An engineering crew completes repairs and the USS Enterprise resumes its course to planet Alpha Z-21, also known as "Planet Questionmark." To prepare for the research mission, Lieutenant Commander Spock and Captain James T. Kirk review the planet's history using radio film footage taken by a "deep galaxy ship" before it exploded. The brief footage shows a high level of civilization with advanced technical machinery featured prominently.
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| - An engineering crew completes repairs and the USS Enterprise resumes its course to planet Alpha Z-21, also known as "Planet Questionmark." To prepare for the research mission, Lieutenant Commander Spock and Captain James T. Kirk review the planet's history using radio film footage taken by a "deep galaxy ship" before it exploded. The brief footage shows a high level of civilization with advanced technical machinery featured prominently.
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| - An engineering crew completes repairs and the USS Enterprise resumes its course to planet Alpha Z-21, also known as "Planet Questionmark." To prepare for the research mission, Lieutenant Commander Spock and Captain James T. Kirk review the planet's history using radio film footage taken by a "deep galaxy ship" before it exploded. The brief footage shows a high level of civilization with advanced technical machinery featured prominently. Upon arrival to the mystery planet, Spock notes a high-oxygen reading with indications of water also present. The Enterprise goes low into the planet's atmosphere where observations note that much of the planet is a massive, empty city bearing no signs of catastrophe. Kirk orders the ship into orbit and an exploration team transports to the surface. As Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the team beam down, their presence is noticed by members of the indigenous population. Before anyone can do anything, a convoy of heavy equipment approaches, causing the ground to shake. The equipment contain no operators but begin creating buildings and roads rapidly to extend the existing city. Some of the planet's population attempt to board one piece of machinery only to be thrown off. Kirk stops the machine using a laser rifle and the heavy equipment withdraws from the scene. Using the language Esperanta, Kirk communicates with the aliens, who thank him. The leader, Krill, explains he's the leader of all who remain of the planet Zarta. 150 years ago, his people were a flourishing race of many millions. Their civilization experimented with using machines to replace manual labor with the machines becoming more and more sophisticated. The nadir of this technological progress was the city builder, a complex machine designed to build cities with great technical precision. However, the city builder began to construct buildings and other facilities on its own. Construction soon got out of control, threatening the planet's populace. Because machines had been responsible for the planet's technological progress for so long, the populace did not understand the complexity of the machines currently existing and eventually lost their technological knowledge prior to the rise of the machines.
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