Den relevanta biten från filmens officiella romanisering skiljer sig något från ordalydelsen i filma. Det finns också en intern dialog från Kirk själv.
The very thought made images shimmer and swirl in the shadows: Enterprise, as her fiery hull streaked through the sky toward Genesis like a falling star as she plummeted to her death. David, my son, my own flesh and blood, dead before I had the chance to really know him. Lost chances with his mother, Carol...
"I don't need Sybok to take me on a tour of them." "Jim," McCoy pleaded, his eyes dulled by euphoria, "if you'd just unbend and allow yourself'
"To be brainwashed by this con man? You said it yourself, Doctor, remember?" "I was wrong," McCoy countered. "This "con man' took away my pain! No psychiatrist in the universe has ever..."
"Dammit, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be dispelled with the wave of a magic wand. They're things we carry with us - the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I don't want to forget David and Carol and losing the Enterprise. I need my pain."