Post by magicmuggle01 on Feb 1, 2019 12:30:44 GMT
The Enterprise discovers an Earth-like planet that was devastated by a horrific degenerative disease and is now populated entirely by impossibly old children.
Summary
Enterprise in polar orbit of an
Earth-like planet
The Onlies, led by Jahn
Responding to an Earth-type distress signal over a hundred light years from Earth, the USS Enterprise discovers a planet that is an exact copy of Earth. It has the same mass, circumference, density, and atmosphere. Even the topography is identical.
Act One
Beaming down, the landing party of Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Janice Rand, along with security officers Galloway and Fields, discover architecture like that of Earth, circa 1960. But there is debris in the streets and evidence that decay has been ongoing for at least several centuries. Spock surmises that the distress signal is automated.
Then, while McCoy is examining an old tricycle, he is attacked by a diseased man – a man horribly disfigured, insane, and violent. Before Kirk can get any useful information, the man dies, crying out several times, "fibber". Noises draw the landing party to one of the abandoned buildings, where they discover a terrified girl hiding in a closet, named Miri.
Meanwhile, Spock, Galloway, and Fields search the ruins outside. They hear children, and are pelted with debris and rocks, but they never actually see anyone; the feral children, who call themselves Onlies, know the area too well, and are too canny.
Talking to Miri, who only gradually realizes that she is in no danger, Kirk learns that the adults, whom Miri calls grups, became ill and insane, and the Onlies had to hide from them until all grups died. McCoy realizes that a plague struck this world, and killed most of its people. And then, on Kirk's hand, Miri finds a blueish blemish. Kirk has the same disease that killed the grups.
Act Two
Miri leads the landing party to an abandoned laboratory where McCoy takes tissue samples from the group in an attempt to isolate the organism responsible for the disease. Everyone in the landing party has this disease except Spock, thanks to his Vulcan green blood. However, Spock is a carrier and the whole crew would contract the disease if he were to beam back to the Enterprise.
McCoy begins to work, asking Lieutenant John Farrell to have a biocomputer and an electronic microscope beamed down from the ship. Spock discovers research dating back three hundred years: there was a project with the goal of prolonging life. It worked, after a fashion, but a miscalculation annihilated the adults, leaving only the children to survive on their own for the last three centuries. Once they reach puberty, they each succumb to the disease. Spock calculates that within a week, all of the Human members of the landing party will succumb; even sooner than that, they will go mad.
Kirk, wanting to find the elusive children to get some answers, asks Miri to show him where they are hiding. In an old, rundown building, Jahn, the oldest and apparent leader of the Onlies, and a number of Only children, discuss the sudden reappearance of the "grups". The children are afraid of things returning to the way it was in the "before time". Jahn hatches a plan to steal the landing party's "little boxes" they use to talk to other "grups" so they will be all alone on the planet. Before he can go on further, Kirk arrives with Miri and the children hide. When Kirk enters the building, a deformed and crazed Only child named Louise attacks him and he is forced to stun her with his phaser, which accidentally kills her. Miri, shocked and saddened by the death, saying that she was a little bit older than herself, and embraces Kirk.
Act Three
Janice Rand, partially stricken by
the disease and crying, finds
comfort in the arms of Captain
Kirk.
In the laboratory, Kirk orders Spock and McCoy to recreate the way the scientists on the planet's thinking. If they can isolate the virus creating the disease, McCoy will be able to create a vaccine. Just then, Kirk hears the Onlies saying "nyah, nyah, nyah…" outside and runs with Spock and McCoy to investigate. In the empty lab, Jahn emerges from an open vent and takes all of the landing party's communicators. Returning to the lab and discovering the communicators missing, McCoy underscores the need for them; if they do not have the devices, they will not be able to verify their findings through the Enterprise's computers and they won't have a chance.
The disease is starting to affect the landing party; their nerves are frayed and their tempers are short. Kirk passes by Rand and bumps into her while walking by, causing her to drop a beaker. This causes her to snap, cry hysterically, and run out into the laboratory's corridor. Kirk, alone in the corridor with a crying and upset Rand, takes her into in his arms to comfort her. Miri witnesses this and becomes jealous of Kirk's attention to her and Rand's romantic looks at the Captain. Miri returns to the Onlies and helps Jahn and then develop a plan to capture Rand, thereby luring Kirk to them.
Act Four
Meanwhile, McCoy has discovered the organism responsible, and succeeds in isolating a substance that might be the vaccine. But without the ship's computer (still unavailable because the landing party was still without communicators), it is impossible to be certain – or to know the dosage.
Later, Rand goes missing and Kirk becomes worried and lost in thought with Rand's whereabouts, and in finding his "Janice." Kirk persuades Miri to help him, by revealing the secret the landing party had kept: that she, and all the children, would get the disease, and that the youngest would starve long before that. Miri takes Kirk to where Rand is being held and tied up by Jahn and the other Onlies. The children don't trust Kirk and pummel the captain. Beaten and bloodied, Kirk finally makes the children realize they're doing what the grups did – hurting others. Meanwhile, a desperate Dr. McCoy injects himself with a hypospray filled with the serum, knowing that without confirmation from the ship's computers he could be injecting himself with, as Spock described it, "a beaker full of death."
Returning with Rand and the communicators, and carrying one of the smaller children, Kirk finds Spock and a security man at McCoy's side. The doctor is unconscious, perhaps dying… and then the blemishes begin to fade. The vaccine is a success.
The Enterprise departs, leaving a medical team in charge of the children, who will soon receive the care they need.
Log entries
"Captain's log, stardate 2713.5. In the distant reaches of our galaxy, we have made an astonishing discovery: Earth-type radio signals coming from a planet which apparently is an exact duplicate of the Earth. It seems impossible, but there it is."
"Captain's log, stardate 2713.6. The building Miri led us to also housed an automatic transmission station, which sent out the signal that drew us to this planet. We also discovered something else: that the blue splotches, characteristic of the unknown disease, had appeared on each of us, with the exception of Mr. Spock. There was a well equipped laboratory in the building. Dr. McCoy took tissue samples of each of us, in an attempt to isolate the organism responsible."
"Captain's log. Dr. McCoy's biocomputer and a portable electronic microscope have been beamed down from the Enterprise. They will be used in conjunction with computer banks on board ship."
"Captain's log, supplemental. It's the second day of the seven left to us. We've found nothing. Enterprise is standing by with its labs, computers, ready to assist us. There's no data, no starting point."
"Captain's log, stardate 2717.3. Three days, seven hours left to us. Investigation proves that the supply of food left in the area is running dangerously low. Unless something is done, the children will starve in a few months. In addition, the disease is working on each of us according to Dr. McCoy's prediction. Our tempers are growing short, and we're no further along than we were two days ago."
Memorable quotes
"Now, this is marvelous. The most horrible conglomeration of antique architecture I've ever seen."
- McCoy, arriving on Earth Two
"Being a red-blooded Human obviously has its disadvantages."
- Spock, on why he shows no symptoms of the virus
"Life prolongation. Didn't have much luck, did they?"
- McCoy, on the bioengineering experiment
"I think children have an instinctive need for adults; they want to be told right and wrong."
- Kirk
"A child entering puberty on this planet means a death sentence."
- McCoy
"Eternal childhood, filled with play, no responsibilities. It's almost like a dream."
"I wouldn't examine that dream too closely, yeoman. It might not turn out to be very pretty."
- Rand and Kirk, on the effects of the virus
"I am a carrier. Whatever happens, I can't go back to the ship… and I do want to go back to the ship, captain."
"(smiling) Of course, Mr. Spock."
- Spock, rallying the landing party in his own Vulcan way with Kirk understanding
"Back on the ship, I used to try to get you to look at my legs! Captain, look at my legs!"
- Rand to Kirk, showing her scabs
"Bonk! Bonk! On the head! Bonk! Bonk!"
- Redheaded Onlie, inciting the other children
"You two will have to re-create their thinking if we’re going to isolate that virus and be able to develop a vaccine."
"Is that all captain, we have five days you know?"
- Kirk and McCoy
"This is the vaccine?"
"That's what the computers will tell us."
"Without them, it could be a beaker full of death."
- Kirk, McCoy, and Spock
"Where is she, Miri! Where is she, Miri! Where's Janice?"
"What's the matter with you? How should I know."
"Where is Janice! Has something happened to her!?"
"Don't you feel all right?"
"No, I don't feel all right!! None of us feel all right!! Can't you see what's going on!!? "
"Jim, I don't want anything to happen to you."
"Where is, Janice!? I've got to find, Janice!"
- Kirk to Miri, extremely lovesick about finding Rand
"Tell 'em, Jim!"
- Jahn, inciting the Onlies to taunt Kirk
"Blah! Blah! Blah!"
"No blah! Blah! Blah!"
- Redheaded Onlie and Kirk
"LOOK AT MY ARMS!! That's what's going to happen to you… unless you let me help you!"
- Kirk, tearing up his uniform sleeves to show the extent of the disease
"Nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah!"
- Onlies, surrounding Kirk
"I never will understand the medical mind."
- Spock, on McCoy's risky self-injection
"Miri. She really loved you, you know."
"I never get involved with older women, yeoman."
- Rand and Kirk, on Miri
Summary
Enterprise in polar orbit of an
Earth-like planet
The Onlies, led by Jahn
Responding to an Earth-type distress signal over a hundred light years from Earth, the USS Enterprise discovers a planet that is an exact copy of Earth. It has the same mass, circumference, density, and atmosphere. Even the topography is identical.
Act One
Beaming down, the landing party of Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Janice Rand, along with security officers Galloway and Fields, discover architecture like that of Earth, circa 1960. But there is debris in the streets and evidence that decay has been ongoing for at least several centuries. Spock surmises that the distress signal is automated.
Then, while McCoy is examining an old tricycle, he is attacked by a diseased man – a man horribly disfigured, insane, and violent. Before Kirk can get any useful information, the man dies, crying out several times, "fibber". Noises draw the landing party to one of the abandoned buildings, where they discover a terrified girl hiding in a closet, named Miri.
Meanwhile, Spock, Galloway, and Fields search the ruins outside. They hear children, and are pelted with debris and rocks, but they never actually see anyone; the feral children, who call themselves Onlies, know the area too well, and are too canny.
Talking to Miri, who only gradually realizes that she is in no danger, Kirk learns that the adults, whom Miri calls grups, became ill and insane, and the Onlies had to hide from them until all grups died. McCoy realizes that a plague struck this world, and killed most of its people. And then, on Kirk's hand, Miri finds a blueish blemish. Kirk has the same disease that killed the grups.
Act Two
Miri leads the landing party to an abandoned laboratory where McCoy takes tissue samples from the group in an attempt to isolate the organism responsible for the disease. Everyone in the landing party has this disease except Spock, thanks to his Vulcan green blood. However, Spock is a carrier and the whole crew would contract the disease if he were to beam back to the Enterprise.
McCoy begins to work, asking Lieutenant John Farrell to have a biocomputer and an electronic microscope beamed down from the ship. Spock discovers research dating back three hundred years: there was a project with the goal of prolonging life. It worked, after a fashion, but a miscalculation annihilated the adults, leaving only the children to survive on their own for the last three centuries. Once they reach puberty, they each succumb to the disease. Spock calculates that within a week, all of the Human members of the landing party will succumb; even sooner than that, they will go mad.
Kirk, wanting to find the elusive children to get some answers, asks Miri to show him where they are hiding. In an old, rundown building, Jahn, the oldest and apparent leader of the Onlies, and a number of Only children, discuss the sudden reappearance of the "grups". The children are afraid of things returning to the way it was in the "before time". Jahn hatches a plan to steal the landing party's "little boxes" they use to talk to other "grups" so they will be all alone on the planet. Before he can go on further, Kirk arrives with Miri and the children hide. When Kirk enters the building, a deformed and crazed Only child named Louise attacks him and he is forced to stun her with his phaser, which accidentally kills her. Miri, shocked and saddened by the death, saying that she was a little bit older than herself, and embraces Kirk.
Act Three
Janice Rand, partially stricken by
the disease and crying, finds
comfort in the arms of Captain
Kirk.
In the laboratory, Kirk orders Spock and McCoy to recreate the way the scientists on the planet's thinking. If they can isolate the virus creating the disease, McCoy will be able to create a vaccine. Just then, Kirk hears the Onlies saying "nyah, nyah, nyah…" outside and runs with Spock and McCoy to investigate. In the empty lab, Jahn emerges from an open vent and takes all of the landing party's communicators. Returning to the lab and discovering the communicators missing, McCoy underscores the need for them; if they do not have the devices, they will not be able to verify their findings through the Enterprise's computers and they won't have a chance.
The disease is starting to affect the landing party; their nerves are frayed and their tempers are short. Kirk passes by Rand and bumps into her while walking by, causing her to drop a beaker. This causes her to snap, cry hysterically, and run out into the laboratory's corridor. Kirk, alone in the corridor with a crying and upset Rand, takes her into in his arms to comfort her. Miri witnesses this and becomes jealous of Kirk's attention to her and Rand's romantic looks at the Captain. Miri returns to the Onlies and helps Jahn and then develop a plan to capture Rand, thereby luring Kirk to them.
Act Four
Meanwhile, McCoy has discovered the organism responsible, and succeeds in isolating a substance that might be the vaccine. But without the ship's computer (still unavailable because the landing party was still without communicators), it is impossible to be certain – or to know the dosage.
Later, Rand goes missing and Kirk becomes worried and lost in thought with Rand's whereabouts, and in finding his "Janice." Kirk persuades Miri to help him, by revealing the secret the landing party had kept: that she, and all the children, would get the disease, and that the youngest would starve long before that. Miri takes Kirk to where Rand is being held and tied up by Jahn and the other Onlies. The children don't trust Kirk and pummel the captain. Beaten and bloodied, Kirk finally makes the children realize they're doing what the grups did – hurting others. Meanwhile, a desperate Dr. McCoy injects himself with a hypospray filled with the serum, knowing that without confirmation from the ship's computers he could be injecting himself with, as Spock described it, "a beaker full of death."
Returning with Rand and the communicators, and carrying one of the smaller children, Kirk finds Spock and a security man at McCoy's side. The doctor is unconscious, perhaps dying… and then the blemishes begin to fade. The vaccine is a success.
The Enterprise departs, leaving a medical team in charge of the children, who will soon receive the care they need.
Log entries
"Captain's log, stardate 2713.5. In the distant reaches of our galaxy, we have made an astonishing discovery: Earth-type radio signals coming from a planet which apparently is an exact duplicate of the Earth. It seems impossible, but there it is."
"Captain's log, stardate 2713.6. The building Miri led us to also housed an automatic transmission station, which sent out the signal that drew us to this planet. We also discovered something else: that the blue splotches, characteristic of the unknown disease, had appeared on each of us, with the exception of Mr. Spock. There was a well equipped laboratory in the building. Dr. McCoy took tissue samples of each of us, in an attempt to isolate the organism responsible."
"Captain's log. Dr. McCoy's biocomputer and a portable electronic microscope have been beamed down from the Enterprise. They will be used in conjunction with computer banks on board ship."
"Captain's log, supplemental. It's the second day of the seven left to us. We've found nothing. Enterprise is standing by with its labs, computers, ready to assist us. There's no data, no starting point."
"Captain's log, stardate 2717.3. Three days, seven hours left to us. Investigation proves that the supply of food left in the area is running dangerously low. Unless something is done, the children will starve in a few months. In addition, the disease is working on each of us according to Dr. McCoy's prediction. Our tempers are growing short, and we're no further along than we were two days ago."
Memorable quotes
"Now, this is marvelous. The most horrible conglomeration of antique architecture I've ever seen."
- McCoy, arriving on Earth Two
"Being a red-blooded Human obviously has its disadvantages."
- Spock, on why he shows no symptoms of the virus
"Life prolongation. Didn't have much luck, did they?"
- McCoy, on the bioengineering experiment
"I think children have an instinctive need for adults; they want to be told right and wrong."
- Kirk
"A child entering puberty on this planet means a death sentence."
- McCoy
"Eternal childhood, filled with play, no responsibilities. It's almost like a dream."
"I wouldn't examine that dream too closely, yeoman. It might not turn out to be very pretty."
- Rand and Kirk, on the effects of the virus
"I am a carrier. Whatever happens, I can't go back to the ship… and I do want to go back to the ship, captain."
"(smiling) Of course, Mr. Spock."
- Spock, rallying the landing party in his own Vulcan way with Kirk understanding
"Back on the ship, I used to try to get you to look at my legs! Captain, look at my legs!"
- Rand to Kirk, showing her scabs
"Bonk! Bonk! On the head! Bonk! Bonk!"
- Redheaded Onlie, inciting the other children
"You two will have to re-create their thinking if we’re going to isolate that virus and be able to develop a vaccine."
"Is that all captain, we have five days you know?"
- Kirk and McCoy
"This is the vaccine?"
"That's what the computers will tell us."
"Without them, it could be a beaker full of death."
- Kirk, McCoy, and Spock
"Where is she, Miri! Where is she, Miri! Where's Janice?"
"What's the matter with you? How should I know."
"Where is Janice! Has something happened to her!?"
"Don't you feel all right?"
"No, I don't feel all right!! None of us feel all right!! Can't you see what's going on!!? "
"Jim, I don't want anything to happen to you."
"Where is, Janice!? I've got to find, Janice!"
- Kirk to Miri, extremely lovesick about finding Rand
"Tell 'em, Jim!"
- Jahn, inciting the Onlies to taunt Kirk
"Blah! Blah! Blah!"
"No blah! Blah! Blah!"
- Redheaded Onlie and Kirk
"LOOK AT MY ARMS!! That's what's going to happen to you… unless you let me help you!"
- Kirk, tearing up his uniform sleeves to show the extent of the disease
"Nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah!"
- Onlies, surrounding Kirk
"I never will understand the medical mind."
- Spock, on McCoy's risky self-injection
"Miri. She really loved you, you know."
"I never get involved with older women, yeoman."
- Rand and Kirk, on Miri
