[ A SURVIVOR’S CAMP ON TALOS IV—Sets shift and second-tier Enterprise (formerly Hospital) structures likely now removed. ]

Lights rise on a cluster of makeshift huts, and ten elderly people in primitive clothing, seated in a circle (Survivors’ Chorus). A ridge ascends from their gathering to an assortment of strange blossoming plants near steam vents. The men among them wear long hair and beards, Out of sight of the survivors, Pike, Boyce, Spock, and several other crew members beam down to the planet’s surface. They watch the survivors at first from a distance.

SURVIVORS’ CHORUS

[0:07] Earth, Queen of Planets

Earth of our childhood

[0:23] Spin in majesty, spin,

Create night and day.

[0:40] Spin from spring into summer, spin into fall

[0:49] From winter, and darkness we

Are calling you, calling you

[1:04] Calling your light from

Darkness, darkness,

Darkness, darkness

Survivor #1 sees Pike and the landing party, but speaks too quietly to be noticed by others in the chorus.

SURVIVORS’ CHORUS [1:24] You gave us birth, breath, and life [1:38] From a spark in the heavens, From infinite void [1:51] From winter and darkness We are calling you

SURVIVOR #1 Who—   Who’s there?… Look!

 

SURVIVOR #1

[2:06] Humans! I can’t believe my eyes!

Noticing Survivor #1, the attention of the Chorus now turns to the crew of the Enterprise.

SURVIVOR #2

[2:11] It’s not possible! It must be a hallucination!

SURVIVOR #1

[shaking Pike’s hand with both hands, joyfully, as the other survivors gather around]

 

Dr. Theodora Haskins, plant scientist with the Exobiology Institute.

[2:35] Vina, a young woman, appears on the trail landing above them, stricken and enamored at the sight of Pike.

Please excuse us, Captain— we’re overcome with emotion! It’s been 18 long years…

[transitioning to speech, and fading]

since we crash-landed here. All the others perished. We had lost hope…

VINA

[2:58] The sight of you

[3:10] Just the way you appear

[3:26] Oh, you are beautiful

[3:34] What is this yearning I feel for you?

[3:59] God of the sea,

[4:08] I leap from my moorings!

[4:15] You are the one promised to me.

 

[4:52] And in my dreams, at least,

You are mine and I am yours.

[5:14] You smile at me and my heart is all but filled,

With hope that you will dream of me.

And yearn for me…

 

[5:37] The thought of you

And I want

And I yearn

As the tide yearns,

[6:10] Yearns for the moon.

 

[6:33] And I want—

My hands tremble.

[7:00] Wind in my branches,

My hands tremble.