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''Enterprise'' crew members are stranded on a ghost planet and terrorized by the image of a beautiful woman.
  
''Enterprise'' crew members are stranded on a ghost planet and terrorized by the image of a beautiful woman.
   
 
==Summary==
  
==Summary==
 
===Teaser===
  
===Teaser===
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The {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} investigates a [[planet]] whose size is approximately that of [[Earth]]'s moon, yet mass and [[atmosphere]] are similar to Earth (implying that gravity at the surface would be around 130 newtons per kilogram, although this physically obvious extrapolation is never acknowledged in the episode). Stranger yet is that it is apparently only a few thousand years old. Its geological age is much less than the indigenous vegetation and atmospheric content would indicate. [[Captain]] [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] is intrigued by the unexplainable planet and organizes a [[landing party]] consisting of himself, [[Doctor]] [[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]], [[helmsman]] [[Hikaru Sulu|Sulu]], and senior [[geologist]] [[D'Amato (Lieutenant)|D'Amato]]. As the landing party transports to the surface of the planet, a mysterious woman appears, telling them that they must not go. She then touches the [[transporter]] operator, who instantly crumples to the deck as the dematerializing landing party watches helplessly. She is too late to prevent the beam down, and moments later the four men materialize on the planets surface. Once on the planet, Kirk attempts to contact the ''Enterprise'' to report the attack, but before he can do so, a powerful tremor rocks the planet. At the same instant the ''Enterprise'' is tossed about in some sort of turbulence. Both disruptions subside simultaneously, and the crew of the ''Enterprise'' quickly discovers that the planet is gone.
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The {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} investigates a [[planet]] whose size is approximately that of [[Earth]]'s moon, yet mass and [[atmosphere]] are similar to Earth. Stranger yet is that it is apparently only a few thousand years old. Its geological age is much less than the indigenous vegetation and atmospheric content would indicate. [[Captain]] [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] is intrigued by the unexplainable planet and organizes a [[landing party]] consisting of himself, [[Doctor]] [[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]], [[helmsman]] [[Hikaru Sulu|Sulu]], and senior [[geologist]] {{dis|D'Amato|Lieutenant}}. But as the landing party steps onto the transporter platform and starts to transport down to the surface of the planet, [[Losira|a mysterious woman]] dressed in a purple [[Arabia|Arabian]]-style outfit suddenly appears as if from nowhere, telling them all that they must not go. She then touches the [[transporter]] operator, an Ensign [[Wyatt]], who instantly crumples to the deck as the dematerializing landing party watches helplessly. She is too late to prevent the beam down, and moments later the four men materialize on the planet's surface. Once on the planet, Kirk attempts to contact the ''Enterprise'' with his [[communicator]] to report the attack, but before he can do so, a powerful tremor rocks the planet. At the same instant the ''Enterprise'' is tossed about in some sort of turbulence. Both disruptions subside simultaneously, and the crew of the ''Enterprise'' quickly discovers that the planet is no longer on the viewscreen.
   
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On the planet D'Amato's tricorder read an energy burst of almost immeasurable power. When Kirk is unable to raise the Enterprise on his communicator, Sulu discovers that the Enterprise is missing from orbit, effectively stranding the landing party on the planet.
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On the planet D'Amato's [[Starfleet tricorder|tricorder]] reads an energy burst of almost immeasurable power. When Kirk is unable to raise the ''Enterprise'' on his communicator, Sulu discovers that the ''Enterprise'' is missing from orbit, effectively stranding the landing party on the planet.
   
 
===Act One===
  
===Act One===
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The landing party is at a loss to explain the sudden disappearance of the ''Enterprise''. Sulu conjectures that the ''Enterprise'' must have blown up, citing high radiation readings as evidence of a matter/anti-matter intermix explosion. Kirk dismisses Sulu's theory due to a lack of residual radiation. McCoy then suggests that the ''Enterprise'' may have crashed into the planet itself. Neither of these theories fit the facts. Recognizing that regardless of the ''Enterprise'''s fate, the landing party will soon need food and water, Kirk orders a detailed analysis of the planet. The report is not encouraging, as all plant vegetation on the planet is poisonous to humans, there is no evidence of rainfall or surface water, and the only other form of life is a virus-like plant parasite. During the survey, Sulu makes a sweep with his [[tricorder]] and registers a sudden [[magnetic]] reading that quickly dissipates, like a door opening and then closing again. McCoy also detects a powerful [[lifeform]] reading that appears and then disappears. These fluctuations are caused when the same woman who appeared in the [[transporter room]] of the ''Enterprise'' appears to D'Amato, killing him with her touch. McCoy reports that all the cells of D'Amato's body have been exploded from the inside. Kirk attempts to dig a grave for the geologist with his [[phaser]], but the surface of the planet withstands its force. Further investigation reveals that the planet is an artificial body.
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The landing party is at a loss to explain the ''Enterprise''{{'}}s sudden disappearance. Sulu conjectures that the ''Enterprise'' must have blown up, citing high radiation readings as evidence of a matter/antimatter intermix explosion. Kirk quickly dismisses Sulu's theory due to a lack of residual radiation. McCoy then suggests that the ''Enterprise'' may have crashed onto the planet itself. Neither of these theories fits the facts. Recognizing, that regardless of the ''Enterprise''{{'}}s fate, the landing party will soon need food and water, Kirk orders a detailed analysis of the planet's resources. But the report of that analysis is not encouraging, as all plant vegetation on the planet is poisonous to Humans, there is no evidence of rainfall or surface water, and the only other form of life is a virus-like plant parasite. During the survey, Sulu makes a sweep with his tricorder and registers a sudden [[magnetic]] reading that quickly dissipates, like a door opening and then closing again. McCoy also detects a powerful [[lifeform]] reading that appears and then disappears. These fluctuations occur as the same woman who appeared in the [[transporter room]] of the ''Enterprise'' confronts D'Amato, killing him with her touch. McCoy reports that all the cells of D'Amato's body have been disrupted from the inside. Kirk attempts to use his [[phaser]] to blast a hole in the ground as a grave for D'Amato, but the surface of the planet withstands its firepower. Further investigation reveals that the planet is an artificial body.
   
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[[File:McCoy and Sulu.jpg|thumb|McCoy and Sulu look upon D'Amato's grave on the planet]]
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In the mean time, the crew of the ''Enterprise'' attempts to discern what happened. Scott reports no damage to the ship's engines. Uhura reports that the ship is functioning normally and there are nothing more than bumps and bruises as a result of the turbulence, save one casualty; the transporter officer has been found dead. Doctor [[M'Benga]] reports that they are not yet sure of the cause of death, as Dr. Sanchez is in the middle of an [[autopsy]]. Spock orders Scott to have the transporter checked for malfunctions. Helm officer Lieutenant [[Rahda]] notes that there is no debris, which would have been left over from a planet breakup. She then reports that the position of the [[star]]s have changed. She verifies her findings by replaying a recording of the stars made just prior to the turbulence. [[Spock]] is able to interpolate that, in a manner of seconds, the Enterprise has somehow been thrown 990.7 [[light year]]s from its previous position. The preliminary autopsy on the transporter officer comes in and the causes of death appears to be cellular disruption, as if every cell in the body had been blasted from inside. Spock orders that the ''Enterprise'' return to the planet at top [[warp]] speed, which turns out to be warp factor 8. [[Image:USS Enterprise hurled through space.jpg|thumb|The Enterprise thrown 990.7 [[light year]]s.]]
  
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In the meantime, the crew of the ''Enterprise'' attempts to discern what had happened. [[Montgomery Scott|Scott]] reports no damage to the ship's engines. [[Nyota Uhura|Uhura]] reports that the ship is functioning normally and there are nothing more than bumps and bruises as a result of the turbulence, save one casualty: transporter officer Wyatt has been found dead. Dr. [[Joseph M'Benga|M'Benga]] reports that they are not yet sure of the cause of death, as Dr. [[Sanchez]] is in the middle of Wyatt's [[autopsy]]. Spock orders Scott to have the transporter checked for malfunctions. Helm officer Lieutenant [[Rahda]] notes that there is no [[debris]], which would have been left over from a planet breakup. She then reports that the position of the [[star]]s have changed. She verifies her findings by replaying a recording of the stars made just prior to the turbulence on the [[viewscreen]]. Spock is able to interpolate that, in a manner of seconds, the ''Enterprise'' has somehow been thrown 990.7 [[light year]]s from its previous position. The preliminary autopsy on the transporter officer comes in and the causes of death appears to be cellular disruption, as if every cell in the body had been blasted from inside. Spock orders that the ''Enterprise'' return to the planet at top [[warp]] speed, which turns out to be warp factor 8. [[File:USS Enterprise hurled through space.jpg|thumb|The ''Enterprise'' thrown 990.7 [[light year]]s]]
   
 
===Act Two===
  
===Act Two===
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Although the ship did not appear to suffer any damage, chief engineer [[Montgomery Scott]] is disquieted, and reports that the ship feels wrong. Spock initially dismisses this as emotionalism. Still concerned, Scotty instructs crewman [[John B. Watkins|Watkins]] to check the bypass value on the matter-antimatter reaction chamber to ensure that it is not overheating. While Watkins is doing so, the woman appears in the control room, killing him in the same manner as the others. Before Watkins dies, he cries out a warning about the intruder, but she disappears.
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Although the ship did not appear to suffer any damage, chief engineer Montgomery Scott is disquieted, and reports that the ship feels "wrong." Spock initially dismisses this as emotional. Still concerned, Scotty instructs crewman [[John B. Watkins|Watkins]] to check the bypass valve on the matter-antimatter reaction chamber to ensure that it is not overheating. While Watkins is doing this, the woman appears in the control room and inquires about the engine mechanisms. She then kills him in the same manner as the others. Before Watkins dies, he cries out a warning about the intruder to Scott, but she disappears before Scott can see her.
   
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Back on the planet, unable to 'dig' a grave for D'Amato, the landing party have created a last resting place for the geologist on the surface using large rocks — as well a grave marker reading <small>D'AMATO</small>.
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Back on the surface of the planet, the woman appears to Sulu and, although she is able to briefly touch him, only injures his shoulder. Kirk and McCoy run to his rescue, and Sulu cries out not to let her touch them. The woman insists that she is for Sulu, and that she must touch him. When she touches Kirk, however, nothing happens. Kirk asks how she can destroy others, and she explains that she does not want to destroy. She then disappears. The landing party surmises that the woman's destructive power can only be directed at one specific person at a time. When the woman reappears to kill Kirk, the landing party is able to use this information to defend him. Kirk questions her, and she explains that she is [[Losira]], the commander of the station. When Kirk asks how she feels about killing him, she says that killing is wrong, but that she must do so. She says that she is sent to defend the station, although the people who once lived on it are no more. Kirk presses her, sensing her confusion and loneliness, and she disappears again. Following their tricorder readings, the landing party finds an underground door into the planet-station.
  
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Sulu volunteers to keep watch while Kirk and McCoy sleep. But while the captain and the doctor are sleeping, the woman appears to Sulu. As the woman advances, Sulu pulls his phaser and warns her to keep back or he'll fire, saying he doesn't want to shoot a woman, but she ignores the warning. Sulu fires, but the phaser has no effect on the woman. Although the woman is able to briefly touch Sulu, disrupting all the cells his shoulder, she fails to kill him. Sulu yells out for help, and Kirk and McCoy run to his rescue. Sulu cries out not to let her touch them since that was how D'Amato had died. The woman insists that she is for Sulu, and that she must touch him. When she touches Kirk on his shoulder, however, nothing happens. Kirk asks how she can destroy others and she explains that she does not want to destroy. She then disappears. The landing party surmises that the woman's destructive power can only be directed at one specific person at a time.
   
 
===Act Three===
  
===Act Three===
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Aboard the ''Enterprise'', which is warping back to the planet, the ship's engines begin to race out of control. Scotty discovers that the emergency overload bypass of the matter-[[antimatter]] integrator has been fused, although it would have taken all the power of the ship's phasers to do so. It becomes apparent that the woman has also sabotaged the ship. With this part damaged, the ''Enterprise'' has less than fifteen minutes before its engines explode.
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Aboard the ''Enterprise'', which is warping back to the planet, the warp engines begin to race out of control. Scott discovers that the emergency overload bypass of the matter-[[antimatter]] integrator has been fused, although it would have taken all the power of the ship's phasers to do so. It becomes apparent that the woman is responsible for this sabotage. With this damage, the ''Enterprise'' has less than fifteen minutes before its engines will explode.
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Spock and Scott devise a risky plan to save the ship &ndash; Scott will enter the [[Jefferies tube|crawlway]] leading to the matter-antimatter reaction chamber and attempt to manually shut off the flow of fuel with a magnetic probe. Scott installs explosives at the end of the service crawlway that will permit Spock to jettison the pod if Scott ruptures the magnetic bottle. Recalling Scott's earlier assertion that the ship felt wrong, Spock runs an analysis comparing the condition of the ''Enterprise'' with its ideal condition.
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When the woman reappears to kill Kirk, the landing party is able to use this information to defend him. Kirk questions her with McCoy and Sulu keeping her at a distance. She calls herself Losira, commander of the station. When Kirk asks how she feels about killing him, she says that the act of killing is wrong but that she must do so. She says that she is sent to defend the station, although the people who once lived on it are no more. Kirk presses her, sensing her confusion and loneliness, and she disappears again. Following their tricorder readings, the landing party eventually finds an underground door to the planet-station.
   
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Spock and Scotty devise a risky plan to save the ship &ndash; Scotty will enter the crawlway leading to the matter-antimatter reaction chamber and attempt to manually shut off the flow of fuel with a magnetic probe. Scotty installs explosives at the end of the service crawlway that will permit Spock to jettison the pod if Scotty ruptures the magnetic bottle. Recalling Scotty's assertion that the ship felt wrong, Spock runs an analysis comparing the condition of the ''Enterprise'' with its ideal condition. This analysis proves crucial, for Spock discovers that the ''Enterprise'' has been put through a molecular transporter and then reassembled slightly out of phase, which will require Scott to reverse the polarity on the magnetic probe in order to seal the incision. Scott attempts to do so as the final seconds tick down, but the mechanism on the probe jams. Scotty tells Spock to jettison him, but Spock gives him a few seconds more. Scotty is able to loosen the tool and, moments before the engines go critical, accomplishes the task.
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Spock's analysis proves crucial, for he has discovered that the ''Enterprise'' has been put through a molecular transporter and then reassembled slightly out of phase, which will require Scott to reverse the polarity on the magnetic probe in order to seal the incision. Scott attempts to do so as the final seconds tick down, but the mechanism on the probe becomes jammed. Scott insists multiple times to Spock that he jettison him, but Spock gives him a few seconds more. Scott is able to loosen the tool and, just moments before the engines go critical, accomplishes the task and the ''Enterprise'' finally begins to slow down to a safer cruising speed.
   
 
===Act Four===
  
===Act Four===
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[[File:Losira.jpg|thumb|A recorded image of the real Losira appears on a large video screen in the planet-station's central chamber.]]
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On the planet, the landing party enters a computer room, where they are confronted with three versions of the destructive woman, one programmed to kill each of them. The landing party seems to be out of options when Spock and a security officer beam into the room and destroy the computer. The women disappear and are replaced by a recorded image of Losira. In the recording, Losira welcomes her fellow [[Kalandan]]s to the colony. She explains that the population of the colony has been destroyed by a disease that they accidentally produced when they created the planet. Losira is the last survivor, and because she does not believe she will survive until help arrives, has set the station defense mechanism on automatic to defend against other life forms.
 
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On the planet, the landing party enters the planet-station's central chamber, where they find a large, glowing, white cube-shaped computer; and are confronted with three duplicates of Losira, each programmed to kill one of them. The landing party seems to be out of options when Spock and security officer [[Roger Lemli]] materialize in the room, and Lemli uses his phaser to put the computer out of action. The Losira duplicates disappear, and then a recorded image of the real Losira appears on a large video screen. In the recording, Losira welcomes her fellow [[Kalandan]]s to the colony, explaining that the population of the colony has been destroyed by a disease that they accidentally produced when they created the planet. Losira is the last survivor, and because she does not believe she will survive until help arrives, she has adjusted the station defense mechanism controls automatic to defend selectively against all [[lifeform]]s but their own.
   
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McCoy surmises that the entire species was destroyed by the disease, and that the image of Losira has been waiting thousands of years to deliver her message to a people who have become extinct. It is apparent to the landing party that the computer defense mechanism called upon the only image available, that of Losira, but the replication was too perfect and projected so much of her personality that it felt regret and guilt at killing. They agree that she was a remarkable and beautiful women. Spock says that beauty is transitory, but Kirk disagrees, saying "beauty survives".
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McCoy surmises that the colony's supply ships most likely spread the disease back to the Kalandans' home planets, that the entire Kalandan species was destroyed by the disease, and that the image of Losira has been waiting thousands of years to deliver her message to a people who have become extinct. It is apparent to the landing party that the computer defense mechanism called upon the only image available, that of Losira, but the replication was too perfect and projected so much of her personality that it felt regret and guilt at killing. They agree that she was a remarkable and beautiful woman. Spock says that beauty is transitory, but Kirk disagrees, saying, "''Beauty&hellip; survives.''"
   
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The ''Enterprise'' leaves the planet's orbit and heads off into space.
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==Memorable Quotes==
  
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"''A planet even Spock can't explain!''"
  
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: - '''Kirk'''
  
   
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==Memorable quotes==
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"''What is it, Jim?''"<br />
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"''A planet that even Spock can't explain.''"
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: - '''McCoy''' and '''Kirk''', on the Kalandan outpost
   
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"''I am for you, D'Amato.''"<br />
 
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"''Lucky D'Amato...''"
  
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: - '''Losira''' and '''D'Amato'''
  
   
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"''What happened?''"<br />
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"''The occipital area of my head seems to have impacted with the chair.''"<br />
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"''No, Mr. Spock. I meant what happened to us?''"<br />
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: - '''Uhura''' and '''Spock''', after the ''Enterprise'' is hurled away from the planet
   
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"''The occipital area of my head seems to have impacted with the arm of the [[chair]].''"
  
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: - '''Spock'''
  
   
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"''Mr. Sulu, if I'd wanted a Russian history lesson, I'd have brought along Mr. Chekov.''"
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: - '''Kirk''', after Sulu refers to the Tunguska Oblast of Siberia
   
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"''Mr. Sulu, if I had wanted a Russian history lesson I'd have brought along Mr. Chekov.''"
  
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: - '''Kirk'''
  
   
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"''Can you give me warp eight?''"<br />
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"''Aye, sir. And maybe a wee bit more. I'll sit on the warp engines myself and nurse them.''"
   
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"''&hellip; That position&hellip; Mister Scott&hellip; would not only be unavailing but also&hellip; undignified.''"
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"''I'll sit on the warp engines myself and nurse them.''"<br />
  
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: - '''Spock''' to '''Scott''', in a measured, very logically thought out response to Scott saying he will sit on the warp engines and nurse them
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"''That position, Mr. Scott, would be not only unavailing, but also... undignified.''"
  
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: - '''Scotty''' and '''Spock''', discussing the pros and cons of high-warp travel
  
   
   
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"''(The grave) looks so lonely there, ''"<br />
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"''I am only for D'Amato.''"<br />
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"''Lucky D'Amato.''"<br />
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"''It would be worse if he had company''"
  
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: - '''Sulu''' and '''McCoy'''
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: - '''Losira''' and '''D'Amato''', before she kills him
   
   
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"''What a terrible way to die.''"<br />
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"''Well, the pattern of cellular disruption was the same, but as to the cause, well, your guess is as good as mine.''"<br />
  
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"''There are no good ways, Sulu.''"
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"''My ''guess'', Doctor, would be ''valueless''. I suggest we refrain from guessing and find some facts. Spock out.''"
  
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: - '''Dr. M'Benga''' and '''Spock'''
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: - '''Sulu''' and '''Kirk''', after discovering D'Amato's body
   
   
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"''Mr. Spock, the ship feels wrong.''"
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"''We should reach maximum overload in about fifteen minutes.''"<br />
  
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: - '''Scott''', in the engineering room
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"''I would calculate 14.87 minutes, Mr. Scott.''" <br />
  
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"''Those few seconds will not make any difference, Mr. Spock, because you and I and the rest of the crew will no longer be here to bandy it back and forth. This thing is going to blow up, and there's nothing in the universe can stop it.''"
 
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: - '''Mr. Scott''' and '''Spock'''
  
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"''It looks so lonely there.''"<br />
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"''It would be worse if he had company.''"
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: - '''Sulu''' and '''McCoy''', at D'Amato's grave
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"''Mr. Scott, there's a strange woman who knows the entire plan of the ''Enterprise''!"''
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: - '''Watkins''', before Losira kills him
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"''Well, your guess is as good as mine.''"<br />
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"''My guess, Doctor, would be valueless.''"
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: - '''Joseph M'Benga''' and '''Spock''', on the cause of death for Watkins
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"''Stop or I'll shoot! I don't want to have to kill a woman!''"
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: - '''Sulu''', to Losira
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"''How can such people be, Captain? Such evil and she's so, so beautiful.''"
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: - '''Sulu''', as McCoy treats him
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"''Mr. Spock, what are the chances of the captain and the others being alive?''"<br />
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"''Lieutenant, we are not engaged in gambling.''"
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: - '''Uhura''' and '''Spock''', after the red alert is canceled
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"''This thing is going to blow up, and there's nothing in the universe can stop it.''"
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: - '''Scott''' to Spock, on the sabotage
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"''You'll be killed, man!''"<br />
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"''Unless a solution is found quickly, that fate awaits all of us.''"
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: - '''Scott''' and '''Spock''', on going into the crawlway
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"''I'm so close to the flow now it feels like ants crawling all over my body.''"
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: - '''Scott''', inside the crawlway
   
   
 
"''I know what time it is. I don't need a bloomin' cuckoo clock.''"
  
"''I know what time it is. I don't need a bloomin' cuckoo clock.''"
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: - '''Scotty'''
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: - '''Scott''', as Spock counts down
   
   
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"''You might at least say thank you.''"<br />
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"''I must touch you. I beg it. It is my existence. You are my match, James T. Kirk.''"
  
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"''For what purpose, Mr. Scott? What is it in you Humans &ndash;''"<br />
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: - '''Losira'''
  
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"''Never mind.''"
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: - '''Scott''' and '''Spock''', after Scott fixes the sabotage
   
   
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"''Beauty is transitory, Doctor.''"
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"''Mr. Scott; you have completed your task!''"<br />
  
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: - '''Spock''', on Losira
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"''You could at least say 'thank 'ye'.''"<br />
  
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"''For what purpose?''"
  
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: - '''Spock''' and '''Scotty'''
  
   
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==Background Information==
  
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* In the story outline, "Survival" ({{d|8|August|1968}}) the image of Losira was more brutal and caused crewmembers to fight amongst themselves in a manner that seems reminiscent of the ''Defiant''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew in {{e|The Tholian Web}}. Final draft script {{d|16|September|1968}}, filmed late September, early [[October 1968|October]].
  
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* In a change from the standard planet set that was re-used so often on the series, an entire new set was created that could be "rocked" during the planetary quake.
  
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* Although his name is mentioned after Sulu's attempted "Russian history lesson," the character of Chekov does not appear in this episode.
  
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* A new set was also constructed for the [[matter]]/[[anti-matter]] access crawl way.
  
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* This is the only example in TOS of people shown moving while in a transporter beam. In {{film|2}}, people are even able to talk while being transported.
  
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* Sulu refers to the [[Siberia|Tunguska Event]] in this episode. Although he suggests that the huge impact in [[Russia]] was a [[meteor]], many scientists believe it might have been a [[comet]] that exploded in the Earth's atmosphere in 1908.
  
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* The heat generated by at least one lower setting of a [[Type 2 phaser]] is established as 8,000 °C in this episode. Kirk notes the figure after his first unsuccessful attempt at "digging" a grave for [[D'Amato (Lieutenant)|D'Amato]]. He then adjusts the setting and makes a second attempt, without specifying what the temperature rating of the second, presumably higher, setting is.
 
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* It is also learned that a tricorder can be set on automatic distress. Many prop-conscious fans have called this particular example a "geological tricorder," given that it was carried by D'amato. It substitutes an intermittently glowing white panel for the usual tape discs, and a small tube for the moiré-patterned right-hand disc. [[Franz Joseph]] combined elements of both varieties to depict a "medical tricorder" in the ''[[Star Fleet Technical Manual]]''.
  
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* [[Booker Bradshaw]] reprises his role as Dr. [[M'Benga]] in this episode.
 
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* This is the second time ''Enterprise'' crewmembers create a resting place for a fallen comrade; it had happened before in the first season's {{e|The Galileo Seven}}, where crewmembers [[Latimer]] and [[Gaetano]] were buried. Fabricated headstones were used for the Starnes expedition in {{e|And the Children Shall Lead}}.
  
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* Lt. [[Rahda]] is unique in several ways: she is the only woman in TOS to be at the helm for an entire episode (Yeoman [[Janice Rand|Rand]] had "filled in" in {{e|The Naked Time}}). Ensign [[Jana Haines]] had been a female navigator in {{e|The Gamesters of Triskelion}} and Uhura had taken over navigation in {{e|The Naked Time}}, {{e|Balance of Terror}}, and {{e|Court Martial}}. Rahda is also the only [[India]]n woman to appear in the series. [[Captain]] [[Chandra (Captain)|Chandra]] and [[Lieutenant|Lt.]] [[Singh (Lieutenant)|Singh]] were two males of Indian descent in previous episodes.
  
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* The bypass valve room that Watkins enters consists of re-used pieces of the ''Yonada'' control room from {{e|For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky}}. The control panel was re-used from the Vians torture chamber in {{e|The Empath}}.
  
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* In this episode, Sulu mentions the [[Horta]]s of [[Janus VI]] from {{e|The Devil in the Dark}}.
  
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* The fact that the bridge was a "wild" set, with stations that could be pulled out for filming, is especially apparent in this episode (Acts 1, 3 and 4). When Spock is notified of Ensign Wyatt's death, you can plainly see the forward edge of his science station, and Spock's hand over the edge. The bridge stations flow in a circle &ndash; broken only by the turbolift and the screen; there are two large stations and one small one forward from the science station.
  
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* The shot of Scotty manipulating the magnetic probe in the access crawl way is one of only three shots in the original series clearly showing the missing middle finger on [[James Doohan]]'s right hand. He lost the finger after being shot in the hand, leg, and chest on D-Day during the the Allied invasion of Normandy as a member of the Royal Canadian Artillery. Ordinarily, Doohan's right hand was kept out of the shot or held in such a way as not to show this injury, even to the extent of using shots of other actor's hands when Scotty was manipulating the transporter. The other three original series episodes in which this is visible are {{e|The Trouble with Tribbles}}, {{e|Catspaw}} and {{e|The Enterprise Incident}}. It is also visible in TNG episode {{e|Relics}}, and in the film {{film|5}}
  
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* The device McCoy uses to control the brainless Spock in {{e|Spock's Brain}} is reused in this episode; Mr. Spock is seen using it, perhaps to determine the time left until the Enterprise explodes. It appears to be a reworked and repainted communicator with no antenna from {{e|The Cage}}.
  
   
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"''Beauty survives.''"
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===Production Timeline===
  
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: - '''Kirk''', to Spock
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* Series proposal, "[[Star Trek is...]]": {{d|11|March|1964}} - Mentions similar story idea "The Radiant One"
  
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* Story outline by [[D.C. Fontana]], {{d|8|March|1968}}
  
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==Background information==
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===Production timeline===
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* Series proposal, "[[Star Trek is...]]": {{d|11|March|1964}} &ndash; Mentions similar story idea "The Radiant One"
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* Story outline by [[D.C. Fontana]], titled "Survival", {{d|8|March|1968}}
 
* Revised story outline {{d|12|April|1968}}
  
* Revised story outline {{d|12|April|1968}}
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* Story outline, {{d|8|August|1968}}
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* Second revised story outline, {{d|8|August|1968}}
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* Revised teleplay, {{d|13|September|1968}}
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* First draft teleplay by [[John Meredyth Lucas]], titled "That Which Survives", {{d|8|September|1968}}
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* Final draft teleplay, {{d|16|September|1968}}
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* Second draft teleplay, {{d|13|September|1968}}
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* Final draft teleplay by [[Arthur Singer]], {{d|20|September|1968}}
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* Filmed in late [[September 1968]] and early [[October 1968]]
  
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* Additional page revisions by Singer, {{d|23|September|1968}}
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* Revised final draft teleplay by [[Fred Freiberger]], {{d|24|September|1968}}
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* Additional page revisions by Freiberger, {{d|25|September|1968}}
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* Filmed: {{d|26|September|1968}} &ndash; {{d|3|October|1968}}
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** Day 1 &ndash; {{d|26|September|1968}}, Thursday &ndash; [[Desilu Stage 9]]: Int. [[Bridge]]
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** Day 2 &ndash; {{d|27|September|1968}}, Friday &ndash; [[Desilu Stage 9]]: Int. [[Bridge]], [[Sickbay|McCoy's office]], [[Engineering]]
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** Day 3 &ndash; {{d|30|September|1968}}, Monday &ndash; [[Desilu Stage 10]]: Ext. [[Kalandan outpost|Planet surface]]
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** Day 4 &ndash; {{d|1|October|1968}}, Tuesday &ndash; [[Desilu Stage 10]]: Ext. [[Kalandan outpost|Planet surface]]
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** Day 5 &ndash; {{d|2|October|1968}}, Wednesday &ndash; [[Desilu Stage 9]]: Int. [[Jefferies tube]]; [[Desilu Stage 10]]: Ext. [[Kalandan outpost|Planet surface]]
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** Day 6 &ndash; {{d|3|October|1968}}, Thursday &ndash; [[Desilu Stage 10]]: Ext. [[Kalandan outpost|Planet surface]]; [[Desilu Stage 9]]: Int. [[Transporter room]], Int. [[Kalandan outpost|Underground chamber]]
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* Original airdate: {{d|24|January|1969}}
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* Rerun airdate: {{d|29|July|1969}}
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* First UK airdate (on [[BBC|BBC1]]): {{d|3|November|1971}}
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* First UK airdate (on [[ITV]]): {{d|15|July|1984}}
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* Remastered episode airdate: {{d|15|March|2008}}
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* In the story outline, "Survival" ({{d|8|August|1968}}) the image of Losira was more brutal and caused crewmembers to fight among themselves in a manner that seems reminiscent of the ''Defiant''{{'}}s crew in {{e|The Tholian Web}}. Final draft script {{d|16|September|1968}}, filmed late September, early [[October 1968|October]].
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* This is the last episode of TOS in which ''Enterprise'' crewmembers (Wyatt, D'Amato and Watkins) are shown to die.
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* This is the last episode of TOS to have an unknown stardate.
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* [[D.C. Fontana]] was so frustrated with how her story premise had been altered that she removed her name from the script and used her "Michael Richards" pen name as the byline for its story instead.
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[[File:Kalandan quake.jpg|thumb|The "rocker plate" in effect]]
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* In addition to the standard planet set, [[Matt Jefferies]] designed a "rocker plate" set within the set that gave the illusion of a "real" quake. Evidence of this new "rocker stage" can be seen by the movement of the individual "plates" on the stage, followed by sequence of the landing party stepping off it onto the main stage and resting on their hands and knees. Jefferies' original sketches depicting its design are found in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook]]'' (p. 30).
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* The bypass valve room that Watkins enters consists of re-used pieces of the ''Yonada'' control room from {{e|For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky}}. The control panel was re-used from the Vians torture chamber in {{e|The Empath}}.
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[[File:MARA access tube.jpg|thumb|New access tube set]]
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* A new [[access tube]] was created to show where the [[matter-antimatter reaction chamber]] was. Designed by Matt Jefferies, it had sliding doors accessing the crawlway. Jefferies' original sketches depicting its design are found in the ''Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook'' (p. 30).
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* Spock's [[calculation device]] was reused from the [[remote control]] prop created for {{e|Spock's Brain}}.
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[[File:Kalandan outpost's central chamber.jpg|thumb|The central chamber]]
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* The central chamber which housed the [[outpost]]'s [[central brain]] was created especially for this episode. Designed by Jefferies, whose original sketches are again published in the ''Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook'' (p. 30), the central chamber contained a "frosted 2<sup>D</sup> cube &ndash; rotating lights inside."
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* The center section of D'Amato's tricorder differs substantially from the standard Starfleet model. Instead of tape discs and a moiré pattern, it features an intermittently glowing white panel and what appears to be a tubular sensor. In deference to D'Amato's specialty, some prop-conscious fans have dubbed this a "geological tricorder." [[Franz Joseph]] combined elements of both models to produce a "medical tricorder" in the ''[[Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual]]''.
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* Former {{w|Miss America}} [[Lee Meriwether]] went on to co-star with {{w|Buddy Ebsen}} ({{wt|The Beverly Hillbillies}}) in the '70s television series {{wt|Barnaby Jones}}. (''[[Star Trek 30 Years]]'') Previously, she was a regular on {{w|Irwin Allen}}'s short-lived science fiction series ''The Time Tunnel'', along with [[James Darren]] and [[Whit Bissell]].
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* [[Booker Bradshaw]] reprises his role as [[Doctor]] [[Joseph M'Benga]] in this episode. He appeared previously in {{e|A Private Little War}}.
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* [[Walter Koenig]] ([[Pavel Chekov|Chekov]]) does not appear in this episode, although Kirk mentions him.
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===Continuity===
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* This is the second time ''Enterprise'' crewmembers create a resting place for a fallen comrade; it had happened before in the first season's {{e|The Galileo Seven}}, where crewmembers [[Latimer]] and [[Gaetano]] were buried. [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]] buries Captain Kirk in a similar way on [[Veridian III]] in {{film|7}}.
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* Sulu mentions the [[Horta]]s of [[Janus VI]] from {{e|The Devil in the Dark}}, one of the few examples in the series of a past episode being referenced. Interestingly, Sulu did not appear in that episode.
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* This episode is one of only a handful of TOS episodes to not contain any form of [[log entry]].
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===Remastered information===
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"That Which Survives" was the sixty-first episode of the remastered version of ''The Original Series'' to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of {{d|15|March|2008}} and aside from the standard [[CGI]] replacement footage of the ''Enterprise'', including one of the ship undergoing [[molecular transporter|molecular transport]], this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the [[Kalandan outpost]].
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File:Kalandan outpost.jpg|The original Kalandan outpost&hellip;
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File:Kalandan outpost, remastered.jpg|&hellip;and its remastered counterpart.
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File:USS Enterprise hurled through space.jpg|The ''Enterprise'' undergoing molecular transport.
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:''The next remastered episode to air was {{e|Is There in Truth No Beauty?}}.''
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===Apocrypha===
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This episode was used as the background for the ''[[Star Trek: Gateways]]'' novel ''{{dis|One Small Step|novel}}'', by [[Susan Wright]], which elaborates extensively on the story. The mysteries of this episode were used to help tie in the original series with the rest of the ''Gateways'' books.
   
 
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* [[Star Trek VHS releases in the UK|UK VHS release]] (two-episode tapes, [[CIC Video]]): [[TOS Season 3 UK VHS|Volume 36]], catalog number VHR 2432, {{d|7|January|1991}}
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* UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.5, {{d|24|November|1997}}
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* Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 35, {{d|23|October|2001}}
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===Starring===
  
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* [[Lee Meriwether]] as [[Losira]]
  
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** [[Sanchez]]
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[[access tube]]; [[android]]; [[ant]]; [[antimatter]]; [[artificial planet]]; [[atmosphere]]; [[atmospheric analysis]]; [[aurora borealis]]; [[autopsy]]; [[bypass valve]]; [[cell (biology)|cell]]; [[cellular disruption]]; [[centigrade]]; [[Pavel Chekov|Chekov, Pavel]]; [[chromosome]]; [[chronometer]]; [[cuckoo clock]]; [[diburnium]]; [[disease organism]]; [[Earth]]; [[earthquake]]; [[emergency bypass control]]; [[emergency overload bypass]]; [[Engineer, Grade 4 ]]; [[explosive separator charge]]; [[Fifth Interstellar Geophysical Conference]]; [[gambling]]; [[geologist]]; [[ghost]]; [[Horta]]; [[igneous rock]]; [[Janus VI]]; [[Kalandan]]; [[Kalandan outpost]]; [[Kalandan supply ship]]; [[Luna]]; [[M-7 factor]]; [[magnetic field]]; [[magnetic force indicator]]; [[magnetic probe]]; [[magnetic sweep]]; [[matter]]; [[matter-antimatter engine]]; [[matter-antimatter integrator]]; [[matter-antimatter integrator control]]; [[matter-antimatter reaction chamber]]; [[meteor]]; [[millimeter]]; [[molecular transporter]]; [[occipital area]]; [[osmium]]; [[parasite]]; [[phaser]]; [[phaser bank]]; [[pod jettison system]]; [[radiation]]; [[rain]]; [[Russia]]; [[sabotage]]; [[security alert]]; [[sensor probe]]; [[service crawlway]]; [[Siberia]]; [[solar hour]]; [[star]]; [[Starfleet]]; [[subspace report]]; [[supernatural]]; [[supernova]]; [[topsoil]]; [[top warp speed]]; [[transporter chief]]; [[transporter officer]]; [[vegetation]]; [[virus]]; [[warp engine]]; [[water]]
  
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[[1st millennium BC]]; [[acceleration]]; [[access panel]]; [[access plate]]; [[access tube]]; "[[Idiom|all right]]"; [[alloy]]; [[analysis]]; [[android]]; [[answer]]; [[ant]]; [[antimatter]]; [[apparent age]]; [[artificial planet]]; [[assistant]]; [[assumption]]; [[atmosphere]] (aka [[air]]); [[atmospheric analysis]]; [[aurora borealis]]; [[automatic distress]]; [[autopsy]]; [[autopsy report]]; [[beam-down coordinates]]; [[beauty]]; [[body]]; "[[Bones]]"; [[brain]]; [[bruise]]; {{dis|button|electronics}}; [[bypass valve]]; [[casualty]]; [[category]]; [[cause of death]]; {{dis|cell|biology}}; [[cellular disruption]]; [[centigrade]]; [[central brain]]; [[chance]]; [[chair]]; {{revname|Pavel|Chekov}}; [[chromosome]]; [[chronometer]]; {{dis|circle|shape}}; [[circuit]]; [[civilization]]; [[commanding officer|commander]]; [[communicator]]; [[comparison analysis]]; [[comparison coordinates]]; [[computer]]; [[computer study]]; [[conference]]; [[conclusion]]; [[contact]]; [[course]]; "[[Idiom|course of action]]"; [[crawlway]]; [[crawlway door]]; [[cuckoo clock]]; [[culture]]; [[custody]]; [[cut-off switch]]; [[damage control report]]; [[dance]]; [[danger]]; [[death]]; [[debris]]; [[deck]]; {{dis|degree|temperature}}; [[diburnium]]; [[digging]]; [[disease]]; [[disease organism]]; [[distance]]; [[door]]; [[dream]]; [[Earth]]; [[earthquake]]; [[emergency bypass control]]; [[emergency overload bypass]]; [[emotion]] (aka [[emotionalism]]); [[energy]]; [[energy stream]]; [[engineer]]; [[entrance]]; [[estimated time of arrival]]; [[evidence]]; [[evil]]; [[evolution]]; [[existence]]; [[expedition]]; [[explanation]]; [[explosion]]; [[explosive separator charge]]; [[eye]]; [[fact]]; [[fate]]; [[Fifth Interstellar Geophysical Conference]]; [[food]]; [[forest]]; [[friend]]; [[fuel]]; [[gambling]]; [[geologist]]; [[ghost]]; [[ghost planet]]; [[grave]]; [[guilt]]; [[hand]]; [[harm]]; [[head]]; [[helmsman]]; [[history lesson]]; [[home]]; [[Horta]]; [[Human]]; [[ideal condition]]; [[igneous rock]]; [[image]]; "[[Idiom|in a flash]]"; "[[Idiom|in fact]]"; "[[Idiom|in that case]]"; "[[Idiom|in time]]"; [[incision]]; [[information]]; [[intruder]]; [[invader]]; [[investigation]]; [[invitation]]; [[Janus VI]]; [[job]]; [[joke]]; [[Kalandan]]; [[Kalandan homeworld]]; [[Kalandan outpost]]; [[Kalandan supply ship]]; [[life]] (aka [[lifeform]]); [[light year]]; [[logic]]; [[luck]]; [[Luna]]; [[malfunction]]; [[magnetic bottle]]; [[magnetic field]]; [[magnetic flow]] (aka [[fuel flow]]); [[magnetic force]]; [[magnetic force indicator]]; [[magnetic probe]]; [[magnetic sweep]]; {{dis|mass|physics}}; [[matter]]; [[matter-antimatter engine]]; [[matter-antimatter integrator]]; [[matter-antimatter integrator control]]; [[matter-antimatter reaction chamber]]; [[matter-antimatter reactor]]; [[maximum overload]]; [[medical assistance]]; [[melting point]]; [[memorial]]; [[meteor]]; [[millimeter]]; [[Milky Way Galaxy]]; [[minute]]; [[mission]]; [[molecular transporter]]; [[moisture]]; [[murder]]; [[name]]; [[necrosis]]; [[necrotic tissue]]; "[[Idiom|never mind]]"; [[nurse maid|nurse]]; [[occipital bone]]; "[[Idiom|one by one]]"; [[opportunity]]; [[order]]; [[organism]]; [[osmium]]; [[outphase condition]]; [[overload]]; [[overheating]]; [[painting]]; [[parasite]]; [[person]]; [[phaser]]; [[phaser bank]]; [[phenomenon]]; [[physician]]; [[planet]]; [[plant]]; [[period of time]] (aka [[space of time]]); [[personality]]; [[place]]; [[pod jettison system]]; [[poison]]; [[polarity]]; {{dis|power|physics}}; [[power level]]; [[power reduction]]; [[power surge]]; [[present condition]]; [[problem]]; [[question]]; [[radiation]]; [[rain]]; [[readout]]; [[red]]; [[red alert]]; [[regret]]; [[replica]]; [[report]]; [[representative]]; [[result]]; [[rock]]; [[Russian]]; [[sabotage]]; [[safety control]]; [[Scots language]]; [[search]]; [[second]]; [[security alert]]; [[security sweep]] (aka [[security search]]); [[seismic disturbance]] (aka [[geological disturbance]]); [[seismic force]]; [[seismic stress]]; [[sensor probe]]; [[service crawlway]]; [[sharing]]; [[shoulder]]; [[Siberia]]; [[silicon creature]]; [[size]]; [[solar hour]]; [[space]]; [[speculation]]; [[speed]]; [[star]]; [[star pattern]]; [[Starfleet]]; [[static electric charge]]; [[station]]; [[subspace report]]; [[supernatural]]; [[supernova]]; [[survey party]]; {{dis|survival|concept}}; [[theory]]; [[thousand]]; [[tissue]]; [[tomb]]; [[tool]]; [[topsoil]]; [[top warp speed]]; [[transporter]]; [[transporter chief]]; [[transporter factor M7]] (aka [[M7 factor]]); [[transporter malfunction]]; [[transporter officer]]; [[transporter room]]; [[tricorder]]; [[top warp speed]]; [[Tunguska]]; [[unconsciousness]]; [[vegetation]]; [[virus]]; [[underground water]]; [[universe]]; [[warp drive pod]]; [[warp engine]]; {{dis|watch|military}}; [[water]]; "[[wee]]"; "[[Idiom|what the devil]]"; [[word]]; [[wound]]; [[year]]
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Latest revision as of 21:24, 23 November 2023

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That Which Survives redirects here; for the unseen namesake prop book, please see That Which Survives (production art).

Enterprise crew members are stranded on a ghost planet and terrorized by the image of a beautiful woman.

Summary

Teaser

The USS Enterprise investigates a planet whose size is approximately that of Earth's moon, yet mass and atmosphere are similar to Earth. Stranger yet is that it is apparently only a few thousand years old. Its geological age is much less than the indigenous vegetation and atmospheric content would indicate. Captain Kirk is intrigued by the unexplainable planet and organizes a landing party consisting of himself, Doctor McCoy, helmsman Sulu, and senior geologist D'Amato. But as the landing party steps onto the transporter platform and starts to transport down to the surface of the planet, a mysterious woman dressed in a purple Arabian-style outfit suddenly appears as if from nowhere, telling them all that they must not go. She then touches the transporter operator, an Ensign Wyatt, who instantly crumples to the deck as the dematerializing landing party watches helplessly. She is too late to prevent the beam down, and moments later the four men materialize on the planet's surface. Once on the planet, Kirk attempts to contact the Enterprise with his communicator to report the attack, but before he can do so, a powerful tremor rocks the planet. At the same instant the Enterprise is tossed about in some sort of turbulence. Both disruptions subside simultaneously, and the crew of the Enterprise quickly discovers that the planet is no longer on the viewscreen.

On the planet D'Amato's tricorder reads an energy burst of almost immeasurable power. When Kirk is unable to raise the Enterprise on his communicator, Sulu discovers that the Enterprise is missing from orbit, effectively stranding the landing party on the planet.

Act One

The landing party is at a loss to explain the Enterprise's sudden disappearance. Sulu conjectures that the Enterprise must have blown up, citing high radiation readings as evidence of a matter/antimatter intermix explosion. Kirk quickly dismisses Sulu's theory due to a lack of residual radiation. McCoy then suggests that the Enterprise may have crashed onto the planet itself. Neither of these theories fits the facts. Recognizing, that regardless of the Enterprise's fate, the landing party will soon need food and water, Kirk orders a detailed analysis of the planet's resources. But the report of that analysis is not encouraging, as all plant vegetation on the planet is poisonous to Humans, there is no evidence of rainfall or surface water, and the only other form of life is a virus-like plant parasite. During the survey, Sulu makes a sweep with his tricorder and registers a sudden magnetic reading that quickly dissipates, like a door opening and then closing again. McCoy also detects a powerful lifeform reading that appears and then disappears. These fluctuations occur as the same woman who appeared in the transporter room of the Enterprise confronts D'Amato, killing him with her touch. McCoy reports that all the cells of D'Amato's body have been disrupted from the inside. Kirk attempts to use his phaser to blast a hole in the ground as a grave for D'Amato, but the surface of the planet withstands its firepower. Further investigation reveals that the planet is an artificial body.

McCoy and Sulu

McCoy and Sulu look upon D'Amato's grave on the planet

In the meantime, the crew of the Enterprise attempts to discern what had happened. Scott reports no damage to the ship's engines. Uhura reports that the ship is functioning normally and there are nothing more than bumps and bruises as a result of the turbulence, save one casualty: transporter officer Wyatt has been found dead. Dr. M'Benga reports that they are not yet sure of the cause of death, as Dr. Sanchez is in the middle of Wyatt's autopsy. Spock orders Scott to have the transporter checked for malfunctions. Helm officer Lieutenant Rahda notes that there is no debris, which would have been left over from a planet breakup. She then reports that the position of the stars have changed. She verifies her findings by replaying a recording of the stars made just prior to the turbulence on the viewscreen. Spock is able to interpolate that, in a manner of seconds, the Enterprise has somehow been thrown 990.7 light years from its previous position. The preliminary autopsy on the transporter officer comes in and the causes of death appears to be cellular disruption, as if every cell in the body had been blasted from inside. Spock orders that the Enterprise return to the planet at top warp speed, which turns out to be warp factor 8.

USS Enterprise hurled through space

The Enterprise thrown 990.7 light years

Act Two

Although the ship did not appear to suffer any damage, chief engineer Montgomery Scott is disquieted, and reports that the ship feels "wrong." Spock initially dismisses this as emotional. Still concerned, Scotty instructs crewman Watkins to check the bypass valve on the matter-antimatter reaction chamber to ensure that it is not overheating. While Watkins is doing this, the woman appears in the control room and inquires about the engine mechanisms. She then kills him in the same manner as the others. Before Watkins dies, he cries out a warning about the intruder to Scott, but she disappears before Scott can see her.

Back on the planet, unable to 'dig' a grave for D'Amato, the landing party have created a last resting place for the geologist on the surface using large rocks — as well a grave marker reading D'AMATO.

Sulu volunteers to keep watch while Kirk and McCoy sleep. But while the captain and the doctor are sleeping, the woman appears to Sulu. As the woman advances, Sulu pulls his phaser and warns her to keep back or he'll fire, saying he doesn't want to shoot a woman, but she ignores the warning. Sulu fires, but the phaser has no effect on the woman. Although the woman is able to briefly touch Sulu, disrupting all the cells his shoulder, she fails to kill him. Sulu yells out for help, and Kirk and McCoy run to his rescue. Sulu cries out not to let her touch them since that was how D'Amato had died. The woman insists that she is for Sulu, and that she must touch him. When she touches Kirk on his shoulder, however, nothing happens. Kirk asks how she can destroy others and she explains that she does not want to destroy. She then disappears. The landing party surmises that the woman's destructive power can only be directed at one specific person at a time.

Act Three

Aboard the Enterprise, which is warping back to the planet, the warp engines begin to race out of control. Scott discovers that the emergency overload bypass of the matter-antimatter integrator has been fused, although it would have taken all the power of the ship's phasers to do so. It becomes apparent that the woman is responsible for this sabotage. With this damage, the Enterprise has less than fifteen minutes before its engines will explode.

Spock and Scott devise a risky plan to save the ship – Scott will enter the crawlway leading to the matter-antimatter reaction chamber and attempt to manually shut off the flow of fuel with a magnetic probe. Scott installs explosives at the end of the service crawlway that will permit Spock to jettison the pod if Scott ruptures the magnetic bottle. Recalling Scott's earlier assertion that the ship felt wrong, Spock runs an analysis comparing the condition of the Enterprise with its ideal condition.

When the woman reappears to kill Kirk, the landing party is able to use this information to defend him. Kirk questions her with McCoy and Sulu keeping her at a distance. She calls herself Losira, commander of the station. When Kirk asks how she feels about killing him, she says that the act of killing is wrong but that she must do so. She says that she is sent to defend the station, although the people who once lived on it are no more. Kirk presses her, sensing her confusion and loneliness, and she disappears again. Following their tricorder readings, the landing party eventually finds an underground door to the planet-station.

Spock's analysis proves crucial, for he has discovered that the Enterprise has been put through a molecular transporter and then reassembled slightly out of phase, which will require Scott to reverse the polarity on the magnetic probe in order to seal the incision. Scott attempts to do so as the final seconds tick down, but the mechanism on the probe becomes jammed. Scott insists multiple times to Spock that he jettison him, but Spock gives him a few seconds more. Scott is able to loosen the tool and, just moments before the engines go critical, accomplishes the task and the Enterprise finally begins to slow down to a safer cruising speed.

Act Four

Losira

A recorded image of the real Losira appears on a large video screen in the planet-station's central chamber.

On the planet, the landing party enters the planet-station's central chamber, where they find a large, glowing, white cube-shaped computer; and are confronted with three duplicates of Losira, each programmed to kill one of them. The landing party seems to be out of options when Spock and security officer Roger Lemli materialize in the room, and Lemli uses his phaser to put the computer out of action. The Losira duplicates disappear, and then a recorded image of the real Losira appears on a large video screen. In the recording, Losira welcomes her fellow Kalandans to the colony, explaining that the population of the colony has been destroyed by a disease that they accidentally produced when they created the planet. Losira is the last survivor, and because she does not believe she will survive until help arrives, she has adjusted the station defense mechanism controls automatic to defend selectively against all lifeforms but their own.

McCoy surmises that the colony's supply ships most likely spread the disease back to the Kalandans' home planets, that the entire Kalandan species was destroyed by the disease, and that the image of Losira has been waiting thousands of years to deliver her message to a people who have become extinct. It is apparent to the landing party that the computer defense mechanism called upon the only image available, that of Losira, but the replication was too perfect and projected so much of her personality that it felt regret and guilt at killing. They agree that she was a remarkable and beautiful woman. Spock says that beauty is transitory, but Kirk disagrees, saying, "Beauty… survives."

The Enterprise leaves the planet's orbit and heads off into space.

Memorable quotes

"What is it, Jim?"
"A planet that even Spock can't explain."

- McCoy and Kirk, on the Kalandan outpost


"What happened?"
"The occipital area of my head seems to have impacted with the chair."
"No, Mr. Spock. I meant what happened to us?"

- Uhura and Spock, after the Enterprise is hurled away from the planet


"Mr. Sulu, if I'd wanted a Russian history lesson, I'd have brought along Mr. Chekov."

- Kirk, after Sulu refers to the Tunguska Oblast of Siberia


"Can you give me warp eight?"
"Aye, sir. And maybe a wee bit more. I'll sit on the warp engines myself and nurse them."

"… That position… Mister Scott… would not only be unavailing but also… undignified."

- Spock to Scott, in a measured, very logically thought out response to Scott saying he will sit on the warp engines and nurse them


"I am only for D'Amato."
"Lucky D'Amato."

- Losira and D'Amato, before she kills him


"What a terrible way to die."
"There are no good ways, Sulu."

- Sulu and Kirk, after discovering D'Amato's body


"Mr. Spock, the ship feels wrong."

- Scott, in the engineering room


"It looks so lonely there."
"It would be worse if he had company."

- Sulu and McCoy, at D'Amato's grave


"Mr. Scott, there's a strange woman who knows the entire plan of the Enterprise!"

- Watkins, before Losira kills him


"Well, your guess is as good as mine."
"My guess, Doctor, would be valueless."

- Joseph M'Benga and Spock, on the cause of death for Watkins


"Stop or I'll shoot! I don't want to have to kill a woman!"

- Sulu, to Losira


"How can such people be, Captain? Such evil and she's so, so beautiful."

- Sulu, as McCoy treats him


"Mr. Spock, what are the chances of the captain and the others being alive?"
"Lieutenant, we are not engaged in gambling."

- Uhura and Spock, after the red alert is canceled


"This thing is going to blow up, and there's nothing in the universe can stop it."

- Scott to Spock, on the sabotage


"You'll be killed, man!"
"Unless a solution is found quickly, that fate awaits all of us."

- Scott and Spock, on going into the crawlway


"I'm so close to the flow now it feels like ants crawling all over my body."

- Scott, inside the crawlway


"I know what time it is. I don't need a bloomin' cuckoo clock."

- Scott, as Spock counts down


"You might at least say thank you."
"For what purpose, Mr. Scott? What is it in you Humans –"
"Never mind."

- Scott and Spock, after Scott fixes the sabotage


"Beauty is transitory, Doctor."

- Spock, on Losira


"Beauty survives."

- Kirk, to Spock

Background information

Production timeline

Story and production

  • In the story outline, "Survival" (8 August 1968) the image of Losira was more brutal and caused crewmembers to fight among themselves in a manner that seems reminiscent of the Defiant's crew in "The Tholian Web". Final draft script 16 September 1968, filmed late September, early October.
  • This is the last episode of TOS in which Enterprise crewmembers (Wyatt, D'Amato and Watkins) are shown to die.
  • This is the last episode of TOS to have an unknown stardate.
  • D.C. Fontana was so frustrated with how her story premise had been altered that she removed her name from the script and used her "Michael Richards" pen name as the byline for its story instead.

Sets and props

Kalandan quake

The "rocker plate" in effect

  • In addition to the standard planet set, Matt Jefferies designed a "rocker plate" set within the set that gave the illusion of a "real" quake. Evidence of this new "rocker stage" can be seen by the movement of the individual "plates" on the stage, followed by sequence of the landing party stepping off it onto the main stage and resting on their hands and knees. Jefferies' original sketches depicting its design are found in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 30).
MARA access tube

New access tube set

  • A new access tube was created to show where the matter-antimatter reaction chamber was. Designed by Matt Jefferies, it had sliding doors accessing the crawlway. Jefferies' original sketches depicting its design are found in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 30).
Kalandan outpost's central chamber

The central chamber

  • The central chamber which housed the outpost's central brain was created especially for this episode. Designed by Jefferies, whose original sketches are again published in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 30), the central chamber contained a "frosted 2D cube – rotating lights inside."
  • The center section of D'Amato's tricorder differs substantially from the standard Starfleet model. Instead of tape discs and a moiré pattern, it features an intermittently glowing white panel and what appears to be a tubular sensor. In deference to D'Amato's specialty, some prop-conscious fans have dubbed this a "geological tricorder." Franz Joseph combined elements of both models to produce a "medical tricorder" in the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual.

Cast

Continuity

Remastered information

"That Which Survives" was the sixty-first episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of 15 March 2008 and aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, including one of the ship undergoing molecular transport, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the Kalandan outpost.

The next remastered episode to air was "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".

Apocrypha

This episode was used as the background for the Star Trek: Gateways novel One Small Step, by Susan Wright, which elaborates extensively on the story. The mysteries of this episode were used to help tie in the original series with the rest of the Gateways books.

Video and DVD releases

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