Pike wakes up without his jacket, communicator, and laser, inside an underground cell with a transparent wall, through which he sees several creatures of different species in nearby cells. The landing party fires laser pistols at the door to no avail and Spock advises the ship via his communicator that this " is all some sort of trap. Talosians render Pike unconscious and abduct him through a doorway in the rock. Vina suddenly vanishes, along with the scientists and their camp. Vina strangely tells Pike he is a "prime specimen" – as three aliens with huge, pulsating heads watch the landing party through a viewing screen.īoyce provides his medical report to Pike and reports that the survivors are in good health, "almost too good." The scientist Theodore Haskins offers to show Pike their "secret," and Vina leads him away from the others. She is Vina, born almost as the group crash-landed on the planet. The scientists identify themselves as an expedition of the American Continent Institute and Lieutenant Jose Tyler describes technological advances while they have been marooned, particularly in the time barrier being broken. Pike leads a landing party to the surface of Talos IV and finds the makeshift campsite of a disheveled group of male scientists from the crashed survey ship SS Columbia. Pike expresses discomfort with "a woman on the bridge," assuring Number One that she is an exception, as she's " different, of course." The ship's first officer, a woman named Number One, says Colt is the captain's replacement yeoman. Pike returns to the bridge and orders the ship to Talos, at "time warp, factor seven." The science officer Spock interrupts on the intercom that a follow-up message from Talos IV indicates there are eleven survivors. Pike has been thinking of resigning, burdened with making lethal decisions, but Boyce counsels against it. Boyce, to his quarters but Boyce instead fixes Pike a martini to induce Pike to talk about the battle on Rigel VII. Pike calls the Enterprise's chief medical officer, Dr. Pike declines to investigate without any indication of survivors but proceeds to the Vega colony to care for the crew's own injuries. It turns out to be an old radio distress signal, "keyed to cause interference and attract attention." The crew says it was sent eighteen years earlier from the Talos star group, but first officer Number One notes they have no Earth colonies or vessels that far out. The year is 2254, and it is two weeks after a battle on Rigel VII that left seven crew members injured and took the lives of three USS Enterprise crewmen, including Captain Christopher Pike's yeoman, the ship encounters a space distortion on a collision course, according to helmsman José Tyler.
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