Excerpt of Deleted Scene from Star Trek (2009)
SPOCK PRIME:
This was a gift to me. Representing… a dream. One we were unable to fulfill. The way you can now…
Their eyes hold. Spock turns, disappearing into the corridor. Young Spock stares at the empty doorway a beat, his mind a jumble of thoughts. He looks to the pendant… and realizes it’s a holo-emitter. After considering a beat, he hits an activation button and a moving holigraphic message materializes before him.
KIRK/SHATNER:
(Singing) Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you…
(stops, grins) I know I know, it’s illogical to celebrate something you had nothing to do with, but I haven’t had the chance to congratulate you on your appointment to the ambassadorship so I thought I’d seize the occasion… Bravo, Spock — they tell me your first mission may take you away for awhile, so I’ll be the first to wish you luck… and to say…
I suppose I’d always imagined us… outgrowing Starfleet together. Watching life swing us into our Emeritus years…
I look around at the new cadets now and can’t help thinking… has it really been so long? Wasn’t it only yesterday we stepped onto the Enterprise as boys? That I had to prove to the crew I deserved command… and their respect?
I know what you’d say — ‘It’s their turn now, Jim…’And of course you’re right… but it got me thinking:
Who’s to say we can’t go one more round?
By the last tally, only twenty five percent of the galaxy’s been chartered…
I’d call that negligent. Criminal even — an invitation. You once said being a starship captain was my first, best destiny… if that’s true, then yours is to be by my side. If there’s any true logic to the universe… we’ll end up on that bridge again someday.
Admit it, Spock. For people like us, the journey itself… is home.