[ M-11 HOSPITAL ]

TOR

[0:08] I’m not doubting anyone’s word, Captain, but…you haven’t heard?

[after a brief pause]

[0:16] Apparently not. I’m….I’m sorry to bear this news, then... of Captain Pike's condition. [0:28] Do you know Pike well?

KIRK

[0:32] Of course. He served before me on the Enterprise. Spock was his science officer for many years.

SPOCK

[0:46] Eleven years, four months, five days, Captain.

Tor arches an eyebrow at Spock.

TOR

[Beginning to lead the others toward Pike’s quarters]

[1:03] Captain Pike was, as you know, a strong, athletic man—vital, dynamic...

McCOY

[speaking, not in recording]

[1:28] What happened to him, Commodore?

TOR

[1:30] It was on a routine inspection of an old Class J Starship—a vessel used for training.
[1:48] One of the main reactors’ baffle plates gave way, and in the explosion dozens of cadets were killed.
[2:09] Some escaped in shuttles, but others were trapped inside the burning wreckage.

McCOY

[aghast]

[2:26] You mean he—

TOR

[2:30] Captain Pike went in again and again,

braving the flames and noxious fumes,

[2:51] bringing out any who were still alive.

But his exposure, repeatedly, to Delta rays…

[gently]

[3:13] I just wanted to prepare you,

before you see him…

[ PIKE’S QUARTERS ]

[3:42] Lights and set shift to reveal Pike’s quarters. Pike’s body is immobile, and supported with advanced life-support systems.

VINA

[from Calzabigi’s Orfeo ed Euridice]

[3:51] I weep for you, I beg for you,

I try to conjure you in my dreams.

[4:10] Tor adjusts controls on an interface and shifts our attention to a large nearby screen. Contrasting with the sad environment around his body, a radiant window emerges, showing imagery and other readings of Pike’s brain activity. It pulses rhythmically, with subtlety and complexity, perhaps in response to Vina's lament.