" Approaching Omicron Ceti lll, sir." "  Standard orbit, Mr Painter." " Captain, I've been transmitting a contact signal every five minutes as ordered." "  All I get is dead air." " Shall I continue?" "  Maintain transmission pattern." " Mr Spock, there were 150 men, women and children on that colony." "  What are the chances of survivors?" "  None." " Berthold rays are a recent discovery." " We do not have full knowledge of them." " Living animal tissue disintegrates under exposure." " Sandoval's group could not have survived." " Those people built a future in a place knowing they might not survive?" " They knew there was a risk." " Can we send people down to the planet surface?" " Tissue breakdown does not develop immediately." "  We can risk a limited exposure." "  We've established orbit." "  l've pinpointed a settlement." "  Thank you, Mr Painter." " Mr Spock, equip a landing party of five to accompany me to the surface." " lnclude Dr McCoy and a biologist." " I want them in ten minutes." " Another dream that failed." " There's nothing sadder." " It took these people a year to make the trip." " They came all that way and died." " Hardly that, sir." " Welcome to Omicron Ceti lll." " I'm Elias Sandoval." " Space - the final frontier." " These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise." " Its five-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." " Captain's log, stardate 3417.3." " We thought our mission to Omicron Ceti lll would be an unhappy one." " We had expected to find no survivors of the agricultural colony there." " Apparently, our information was incorrect." " We haven't seen anyone outside our group for four years." " We've been expecting someone." " Our radio didn't work properly." " We didn't have anyone here who could master it." " Actually, Mr Sandoval, we didn't come here because of your silent radio." " It makes little difference." " You're here." " We're happy to see you." " Come, let me show you our settlement." " On pure speculation, just an educated guess, I'd say that man is alive." " This planet is being bombarded by berthold rays, as our reports indicated." " At this intensity, we'll be safe for a week, if necessary." " But..." "But these people shouldn't be alive." " is it possible that they're not?" " You shook hands with him." " His flesh was warm." " He's alive." " There's also no question that berthold rays are deadly." " No miracle connected with it." " No cures, no serums, no antidotes." " If a man is exposed long enough, he dies." " Gentlemen, we're debating in a vacuum." " Let's go get some answers." " There are two other settlements." " We have 45 colonists here." " Why the dispersal?" " We felt we would have a better chance for growth." " If disease struck one group, the others may not be affected." " Omicron is an ideal agricultural planet." " We determined not to suffer the fate of expeditions that went before us." " Elias." " Leila, come meet our guests." " This is Leila Kalomi, our botanist." " This is Captain Kirk, Dr McCoy, Mr Spock." " Mr Spock and I have met before." " It's been a long time." " Mr Sandoval, we do have a mission here." " Examinations, tests." " By all means, make them." " You'll find our settlement an interesting one." " Our philosophy is simple." " Men should return to a less complicated life." " We have few mechanical things here." " No vehicles, no weapons." " We have harmony here." " Complete peace." " We'll try not to interfere with your work." " Make yourselves at home, gentlemen." " What exactly are we looking for anyway, sir?" " Whatever doesn't look right, whatever that is." " With farms, I wouldn't know what looked right if it were two feet from me." " Hey." " What is it?" " No cows." " This barn isn't even built for them, just for storage." " Come to think of it, we haven't seen any animals." " No horses, no pigs, not even a dog." " Nothing." "  You've known the Vulcanian?" "  On Earth." " Six years ago." "  Did you love him?" "  lf l did, it was important only to myself." " How did he feel?" " Mr Spock's feelings were never expressed." " It is said he has none to give." " Would you like him to stay with us now, to be as one of us?" " There is no choice, Elias." " He will stay." " That'll be all, thank you very much." " Anything?" " I've examined nine men so far, varying in ages from 23 to 59." " They're all in perfect condition." " Heart, lungs, excellent." " Coordination, excellent." " Reflexes, excellent." " If there were many more of them, I could throw away my shingle." "  Kirk here." "  Spock here, Captain." " There is a total absence of life on the planet, with the exception of the colonists and various types of flora." " Sulu said the same." " Any explanations?" " No.  I'm conducting tests with the tricorder, but results are inconclusive." " Very well." " Continue investigations." " Kirk out." " No animals." " That's peculiar." " The records of this expedition indicate they had some for breeding and food." "  Apparently, none of them survived." "  l'd like to see the medical records." " I thought you might." " Captain, I've been looking for you." " You haven't seen our fields and crops." " I'd like to show you both what we've accomplished." " I'll have to bow out.  i have to continue with these medical examinations." " However, if I find everyone else's health to be as perfect as yours, I..." " He promised to throw away his shingle." "  You'll find no weaklings here." " Captain?" " This is the reason, Captain." " This soil will grow anything we plant in it." " It's a perfect world." " We have a moderate climate, moderate rains all year round." " It gives us all we need.  lt is perfect." " Pardon me, Captain." " Biology report ready, sir." " Well, I have work to tend to myself, Captain." " Go ahead, Lieutenant." " Sandoval said they could grow anything." " True." " They've got a variety of crops." "  Grains, potatoes, beans." "  Make your point." " For an agricultural colony, they have very little acreage planted." " There's enough to sustain the colony, but very little more." " It's like a jigsaw puzzle, all one colour." " No key to where the pieces fit in." " Why?" "  Kirk here." "  This is McCoy." " Get back here." "  Trouble?" "  No, but I'd like you to see this." " On my way." " Sandoval's medical record." " Four years ago, when they left Earth." " He had scar tissue on his lungs from pneumonia when he was a child." " No major operations, but there was an appendectomy." "  Received all required inoculations." "  What's strange about that?" " Nothing, but I examined him two hours ago." " You know what his readings were?" " Perfect." " Just like everyone else I've examined here." "  lnstrument malfunction?" "  No.  I thought of that." " I tested it on myself.  lt recorded my lack of tonsils and those two broken ribs." " It did not record the scar tissue on Sandoval's lungs, but it did record a healthy appendix where one was supposedly removed." " Nothing." " Not even insects." " Yet your plants grow and you've survived exposure to berthold rays." "  That can be explained." "  Please do." " Later." " I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer." " And I never understood you." " Until now." " There was always a place in here where no one could come." " There was only the face you allow people to see." " Only one side you'd allow them to know." " I would like to know how your people have survived here." "  l missed you." "  Logically, you should all be dead." " If I tell you how we survived, will you try to understand how we feel about our life here, about each other?" " Emotions are alien to me.  I'm a scientist." " Someone else might believe that." " Your shipmates." " Your captain." " But not me." " Come." " I've received orders to evacuate all personnel from this colony." " You'll inform your people to begin preparations." " We will have accommodations for you aboard the Enterprise." " No." " It's not an arbitrary decision on my part, sir.  I have my orders." " It's entirely unnecessary." " We're in no danger here." " We've explained the berthold rays to you." " Can't you understand?" " Doctor, how can I make you understand?" " Your instruments show we're in perfect health." "  We've had no deaths." "  What about your animals?" "  We're vegetarians." "  That doesn't answer my question." " Why did all your animals die?" " Captain, you stress very unimportant matters." " We will not leave." " It's not much further." " You've not explained the nature of this thing." " Its basic properties are not important." " What is important is it gives life, peace, love." " What you're describing was once known in the vernacular as a "happiness pill"." " You, as a scientist, should know that that's not possible." " Come." " I was one of the first to find them." " The spores." " Spores?" "  lt shouldn't hurt." "  No, I can't." "  Please don't..." " Not like this.  lt didn't hurt us." " I am not like you." " Now." " Now you belong to all of us." " And we to you." " There's no need to hide your inner face any longer." " We understand." " I love you." " I can love you." " Captain's log, supplemental." " We have been ordered to evacuate the colony on Omicron lll." " However, the colony leader, Elias Sandoval, has refused all cooperation and will not listen to any arguments." " Your arguments are valid, but they do not apply to us." "  You're being unreasonable." "  Nevertheless..." "Excuse me." " My orders are to remove the colonists." " That's exactly what I intend to do, with or without your help." " Without, I should think." " Would you like to use a butterfly net on him?" " Captain, we've checked out everything." " It all seems normal, except for the absence of animals." " We have orders to evacuate all colonists to Starbase 27." " I want landing parties to coordinate the colonists and prepare them to transport to the ship." " We'll need extra accommodations aboard." " Where's Mr Spock and Mr DeSalle?" " We haven't seen them since we began our check." " DeSalle was going to examine some native plants." " Did Spock call in?" " No, he didn't." " Spock?" " See to the landing parties, Mr Sulu." " Spock." " That one looks like a dragon." " You see the tail and the dorsal spines?" " I've never seen a dragon." " I have." " On Berengaria Vll." " But I have never stopped to look at clouds before." " Or rainbows." " I can tell you exactly why one appears in the sky, but considering its beauty has always been out of the question." " Not here." " Spock!" "  Yes, what did you want?" "  Spock, is that you?" " Yes, Captain." " What did you want?" " Where are you?" " I don't believe I want to tell you." " I don't know what you think you're doing, but this is an order." " Report back to me in ten minutes." " We're evacuating all colonists to Starbase 27." "  No, I don't think so." "  You don't think so, what?" " I don't think so, sir." " Spock, report to me immediately." " Spock, acknowledge." " Spock." " The frequency is open, but he doesn't answer." " That didn't sound at all like Spock, Jim." " No..." "I thought you said you might like him if he mellowed." "  l didn't say that." "  You said that." " Not exactly." " He might be in trouble." " Yes." " Take over the landing party detail and get those colonists aboard." " How will you find Spock?" " The frequency will act as a homing device." " Have DeSalle meet you here." " Have the landing party work in teams of two.  I don't want anybody left alone." " Spock." " Mr Spock." " What are you doing with those things?" " I want you to take a good close look at these, doc." " They're very interesting." " Mr Spock." " Are you out of your mind?" " You were told to report to me at once." "  l didn't want to, Jim." "  You..." "Yes, I can see that." " Miss Kalomi, come with us to the settlement to transport up to the ship." " There'll be no evacuation, but perhaps we should get you straightened out." " Mr Sulu, Mr Spock is under arrest and he's in your custody until we get back to the Enterprise." " Very well." " Come with me." " What's...?" " Mister Sulu understands, don't you?" " Yes, I see now." " Of course we can't remove the colony." " It would be wrong." " I don't know what these plants are, or how they work on you, but you're going back to the settlement and the colonists are going aboard the ship." " I can see the captain is going to be difficult." " Ready to beam up." " Hiya, Jimmy boy." " I've taken care of everything." " All you've got to do is just relax." " Doctor's orders." "  How many did you beam up?" "  Must be nigh on 100 by now." " Hey, Doc.  I'm ready to energise." " Everything OK with those plants?" "  This is the captain." " Beam me up." "  Well, sure, if you want." " I most certainly do." " Energise." " Lieutenant, put me through to Admiral Komack at Starfleet." "  l'm sorry, Captain.  I can't do that." "  What do you mean?" " That's an order." " I know it is, Captain, but all communications are out." "  Out?" "  l short-circuited them." " Except for ship-to-surface." " We'll need that for a while." " It's really for the best, Captain." " Get back to your stations." "  We're transporting down to the colony." "  l said get back to your station." " No, sir." "  This is mutiny, mister." "  Yes, sir.  lt is." " Captain's log, stardate 3417.5." " The pod plants have spread spores throughout the ship, carried by the ventilation system." " Under their influence, my crew is deserting to join the Omicron colony and I can't stop them." " I don't know why I have not been infected." " Nor can I get Dr McCoy to explain physical-psychological aspects." " I'm not interested in any physical-psychological aspects, Jim boy." " We're all perfectly healthy." " I've heard that word a lot." " Everything's perfect." " That's right." " That's just what it is." " I'll bet you've even grown your tonsils back." " Sure enough." " Hey, Jim boy." " Y'all ever have a real cold Georgia-style mint julep?" " Look, Bones, I need your help." " Can you run tests, blood samples, to give us a lead on what these things are?" " Who wants to counteract paradise, Jim boy?" " McCoy out." " Bones." " Bones!" " Almost the entire ship has beamed down." " I'm pleased." " The landing operation is proceeding well." " Where's McCoy?" " He went off to create something called a mint julep." " That's a drink." "  Captain, why don't you join us?" "  ln your own private paradise?" "  The spores have made it that." "  Where did they originate?" " It's impossible to say." " They drifted through space until they landed here." " They thrive on berthold rays." " The plants act as a repository for thousands of microscopic spores until they find a human body to inhabit." " In return, they give you complete health and peace of mind." "  That's paradise?" "  We have no need or want, Captain." " It's a true Eden, Jim." " There's belonging and love." " No wants, no needs." " We weren't meant for that." " None of us." " Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is." "  We have what we need." "  Except a challenge." " You don't understand, Jim." " But you'll come around sooner or later." " Join us, please." " I'm going back to the ship." " Engineering?" " Scotty?" " Biochemistry lab?" " Security?" " is there anyone on board?" " This is the captain." " Captain's log, stardate 3417.7." " Except for myself, all crew have transported to the planet." " Mutinied." " Lieutenant Uhura has sabotaged the communications station." " I can only contact the surface of the planet." " The ship can be maintained in orbit for several months, but even with automatic controls, I cannot pilot her alone." " In effect, I am marooned here." " I'm beginning to realise just how big this ship really is." " How quiet." " I don't know how to get my crew back." " How to counteract the effect of the spores." " I don't know what I can offer against paradise." "  Enterprise to Mr Spock." "  Yes, Jim, what is it now?" " I've joined you.  I understand now." " Wonderful, Jim." " When will you beam down?" " There are some things I want to pack." " Good." " Leila and I will meet you at the beam down point." " No." " No." " I...can't..." "leave." " Emotions." " Violent emotions, needs...anger." " Captain's log, supplemental." " I think I've discovered the answer." " But to carry out my plan entails considerable risk." " Mr Spock is much stronger than the ordinary human being." " Aroused, his great physical strength could kill." " But it's a risk I'll have to take." "  Enterprise to Mr Spock." "  Spock here." "  lt's Jim." "  What's keeping you?" " We're waiting." " I've been packing some things." " I realised there's equipment here we should have at the settlement." " We can't come back on board once the last of us has left." "  Do you want me to beam up a party?" "  l think you and I can handle it." "  Why don't you beam up now?" "  Just a moment." "  lt won't take long." " Do you mind?" "  l'll wait." " Ready to beam up, Jim." " Energising." " All right, you mutinous, disloyal, computerised half-breed, we'll see about you deserting my ship." " The term "half-breed" is somewhat applicable." " But "computerised" is inaccurate." " A machine can be computerised, not a man." " What makes you think you're a man?" " You're an overgrown jackrabbit." " Jim, I don't understand." " Of course you don't understand." " You don't have the brains to understand." " If you'll excuse me." " What can you expect from a simpering, devil-eared freak, whose father was a computer and mother an encyclopaedia?" " My mother was a teacher." " My father an ambassador." " Your father was a computer, like his son." " An ambassador from a planet of traitors." " Vulcans never had an ounce of integrity." "  Captain, please don't..." " You're a traitor." " Disloyal to the core, like the rest of your subhuman race." " And you've got the gall to make love to that girl." "  That's enough." "  Does she know what she's getting?" " A carcass full of memory banks who should be squatting on a mushroom, instead of passing himself off as a man." " You belong in the circus, Spock." " Not a starship." " Right next to the dog-faced boy." " Had enough?" " I didn't realise what it took to get under that thick hide of yours." " I don't know what you're so mad about." " It isn't every first officer who gets to belt his captain...several times." " You did that to me deliberately." " Believe me, Mr Spock, it was painful in more ways than one." " The spores." " They're gone." " I don't belong any more." " You said they were peaceful." " Violent emotions overwhelm them." " I had to make you angry enough to shake off their influence." " That's the answer, Mr Spock." " That may be correct, Captain." " But initiating a brawl with 500 crewmen and colonists is hardly logical." " I had something else in mind." " Can you put together a transmitter to hook into the communications station and broadcast over the communicator?" "  lt can be done." "  Good." " Let's get to work." " Captain." " Striking a fellow officer is a court-martial offence." " If we're both in the brig, who's going to build the transmitter?" " That is quite logical, Captain." " It's a little early to be counting stars, Miss Leila." " I'm waiting for Mr Spock and the captain to transport down." " They had some equipment to be moved." " But he's been so long." " I wish he'd come back." " I think I can fix that for you." " Enterprise?" " Enterprise." " Spock here." " This is Leila." " I borrowed the doctor's communicator." " I was worried something might have happened to you." "  You are all right, aren't you?" "  Yes.  I'm quite well." " Can I come aboard?" " I've never seen a starship before." " I want to talk to you." " Are you still at the beam down point and is the doctor there?" " Yes to both questions." " Give your communicator back to Dr McCoy." " You won't need it to beam up." " It'll take a few moments." " Just wait there." " Out." " Mr Spock." " Miss Kalomi is strictly your concern, but should you talk to her while she's still under the influence of the spores?" " I'll be back shortly, Captain." " You're no longer with us, are you?" "  l felt something was wrong." "  lt was necessary." " Come back to the planet with me." " You can belong again." " Come back with me, please." " I can't." " I love you." " I said that six years ago and I can't seem to stop repeating myself." " On Earth, you couldn't give anything of yourself." " You couldn't even put your arms around me." " We couldn't have anything together there." " We couldn't have anything together any place else." " But we're happy here.  I can't lose you now, Mr Spock.  I can't." " I have a responsibility to this ship." " To that man on the bridge." " I am what I am, Leila." " And if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them." " Mine can be no worse than someone else's." " I have lost you, haven't I?" " And not only you, I've lost all of it." " The spores.  I've lost them, too." " The captain discovered that strong emotions destroy the spore influence." " And this is for my good?" " Do you mind if I say I still love you?" " You never told me if you had another name, Mr Spock." " You couldn't pronounce it." " They'll not hear this.  lt'll be more a sensation of feeling it." " As though somebody had put itching powder on their skin." " It should begin to work on their nerves in a few minutes." "  Sorry." "  What do you think you're doing?" "  l said I was sorry." "  More like you're clumsy." " If you hadn't got in my way..." "Come on." " Break it up." " Well, Doctor, I've been thinking about what sort of work I can assign you to." " What do you mean?" " I'm a doctor." " Not any more." " We don't need you as a doctor." " No?" " Would you like to see how fast I can put you in a hospital?" " I am the leader of this colony." " I'll assign you to work I think is suitable." " Just a minute." " You'd better make me a mechanic, then I can treat little tin gods like you." " Sorry, Sandoval." " I don't know what made me do that." " We've done nothing here." " No accomplishments, no progress." " Three years wasted." " We wanted to make this planet a garden." " You can't stay here." " You can't survive without the spores." " After you've cleared at the Starbase, you could be relocated." " It depends on what you want." " I think I'd..." "I think we'd like to get some work done." " The work we started out to do." "  Enterprise." "  Enterprise." " Spock here." " This is McCoy." " Sandoval would like to talk to the captain." " Just a moment." " They're all beginning to call in, Captain." " Rather contritely, I should say." " Sandoval wishes to speak to you." " Put him on the speaker." " Kirk here." " Captain, as I understood it, you were to transport us to Starbase 27." " We'll give you every cooperation." " Start making preparations, Mr Sandoval." " We'll transport your people aboard as soon as more of our crew checks in." " Well, Jim, I've just examined the last of the colonists." " They're all in absolutely perfect health." "  A fringe benefit left over by the spores." "  Good." " That's the second time man's been thrown out of paradise." " No, Bones." " This time we walked out on our own." " Maybe we weren't meant for paradise." " Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up." " Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute." " We must march to the sound of drums." " Poetry, Captain." " Non-regulation." " We haven't heard much from you about Omicron Ceti lll." " I have little to say about it, Captain." " Except that, for the first time in my life, I was happy."