you're in contact with the unit spock. stop! stop! acknowledged. spock. spock! fascinating, captain. the knowledge. the depth. what does it mean-- "we are nomad"? it was, um... it was--it was damaged in deep space. undoubtedly, the meteor collision. its memory banks were destroyed, the other was an alien probe of great power. somehow they...merged, repaired each other, became one. then it isn't nomad? not the nomad we lost from earth. er a new directive to replace its own. the other was originally programmed to secure and sterilize soil samples from other planets... probably as a prelude to colonization. a changeling. i beg your pardon? an ancient earth legend, mr. spock. a changeling was a fairy chilil that was left in place of a human baby. the changeling assumed the identity of the human child. so... it is to sterilize, the power and the sosoistication to do it. yes, it's powerful, it's sophisticated, but it's not infallible. it's...space-happy. it thinks i'm its... mother. and that is the only thing that has saved us until now. yes. notify the captain. what a

the united federation of planets! a special representative! get in line. spock! please, mr. fox. ladies and gentlemen, please move quickly away from the chamber, or you may be injured. [beeping] what are you doing, mr. spock? i'll take you to a place of comparative safety. then i must find the captain. they have him. the guards told us. they took him to the council room under heavy guard. by now, mr. ambassador, i'm sure you realize that normal diplomatic procedures are ineffective here. i've never been a soldier, mr. spock, but i learn very quickly. very well, sir. we need all the help we can get. anan 7: captain, surely you can see the position we are in. if your people do not report to our disintegration chambers, it is a violation of an agreement that dates back 500 years. my people are not responsible for your agreements. you will be responsible millions of people horribly killed, complete destruction of our culture here-- yes, and the culture on vendikar-- disaster, disease, starvation, horrible, lingering death, pain and anguish! that seems to frighten you. it would frighte

the murderers... have won. death is welcome. let it end... here. mr. spock... spock... spock... come out of it. i found the unit in there. it's in pretty good shape. i also found about a million of these... silicon nodules. they're eggs, aren't they? yes, captain, eggs... and about to hatch. miners must have broken into the hatchery. their operations destroyed thousands. no wonder. there. they're coming. all right! all right, let's go! come on. how are you doing, doc? i'll let you know. no, don't fire. kill it! first man that fires is dead. that thing has killed 50 of my men. you've killed thousands of her children. what? those round silicon nodules you've been collecting and destroying? they're her eggs. tell them, mr. spock. there have been many generations of horta on this planet. every 50,000 years, the entire race dies, all but one, like this one, but the eggs live. she cares for them... protects them. and when they hatch, she is the mother to them, thousands of them. this creature here is the mother of her race. the horta is intelligent... peaceful... mild. she had no objection to sharing this planet with you, till

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the accident. mr. singh. comemeere a moment. this unit will see to your needs. sir? i'll be back in a moment. gentntmen, come with me. you're on to something, spock. i've correlated all the available informatioio on the nomad probe, and i'm convinced that this object is indeed that probe. earth science couldn't begin to build anything with those capabilities that long ago. true. nomad was destroyed. presumed destroyed by a meteor collision. i submit that it w w badly damaged and somehow managed to repair itself. i heard some lectures at the academy on the nomad probe. its mission was essentially peaceful. did i disturb you? did you u sh anything? bridge to auxiliary control room. check in, please. lieutenant singh here. all systems are normal except warp power indicators. mr. scott's engineers are working on them now. anything else? one moment, lieutenant. holding. [humming] [uhura humming] ? where my heart is ? where my heart is, where ? ? somewhere ? beyond the stars ? beyond antares this is the creator of nomad, perhaps the most brilliant, though erratic scientist of his time. inde his dream was to build a perfect thinking machine, pendent logic

units. [crash] no good, mr. spock. we didn't even faze it. we're still locked tight. cut power, mr. sulu. lieutenant, we must restore communications with the landing party. well, i'm working, sir, but i can't do anything with this. oh? well, i might be able to rig up a subspace bypass circuit. located the landing party, sir, but one of them seems separated from the other four. and apollo? i've just picked up readings for our own people, sir. mr. spock, here's something. there seems to be a radiated energy pulsation coming from the planet. i don't know what it is, sir. origin? i can't seem to pinpoint it, sir. i would suggest, mr. sulu, that if you cannot find out where the power source is, you should find out where it is not. a simple process of elimination. the whole planet, sir? oh, it's lovely. i've known other women-- daphne, cassandra. but none more beautiful than you. are you frightened of me? frightened? no, i don't think so. of course, a girl doesn't go walking with a-- a god? all right. a god. every day. happened to the others? artemis, hera? they returned to the cosmos... on the wings of the wind. you mean they died? no. not as y

unit. each of us is part of the greater whole, always under surveillance. even a commander like myself. always under surveillance, captain. if you will note. cover, spock! back! shoot! shoot! oh! aah! oh! aah! aah! aah! what is it, spock? inexplicable, captain. extreme heat. not only the weapons, but the bodies as well. aah! we are terribly sorry but we cannot permit you to harm yourselves. what are you talking about? we have put a stop to your violence. you...are stopping t ts? you? all instruments of violence on this planet now radiate a temperature of 350 degrere. they are inoperative. my fleet! the same conditions exist on both starfleets. there will be no battle. ridiculous! i suggest you contact them. within range of your communications device. kirk to enterprise. come in. [sulu] captain... i--i can't explain it. we were just closing in on the klingon fleet when every control on our ship became too hot to handle. our power is gone. our phaser banks are dead. stand by, sulu. it's helpless. what have you done? as i stand here, i also stand upon ththhome planet of the klingon empire and the home planet of your federation, captain. i'm going to put a