1 00:00:08,274 --> 00:00:10,708 Space, the final frontier. 2 00:00:17,217 --> 00:00:20,618 These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. 3 00:00:21,454 --> 00:00:25,185 Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds, 4 00:00:25,658 --> 00:00:28,684 to seek out new life and new civilizations, 5 00:00:29,562 --> 00:00:32,531 to boldly go where no man has gone before. 6 00:01:21,714 --> 00:01:25,650 First Officer's Log, Stardate 4187.3. 7 00:01:26,186 --> 00:01:30,418 The Enterprise shuttlecraft Copernicus is en route to Starbase 25 8 00:01:30,523 --> 00:01:32,150 with an important cargo. 9 00:01:32,258 --> 00:01:33,816 A Slaver stasis box 10 00:01:33,927 --> 00:01:37,021 discovered by archaeologists on the planet Kzin. 11 00:01:37,664 --> 00:01:40,497 These stasis boxes are the most remarkable thing 12 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,534 the Slavers ever produced. 13 00:01:42,635 --> 00:01:45,604 Time stands still inside a stasis box. 14 00:01:46,005 --> 00:01:48,838 A billion years means nothing in there. 15 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:51,236 What is it, Lieutenant? 16 00:01:51,344 --> 00:01:54,745 I've studied the history of the Slaver Empire, but it's sketchy. 17 00:01:54,848 --> 00:01:58,306 We know they were masters of all the intelligent beings in this galaxy 18 00:01:58,418 --> 00:02:01,945 a billion years ago. Until one race revolted. 19 00:02:02,589 --> 00:02:05,888 Are the stasis boxes the only source of information we have? 20 00:02:05,992 --> 00:02:08,517 The Slavers and all their subjects were exterminated 21 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:10,255 in the war that followed. 22 00:02:10,363 --> 00:02:13,355 Intelligent life had to evolve all over again. 23 00:02:14,234 --> 00:02:19,137 The stasis boxes are the only remnant of those lost civilizations. 24 00:02:21,307 --> 00:02:23,400 Why is it glowing like that? 25 00:02:35,054 --> 00:02:36,817 Mr. Sulu! What is our position? 26 00:02:36,923 --> 00:02:41,257 Passing Beta Lyrae, sir. 142 degrees north-east of galactic plane. 27 00:02:41,361 --> 00:02:42,851 Most peculiar. 28 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:49,299 This indicates there is another stasis box circling Beta Lyrae. 29 00:02:49,636 --> 00:02:50,728 Another one? 30 00:02:50,837 --> 00:02:54,432 It would be most illogical that a stasis box would remain here 31 00:02:54,541 --> 00:02:56,202 undiscovered for so long. 32 00:02:56,976 --> 00:03:00,412 Beta Lyrae is one of the rare spectacles of the galaxy. 33 00:03:00,513 --> 00:03:03,573 Almost every ship that passes stops to see it. 34 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:06,742 Maybe no one else was carrying a stasis box detector. 35 00:03:06,853 --> 00:03:08,115 Possible. 36 00:03:08,288 --> 00:03:12,520 The only known stasis box detector is another stasis box. 37 00:03:13,526 --> 00:03:16,393 - Still. Mr. Sulu. - Yes, sir? 38 00:03:16,496 --> 00:03:19,329 Bring us about. We'll investigate the Beta Lyrae system. 39 00:03:19,432 --> 00:03:20,592 Aye, aye, sir. 40 00:03:25,305 --> 00:03:29,207 Stasis boxes and their contents are the only remnant of a species 41 00:03:29,309 --> 00:03:32,870 which ruled most of this galaxy a billion years ago. 42 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:36,572 Their effect on science has been incalculable. 43 00:03:37,150 --> 00:03:39,118 In one was found a flying belt 44 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:42,120 which was the key to the artificial gravity field 45 00:03:42,222 --> 00:03:43,883 used by starships. 46 00:03:44,424 --> 00:03:48,417 Another box contained a disrupter bomb with the pin pulled. 47 00:03:49,062 --> 00:03:53,965 As a result, all stasis boxes are now under the jurisdiction of Starfleet, 48 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:57,497 and only certain key specialists handle them. 49 00:03:59,706 --> 00:04:02,834 The boxes are rare, potentially dangerous, 50 00:04:03,376 --> 00:04:06,038 and we seem to have found a second one. 51 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:15,586 I never did like these little ice-bound worlds. 52 00:04:15,688 --> 00:04:17,747 We are not tourists here, Lieutenant. 53 00:04:17,857 --> 00:04:22,351 Mr. Spock, if it takes a stasis box to find another stasis box, 54 00:04:22,662 --> 00:04:24,687 how did anyone ever find the first one? 55 00:04:24,797 --> 00:04:28,563 As with a number of discoveries, purely by accident, Lieutenant. 56 00:04:29,235 --> 00:04:31,999 The other box seems to be almost under us, 57 00:04:32,138 --> 00:04:34,129 perhaps 30 meters below the ice. 58 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,208 We won't have any trouble digging for it. 59 00:04:36,309 --> 00:04:40,336 In this low pressure, the ice should boil as soon as the phasers melt it. 60 00:05:03,303 --> 00:05:06,101 I must take full responsibility for this event. 61 00:05:06,205 --> 00:05:09,003 Instead of being warned by the highly unlikely coincidence 62 00:05:09,108 --> 00:05:10,871 of a second stasis box, 63 00:05:10,977 --> 00:05:14,413 I allowed its possible value to influence my judgment. 64 00:05:14,914 --> 00:05:17,542 The Kzinti now possess our stasis box. 65 00:05:17,817 --> 00:05:20,149 Its contents will determine how much damage 66 00:05:20,253 --> 00:05:24,155 my error has done the Federation and its people. 67 00:05:26,559 --> 00:05:28,891 - Where are we? - A Kzinti spacecraft. 68 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:30,155 That isn't good. 69 00:05:30,263 --> 00:05:32,424 Kzinti aren't supposed to have phasers, are they? 70 00:05:32,532 --> 00:05:35,729 The Treaty of Sirius does not permit them any weapons at all, 71 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:37,826 beyond police vessels. 72 00:05:37,937 --> 00:05:40,906 Obviously, the treaty has been broken. 73 00:05:41,607 --> 00:05:43,074 A police web. 74 00:05:43,743 --> 00:05:47,008 We won't be able to move unless we can turn it off somehow. 75 00:05:57,223 --> 00:06:00,590 The lean, bedraggled one is a reader of minds. 76 00:06:00,693 --> 00:06:04,030 I've heard all Kzinti telepaths are unhappy neurotics. 77 00:06:04,297 --> 00:06:05,696 He fits the description. 78 00:06:05,798 --> 00:06:09,097 There is no sure way to guard our thoughts from him. 79 00:06:09,502 --> 00:06:14,098 Mr. Sulu, he is not likely to deal with me or Lieutenant Uhura. 80 00:06:14,607 --> 00:06:17,405 She and I are inferior beings to them. 81 00:06:18,144 --> 00:06:20,442 But the Kzinti are meat eaters. 82 00:06:21,013 --> 00:06:25,313 If you sense him reading your mind, think of eating a raw vegetable. 83 00:06:25,418 --> 00:06:29,411 Yes, sir. Maybe I can goad them into revealing their purpose. 84 00:06:29,522 --> 00:06:31,956 Lieutenant Uhura. This may be crucial. 85 00:06:32,058 --> 00:06:35,755 In the presence of the Kzinti, do not say anything, 86 00:06:35,862 --> 00:06:38,092 do not do anything startling. 87 00:06:38,564 --> 00:06:40,191 Try to look harmless. 88 00:06:40,299 --> 00:06:41,561 Any special reason? 89 00:06:41,667 --> 00:06:44,898 Are you forgetting Kzinti females are dumb animals? 90 00:06:45,505 --> 00:06:46,563 In an emergency 91 00:06:46,672 --> 00:06:50,267 the Kzinti may forget a human female is an intelligent creature. 92 00:06:50,376 --> 00:06:52,640 Thanks. Thanks a lot. 93 00:06:52,745 --> 00:06:55,578 Lieutenant, I value your intelligence, 94 00:06:55,681 --> 00:06:58,650 but we may be able to seize an opportunity to escape 95 00:06:58,751 --> 00:07:01,720 - if the Kzinti believe you have none. - Yes, sir. 96 00:07:02,555 --> 00:07:04,045 Identify yourself. 97 00:07:04,157 --> 00:07:07,285 Lieutenant Sulu of the Starfleet vessel Enterprise. 98 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,187 This is First Officer Spock. 99 00:07:09,295 --> 00:07:14,164 You're a Vulcan. I feel no pressing need to talk to an eater of roots and leaves. 100 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:16,731 Humans at least are omnivorous. 101 00:07:17,003 --> 00:07:18,698 I am Chuft Captain. 102 00:07:18,971 --> 00:07:22,202 You are prisoners aboard the privateer Traitor's Claw, 103 00:07:22,308 --> 00:07:23,866 a stolen police vessel. 104 00:07:23,976 --> 00:07:28,413 Stealing must be a habit with you. This ship, two stasis boxes. 105 00:07:28,581 --> 00:07:31,379 Kzinti archaeologists found both boxes, 106 00:07:31,484 --> 00:07:33,714 but the one we managed to keep was empty. 107 00:07:33,820 --> 00:07:36,414 It served us well as bait to draw you here, 108 00:07:36,522 --> 00:07:39,923 but the Slavers had weapons that could devastate a galaxy. 109 00:07:40,026 --> 00:07:41,926 There could be one in that box. 110 00:07:42,028 --> 00:07:46,260 The Kzinti fought four wars with humankind and lost all of them. 111 00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:50,295 The last one was 200 years ago, and you haven't learned a thing since. 112 00:07:50,403 --> 00:07:52,030 Guard your speech. 113 00:07:52,338 --> 00:07:55,068 None of my crew has yet tasted human meat 114 00:07:55,174 --> 00:07:56,971 as our ancestors did. 115 00:07:57,477 --> 00:08:00,412 We would welcome the opportunity. 116 00:08:00,646 --> 00:08:02,944 Always you have had superior equipment. 117 00:08:03,049 --> 00:08:05,677 We seek a weapon that will defeat you at last. 118 00:08:05,785 --> 00:08:09,152 Then you're really working for the Kzinti government. 119 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:13,516 The records will show the Traitor's Claw 120 00:08:13,626 --> 00:08:15,594 is a stolen police ship. 121 00:08:15,695 --> 00:08:19,961 If we are captured, the Highest of Kzin will repudiate us. 122 00:08:22,101 --> 00:08:26,231 But if we succeed, you are meat for our tables. 123 00:08:46,292 --> 00:08:51,093 - Could that be a picture of a Slaver? - Lf so, it is the first ever discovered. 124 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:55,433 - An important historical find. - It looks like fresh meat. 125 00:08:55,701 --> 00:08:59,034 Over a billion years in that box, and it looks fresh. 126 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:07,244 Nothing like this has ever been found. We are the only ones who have it. 127 00:09:07,346 --> 00:09:08,973 Look at it, human. 128 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:12,677 This weapon may well mean the end of mankind. 129 00:09:24,096 --> 00:09:26,496 First Officer's Log, supplemental. 130 00:09:26,899 --> 00:09:31,461 The Kzinti now possess a weapon potentially deadly to the entire galaxy. 131 00:09:32,004 --> 00:09:35,235 The extent of its power remains to be seen. 132 00:09:35,508 --> 00:09:37,135 Have the humans moved to the surface 133 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:39,609 and be sure they are secured in the police web. 134 00:09:39,712 --> 00:09:42,476 - We will use them to test the weapon. - Yes, Chuft Captain. 135 00:09:42,582 --> 00:09:45,312 You have observed the aliens. Can you read their minds? 136 00:09:45,418 --> 00:09:48,512 I can read Sulu, with difficulty, Chuft Captain. 137 00:09:48,754 --> 00:09:53,589 The other human is only a female. The third is a pacifistic herbivore. 138 00:09:53,693 --> 00:09:57,060 Surely you would not force me to delve such minds? 139 00:09:57,163 --> 00:09:58,755 If it is necessary. 140 00:09:58,864 --> 00:10:01,924 I realize the time you need to recover from each effort. 141 00:10:17,550 --> 00:10:21,919 Chuft Captain, we have finished testing the meat that was in the stasis box. 142 00:10:22,021 --> 00:10:24,387 It is protoplasmic and poisonous. 143 00:10:26,325 --> 00:10:27,485 What of the picture? 144 00:10:27,593 --> 00:10:30,494 The human, Sulu, believes it to be a Slaver. 145 00:10:32,565 --> 00:10:35,557 So do I. It would have made a worthy enemy. 146 00:10:38,371 --> 00:10:40,066 Perhaps the toggle. 147 00:10:53,185 --> 00:10:56,154 Telepath! Am I not affecting him at all? 148 00:10:56,288 --> 00:11:00,122 - Is it the life support belt interfering? - No, Chuft Captain. 149 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:03,625 He hears a faint whine, but he feels no ill effects. 150 00:11:03,863 --> 00:11:06,764 There is a vibration in the metal of his belt. 151 00:11:07,366 --> 00:11:10,699 Chuft Captain, he is too alien. 152 00:11:10,803 --> 00:11:14,569 He makes me taste yellow root munched between flat teeth. 153 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:17,734 Be glad if you need not read the Vulcan's mind. 154 00:11:20,346 --> 00:11:22,644 It may be a communications device, 155 00:11:22,748 --> 00:11:26,707 or a sonic stunner designed to affect members of a race now dead. 156 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:36,628 A good serviceable telescope. They built well, these Slavers. 157 00:11:39,932 --> 00:11:43,424 It is of no use to us. We already have small telescopes. 158 00:11:53,179 --> 00:11:57,377 I give you credit, human. You are not afraid to die. 159 00:11:58,084 --> 00:11:59,574 Merely a laser. 160 00:11:59,785 --> 00:12:01,776 The Federation has had a more effective model 161 00:12:01,887 --> 00:12:03,377 for over 100 years. 162 00:12:22,308 --> 00:12:24,003 Telepath's suit is ruptured! 163 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:26,476 Never mind that. The female is escaping! 164 00:12:26,579 --> 00:12:30,106 - What of it? - Fool! Human females are intelligent. 165 00:12:42,194 --> 00:12:44,719 Telepath's suit lost considerable pressure. 166 00:12:44,830 --> 00:12:46,422 We reached the ship in time to save him. 167 00:12:46,532 --> 00:12:48,762 Good. We will need him later. 168 00:12:48,868 --> 00:12:51,632 - What is this? - Perhaps a personal rocket motor. 169 00:12:51,737 --> 00:12:53,967 One could place one's foot on the pedals and balance. 170 00:12:54,073 --> 00:12:56,667 It appears to be transportation, not a weapon. 171 00:12:56,809 --> 00:12:59,209 - Nice try. - I'm slowing down. 172 00:12:59,545 --> 00:13:02,343 I used to run the 100 in record time. 173 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:05,814 - How long was I out? Did I miss much? - Not much. 174 00:13:07,219 --> 00:13:09,483 A lot of good they'll get out of that rocket setting. 175 00:13:09,588 --> 00:13:13,024 We are fortunate none of the settings so far have been superior 176 00:13:13,125 --> 00:13:16,322 to the technology now available to the Federation. 177 00:13:18,531 --> 00:13:21,659 No gun sight. No obvious way to aim it. 178 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:30,805 - Mr. Spock. I can move. - So can I. 179 00:13:31,343 --> 00:13:32,605 The police web is off. 180 00:13:32,711 --> 00:13:35,874 The fifth setting seems to be an energy absorber. 181 00:13:36,615 --> 00:13:38,014 Fascinating. 182 00:13:38,384 --> 00:13:40,818 I had no idea the Slavers had such things. 183 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,979 - Mr. Spock, we... - Yes. 184 00:13:43,522 --> 00:13:46,047 When I give the word, make for the shuttle. 185 00:13:46,458 --> 00:13:48,187 Remember to zigzag. 186 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,160 Ready? Go. 187 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:21,020 - Chuft Captain, what happened? - I would rather not discuss it. 188 00:14:21,126 --> 00:14:22,991 Help me into the ship. 189 00:14:27,299 --> 00:14:30,291 Mr. Spock! I thought it was one of the aliens. 190 00:14:30,402 --> 00:14:31,733 I have the weapon. 191 00:14:31,837 --> 00:14:34,806 They've got Uhura. And subspace radio. 192 00:14:35,107 --> 00:14:37,041 They can call for help from the Kzin planet 193 00:14:37,142 --> 00:14:40,805 - if they think the weapon's worth it. - No, they cannot. 194 00:14:40,913 --> 00:14:43,211 Or rather, will not. 195 00:14:43,315 --> 00:14:46,079 - Why? - Because I kicked Chuft Captain. 196 00:14:47,052 --> 00:14:48,280 Consider. 197 00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:52,289 Chuft Captain has been attacked by an herbivorous pacifist, 198 00:14:52,625 --> 00:14:57,153 an eater of leaves and roots, one who traditionally does not fight. 199 00:14:57,529 --> 00:14:59,588 And the ultimate insult, 200 00:14:59,698 --> 00:15:01,598 I left him alive. 201 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:04,401 Chuft Captain's honor is at stake. 202 00:15:04,503 --> 00:15:08,337 He must seek personal revenge before he can call for help. 203 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,408 That gives us some time. 204 00:15:11,176 --> 00:15:13,667 - You did plan it that way? - Of course. 205 00:15:13,779 --> 00:15:17,681 As long as you stay free, the Kzinti can't or won't do anything. 206 00:15:17,783 --> 00:15:20,183 But they could use Lieutenant Uhura as a bribe. 207 00:15:20,286 --> 00:15:22,880 Agreed. However, to this point, 208 00:15:22,988 --> 00:15:25,252 we have not seen anything more powerful 209 00:15:25,357 --> 00:15:28,383 - than equipment Starfleet already has. - Yes. 210 00:15:29,428 --> 00:15:31,191 But I have a feeling, Mr. Spock. 211 00:15:31,297 --> 00:15:35,358 This weapon must have belonged to a spy, an espionage agent. 212 00:15:35,467 --> 00:15:39,198 I acknowledge your expertise in the field of weapons, Mr. Sulu, 213 00:15:39,305 --> 00:15:42,274 but I do not see how you can determine probable ownership. 214 00:15:42,374 --> 00:15:45,537 Well, here, look at it. All these settings. 215 00:15:46,278 --> 00:15:49,975 We don't know a common Slaver soldier couldn't handle them, 216 00:15:50,516 --> 00:15:53,781 but as a weapon, only the laser is effective. 217 00:15:54,586 --> 00:15:57,680 The others aren't necessary for the line soldier's one purpose, 218 00:15:57,790 --> 00:15:59,052 to destroy the enemy. 219 00:15:59,158 --> 00:16:01,422 Assuming it's a spy weapon then, 220 00:16:01,527 --> 00:16:04,894 the Slavers would have wanted to keep it a secret weapon. 221 00:16:04,997 --> 00:16:09,229 If so, it is logical to assume it has a self-destruct setting, too. 222 00:16:09,335 --> 00:16:12,270 - But we've seen all the phases. - Perhaps not. 223 00:16:12,504 --> 00:16:16,497 There is the null setting. It seems to do nothing. 224 00:16:17,509 --> 00:16:19,238 But why should it be there? 225 00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:22,645 It does not correspond to a safety lock. 226 00:16:27,086 --> 00:16:28,986 It may be the key to another setting. 227 00:16:35,761 --> 00:16:38,662 This is the Traitor's Claw calling Mr. Sulu. 228 00:16:39,198 --> 00:16:41,496 We have the female prisoner. 229 00:16:41,967 --> 00:16:45,562 Will you bargain, or must we take harsh action? 230 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:51,532 It will not be pleasant for her. 231 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:58,009 I repeat. 232 00:16:58,117 --> 00:17:00,711 We have the female prisoner as hostage. 233 00:17:00,819 --> 00:17:02,844 You have something we want. 234 00:17:02,955 --> 00:17:05,890 We will trade her life for the Slaver weapon. 235 00:17:06,458 --> 00:17:08,892 - Answer him, Lieutenant. - Lieutenant Sulu here. 236 00:17:08,994 --> 00:17:11,622 - What about Mr. Spock? - He must surrender. 237 00:17:11,730 --> 00:17:14,995 - I will offer him single combat. - Not interested. 238 00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:19,434 I am as the Vulcan left me, with two ribs broken. 239 00:17:19,838 --> 00:17:22,602 I have not set them nor bandaged myself. 240 00:17:23,108 --> 00:17:25,269 He may conceivably kill me. 241 00:17:25,444 --> 00:17:28,140 Kzinti ribs have some vertical bracing. 242 00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:30,712 But I kicked him over one heart. 243 00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:35,919 I compute the odds of my defeating Chuft Captain in combat 244 00:17:36,021 --> 00:17:38,421 at 16-to-1 against. 245 00:17:38,524 --> 00:17:40,151 Offer refused. 246 00:17:40,259 --> 00:17:42,318 They think very little of you. 247 00:17:42,428 --> 00:17:45,226 Wrong. They don't think much of you. 248 00:17:51,503 --> 00:17:54,301 A self-destruct mechanism would not have a gun sight. 249 00:17:54,406 --> 00:17:56,931 No. Let's see what this does do. 250 00:18:04,183 --> 00:18:06,117 We can't give them that! 251 00:18:06,618 --> 00:18:08,017 Fascinating. 252 00:18:08,454 --> 00:18:12,117 No world in the Federation has produced anything so powerful. 253 00:18:12,224 --> 00:18:14,624 Almost beyond theoretical limits. 254 00:18:15,194 --> 00:18:20,325 Total conversion of matter to energy at a distance. 255 00:18:20,466 --> 00:18:23,958 If the Kzinti had that the whole galaxy would be their dinner table. 256 00:18:26,238 --> 00:18:27,705 Hit the dirt! 257 00:18:59,438 --> 00:19:03,374 - What would this be? - I have no idea. It is generating power. 258 00:19:04,776 --> 00:19:08,735 There is a grid. It may be another communications device. 259 00:19:09,648 --> 00:19:11,240 But that seems redundant. 260 00:19:17,022 --> 00:19:18,717 It has the Kzinti frightened. 261 00:19:18,824 --> 00:19:22,658 The Kzinti have legends of weapons haunted by their owners. 262 00:19:22,761 --> 00:19:24,888 Could it be a voice-activated mechanism? 263 00:19:24,997 --> 00:19:27,966 No. It appears to be conversing with them. 264 00:19:28,734 --> 00:19:31,897 A reasoning computer that small? 265 00:19:32,004 --> 00:19:34,472 How long has it been since you were turned off? 266 00:19:34,573 --> 00:19:37,133 I do not know. 267 00:19:37,609 --> 00:19:39,577 When I am off, 268 00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:44,206 I have no sense of passing time. 269 00:19:44,316 --> 00:19:48,275 - What is the last thing you remember? - We were on a mission. 270 00:19:48,387 --> 00:19:50,685 I may not tell you of it 271 00:19:50,789 --> 00:19:54,953 unless you know certain code words. 272 00:19:55,060 --> 00:19:57,585 If you could describe the positions of the stars in your sector, 273 00:19:57,696 --> 00:19:59,926 we would know how much time has passed since then. 274 00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:02,500 Without certain code words, 275 00:20:02,601 --> 00:20:06,196 I may not describe our location. 276 00:20:06,305 --> 00:20:09,536 One of the settings on this weapon was a total conversion beam. 277 00:20:09,641 --> 00:20:12,269 We saw it. Tell us how to find it. 278 00:20:12,811 --> 00:20:15,177 Twist my widdershins 279 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:20,183 until you reach the null position. 280 00:20:20,586 --> 00:20:22,679 - Then... - They've got it. 281 00:20:22,788 --> 00:20:26,019 - There must be something we can do. - Most peculiar. 282 00:20:37,469 --> 00:20:40,495 That was not the total conversion beam setting. 283 00:20:42,608 --> 00:20:45,873 Like others, this form seems to possess no gun sight. 284 00:20:45,978 --> 00:20:48,811 It may be a broad-beam weapon, for use only from orbit. 285 00:20:48,914 --> 00:20:52,213 We saw its power. I suggest you fire at a very distant target. 286 00:20:52,317 --> 00:20:53,648 Very well. 287 00:20:54,419 --> 00:20:56,444 We can't let them have that weapon. 288 00:20:56,555 --> 00:20:59,490 - They are not about to get it, Lieutenant. - Why not? 289 00:20:59,591 --> 00:21:04,153 Assume you are a Slaver war computer. You've been turned off. 290 00:21:04,529 --> 00:21:06,622 You do not know for how long, 291 00:21:06,732 --> 00:21:10,224 but when you were turned off, there was a war on. 292 00:21:11,436 --> 00:21:14,701 Now you are awakened by aliens you never saw before. 293 00:21:15,207 --> 00:21:18,267 They do not know any of the military passwords. 294 00:21:18,610 --> 00:21:22,546 They ask you so many questions it is obvious they know little about you. 295 00:21:22,748 --> 00:21:26,582 Your owner is nowhere about. What would you think? 296 00:21:26,685 --> 00:21:30,815 I'd think I'd been captured by the enemy. Or an enemy, at least. 297 00:21:30,922 --> 00:21:34,949 And when they asked you how to find your most powerful weapon setting, 298 00:21:35,060 --> 00:21:37,028 what would you give them? 299 00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:45,996 Activate life support belts. 300 00:21:48,173 --> 00:21:52,405 - A disrupter field. - Yes. Another conventional weapon. 301 00:21:53,045 --> 00:21:55,104 It appears the total conversion beam 302 00:21:55,213 --> 00:21:58,114 was the only thing the Slavers had that we do not. 303 00:21:59,484 --> 00:22:01,884 No sign of the weapon, of course. 304 00:22:02,521 --> 00:22:05,251 It would have looked nice in some museum. 305 00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:07,981 It never would have reached the museum, Lieutenant. 306 00:22:08,093 --> 00:22:10,891 There was too much power in that one setting. 307 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:14,488 If not the Kzinti, the Klingons or some other species 308 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:16,533 would have tried to possess it. 309 00:22:26,912 --> 00:22:32,145 Strange, how the past sometimes breaks through into the present. 310 00:22:33,151 --> 00:22:38,748 That ancient war could have sparked a new war between man and Kzinti. 311 00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:41,417 Didn't you say the Kzinti have legends of weapons 312 00:22:41,526 --> 00:22:43,050 haunted by their dead owners? 313 00:22:43,161 --> 00:22:46,289 Yes, an ancient superstition. 314 00:22:47,766 --> 00:22:51,827 At this rate, they'll never get over those old superstitions.