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Science Fiction » alt.startrek » TOS Recap: Where No Man Has Gone Before, part 3 of 4
| TOS Recap: Where No Man Has Gone Before, part 3 of 4 [message #188041] |
Do, 22 Dezember 2005 16:22 |
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ACT THREE
"Stardate thirteen thirteen point one," Captain Kirk voiceovers as we
see the Enterprise approach a red-tinted planet. "We're now
approaching Delta Vega. Course set for a standard orbit. This planet,
completely uninhabited, is slightly smaller than Earth. Desolate, but
rich in crystalline minerals."
We cut to a view of the main viewscreen on the bridge, over the
shoulders of Kirk, Alden and Kelso. The voiceover continues: "Kelso's
task: transport down with a repair party, try to regenerate the main
engines, save the ship."
Another angle on the bridge as Kelso and Alden pack up some equipment
and head for the turbolift. "Our task: transport down a man I've known
for fifteen years, and if we're successful, maroon him there."
In sickbay, Mitchell is back in his peach tunic. He punches a pillow
into shape before lying down on the biobed. We cut to a shot of a cup
bearing an Earth logo sitting on a counter. Back to Mitchell who
mutters, "I'm thirsty." Back to the cup, which slides along the
counter to position itself under a tap. Water pours into the cup from
the tap.
Back to Mitchell on the biobed as the cup flies through the air to his
waiting hand. The door to sickbay opens, allowing Kirk, Spock and
Dehner to see the last few feet of its flight. The three enter.
Dehner is carrying a rust-colored bag on her shoulder. Spock is
wearing a silver belt with a phaser pistol attached. The phaser pistol
looks just like the hand lasers used by Captain Pike's crew in the
first pilot.
Mitchell drinks from the cup, looks up at Kirk, then back to the cup,
which he cradles in his hands as he says, "It's like a man who has been
blind all of his life suddenly being given sight. Sometimes I feel
there's nothing I couldn't do . . . in time." He lets go of the cup,
which floats toward Kirk. Kirk catches it. Mitchell looks back at
Kirk and continues, "Some people think that makes me a monster, don't
they, Jim?"
After a moment, Kirk says, "Are you reading all our thoughts, Gary?"
"I can sense mainly worry in you, Jim," says Mitchell. "Safety of your
ship."
"What would you do in my place?"
"Probably just what Mr. Spock is thinking now. Kill me . . . while you
can." Mitchell smiles.
Kirk turns to face Spock, and takes a couple of angry steps toward him,
before turning back to face Mitchell. As Kirk approaches Mitchell
again, Mitchell waves his hand and an electrical shock sends him
staggering back. Another wave, and Spock is shocked.
"Stop it, Gary!" Dehner insists.
A pause, which ends when Mitchell says, "I also know we're orbiting
Delta Vega, Jim. I can't let you force me down there." This isn't
going the way Kirk had planned. "I may not want to leave the ship, not
yet. I may want another place. I'm not sure yet just what kind of a
world I can use."
"Use?" says Dehner.
"I don't understand it all yet, but if I keep growing, getting
stronger, why the things I could do . . . like . . . like maybe a god
could do --" Mitchell approaches Dehner. As he walks past Kirk, Kirk
gives him a hard elbow to the ribs. (Why didn't Mitchell see that
coming? Better not to ask.) Spock follows up with a left to the
breadbasket (no Vulcan neck pinch yet), and Kirk lays Mitchell out with
an uppercut to the jaw.
"I want him unconscious for a while," Kirk barks to Dehner as he and
Spock hold him down on the biobed. Dehner responds with a hypospray to
Mitchell's left arm.
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The transporter room, and dammit, yes, that is the helm/navigation
console that Scott is operating. Piper, holding a hypospray,
approaches the door as Kirk and Spock drag Mitchell in and up to the
transporter stage, with Dehner bringing up the rear. A musical sting
as Mitchell comes to and starts to struggle. "You fools! Soon I'll
squash you like insects!" Mitchell manages to snarl before Piper doses
him again.
The five take up positions on the transporter stage, and Kirk gives the
order to energize. As a tech in an olive green jumpsuit looks on,
Scott does just that.
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Delta Vega. We get a three-second establishing shot that shows us a
building with a pentagonal entrance to the right, a line of five
saucer-shaped tanks with a forest of pipework behind them, a
dingy-looking building down a ways on the left, some jagged mountains
off on the horizon, and some heavy greenish clouds in the sky. (Per
the Okudas, the cracking station is a matte painting created by Albert
Whitlock.)
We cut to the pentagonal entrance, where Kirk's group materializes.
There's a sign on the wall to their right that says GALACTIC MINING
DELTA-VEGA STATION. As Kirk and Spock prop up Mitchell, Kelso and a
crewman in a blue tunic known only as the Guard show up. "Can you do
it, Lee?" Kirk asks.
"Maybe," says Lee, "if we can bypass the fuel bins without blowing
ourselves up."
"Take him," Kirk orders the Guard, and the Guard and Spock drag
Mitchell into the building, followed by Kelso and Piper.
"There's not a soul on this planet but us?" Dehner says quietly, no
doubt thinking of Mitchell being stranded here for the rest of his
life.
"Nobody but us chickens, doctor."
Back to the establishing shot, with the tiny figures of Dehner and Kirk
standing by the pentagonal entrance. Kirk goes in, and Dehner follows
him.
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Inside the mining station, we see Alden lugging a dismantled console
across the control room, while jumpsuited techs work behind him.
Setting it down on a pile of stuff next to Kelso, he says, "I think I
got the 203-R set, Lee."
"Good, Alden," says Kelso. "Transport it up with you, will you?"
Kelso has set up shop in front of a big window with a view of the rocky
landscape of Delta Vega.
"Okay," says Alden as he carries off the 203-R set. Kelso walks over
to Kirk, standing on the other side of the room.
"The fuel bins, Lee," says Kirk. "Could they be detonated from here?
A destruct switch?"
Peering at a section of console, Kelso says, "I guess I could wire one
up right there."
"Do it," Kirk orders. I predict Galactic Mining is not going to be
happy about having their fuel bins detonated. The subspace channel to
Earth is gonna be burning up when the home office on the Vega colony
hears about this.
Spock has come up during this exchange, and he says, "He's regaining
consciousness." He and Kirk exit stage right as Alden walks out with
the 203-R set.
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Mitchell is standing quietly in a room with a force field set up in the
entrance. There's a sign on the wall next to it that says RESTRICTED
AREA. Dehner and Piper are watching Mitchell as Kirk and Spock arrive.
Piper has a black bag on a strap over his left shoulder and a
hypospray in his right hand. Kirk walks up to the entrance and watches
Mitchell for a few seconds before turning away and calling Piper over.
"I want only one medical officer here at any one time," he tells Piper.
"The other will monitor him on the dispensary screen."
"I'd like to stay now," says Dehner. "Try to talk to him." Piper
gives her a "fine with me" look, hands her the hypospray and walks out.
Kirk notices that Mitchell is looking at him.
"My friend, James Kirk," says Mitchell. When Kirk doesn't respond, he
continues, "Remember those rodent things on Dimorus, the poisoned darts
they threw?" (Btw, Dimorus is pronounced DIM-a-rus.) "I took one
meant for you."
"And almost died," Kirk acknowledges. "I remember."
"So why be afraid of me now?"
"You've been testing your ability to take over the Enterprise," Kirk
declares. "In the transporter room, you said something about us
seeming like insects by comparison, squashing us if we got in your
way."
"I was drugged then," Mitchell points out.
"Yes," Kirk admits. "In the sick bay, you said if you were in my place
you'd kill a mutant like yourself." Now, strictly speaking, Mitchell
isn't a mutant. Mutants are born different, whereas Mitchell became
different as a result of an interaction with his environment.
"Why don't you kill me, then?" wonders Mitchell.
Because I'm not drunk with power like you, Kirk refrains from saying.
"Mr. Spock is right," Mitchell adds, "and you're a fool if you can't
see it."
"You don't mean that, Gary," says Dehner.
"Man cannot survive if a race of true espers is born," Mitchell tells
her. "In time you'll understand that." He walks into the force field
and turns interesting colors. Spock, taking no chances, draws his
phaser pistol.
"Please, Gary," Kirk pleads. After five seconds in the force field,
Mitchell steps back, takes a deep breath, and steps back into it again.
"Gary, don't!" This time, less than a second passes before the force
field throws Mitchell into the room, where he falls to the floor beside
the bed. His eyes lose their silver sheen.
"Jim," Mitchell murmurs.
"His eyes went back to normal," Kirk points out.
"Fighting the force field drained his strength, for a while at least,"
says Spock. "He could be handled now."
Eight seconds after it went away, the silver sheen comes back.
Mitchell gets up off the floor and slowly approaches the entrance.
"I'll just keep getting stronger. You know that, don't you?"
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The Enterprise orbiting Delta Vega.
On the bridge, Alden and Scott are fitting white components from the
mining station into the black surface of the Engineering Sub-Systems
Monitor. As Scott slots the last component into place, the Engineering
Sub-Systems Monitor lights up, back in working order. Scott gives a
little ta-da wave of the hand. Y'know, they don't call him the Miracle
Worker for nothing. A smiling Scott sits down at the helm station and
flips a switch, producing a communicator chirp. "It fits like a glove,
Captain," he announces.
Down at the mining station's control room, Kelso and two extras are at
work while Kirk holds a communicator. We hear Scott's filtered voice
say, "Oh, did Mr. Spock get the phaser rifle we sent down?"
Kirk replies, "I didn't order any . . . " as Spock walks in toting the
phaser rifle. He stands with the rifle in his right hand and the
phaser pistol still hanging from his belt. Mr. Spock is ready to
rumble. "Affirmative," Kirk finishes. "Landing party out."
Kirk leads Spock over to the window. Spock says, "He tried to get
through the force field again. His eyes changed back faster. He
didn't become as weak." The unspoken question: isn't it about time we
finished him off?
"Doctor Dehner feels he isn't that dangerous," says Kirk. "What makes
you right and a trained psychiatrist wrong?"
"Because she feels," Spock answers simply. "I don't. All I know is
logic. In my opinion, we'll be lucky if we can repair this ship and
get away in time."
Kirk walks back to Kelso, who gestures at a Big Red Switch and says,
"Direct to the power bins. From here, you could blow up this whole
valley." Kelso does not ask who will be manning the Big Red Switch.
Some questions you don't need to ask.
Kirk turns and trades one last look with Spock, then says, "If Mitchell
gets out . . . at your discretion, Lee, if sitting here, you think
you're the last chance . . . I want you to hit that button."
Musical sting. Fade to black.
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| Re: TOS Recap: Where No Man Has Gone Before, part 3 of 4 [message #189930 ] |
Fr, 23 Dezember 2005 15:38 |
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Empok Nor wrote:
> ACT THREE
>
Good!
No long wait.
<snip>
> "Yes," Kirk admits. "In the sick bay, you said if you were in my
> place you'd kill a mutant like yourself." Now, strictly speaking,
> Mitchell isn't a mutant. Mutants are born different, whereas
> Mitchell became different as a result of an interaction with his
> environment.
'Mutate', maybe?
'Metahuman'?
<snip>
> Kirk turns and trades one last look with Spock, then says, "If
> Mitchell gets out . . . at your discretion, Lee, if sitting here, you
> think you're the last chance . . . I want you to hit that button."
>
> Musical sting. Fade to black.
--
Wouter Valentijn
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www.nksf.nl
www.zeppodunsel.nl
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The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity and the ways our
differences combine to create meaning and beauty.
Vulcan IDIC "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"
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