"Still no response, sir." "Keep it open." "I don't like this." "Nothing since the first check-in." "Scott and Sulu should've contacted us half an hour ago." "They may have nothing to report." "Our sensors indicate no life forms except our landing party." "Both those men are well aware of landing-party procedure." "They should've checked in with us by now." "Contact established, captain." " Jackson to Enterprise." " Enterprise." "Kirk here." " One to beam up, Enterprise." " One?" " Jackson, where are Scott and Sulu?" " I'm ready to beam up, sir." " Jackson!" " I'm sorry, I can't clear it, captain." "Notify Transporter Room to prepare to beam up one member of the landing party." "Then have Dr. McCoy report to me in the Transporter Room, on the double." " Ready, sir." " Energise." " What's on, Jim?" " Trouble." "Jackson, where are the others?" "The man is dead." "Captain Kirk, can you hear me?" "There is a curse on your ship." "Leave this place  or you will all die!" "Space, the final frontier." "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise." "Its five-year mission:" "To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." "Captain's Log:" "Stardate 3018.2." "Crewman Jackson is dead, and there are no apparent physical causes." "Mr. Scott and Mr. Sulu are still out of touch on the planet below." "Leaving Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle in command of the Enterprise," "I'm beaming down to the planet's surface to find my two missing crewmen  and discover what killed Jackson." "Odd." "Our probe data didn't indicate fog." "No cloud formations, no bodies of water, no changes in surface temperature." "Under these conditions, fog is highly unlikely, captain." "According to our transporter coordinates, this is the exact location from which Jackson was beamed up to the ship." " Readings, Mr. Spock?" " No indications of..." "A moment." "Picking up life form readings:" "24 degrees mark 7." "Range 137.16 metres." " Multiple readings, captain." " Scott and Sulu?" " Kirk to Enterprise." " Enterprise, Lieutenant Uhura here." "What are the ship's sensors reading now, lieutenant?" "Report, mister." "I am only picking up physical impulses from the three of them." "As far as the instruments can make out there is nothing else down there that's alive." "Relay, lieutenant." "Captain, we are only registering on you." "Captain." "Captain Kirk!" "Lieutenant, can you hear me?" "Whatever this stuff is, it's getting thicker." "Do you suppose it has anything to do with the interference?" "No." "There has to be some explanation for the fact the ship's sensors can't register anything but us, while we're picking up readings for multiple life forms." " Are they still there, Spock?" " No change, captain." "Standby alert." "Listen." " What do you think that..." " Quiet." "Captain Kirk." "Captain Kirk." " Who are you?" " Go back." "Remember the curse" "Winds shall rise" "And the fog descend" "So leave here, all" "Or meet your end!" "Spock, comment." "Very bad poetry, captain." "A more useful comment, Mr. Spock." "What we've just seen is not real." "That's useful." "However, on Azimuth 24, at just over 100 metres, there are definitely life forms." "Erratic, confused but definitely registering." " That's where we go." "That was a pretty real illusion, Mr. Spock." "Jim." "This is the source of the life form readings, captain." "They're inside somewhere." "Kirk to Enterprise." "Enterprise, come in." "Isn't that how we lost contact with the first landing party?" "What about it, Spock?" "Does this structure have anything to do with communicator interference?" "I would say not, captain." "There's no indication of anything that would cause such interference." "And it doesn't pick up on our ship's sensors." "Nor do our sensors register the life forms inside." "It could be exerting a force field of some kind that cuts into our sensor scan." "Then it would affect Spock's tricorder too, wouldn't it?" "Would it?" "I wonder." "Three witches what appears to be a castle, and a black cat." "If we weren't missing two officers, and a third one dead," "I'd say someone was playing an elaborate trick-or-treat on us." " Trick-or-treat, captain?" " Yes, Mr. Spock." "You'd be a natural." "I'll explain it to you one day." " Shall we have a look around?" " That would seem to be in order." "Bones." "Spock." "They're gone, Mr. DeSalle." "The captain and the others." "Simply stopped registering." "Check for malfunctions." " I did, sir, as soon as it happened." " Mr. DeSalle that's exactly what happened to Mr. Scott and his party." " They just disappeared." " Nobody just disappears." "They may have encountered a magnetic field or some other obstruction." "Mr. Chekov, recalibrate your sensors." " If you need help..." " I can do it, sir." "I'm not that green." "Lieutenant Uhura, continue your efforts to break through that static interference." "Aye, aye, sir." "We know they're down there." "I want them found." " Straight ahead, Mr. Spock?" " The readings would so indicate." "Dust, cobwebs." "Halloween is right." "Spock are you all right?" " Yes." "I am undamaged, captain." "Bones." "Doc." "You were saying something about trick-or-treat." "Dungeons curses." "Skeletons and iron maidens." "They're all Earth manifestations." " Why?" " I do not know, captain." "But these things do exist." "They are real." "Could this be an Earth parallel development of some sort?" "None of this parallels any human development." "It's more like a human nightmare." " As if someone knew what it was that terrifies man most on an instinctive level." "Ghost stories, ogres, demons." "The whole..." "Scotty, Sulu." "Scotty put down the phaser." "They appear to be drugged, captain." "Look at their eyes." "They hardly blink at all." "Neither did Jackson, just before he collapsed." "These two are alive." "Scotty, do you hear me?" "Sulu, do you know who I am?" "What's happened to you?" "I think they're going to release us." "Stop!" "Whoever you are you've proven your skill at creating illusions." "Now I want to know why, and what you've done to my men." "Where did your race get this ridiculous predilection for resistance?" "You examine any object, you question everything." "Is it not enough to accept what is?" "Not when one of my men is dead because of it," " and two others turned into mindless..." " Not mindless." "These two are merely controlled, Captain Kirk." "Yes, we know who you are." "All of you." "Don't we, my precious?" "Who are you?" "Why did you bring us here?" "My name is Korob." "And as for bringing you here it was you who quite contrarily insisted upon coming." " You were warned to stay away." " But why?" "For what reason?" "Why all the mumbo jumbo?" "Mumbo jumbo?" "No, I assure you it was not that, captain." "Mapping expeditions have charted this solar system before." "There never have been any life forms on Pyris Vll." "It is of no importance that we are not native to this planet." "I'm told I've been an inattentive host, gentlemen." "You will join me for something to refresh yourselves?" " That cat." " That cat." "There are ancient Earth legends about wizards and their familiars." "Familiars?" "Demons in animal forms, sent by Satan to serve the wizard." "Superstition." "I do not create the legend, captain." "I merely report it." "You are the different one, Mr. Spock." "You do not think like the others." "There are no colours to your patterns of logic." "There's only black and white." "You see all this around you and yet you do not believe." " He doesn't know about trick-or-treat." "I do not understand that reference." "Therefore it also is of no importance." "Gentlemen, I can be most hospitable." " Ingenious." " Do be seated." " We're not hungry." " But I insist." "All right, Korob." "What do you want from us?" "For the moment, merely that you eat and enjoy yourselves." "Doctor, do try the wine." "You'll find it excellent." "You'll find us most uncooperative unless you start explaining yourself." "Hopefully I can change that attitude." " These look real." " They are, I assure you." "Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires." "All the crystalline forms you cherish above all things." "A fortune of them for each of you, if you will leave here without further enquiry." "We could manufacture a ton of these on our ship for you." " They mean nothing to us." " Valueless?" "I don't understand." "I read..." "Whatever it is you read, you read it wrong." "As for leaving, we'll leave when we're ready." "You are most unpredictable." "Perhaps I have made a small mistake." "Nevertheless, you have passed the tests." " Tests?" " Yes." "Our analysis of you may have been, in some small way, in error but you were warned to stay away, and yet you came to save your comrades." "That proves loyalty." "Your bravery was tested, and you did not frighten." "And despite my failure with these bright baubles," "I perceive you cannot be bribed." "In many ways, you are quite admirable." "Quite right." "Go at once, yes." "Gentlemen, my colleague, Sylvia." "Dr. McCoy, Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk." "You wanted to know what we did to your men." "Actually, it's a simple matter for us to probe the minds of creatures like yourself." "Mind-probing." "Hypnosis?" "You like to think of yourselves as complex creatures, but you're flawed." "One gains admittance to your minds through many levels." "You have too many to keep track of yourselves." "There are unguarded entrances to any human mind." "Telepathy?" "Not entirely, no." "Telepathy doesn't imply control and I assure you that I have full control of your friends." "Don't move." "Cover them." "Now, I want the rest of our weapons and our equipment." " I want some answers." " Put that weapon down." "Captain, it seems so foolish of you to insist on demonstrations." "In the mythology of your race, this is called "sympathetic magic"." "Jackson, the crew member who returned to the ship." "You wondered what killed him." "I made an image of him." "In the essence of my thoughts, the image was Jackson." "And when I killed the image and knew that it was dead he died." "You can't think a man to death." "Your communicator." "Now signal your ship." "Don't." "Sylvia, don't!" "Kirk to Enterprise, come in." "Come in." " Enterprise, I'm Captain Kirk." "Come in." " Captain." "Are you all right?" "Where are you?" "Are the others all right, sir?" "Never mind about us." "What's happening up there?" "The temperature, sir." "It keeps rising." "Reading, mister." "It's up 60 degrees in the past 30 seconds." "We're burning up, sir." "DeSalle channel bypass power into your heat dissipation units." "I've already done it, captain." "It had no effect." " We're cooking up here." " All right." "I'll handle it down here." "Kirk out." "You've won." "You can relax now, captain." "Your ship is safe." "The temperature is almost back to normal dropping down fast." "Lieutenant, try to raise the captain again." "Enterprise to Captain Kirk." "Come in, please." "Enterprise to Captain Kirk." "Acknowledge." "We've lost him again, Mr. DeSalle." "Captain, you've seen something of our science, now tell us about yours." "You seem to be singing a different tune." "I'd rather know more about yours." "You call it "magic," you call it "science"." "It seems to be unrelated to both of them." " What would you name it, captain?" " I wouldn't attempt to name it." "But you seem to do with your mind what we do with tools." "You alter matter, move it about by telekinesis." " Yes, we can change the molecular..." " Korob, you talk too much!" "You kept Scott and Sulu as catspaws to lure us down here." " How'd you know we'd come?" " We didn't have to know." " They knew." " Enough of this." "You will tell us what we want to know." "It's too late for threats." "You let me contact the ship." "How long do you think it will be before a search party arrives?" "Some time, captain." "Quite some time." "There will be no search party, Captain Kirk." "An impenetrable force field around your ship, captain." "It will not hinder orbit, but your people are prisoners within it." "It's some kind of a force field, sir." "But not like any other I've heard of before." "It's not coming from anywhere it's simply all around us." "I would advise you to cooperate, captain." "Forcible extraction of the information we wish from you is not complicated, but it is extremely painful." "And it has a certain" " draining effect." " We have nothing to discuss." "Take them to their cell." "Wait." "The doctor will stay." "Your turn will be next, captain." "It makes little difference." "Take them out of here." "Wavelength analysis, Mr. Chekov?" "It will not analyse, sir." "All right." "But it's there, and it's real." "If it's real, it can be affected." "Engineering, standby to divert all power systems to the outer hull." "Prepare impulse engines for generation of maximum heat directed as ordered." "Maybe we can't break it, but I'll bet you credits to navy beans we can put a dent in it." "How long has it been?" " 22 minutes,17 seconds." " Thanks." "I wonder what they're doing to Doc." "I'm sure we'll find out shortly." "Jim all these things that we've seen to an Earthman like yourself they must seem quite familiar." "Familiar." "Startling not rational." " Precisely." "I refer you to the psychological theory of the racial subconscious." " The universal myths, symbols." " Ghosts, witches, you mean?" "And dungeons, and castles, and black cats." "They all belong to the twilight world of consciousness." " They tried to tap our conscious mind." " And they missed." "They reach basically only the subconscious." "Korob seemed quite puzzled by your reaction to the environment he had provided." "He expected me to react as though it were all normal." "He admitted they weren't native to this planet." "And not to have a knowledge of our scientific methods is most unlikely, for any life form we've met in this galaxy." "They refer to us as "creatures"... as though we were some species they were unfamiliar with." "If we're creatures..." "I wonder what they're really like?" "Evidently something totally alien in all respect." "Agreed." "Totally alien." "I don't like hostile strangers showing such an acute interest in our galaxy, our world, Spock." "Not at all like friendly visitors." "We're going to have to stop them." "Cold." "But at the moment..." "I too, am at a loss at this time to suggest a course of action." "Bones." "Doc." "You forget what we were sent here for." "I forget nothing." "I'm not a puppet, Korob, like you." " You're a traitor!" " You are a fool!" "We have nothing like this." "And I like it." "To touch, to feel, to understand the idea of luxury." "I like it and I don't intend to leave it." " We have a duty to the Old Ones." " What do they know of sensations!" " This is a new world." " You're cruel." "You torture our specimens." "And that too, is a new sensation." "I find it stimulating." "You're wrong!" "You're discarding everything we live by." "I live by my own decisions." "You're a weak fool, Korob." " I have the power." " But you're afraid to use it." "Don't threaten me." "I can squash you, and that would be an interesting sensation, yes." "I find I like these new sensations." "Don't try to push me." "Captain it's time for our talk." "Korob, leave us alone and take these men with you." "This is not ended, Sylvia." "But it may end soon, old man." "What now?" "Do you wave your magic wand and destroy my mind too?" "There's no real damage to the mind, Captain." " Simply a drain of knowledge and will." " You don't call that damage?" "Why should I?" "You'd know if you had compassion." "A woman should have compassion." " But I forget you're not a woman." " But you're mistaken, Captain." "I am a woman now." "I come from a world without sensation as you and I now know it." "It excites me." "I want more." "You seem to need us." "Why?" "Because you have knowledge which I lack." "But were our abilities put together..." "Tell me about power, captain." "How does it feel?" "What about Korob?" "He is a fool." "I'll do without him." "But you why do I find you different?" "Why would it be so difficult to dispose of you?" "Why don't you simply probe my mind and get what you want?" "No." "Not that, not for you." "What I want is is a joining." "My mind to yours, willingly." "Think of the secrets you could learn, think of the power that would be yours." "Anything you can imagine, I can give you." "You're very persuasive." "What happens if I go along?" "Then everything would be ours together." "I've never conceived of the idea of togetherness before." "It excites me." "You excite me." "Why?" "For the same reasons you excite me." "You're a very beautiful woman." "You find me beautiful." "But I can be many women." "You like what you see?" "Or do you prefer me as I was?" "You have a knack for giving me difficult choices." "You have nothing like that where you come from?" "Nothing." "Your people, when they come here..." "They're like feathers in the wind, without the transmuter." " The transmuter?" " The source." "You will learn." "I will teach you later." "Then it's a device." "You do use tools." "It gives only form." "You are teaching me substance." "You haven't changed your mind." "You won't return home." "My home is here with you." "A billion worlds of sensation to pick and choose." "You are using me!" "You hold me in your arms, and there is no fire in your mind!" "You're trying to deceive me." "It's here, like words on a page!" " You were using me." " Why not?" "You've been using me and my crew." "You will be swept away." "You, your men, your ship, your worlds!" " I don't see any change." " It's there, lieutenant." "It was that electrical field we set up, Mr. DeSalle." "That dent you wanted." "It's not much, but it is a start." "Keep it up, Mr. Chekov." "Channel the entire output of reactors one, two and three, into the relay stations." "Whatever it is, it's starting to weaken." "I have released the model of your ship from the crystal." "Although they would have freed themselves soon." "It is difficult to control so many things in so little time." "Here you must go before she finds the weapon is missing." " I'm not leaving without my men." " They're not your men anymore." "They belong to Sylvia." "I can no longer control them or her." "She's irrational." "It's the strain of adopting to your form." "The insatiable desire for sensation and experience." "She's a great danger." "And it was not necessary." "We could have entered your galaxy in peace." " You came in a ship?" " We used a transmuter." "Transmuter." "Yes, she mentioned that." "There's no time to explain now." "She means to destroy us all." "There may still be a chance." "Quickly." "Come." "Fascinating." " Why a cat?" " Racial memories." "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." "As far back as the sabre-toothed tiger." "I think I can stop her." "You'd better let us." "It's out of energy." "She must have drained it." "We could've jumped Scott and Sulu any time, if we'd known." " No way out." " That's my problem." "She's one of my kind." "Come quickly." " You think you can make it?" " Ready when you are, captain." "Get ready." "No!" "Get back!" "Get back!" "Get back!" " Korob, the door won't last." " Get back!" "Go." "Go!" "Quickly, captain." "Korob seemed to think this was important." "He said something about a transmuter." "Captain, a bit more alacrity, if you please." "Captain." "Doc." "Jim!" " At least we found them." " Fortuitous, captain." "And now that we have them all together?" "A most unpleasant situation, captain." "If only your phaser had some power." "Maybe we do." "Sylvia I have the transmuter." "It's mine now." "You're very clever, captain." "More so than I'd imagined." "Clever, resourceful," " and handsome." " Don't let her touch the wand, captain." "Jim!" " Don't you get tired of these games?" " I've never played games." "Give it to me." "I wasn't sure before, but I am now." "This is the source of your power, the transmuter." "No, not the source." "It's merely an amplifier, a director." "The mind is the source." "Mine is simple." "But yours has the key." " But you don't know how to use it." " I catch on quickly." "It's not too late, Captain James Kirk." "Come with me." " I'll teach you, you'll teach me." " Why?" "Do your people have nothing of their own?" "Is that why you need us?" "We need your dreams, your ambition." "With them I can build." " Give me the transmuter." " No." "You fool!" "Don't you know what you're giving up?" "Everything that your species finds desirable." "Look at me!" "I am a woman." "I am all women!" "I don't know what you are, but you're not a woman." "You've tortured my men and taken their minds from them." "You ask for love and return pain instead." "Korob was wrong." "I didn't destroy all your weapons." "Give me the transmuter." "Give it to me!" " What happened, Jim?" " That'll take some explaining, Bones." " Everything's vanished." " Not everything." "Korob and Sylvia as they really are." "Their forms were an illusion, just like the castle and everything else." "Only the power-pack gave them reality." "Fascinating." "A life form totally alien to our galaxy." "If we could preserve and study this." "Too late." "All of this, just an illusion." "No illusion." "Jackson is dead." "Kirk to Enterprise." "Come in." " Standing by, captain." " Five to beam up."