which
I am unable to fathom.
You're saying the planet
didn't blow up,
and the captain and the others,
they're still alive!
Please, Mr. Scott,
restrain your leaps of illogic.
I have said nothing.
I was merely speculating.
[Intercom Whistles]
- Sickbay to Mr. Spock.
- Spock here.
You asked for
an autopsy report.
It's only preliminary,
but the cause of death
seems to have been
cellular disruption.
Explain.
Every cell in the body had been
individually blasted from inside.
Would any known disease
organism do that?
Dr. Sanchez has ruled
that possibility out, sir.
Please keep me fully advised.
Spock out.
He was in
the transporter room.
Someone may have entered
after Captain Kirk
and his party left.
Mr. Scott, since the Enterprise
is obviously functional,
I suggest we return to our
starting place at top warp speed.
Aye, but it'll take
a while to get there.
In that case, Mr. Scott,
I suggest we start at once.
Can you give me
warp 8?
Aye, sir. And maybe
a wee bit more.
I'll sit on the warp engines
myself and nurse them.
That position,
Mr. Scott,
would not only be
unavailing
but also... undignified.
Lieutenant Rahda,
plot a course.
Plotted
and laid in, sir.
Good. Then prepare
to come to warp 8.
Your report covers
all vegetation?
Yes, Captain. All vegetation
is inedible, poison to us.
If the Enterprise
has been destroyed,
do you know how long
we can survive?
Yes. I don't see
any water,
but there must be some
to grow the vegetation.
A source of water would
stretch our survival.
Did you see any
evidence of rainfall?
No, sir.
And no evidence
that there ever
has been rainfall.
But there is
earth-type vegetation.
Could the vegetation absorb
the water directly from the air?
There's also the possibility
of underground water.
Yes, sir. Could be.
Sulu's picked up an organism that's
almost a virus, a plant parasite.
It's the nearest biological
form of life I can find.
This is going to be our home
for as long as we last.
I suggest we find out
as much as we can about it.
D'Amato, try to find
underground water.
Sulu, run
an atmospheric analysis.
Bones, see if you
can find out
anything about the vegetation
and your parasite.
How do they get
their moisture?
If you can discover
how they survive,
maybe we can.
Sulu, Captain.
Kirk here.
Captain, I was making
a standard magnetic sweep.
From zero, I suddenly got
a reading that was off the scale.
Then, a reverse
of polarity.
Now I get nothing.
I've never seen anything
like this reading.
Like a door opened
and then closed again.
Kirk out.
[Machine Whirring]
[Machine Whirring]
- Do not be afraid.
- I'm not.
Geological disturbances
don't frighten me.
I've come here
to study them.
- My specialty.
- I know.
You are Lieutenant D'Amato,
Senior Geologist.
That's right.
How did you know?
From the spaceship
Enterprise.
Yes, and we're
stranded here.
You been talking
to my friends?
Do not be afraid.
I'm not afraid.
I am for you,
Lieutenant D'Amato.
You're-You're the woman
on the Enterprise.
I am only for D'Amato.
Lucky D'Amato.
I want to have a conference
about your food and water.
Do not call the others...
please.
McCoy to Kirk.
Kirk here.
Jim, I just got a life-form
reading of tremendous intensity.
Suddenly it was
Just there.
What do you mean
Just there?
Just that.
All levels were normal,
then I get this biological
surge of life-form registering.
No. Now it's gone.
As though a door
opened and... closed.
- Yes.
- What direction?
Wait a minute. Zero...
- 0-8-3.
- Hang on.
D'Amato section.
Come in.
Kirk to D'Amato.
Come in. Come in!
Bones, Sulu,
D'Amato doesn't answer.
I'll be right there.
Bones!
[Whirring]
Jim, every cell
in his body's been disrupted.
Jim, what are you doing?
- Digging a grave.
- Poor D'Amato.
What a terrible
way to die.
There are
no good ways, Sulu.
That's the same
red rock.
My phaser didn't
cut through it.
[Bones]