- Bounty swoops through space. They'll be home in an hour and a half. That's shorter than our commute.
- Commander Pavel Chekov observes that they haven't seen any Federation ships yet. That's weird.
- Similarly, Nyota Uhura, the ship's communications officer, has been receiving all sorts of strange signals.
- McCoy tells Spock that he's glad to have him back.
- As they talk, it becomes clear that McCoy wants to know what it was like to be dead. Morbid.