Phillip R. Allen: Captain Esteban
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Captain Esteban : Grissom to Saavik. We're picking up radiation from the life form.
Saavik : Affirmative, Captain. Our readings are well below danger level.
Captain Esteban : Very well. Exercise caution, Lieutenant. This landing is captain's discretion, and I'm the one who's out on a limb.
Saavik : I'll try to remember that, Captain.
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Saavik : All units functional. Recorders are on. Scanning sector 1. Foliage in fully-developed state of growth. Temperature, 22.2 Celsius.
David Marcus : Sector 2 indicating desert terrain. Minimal vegetation. Temperature, 39.4.
Saavik : Sector 3, subtropical vegetation. Temperature decreasing rapidly.
David Marcus : [looking at the monitor over her shoulder] It's snow. Snow in the same sector. Fantastic.
Saavik : Fascinating.
David Marcus : All the varieties of land and weather known to Earth within a few hours' walk.
Saavik : [getting an alert] Metallic mass.
David Marcus : Close-range scan. A photon tube. Gravitational fields were in flux. It must have soft-landed.
Captain Esteban : [to his communications officer] Encode to Starfleet: "Captain Spock's tube located on Genesis' surface."
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Saavik : We have reached the destination planet at .035.
Captain Esteban : Very well, Lieutenant. Helm, execute standard orbital approach.
Helm : Standard orbit. Aye, sir.
Captain Esteban : Communications. Send a coded message for Starfleet Commander, priority 1. "Federation science vessel Grissom arriving Genesis Planet, Mutara sector, to begin research. J.T. Esteban, commanding."
Communications : Aye, sir. Coding now.
Captain Esteban : Dr. Marcus, it's your planet.
David Marcus : Begin scanning, please.
[whispering in her ear]
David Marcus : This is where the fun begins, Saavik.
Saavik : Just like your father; so human.
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David Marcus : I don't believe it.
Captain Esteban : What is it?
Saavik : If equipment is functioning properly, indications are an animal life-form.
Captain Esteban : You said there wouldn't be any.
David Marcus : There shouldn't be any.
Saavik : Cross-referenced and verified. An unidentifiable life-form reading.
Communications : Do you wish to advise Starfleet, sir?
Captain Esteban : Wait a minute. We don't know what we're talking about here.
David Marcus : Why don't we beam it up?
Captain Esteban : Oh, no, you don't. Regulations specifically state nothing shall be beamed aboard until danger of contamination has been eliminated.
Saavik : Captain, the logical alternative is obvious. Beaming down to the surface is permitted.
Captain Esteban : If the captain decides that the mission is vital and reasonably free of danger.
David Marcus : Captain, please, we'll take the risk, but we've got to find out what it is.
Saavik : Or who.
