condition
three. Intruder alert.
Repeat. General quarters.
Security condition three.
Intruder alert.
As soon as she has entered
the gravity chamber, secure all ports.
Don't touch me, Scotty!
Stay away.
[ Aliens Croaking ]
I--
We've lost her to them.
- Stay where you are.
- She could kill us all in this state.
She will unless we are able to complete
what the captain has planned.
Stay with us, Mira.
Please stay!
I'm trying.
I want to be with you.
They are too strong.
Don't lose yourself to them.
Hold on!
[ Tricorder Humming ]
I am Mira Romaine.
I will be who I choose to be.
I will--
Stay away, Scotty!
They are with me.
They will kill you.
You won't let them.
[ Alien Voice ] She cannot stop us.
You cannot prevent it.
Mira! Mira!
- Captain!
- That's not Mira talking.
Captain, we must deal
with them directly,
now, while she still retains
partial identity.
We can speak to them.
They will answer using her voice.
I'm Captain James Kirk
of the spaceship Enterprise.
Do you understand?
[ Alien Voice ]
Yes, we understand you.
We have searched
for a millennium for one...
through whom we can see
and speak and hear...
and live out our lives.
- Who are you?
- We are from Zetar.
That is one of the planets where
all humanoid life was destroyed.
You can't be from Zetar.
All life was destroyed there long ago.
Yes, all corporeal life
was destroyed.
- Then what are you?
- The desires, the hopes, the mind...
and the will of
the last hundred of Zetar.
The force of our life
could not be wiped out.
- All things die.
- At the proper time.
Our planet was dying.
We were determined to live on.
At the peak
of our plans to go,
a sudden, final disaster
struck us down.
But the force
of our lives survived.
At last we have found someone
through whom we can live it out.
[Kirk] The body of the one you inhabit
has its own life to lead.
She will accept ours.
She will not. She is fighting
for her own identity.
Her mind will accept
our thoughts.
Our lives will be fulfilled.
Will she learn the way people
on Memory Alpha learned?
- We did not wish to kill.
- But you did kill!
No. Resisting us
killed those people.
We did not kill them.
The price of your survival
is too high.
We only want the girl.
You can't have her! You're entitled
to your own life, but not another's.
[ Mira's Voice ]
Life was given to me.
It is mine.
I want to live it out.
I will--
The girl’s life reading
is becoming a match to the Zetarians.
She's losing.
[ Alien Voice ]
Do not fight us.
They will not accept
their own deaths.
They'll be forced to accept it.
You will all die!
Captain, if we cannot complete the plan,
they will carry out their threat.
We must get her
into the pressure chamber.
Jim, you realize the pressure needed to
kill the Zetars might kill the girl too.
Mira will not kill me.
[Tricorder Humming]
[ Screams ]
[ Panting ]
I told ya she wouldn't kill me.
Secure the chamber.
Neutralize gravity.
[ Computer Beeping ]
The Zetars are growing stronger.
The weightless state has become
their natural condition.
Pressurize the unit.
Bring pressure
to two atmospheres...
and then increase
one atmosphere per second.
Continue increasing pressure.
Pressure, Spock. Pressure.
The pressure is
dangerously high, Captain.
It may damage her.
Continue, Spock.
Pressure!
We've done it, Jim.
They're gone.
It's all right, Mira.
They're gone.
They're gone!
Reduce the pressure
very, very gradually, Spock.
We may tax Mr. Scott's
patience, Doctor.
Lie perfectly still, Lieutenant.
Try not to move at all.
Take deep, regular breaths.
Now, don't hold it.
Continue to breathe deeply.
In, out.
In, out. That's it.
Now, you'll be in there
another 20 minutes,
so why don't you
Just try to relax?
Now we have all the time
in the world.
Bones, are you able to judge
the long-range effects on Lt. Romaine?
When the personality of a human
is involved, predictions are hazardous.