As long as the drill wasn""t activated, they could beam aboard the enemy ship.Spock confirmed the viability of Chekov""s plan - it would be possible to get on the ship, steal the black hole device, rescue Captain Pike, and save Earth.And dead or alive, nothing can bring our little Maria back to us."When Hans walks over the unstable beams from the wreckage of the fire, he falls through the collapsed floor and splashes into an underground millpond/cistern below.As he strides from the room, he turns toward the patients, refusing to acknowledge defeat, maintaining by his example that it is better to try and fail than o meekly accept an unsatisfactory status quo:But I tried, didn""t I? God-damn it.He downed the drink, then asked Sheehan""s bartender (Wayne Grace) and Smalley about the town""s leadership:McCabe: Tell me something, boys.