- Kirk agrees to surrender the Enterprise, requesting a minute to inform his crew. Kruge, feeling generous, gives him two minutes.
- Kruge orders all of his men save one to form a boarding party. He plans to control the ship and steal Genesis from the Enterprise's memory banks.
- Meanwhile, Kirk hatches a plan. He, Chekov, and Scotty initiate the Enterprise's self-destruct mode.
- When the Klingon's teleport over to the Enterprise, Kirk and company teleport down to the Genesis planet.