Line #9 Awesome/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock


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7	%%* Arrival at Spacedock.
8	* The moment that tall, darkly shadowed figure appears at Kirk's door, throws back his hood--and it's Sarek. Moment of Awesome for Spock's dad, and an OhCrap one for Kirk.
9	* Pretty much the entire Stealing the ''Enterprise'' sequence.
10	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k9Ukm9LaWg Warning: secure space doors]]." Kirk: win. Scotty: win. ''Enterprise'': win. ''Excelsior'': not so much.
11	** Right when the ''Enterprise'' is about to warp to Genesis, ''Excelsior'' captain Styles gives Kirk an ultimatum: "Kirk, you do this, you'll never sit in the captain's chair again". Kirk's response?: "Warp speed". Kirk was willing to end ''his very career'' right then and there (effectively resigning from Starfleet) to save his best friend.
12	*** Once again, Shatner proves SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct. You see that he ''knows'' exactly what this will likely cost him, that moment where he decides that Spock is more important to him than everything his life had stood for up until that point.
13	** Those chugging noises... ''[giggle]'' when the ''Excelsior'''s transwarp drive malfunctions.
14	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4s3XXNLiE I... have HAD... enough of YOU!]]"
15	** ''Double'' awesome not often remembered: Kirk attempted to ''[[TakeMyHand pull Kruge]] [[SaveTheVillain to safety]]'' despite him having Kirk's son executed less than an hour earlier. Kruge instead chose to be a dick, and an ''incompetent'' dick at that--he couldn't even [[TakingYouWithMe Take Kirk With Him]] properly despite the entire planet collapsing beneath their feet. Manliness, thy name is Kirk, and [[KarmicDeath we ALL... have HAD... enough of YOU, Kruge!]]
16	* The duel with the Klingon Bird-of-Prey.
17	** The fact that Kirk notices the cloaking distortion and anticipates and fires the instant they decloak before they can get a shot off. Yeah the automation gives out and leads to his loss but Kirk's battle instincts are still on point even though he likely hasn't fought against a Klingon ship in years. If Enterprise were fully crewed it would have won easily, something Kruge himself noted.
18	--->'''Kruge:''' Why haven't they finished us? They outgun me ten to one!
19	* Kruge ''calling'' Kirk on a bluff, the only time it's been seen in any Kirk-era story.
20	* The original ''Enterprise'', in her last moments, takes down half a dozen Klingons with it.
21	-->'''Torg:''' My lord, the ship appears to be deserted.\
22	'''Kruge:''' How can that be? They're hiding!\
23	'''Torg:''' Yes, sir. The ship appears to be run by computer. It is the only thing that is speaking.\
24	'''Kruge:''' Speaking? Let me hear it.\
25	''' ''Enterprise'' computer:''' ''[Torg holds his communicator to it]'' 9...8...7...6...5...\
26	'''Kruge:''' [[OhCrap GET OUT! GET OUT OF THERE! GET OUT!]]\
27	''' ''Enterprise'' computer:''' 2...1...\
28	''[the ''Enterprise'' bridge explodes]''
29	* Sarek:
30	-->'''T'Lar:''' What you seek has not been done since ages past--and then, only in legend. Your request is not logical.\
31	'''Sarek:''' Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is... uncertain, where my son is concerned.
32	* Kirk and Sarek after the re-fusion ceremony:
33	-->'''Sarek:''' Kirk, I thank you. What you have done is...\
34	'''Kirk:''' What I have done... I had to do.\
35	'''Sarek:''' But at what cost? Your ship. Your son.\
36	'''Kirk:''' If I hadn't tried, the cost would have been my soul.
37	%%* Spock when his Katra is restored.
38	%%* "The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many."
39	%%* [[BondOneLiner "Don't call me 'Tiny'."]]
40	* Uhura's part in the plan--she takes a posting at an out of the way transporter station, paired with an obnoxious young officer, then, when Kirk and company enter, she pulls a phaser on "Mr. Adventure" and makes him get in the closet.
41	-->'''Mr. Adventure:''' Well what are we gonna do about it?\
42	'''Uhura:''' I'm not gonna do anything about it. You are going to sit in the closet.
43	** Like the above instance with George Takei, Creator/NichelleNichols was initially upset at how little she had in the script until she actually read the part and loved what she got to do with that little.
44	** Given the time and circumstances in which the original TV show existed, Uhura was intrinsically awesome just by being an indispensable crew member on the bridge who happened to be a black woman. Whoopi Goldberg cites seeing Uhura on TV as a life-changing moment for her--and that was undoubtedly echoed in the minds of millions of other young people at the time. Giving her a bad-ass action moment here may have been long overdue, but it comes as no surprise that she's more than capable of handling herself.
45	** According to the novelization, once she'd beamed Kirk and Co. aboard, she immediately transported herself off, fled to Earth with Starfleet Security half-a-heartbeat behind, showed up at the gate to the Vulcan Embassy, and got Sarek to grant her asylum status before she could be captured and taken back.
46	*** Also in the novelization, she makes it about 3 steps into the embassy when Starfleet Security catches her. Sarek immediately appears and tells them to let her go or he will turn this into a full-blown diplomatic disaster, since the embassy is outside their jurisdiction. He tells them to go through diplomatic channels to request extradition, knowing that he and Uhura will be on a ship to Vulcan within the hour.
47	* TheReveal of the ''Excelsior''. Her first time out of the gate might've been an EpicFail, but she would go on to be a vital part of the Franchise/TrekVerse, not to mention being the progenitor of one of Starfleet's most prolifically produced ship classes.
48	* Scotty getting promoted to the rank of Captain ''of Engineering''. Sure, other non-command division people in the various series eventually became captains, but they all did it by getting command of a starship. Scotty is instead promoted because he's just that badass of an engineer.
49	* Missed in the fact that, as the more established character, we the audience care more about how Kirk reacts to it, but David's death is his DyingMomentOfAwesome - Kruge has ordered one of the hostages, David, Saavik, and Spock, to be killed to "prove his intentions." David sees the Klingon approach Saavik, knife ready for the killing blow, and he attacks the Klingon. He - a scientist with no combat training - is hopelessly outmatched against a Klingon warrior, but he proves beyond a doubt that he's James Kirk's son by putting his life on the line to save others (and it works, since Kruge had ordered one hostage killed and that "he didn't care which", so he definitely saved Saavik's life then and there.)
50	* Leonard Nimoy deserves a nod for convincing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Anderson Dame Judith Anderson]], who is regarded as one of the greatest stage actors of the 20th century, to appear as T'Lar, the Vulcan high priestess.
51	* Immediately on the heels of Kruge's execution of the ship's gunner whose "lucky shot" destroyed the ''USS Grissom'', when Kruge had told him to only target the engines so he could take prisoners, his first officer, Torg, speaks up. Kruge still has his disruptor out and whirls on Torg, warning him that if he says the wrong thing, he'll end up as the gunner. As coolly as a Vulcan, Torg simply reports that he is picking up the life signs of Saavik, David, and Spock on the Genesis Planet, theorizing (correctly) that they're the prisoners he seeks. While you'd expect Klingons to respond to a casual execution like this, given that its frequency among them earned [[KlingonPromotion a trope of its own,]] it's still taking some balls of solid neutronium to not even bat an eyelash.

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