
27:24there's going to be an accident.
27:27It doesn't end well for me.
27:33Even the best of Federation medicine won't be able to help me.
27:38How can you know this?
27:41I know.
27:44Our doctors are capable of things that you can't imagine.
27:49Only.
27:50Only.
27:51Only you
27:53have to be one of us
27:55to live here.
27:59Far away.
28:01Science.
28:02Service.
28:04Sacrifice.
28:08The future is still very far away.
28:14Sorry, I've overstepped.
28:15No, you didn't.
28:18Thank you for telling me.
28:19You'd be welcome here.
28:21It's just...
28:24another part of the future to consider.
28:38You called cadet.
28:39You asked for a needle in a haystack,
28:41and I found it.
28:42I translated their dialect
28:43and cross-checked it the old-fashioned way.
28:45And I know where they're from.
28:46So you did the bare minimum I asked for?
28:49No.
28:50I also parsed their dialects
28:51and isolated the roots of their language.
28:53I found more than what you asked for.
28:57A lot more.
29:05I think we should take this to the captain.
29:07Okay.
29:08Well, let me know what he says.
29:09Cadet.
29:09It's your work.
29:11You should present it.
29:16Sure of your findings, that is.
29:20I am, sir.
29:23Right.
29:24Okay.
29:46Okay.
29:46Okay.
29:48Dad, look what he made.
29:49Sorry, I hope you're not mad.
29:53The grid was just made of noble gases
29:55I took from the atmospheric processor.
29:57You're non-reactive,
29:58so I figured they'd be safe.
30:01Darlene,
30:02shoot up the arm.
30:07Please sit.
30:08I was having fun.
30:19How did you know about her?
30:21You and the elder talk loud.
30:22And when I couldn't find anyone
30:23with sick leukemia and sick bait,
30:25I checked the places I tried to hide in.
30:28Do I have to go back in?
30:31Yes.
30:32Yes.
30:32Yes.
30:38But maybe not for much longer.
30:48Goodbye, Rekia.
30:50I didn't mean to get you in trouble.
31:02Can't tell anyone about her.
31:05Why not?
31:08I heard some noises.
31:10What's going on?
31:15I was just looking for a midnight snack.
31:17Seems more like you're showing off.
31:19Come on, we're going.
31:26I beamed up.
31:27Someone want to explain to me
31:28why I had to hear this extremely urgent report in person?
31:31Some information has come to light
31:33that we thought you might want to discuss
31:34without the risk of Minister Laura overhearing.
31:38And what could that possibly be?
31:41Kadesahura?
31:48We match the language spoken by the kidnappers
31:51to a non-Federation colony.
31:53Prospect 7.
31:54That's an L-class planet a couple light years away.
31:57Very barren, harsh climate.
31:59The colony is barely above a subsistence level.
32:01Yes, Laura told us about them.
32:03I suppose it makes sense.
32:04Desperate people do desperate things.
32:05Here's the surprising part.
32:07This language has common roots
32:09with the dialect spoken on Majalas.
32:12Linguistically speaking, it's impossible.
32:14This colony is an alien, Captain.
32:16It has to be an offshoot off Majalas.
32:18At the end of the day,
32:19we have to ask ourselves,
32:21why would anyone leave Paradise for Prospect 7?
32:24There has to be a reason.
32:24And if the colony is connected to Majalas,
32:27why would Elder Gamal administer
32:28Laura tell us otherwise?
32:32Majalas aren't trusting of outsiders.
32:34That's how Laura and I met.
32:35Her shuttle failed.
32:36It led to an invitation to join the Federation.
32:39If that accident had never happened,
32:40I'm not sure our two peoples would have ever met.
32:42There must be a reasonable explanation for this.
32:45Then get a break.
32:47Elder Gamal just walked out with the first sevens.
32:50I couldn't stop them.
32:51They said they were going back to the planet.
32:57Captain, good.
32:58Tell your transporter chief
32:59that we need to return to the surface now.
33:01We agreed that the first servant was safer here.
33:03If I could ask you to step down.
33:05With due respect,
33:06I don't believe you're truly capable
33:07of keeping him safe here.
33:10Who told you you could be in the mouth?
33:12No, it wasn't me, Captain.
33:13Someone else must have locked onto their signals
33:15while our shields were down.
33:16What the hell is going on?
33:18See if you can get them back.
33:19Pike to bridge.
33:20Number one, I need you to scan for nearby ships.
33:23Reading one, Captain.
33:24A combat cruiser attempting to flee.
33:30Where is the first servant?
33:33Red alert!
33:39Status?
33:41Censors pick up the first servant's life signs
33:43on the combat cruiser.
33:44Their deflector shields prevent us from beaming him back.
33:47Have we tried hailing them?
33:48Several times.
33:48They're ignoring us.
33:50I'll remind them we're bigger.
33:53Mitchell, deploy a tractor beam.
33:55We can't let them go to warp.
33:56Targeting and deploying now, sir.
34:06Sir, they're going to warp anyway.
34:08They'd really want to play tug-of-war with us?
34:14The distress is creating a catastrophic strain imbalance.
34:16I have to increase our structural integrity field.
34:19If they still try to go to warp,
34:20it could destroy the cruiser.
34:21We can't risk harming them.
34:23Disengage.
34:25Now, Mitchell.
34:26How could this happen, Chris?
34:38You said he was safe.
34:41It's an unimaginable loss.
34:54If the Federation could be of any assistance in guiding your people through it.
34:58There's nothing to guide us through.
35:00It means our world is over.
35:02Allura, it's a tragedy.
35:06And I understand the symbolic significance, but...
35:08You don't understand.
35:10If the First Servant doesn't ascend, Majalus will fall out of the sky.
35:14The surface of our planet is nothing but rivers of lava and lakes of acid will be destroyed.
35:21How can any of that rest on the fate of one child?
35:27Damn it.
35:29Can someone tell me how the hell that combat cruiser managed to beam someone off my ship?
35:36I think I can, Captain.
35:44The girl is deluded.
35:46I'm not.
35:47She is just summarizing facts and drawing the logical conclusion.
35:51Isn't that right, Ahoro?
35:53Yes, sir.
35:56Walk me through, cadet.
35:57To beam someone off the Enterprise without us knowing about it,
36:00you'd have to lock onto that signal really fast.
36:03Which means you need full bio patterns, like the ones we keep on file in sickbay.
36:07So, I checked our records, and it turns out,
36:09Elder Gamal accessed them right before he took the First Servant to the transporter room.
36:13I'm his doctor.
36:14I'm entitled to his medical records.
36:16You didn't just access his bio pattern.
36:18You did a full scan on yourself and uploaded that, too.
36:21I think my promising young cadet just demonstrated Lesson 7 of security on you.
36:27Leave no stone unturned.
36:30I usually require cadets to look under Magartan breathing stones for that one.
36:34That won't be necessary.
36:36What aren't you telling us, Gamal?
36:39Now's the time.
36:43Captain, can you join me on deck 17?
36:48I have discovered something I think you need to see.
36:51Okay.
36:53Escort the Elder to the brig.
36:54The First Servant was a rather ingenious child, Captain.
37:04He devised a method of generating his own subspace channel on an unused frequency.
37:08I thought there might be some utility in monitoring it.
37:10And I assume that's why you dragged me down here?
37:13This is a distress signal from him.
37:17How?
37:17No one on that combat cruiser could have survived.
37:22Perhaps he was never on that combat cruiser.
37:24I believe his kidnappers transport him to where the signal originates.
37:28Here, on Enterprise.
37:30To be precise...
37:34Right here, Captain.
37:37It's all right.
37:48You're safe now.
37:50Okay.
37:51Come with me.
37:53Let's get into Sieg Bay.
37:54I need to get to the Ascension.
37:56There'll be plenty of time for all that.
37:58No.
37:59It's starting now.
38:00Majalas needs me.
38:02Okay.
38:04Captain de Bridge.
38:05Open a channel to Majalas and tell Minister Allura I've got some news she'll want to hear.
38:27As the First Servant dedicates himself to Majalas, all of Majalas dedicates itself to him.
38:35It's, uh, it's beautiful.
38:40It wouldn't have happened without you, Chris.
38:43You saved us.
38:46You still haven't explained how the fate of your planet could rest on the head of this child.
38:52It's complicated.
38:54Sacrosanct.
38:55Or why Elder Gamal would kidnap his own son and put the fate of his planet at risk.
38:59I can't speak to the motives of one man.
39:01Or why you failed to mention that the kidnapping plot started on a colony of your people, Prospect 7.
39:08We begin the procession.
39:17Rejoice.
39:18I shouldn't be in here.
39:27I'm not a Federation citizen.
39:29I've done nothing wrong.
39:30You tampered with the Enterprise's transporter, using it to illegally transport a minor whom you then hid on our ship.
39:37A violation of multiple Federation laws.
39:39I took my own child for his safety.
39:42Is that why your associates had a neural dampening device?
39:47For his safety?
39:49Yes.
39:50Its purpose is to make him unable to fulfill his duties as the First Servant.
39:56I want to talk to Captain Pike.
39:57Captain Pike is on Majalas with the First Servant.
40:00So I'm afraid you're stuck with me.
40:02You returned him.
40:03So the ceremony has begun?
40:12By now, presumably, yes.
40:15I was wrong.
40:16I deserve to be in here, Commander.
40:19I know that.
40:20I didn't just violate the law of my planet.
40:24I violated my own principles.
40:26My most deeply held beliefs.
40:31Why?
40:32For him.
40:33For my son.
40:40It was unthinkable.
40:43I-I-I just needed to save him.
40:47From what?
40:53Thank you!
40:55Where are they taking him?
40:57The Sacred Chamber.
40:59We've never let an outsider in before.
41:01But the ruling council agreed to let you be a part of this because you saved his life.
41:07And also...
41:08Because I want you to be a part of this.
41:12A part of what?
41:15Captain!
41:17Come with us!
41:18I want you to be there when I ascend.
41:20I've-I've tried everything.
41:24The planet's put up some kind of electromagnetic pulse that's blocking our communications.
41:29Mr. Spock, prepare a landing party to beam down to the surface.
41:32Negative commander, there's interference in the planetary atmosphere.
41:36Same energy signature as the pulse.
41:38You're saying there's no way to contact the captain exactly when I need to talk to him?
41:42What's the ship on?
41:44The Moon!
41:45I can't protect him!
41:46No!
41:47I can't do it.
41:47We're a part of it.
41:49This is not a place to land.
41:49The light's going to be a part of it.
41:50The light's going to be a room.
41:51I can't do it.
41:52The light's going to be a part of it.
41:52But the light's going to be a part you're going to be a part of it.
41:53Do you freely offer this gift of self to the people of Majalas?
42:13With joy and gratitude, I do.
42:17Do you freely choose your fate?
42:20With joy and gratitude, I...
42:27Oh, my God.
42:35It's okay.
42:38He can see.
42:50It's a child.
42:57Stop it.
42:59Valora? Valora?
43:03Valora, you have to stop this.
43:07He chooses it freely.
43:09And we honor his sacrifice.
43:12What?
43:21Long live the first servant.
43:23Valora.
43:24Valora, you can't do this to him.
43:26Stop!
43:28It's all you can.
43:42Still you can...
43:44What did you do with that boy?
44:14The last thing I want to do is hurt you.
44:18So you're a prisoner now?
44:21Of course not.
44:25The ascension is complete.
44:27You may go.
44:32You can go, too.
44:35But I hope you won't.
44:39You're damn right I'm going.
44:42Getting that child the hell away from that thing.
44:45Even if you could get into the chamber, severing the connection would only kill him.
45:01Why?
45:08Serving Majalas is his destiny.
45:12His reason for being.
45:14Without him Majalas could not be.
45:17You plugged a kid into a machine.
45:22What's it going to do to him?
45:25We don't know.
45:27The machine needs the neural network of a child to function.
45:30Our founders designed it that way.
45:32We don't know why.
45:33We've hunted for centuries for alternatives.
45:36Found nothing.
45:37What's the purpose of my research when we met?
45:39Will he suffer?
45:41Yes.
45:43We don't pretend otherwise.
45:45We live in gratitude for him.
45:47And when a new First Servant ascends, we will live for her.
45:51Your whole civilization.
45:55All your...
45:58Yes.
46:02It's all founded...
46:04...in the suffering of a child.
46:07Can you honestly say that no child suffers for the benefit of your federation?
46:15That no child lives in poverty...
46:18...or squalor...
46:20...while those who enjoy abundance look away?
46:24The only difference is we don't look away.
46:32And because of that, the suffering is born on the back of only one.
46:36It's what makes it a sacred honor.
46:38That's why I choose our way.
46:45You know...
46:47The first chance I get...
46:55...I'm reporting this to Starfleet.
46:56And what?
46:59We're not a federation world. You have no jurisdiction.
47:09Maybe in the future...
47:12...you'll feel differently.
47:14Now number one.
47:17...
47:31Doctor.
47:32No word.
47:33Sorry for the interruption.
47:36It's fine.
47:38I'm told you've requested a transit to Prospect 7.
47:42I used to think they were planted to traitors...
47:44...committed to destroying our way of life.
47:47And now?
47:48They tried to help me save my child.
47:51But I failed.
47:55But maybe I could...
47:57...help them save the next one.
48:00I'm a shock.
48:01And now you, Doctor.
48:02Which is why I'm here.
48:04That hypothetical patient...
48:06...with psych leukemia.
48:08Her case stuck with me.
48:10I thought perhaps if I could take a look at the file...
48:12...I could walk you through the theory behind the treatment.
48:14It's not a cure.
48:15But...
48:16But it could be the first step to one.
48:17But it could be the first step to one.
48:18...
48:20...
48:21...
48:22...
48:23...
48:25...
48:26...
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