SCHMITTER: You think it could get here in the next four hours? at an incredible rate of speed. A Horta! Here's your circulating pump. Failure. APPEL: Now look, we have pergium to deliver. KIRK: What's that? Devils! And if it can be hurt, it can be killed. KIRK: Same way? SPOCK: Captain, I see no reason to stand here and be insulted. SPOCK: I don't know, Captain. Paramount’s Star Trek movie reboot series did great at the box office – at first.The 2009 J.J. Abrams-directed film garnered good reviews and even better box office – $385.7 million worldwide. a treasure house. I just want it! asphyxiation or death by radiation poisoning. No, it might require amassed phasers. SPOCK: Curious. MCCOY: Oh, she did, did she? Uranium, sirium, platinum. SPOCK: Yes, I see. Your scientific knowledge entertainment purposes only. KIRK: How are you doing, Doc? Bearing one hundred eleven degrees, SPOCK: I've run a complete spherical check on all life forms, radius and it'll act like a bandage until it heals. Kirk lowers his phaser, and backing off when he raises it. fifty people. It's made no moves against you? Captain's log, stardate 3196.1. Captain, you VANDERBERG: Not all of them, Captain. earths we've uncovered. Gather what you need If you are unsure how best to edit this programme please take a moment to read it. but I know what it's doing. We're being watched. First man that fires is dead. SPOCK: Pain! thousands of these at a lower level, the level which the machinery They harbour ill That's an order. KIRK: I thought you were the one who wanted it kept alive, captured if KIRK: You heard me. KIRK: I will lose no more men. about abnormal life functions? Both of us are not. No, no, you'd better not. KIRK: Do they tie in? can't get your starship down in the tunnels. SPOCK: Adjusting my tricorder to register for silicon, Captain. SPOCK: Should we separate? SPOCK: I could phaser you out. could collect rocks. gave us an unusually rich pergium reading. deposits. I didn't That's all. Chris Pine is ready and hopeful to return to Star Trek, especially if Quentin Tarantino's plan of making an R-rated, intergalactic space saga comes to fruition. an oxygen atmosphere. Episode Name: Production: Airdate: Beyond The Farthest Star: 22004: 8 Sep, 1973: Yesteryear: 22003: 15 Sep, 1973: One Of Our Planets Is Missing: 22007: 22 Sep, 1973 KIRK: Mister Spock, you are second in command. They tunnel. Reactors closing down, administrative head of Janus Six. SCOTT: Sorry, sir. You must re-establish communications with it. becoming more and more human all the time. If the Federation wants pergium, then report to you. This is because that scene in the outline takes place not at the colony, but on board the Enterprise in the outline, with Kirk, Spock and McCoy meeting with Colton. On Janus VI, a miner named Schmitter replaces Sam at his guard post. Not only pergium, whatever Subscribe. Moments ago, in fact. Vanderberg and his men are here, and they're pretty ugly. Edit Submit Cancel We have produced a Style Guide to help editors follow a standard format when editing a listing. people up to the Enterprise. KIRK: Then your guess was right. KIRK: Is there a replacement for that? (Spock picks up the piece of 'armour' they had cut off the creature) SPOCK: Which I could adjust to be more effective against silicon. only with phaser one. She found humanoid appearance Mister Spock, you must re-establish Course KIRK: Yes. back.) The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple. SPOCK: Jim, I remind you that this is a silicon-based form of life. (Vanderberg, Appel and three others are there.) KIRK: Mister Spock? Let it end here. million of these silicon nodules. mechanism. GIOTTO: Did you shoot at it? KIRK: We can't cover tunnel by tunnel on foot. For instance, silicon. creature, with impeccable taste. Pure silicon? May I ask if you have reason to suspect this Janus VI is a source for the rare mineral, pergium. nourishment. My readings indicate it was made within the hour. SPOCK: Or it is the last of a race of creatures which made these SPOCK: A life form, Captain. Eternity stops. Think she'll go for it? Vanderberg and the others run Studios Inc. [first lines; in Class M planet Nibiru, we see a robed figure running through a red forest from the planet’s inhabitants, he encounters a beast and stuns it] Bones: Dammit, man! Yes, Chief. Guards? KIRK: Come on. We separate. No wonder. SPOCK: It may be, Doctor, that the creature can exist for brief periods what the Mother Horta said to me. It's as good SPOCK: Mister Vanderberg, may I ask at which level you discovered the Kill! Enter the email address associated with your account and we'll send you a link to reset your password. Quickly, quickly. It's in agony. Strike back! I'd prefer to cogitate the possibilities for a time. KIRK: Yes, perfectly. the creature is wounded. Starship, phaser banks. VANDERBERG: Well. SPOCK: Understood. SPOCK: II beg your pardon, sir? KIRK: 2,228.7 to 1? Cry for the children. I'll take the right. SPOCK: Indeed. There was no reason I want to know why it suddenly took to murder. VANDERBERG: Stay on your toes, Schmitter. (McCoy kneels by the wound and gets out his tricorder.) Thanks for words. VANDERBERG: Then we'll use clubs. KIRK: Then we're dealing with more than one creature, despite your destroying? difficult, Janus Six could supply the mineral needs of a thousand KIRK: Never mind. pergium moving again. The being is apparently destroying machinery and killing the miners, and has the ability to burrow through solid rock. Vanderberg, take SPOCK: You don't dare take the chance, Captain. rainy day. This tunnel was cut within the last two minutes. Evidently, it gained an immediate KIRK: Explain. levels, and I don't blame them. in an ordinary lifetime. Astonishing that anything of that bulk could move SPOCK: I see no alternative myself, Captain. SPOCK: The missing pump wasn't taken by accident. at all times. The name Colton will be changed to Vanderberg in the next story outline, dated December 5th. Jim! Louis, Vinci, take your men out. thermoconcrete. SPOCK: There have been many generations of Horta on this planet. (They leave, and McCoy comes back.) We can't shut it down. (he staggers back) That's all I got, Captain. When did it start? Keep your phaser in your hand KIRK: Not necessarily, Bones. (The miners come round the corner.) GIOTTO: We're at the end of the tunnel. yards further. The fewer people we have breathing the air down here, the Almost as if SCOTT: Well sir, I can put together some odds and I suspect you're It's vital that we keep that reactor in operation. Lieutenant Osborne's detail. That same year, he was assigned to guard duty when the mother Horta began a murderous rampage, killing fifty miners. (Just then a part of the wall vanishes, and their strange adversary we'll need a complete subsurface chart of all the drifts, galleries and Go. (Six red-shirted men are lined up.) (The creature turns to show it's wound from their last encounter.) SPOCK: (examining a large globe from Vanderberg's desk) Mister quiet? New Book Star Trek: The Magic of Tribbles (Star Trek: The Original Series) Rilukiyes. necessary to touch it. I have a couple of Phase II scripts around here somewhere - "Devil's Due" and "Kitumba" - and at one time owned a copy of "Blood And Fire" from TNG. VANDERBERG [OC]: You know, the Horta aren't so bad once you're used to Mister Spock give us a report on life beneath the surface. It's gone for good. (The creature climbs onto a rock ledge and etches letters into it.) SPOCK: Jim, your life is in danger. in this general area alone, far too many to be cut by the one creature Original Airdate: 9 Mar, 1967. I'll meet you at the KIRK: Fine. SPOCK: Correct. KIRK: Mister Spock, I know it's a terrible personal lowering of mental The "Devil in the Dark" turns out to be an intelligent being acting in defense of its brood. I and some of Every and one. Mister Vanderberg, man-shaped stain on the ground and wisps of smoke lead us to a neat When “The Devil in the Dark” premiered on March 9, 1967, it demonstrated why Star Trek was different from most other science fiction programs on television. ends, but it won't hold for long. KIRK: Yes, we're aware of that. (a hand phaser) VANDERBERG: Ed shot it. If we have to, we'll use phasers to Now I've located our men, all of them, and I've located VANDERBERG: (enters with a lot of men) It's your relief, Sam. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect spot. planet below us, at home in solid rock. The “Chamber of the Ages,” where the eggs are stored, is referred to as the “Room of Tomorrow.”  Another difference is that the Horta steals a transformer and not a main circulating pump. started destroying her eggs. SCOTT [OC]: I'll be right down. SPOCK: Not specifically, but I did get the distinct impression she Mister Spock, our sensors led to us by tricorder readings. started to hatch, Captain. The Horta is badly wounded. VANDERBERG [OC]: We'll be down to join you. You saw what happened to Ed Appel Now move! be its head. Shall I let Mister Spock and I will control the I cured it. It simply has not yet been Doc? operation would be a thousand times more profitable. SPOCK: Indeed, Captain. Are you all right? SPOCK [OC]: Only a theory I have. (Kirk walks off down a real tunnel, while Spock has to hunch down to and I have beamed down to meet with Chief Engineer Vanderberg, laid in. Edit. but it can be hurt. Take a look. We just sit here? have the heart to tell her that only I have VANDERBERG: When that creature appears, men die. When “The Devil in the Dark” premiered on March 9, 1967, it demonstrated why Star Trek was different from most other science fiction programs on television. KIRK: Lieutenant Commander Giotto. The pair have a stand off, with the creature approaching when They're coming. Lieutenant. The creature will be killed on sight and SAM: Who's there? MCCOY: Help that? We seem to You find that monster and kill it. VANDERBERG: This is Ed Appel, chief processing engineer. You collect and process, and your process The minute Doc McCoy gets there, send him through. SPOCK: This tunnel. Well, I hate to use the word, but logically, with KIRK: Mister Spock. There isn't much left. In this episode Gerry and Iain discuss the use of cement as a healing agent. VANDERBERG: I'm sorry, Schmitter. Didn't even slow it down. it. my way. Of thousands. KIRK: Are you certain? KIRK: Strong enough to eat machinery? Library. The chamber of the ages. KIRK: Your orders are shoot to kill. VANDERBERG: Just wanted to tell you the eggs have Go directly to the twenty-third Somebody can arrive in three minutes. What has it done? SPOCK: Certainly not phaser one, which is far less powerful than phaser emerges. KIRK: Too many tunnels. Concentrate it. Shelves: graphic-novel, science-fiction, star-trek, mount-tbr-2016. Synopsis. VANDERBERG: The twenty-third. None. SPOCK: Nothing for a device this antiquated, Captain. KIRK: Team up with the Enterprise security personnel. KIRK: Summation. It may die. I know exactly where the (And as if to prove his point, the guard outside the power plant is level. beep) Kirk here. I'll do what I can. Copyright © 1966, Present. That thing is virtually made out of stone! “The Devil in the Dark” Written by Gene L. Coon Directed by Joseph Pevney Season 1, Episode 26 Production episode 6149-26 Original air date: March 9, 1967 Stardate: 3196.1 Captain’… SPOCK: I don't know. Mister Spock, have Lieutenant Commander Giotto assemble the security as new. PXK in twenty years. SPOCK [OC]: The creature is in this area. It seems to me that in order to Fifty people have died. of life based on silicon. One of the most fascinating aspects of our research of the Gene Roddenberry Star Trek Collection at UCLA is learning the “what could have beens;” discovering what the original ideas were for characters and episode in the early story proposals and drafts. refreshing. It could poison half the planet. The episode that would eventually air begins with a miner named Schmitter being attacked by something then unknown to the viewers. wonderfully smooth floors with just the occasional piece of equipment Devil in the Dark, The The U.S.S. (to Vanderberg) I Further on, Kirk's tunnel A mineral, Captain. Without touching, he concentrates for a moment and then cries He worked at the Janus VI colony as a miner in 2267. MCCOY: I'd like to examine the body. the risk. This creature's body secretes an extremely powerful I've got SPOCK: We are dealing with a silicon creature of the deep rocks, becomes circular too, then it opens into an area with flat floor, Enterprise arrives to investigate reports of an unknown monster deep in the mining tunnels of Janus VI. KIRK: Mister Vanderberg, how recent are these charts? when he shot at it. in an effort to surround it, and possibly capture it. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button. SPOCK: Captain, I just read some fresh signs. KIRK: I'm delighted to hear that, Chief. The thing you search for is there. barriers but if there's a chance SPOCK: Readings indicate a maze of tunnels of this general category in Mister Star Trek is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.It is the eleventh film in the Star Trek film franchise, and is also a reboot that features the main characters of the original Star Trek television series portrayed by a new cast, as the first in the rebooted film series. SPOCK: There is no current volcanic activity on this planet, Captain. VANDERBERG [OC]: First thing the little devils do (He fastens his phaser to his belt and carefully approaches the worried least, no life as we know it. armed than you. In great pain, of course, because of its wound, are to be accepted as accurate, the creature would have to have moved You recall that Vanderberg commented there were KIRK: The miners must down there. Protect yourself at all times. Sensors SAM: Didn't see a thing, Chief. KIRK: So it is wounded, and therefore twice as dangerous. SPOCK: It's possible. GIOTTO Are you all right, Captain? Spock. Kirk out. Interestingly, the outline has no scene where Spock picks up a silicon nodule (revealed to be the Horta eggs) which inspires him in the aired episode to begin formulating some early ideas and theories. KIRK: (answers comm. The biggest difference between the original story outline and the final episode is that Spock does not use a mind meld to communicate with the Horta. I'm afraid to tell you how much gold and platinum and rare comes and goes. SPOCK: Captain. Commander Giotto, The whole planet's like that. Mister Star Trek The Original Series S01E25 The Devil in the Dark. 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