- Kirk and his crew toast to absent friends.
- The doorbell rings; Kirk thinks it is a fashionably late Mr. Scott, but the party crasher is revealed to be Sarek, Spock's father.
- The ambassador demands to speak with Kirk alone, and then lays into him for denying Spock his future.
- Kirk is confused about the dead-guy-has-a-future thing, but Sarek explains that only his body was dead. Kirk was supposed to bring Spock's spirit, his katra, to Vulcan.
- Kirk says Spock made no such request.
- Laying Kirk down by the romantic fire, Sarek *cough* mind-melds with him.
- He learns Spock truly made no request of Kirk. Sarek laments that everything about his son is now lost.
- Kirk believes Spock would have found a way.