Kirk: No matter what happens--we must press on. The Great Galactic Barrier Awaits. Its secrets may yield up the solutions to all of our remaining ills.

Spock: Have A Care, Kirk! Is it not enough that your people have polluted all of our space? Must you extend your emotional dominions into the universe that lies beyond our galaxy?

Sulu: But if we can do this, we'll gain the secrets of Sub-Strata Astro-Power! And nothing can equal that prize.

Uhura: Besides, Spock. We have to beat The Klingons to The Barrier. Only our heart and spirit can guarantee their ultimate defeat.

Chekov: Bah! Starfleet! Where is the glory I was promised? When I'm Captain, the Galaxy can go hang for all I care.

McCoy: Sure, they didn't want a blind surgeon at first. But soon, they'll all learn of my true power.

Gary Mitchell:  The device I've prepared has taken in all the myriad energies of The Barrier. Now--I will be like unto A GOD!!

Kirk: No, Gary! You have no idea what those energies will do to you. You may---not survive.

Mitchell: No! The settings were all wrong. My Face! Kirk--this is all your fauuullt...

(He blasts the emerging Janice Rand)

Kirk: She's--gone. But she'll always be remembered.

Spock: She was human, but she called me friend. Logicus Rex, there shall be a reckoning.

Chekov: I could have saved her--but I was thinking of my own glory instead.

Sulu: Is this the price of our pursuit of knowledge? Perhaps there are things we were not meant to know, after all.

Uhura: My oldest and dearest friend. You will not go unavenged. Your sacrifice will not be in vain.

Mitchell: Now you all will die!

(McCoy trips him with his cane)

McCoy: Er---did I get him? I was trying to get him.

Spock: Perhaps this Doctor is not so helpless as he seems.

Scotty: (Over speaker) Captain! By The Crusted Crud Of Cochrane, The Barrier has changed our engines into something-- beyond comprehension!

Kirk: (Balls his hand into fist) Then we won't rest until we've found------

(blends in with next issue blurb)

----THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE SHAPING ENGINES!!!

Enterprise! --- I mean, Excelsior!