Star Trek: Always Give Your Enemies Their Due — Dream Log
Categories: 3,7,8
So this dream is set in Star Trek — The Original Series, but a movie as it turns out, Kirk is going to meet a shuttle that has just docked, he waits outside and it opens to show — dramatic reveal — Captain Koloth (now Admiral Koloth) the commander of the Klingons in the Trouble with Tribbles (Just so you know, I had to go look up his name, so stop giggling). He, like Kirk, is older, he has a fond but sad expression on his face and they embrace like old friends.
They walk and in their talking I realize that Koloth is on the Enterprise to attend the funeral of Spock. They reminisce; Koloth’s attendance is explained in this talk with some flashback. Apparently in some past event Koloth was in a fight with Kirk — one of those bare-chested arena fights they loved in the original series.
Kirk was trying to keep Koloth from doing something that would be extremely deleterious to the Klingon empire (why, not sure, Kirk doing the right and noble thing I guess). Koloth was going to kill Kirk and Spock got in the arena, but could not fight Koloth because of some rule, so he let Koloth beat on him until he wore himself out and came to his senses, at which point Koloth utters a ragged “Thank you”
Flashback finished, we are back to the two men on the Enterprise, Koloth says, with emotion in his voice “He was a warrior!”, and then says with regret “I never properly thanked him for what he did for me, and Klingons everywhere that day”
Kirk: “You thanked him”
Koloth: “Yes, but he should have a banquet, a castle, his own fiefdom on some fertile planet”
Kirk: “I think the thanks you gave him was of more value to him”
Koloth: “True”
Kirk: “We should go down to the planet now”
So then they walk to the transporter room — so much in Star Trek transportation doesn’t make sense so we can’t really fault the dream for any lapses in logic.
At one point Koloth says “This Khan, he was a brave man!”, and then it twigs for me, this is an alternative end to The Wrath of Khan, or maybe the beginning of the next movie, in which they are going to bury Spock in a more elaborate manner evidently.
Kirk has a sour expression at the mention of Khan and he looks ready to say something, Koloth grabs him by the arm and says with a very serious expression — “Listen, my friend, you must always give your enemies their due!”
Koloth: “Khan was a brave man, but not a great one because he never fought for anything more important than himself. In the end he was petty and small, and very dangerous. Spock was a great man, killed by a petty man. This is the way of life at times”
Kirk: “Thank you” with a grateful expression on his face.
Koloth: “You once told me, I do what I can”
They get to the transporter room, transport down to planet New Genesis (wasn’t that the name in the movie?) and they are going to launch Spock’s pill shaped coffin into a greet grotto. As it is launched the Klingon Warbird and the Enterprise hovering low around the planet fire off salutes. Because they are so far down, and because it is dusk on the planet their phaser cannons can see to fire 3 bursts each crossing each other across the sky.
There is a schmaltzy score to underline the emotion of the moment. In fact the whole thing is rather schmaltzy as Trek would often be when trying to wring tears out of people for the glories of military service.
They go back, Koloth departs, when he is back on his vessel a subordinate Klingon (who is dressed rather like a Romulan to my eye, probably the workers down in the dream wardrobe department ran out of costumes) remarks that he hopes that when he dies he will deserve such a funeral. Koloth replies “Yes, the Vulcan was a man to inspire the Noblest in others. I worry for my friend now that he is gone”
Taa-da — da-da. End Dream. Finally a dream that ended when it made sense. Also it was the time for me to wake up (about 15 minutes early but I just got up, so it was all very successful)
Previous Dream Log Entries
Throw 3 Dreams On The Log — 3 minor dreams poorly remembered but of enough interest for entry in log
Dream Brooklyn 9–9 — a dream that is a funny and pretty accurate for character delineation skit from TV show Brookly 9–9
The Archbishop returns to the kingdom — a dream set in post-apocalyptic future, the dream covers a span of several generations.
The IG Dream Log — initiating the dream log, also describes category meanings and has a dream starring Will Ferrell.
