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By Any Other Name
"By Any Other Name" is the 22nd episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby (based on Bixby's story) and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast February 23, 1968.
In the episode, beings from another galaxy commandeer the Enterprise in an attempt to return home.
The title is taken from a line spoken by Juliet in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet: "that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet", a line quoted by Captain Kirk during the episode.
The Federation starship USS Enterprise responds to a distress call from an uncharted planet. A landing party beams down to locate the source and promptly encounters a humanoid male and female, Rojan and Kelinda, who are from the Kelvan Empire. They immediately paralyze Kirk and the landing party and order Kirk to surrender the Enterprise. Rojan informs Kirk that the Kelvans originate from the Andromeda Galaxy and have come to the Milky Way galaxy to find planets suitable for conquest. Since their own ship was destroyed by the negative-energy barrier at the galactic rim, they need the Enterprise to make the 300-year return journey. Three other Kelvans beam aboard the Enterprise and quickly gain control of the ship.
Rojan orders the landing party to a cave guarded by Kelinda. Mr. Spock uses his Vulcan telepathic abilities to lure her into the cave, where Kirk knocks her unconscious and seizes her control belt. Spock is thrown back out of the mind meld due to the Kelvans' alien physiology. As punishment, Rojan orders the Kelvan Hanar to activate his belt, transforming two landing team members into small, spongy cuboctahedral blocks of a chalk-like substance. Rojan picks up the blocks, crushes one to dust—killing Yeoman Thompson—and transforms the other block (Lt. Shea) back into human form.
Back in their cell, Spock relates the experience of his mental contact with Kelinda. The Kelvans, it seems, are not humanoid after all, but have taken human form for convenience; they are actually huge creatures with hundreds of tentacles.
Kirk and Spock decide to adapt McCoy's neural scanning equipment into a countermeasure against the Kelvans' paralysis field. As a pretext for beaming back to the ship, Spock feigns illness by entering a deep trance. The Kelvans transport the rest of the landing party and themselves to the ship shortly afterward.
Spock concludes that penetrating the paralysis field projector's casing is impossible. Instead, he has Scott rig the matter/antimatter system to explode upon contact with the galactic barrier if Kirk gives the order, though Kirk chooses not to activate it.
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By Any Other Name
"By Any Other Name" is the 22nd episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby (based on Bixby's story) and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast February 23, 1968.
In the episode, beings from another galaxy commandeer the Enterprise in an attempt to return home.
The title is taken from a line spoken by Juliet in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet: "that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet", a line quoted by Captain Kirk during the episode.
The Federation starship USS Enterprise responds to a distress call from an uncharted planet. A landing party beams down to locate the source and promptly encounters a humanoid male and female, Rojan and Kelinda, who are from the Kelvan Empire. They immediately paralyze Kirk and the landing party and order Kirk to surrender the Enterprise. Rojan informs Kirk that the Kelvans originate from the Andromeda Galaxy and have come to the Milky Way galaxy to find planets suitable for conquest. Since their own ship was destroyed by the negative-energy barrier at the galactic rim, they need the Enterprise to make the 300-year return journey. Three other Kelvans beam aboard the Enterprise and quickly gain control of the ship.
Rojan orders the landing party to a cave guarded by Kelinda. Mr. Spock uses his Vulcan telepathic abilities to lure her into the cave, where Kirk knocks her unconscious and seizes her control belt. Spock is thrown back out of the mind meld due to the Kelvans' alien physiology. As punishment, Rojan orders the Kelvan Hanar to activate his belt, transforming two landing team members into small, spongy cuboctahedral blocks of a chalk-like substance. Rojan picks up the blocks, crushes one to dust—killing Yeoman Thompson—and transforms the other block (Lt. Shea) back into human form.
Back in their cell, Spock relates the experience of his mental contact with Kelinda. The Kelvans, it seems, are not humanoid after all, but have taken human form for convenience; they are actually huge creatures with hundreds of tentacles.
Kirk and Spock decide to adapt McCoy's neural scanning equipment into a countermeasure against the Kelvans' paralysis field. As a pretext for beaming back to the ship, Spock feigns illness by entering a deep trance. The Kelvans transport the rest of the landing party and themselves to the ship shortly afterward.
Spock concludes that penetrating the paralysis field projector's casing is impossible. Instead, he has Scott rig the matter/antimatter system to explode upon contact with the galactic barrier if Kirk gives the order, though Kirk chooses not to activate it.