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The Menagerie (Part 1)
Mister Spock receives a subspace message instructing the crew of the USS-Enterprise to divert their course to Starbase 11. The landing party consists of Spock, Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy. They are greeted by Commodore José I. Mendez and his assistant Miss Piper. Kirk tells Mendez that they received their orders from his predecessor Captain Christopher Pike. Mendez denies any knowledge of this and insists that Captain Pike is in no condition to transmit course directives to anyone. He takes them to Captain Pike's room where they find that he is now a quadripalegic - his face hideously scarred after being exposed to delta rays. His only means of communication is through a sensor panel on the front of his chair, which blinks in patterns that correspond to yes or no responses. When asked, Pike indicates that he doesn't wish to see anyone, but will see Mister Spock in private. The others leave the room and Spock tells Pike that if they leave immediately, they can be at their destination in six days at warp speed. Pike indicates "No", but Spock is committed towards getting him off Starbase 11 - even if he must commit mutany to do it.

Captain Kirk meets with Commodore Mendez in his office. Kirk insists that his ship received instructions to come to Starbase 11, but Mendez is adamant when he says that nobody issued any such instruction - particularly Captain Pike. Mendez calls Chief Humboldt in the computer center and has him check their records for evidence of this alleged order. Humboldt replies and tells them that it is impossible for any message to be sent from the starbase without anyone knowing it.

kirk later meets in mendez' office; they argue about the legitimacy of the order; calls chief humbold in computer center to check all computer records; says that it is impossible for any message to be sent from teh starbase without anyone knowing it. leaves; spock sneaks in; gives tech vulcan pinch; puts fake voice tapes into computers and sends new orders to enterprise. mimicking an officer from starbase operations, he feeds new orders to the enterprise; top secret and scrambled; humbold comes in and punches him twice; nerve pinch; spock finishes relaying the fake orders and tells Hansen that coordinates are being fed direclty into hte ship's computer systems and it wil navigate to its destination automatically. kirk and bones have a private meeting in their guest room. kirk cannot understand the false log entry and wonders if spock is duplicitous. mccoy refuses to believe that spock would do such a thing. mccoy is suddenly called away for a medical emergency aboard the enterprise.

kirk goes to see mendez; tells kirk that the enterprise is en route to Talos IV. shows him a sealed starfleet file relating toe General Order 7.

General Order 7: By order of Starfleet Command, Robert L. Conrad, No vessel under any condition, emergency or otherwise is to visit the planet Talos IV. Violation of the order merits a sentence of death - the only such penalty still carried out under Starfleet regulations.

Talos IV; 3rd quadrant in vernal galaxy.

Miss Piper suddenly notices that Captain Pike is gone from his room. spock returns to the enterprise and it warps out of orbit. he takes temorary command of the ship and tells the crew that kirk is on temporary medical leave. shows mccoy pike; plays fake kirk message intructing mccoy to follow spock's orders

kirk and mendez take a shuttlecraft and try to follow the enterprise; they deplete too much of their fuel and cannot turn bakc. Shuttlecraft Picasso SB11-1201/1; Class-S shuttlecraft; Duranium metal shell; ion engine power. spock learns that shuttle is out of fuel and tractor beams it to the ship. ship comes to stop; spock orders security team to bridge; puts hansen into operational command; surrenders; scotty beams kirk and mendez onto eneterprise; kirk tries to disengage computer control from the helm, but the computer is unable to comply.

hearing; spock requests immediate court martial. trial board of 3 command officers. kirk, mendez, pike; mendez asks on record why they are going to talos iv. to comply with the request, spock asks to put on the monitor screen. shows imagery from mission 13 years ago;

crew encounters radio wave distortion in talos star group; SS Columbia survey expediiton disappeared 18 years ago; 11 planets; talos IV is Class-M.

mendez interrupts the visual display several times;

pike takes landing party of 6 down to the planet. look at weird purple plants; find survivors of the Columbia. meets dr. theodore hoskins; meets vina; talosians observe them from their underground cave. finds the surivvors in peak health; vina feels its time to tell them their secret; leads pike through canyon towards cave; vina and surivovrs diappear; talosians come out and zap pike with gas gun. crew tries to go after him, but phasers won't penetrate rock door.

transmission interrupted when uhura tells them that starfleet is picking up transmission signal to the ship originating from talos iv. spock reveals that the video display theyr are watching is currently being broadcast from the planet. starfleet orders kirk to stand down and mendez takes control ofthe ship. mendez orders spock to return manual control to the ship, but spock declines. mendez adjourns the court to recess. spock pleads with kirk, telling him that for the sake of Pike's life and for his career, he must see the rest of the rest of the transmission. Kirk orders Security to take Spock away.