Kirk asked him to tell them his name again.
The doctor reported that Van Gelder started talking about certain things and would abruptly stop and change subjects.Īs Kirk began to walk out the sickbay door, Van Gelder came to and accused them both of taking him back to Tantalus 5, so they could “wash their hands of him.” McCoy, who said that his readings were abnormally high and that it took a triple dose of sedative to calm him down. He also asked that the ship reverse course and head back to Tantalus 5. Van Gelder went down, and Kirk ordered that he be taken to the sickbay. Before he could, Kirk kicked the phaser out of his hand, and Spock performed the Vulcan neck pinch. Van Gelder refused to hand over the gun and threatened to destroy the navigation controls to the Enterprise. Kirk said “no promises” and demanded the weapon. Van Gelder said he wanted Kirk’s assurance first that he would not be returned to the prison. He struggled and said that his name was Van Gelder and he asked for asylum. He started to say what his name was and then stopped. Kirk responded that he was and the man slowly approached him. He then turned and asked who the captain was. McCoy turned at Spock and in a mocking voice, asked him how the Vulcans solved their “violence problem.” Spock told the doctor that they eliminated all emotion, and where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.Īs soon as Spock uttered those words, the turbolift doors opened, and the prisoner burst out and attacked the crewman assigned to security. Spock mused to McCoy on how humanity glorified violence for 40 generations and imprisoned those who employed it. Adams apologized and reminded Kirk that this guy was intelligent and extremely violent.
Kirk said that the Enterprise had a prisoner aboard.
As Uhura announced to the crew where he was and his description, the prisoner attacked another crewmember, this time taking his phaser. When the alarm sounded, another Enterprise crewman saw the prisoner and messaged the bridge of his location on Deck 14. Kirk ordered a Security Alert 3.īack in the transporter room, the escapee switched clothing with the engineering crewman and started running through the corridors. They thought that this prisoner had hidden in the box that was beamed over. Uhura announced that the settlement had a message for the Enterprise - that a prisoner had escaped. McCoy responds that a “cage is a cage” and that he saw no point in going to the colony. On the bridge, Kirk laments that he missed the opportunity to meet Dr. He attacks the crewman (apparently knocking him out) and begins to look for an escape route. He also is ordered to lock up the research materials.Īs Berkeley and the other crewman get back to work, the case that was just beamed over, opens and a man wearing an oxygen mask creeps out. Berkeley, who was in charge of the transporter operation, to refresh himself on penal colony procedures. One item is beamed back to the Enterprise, which was research material bound for the Central Bureau of Penology in Stockholm. Kirk calls to the colony, who opened the force field, and the transport is successful. He reminds them that they cannot transmit something into a penal colony due to the restrictions of their shielding. The crew attempted to beam the items over, and as Captain James T. The capsule, along with some other items, is loaded into the transporter pad by an engineering crewmember. We then see a giant pharmaceutical bottle with the label: Tantalus Penal Colony Infra Sensory Drugs Attention: Dr. The show opens with the Enterprise orbiting Tantalus 5, Saturn-like planet.