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| - Aboard the Enterprise, Kirk and Spock warn Yeoman Dorrie Trask not to open a door from which huge clawed hands are emerging... Captain's log: star date 11:26.1 – We've established orbit around planet Pollux II – to investigate the strange disappearance of several spaceships in this vicinity recently... On the bridge, McCoy expresses his concern that the bridge crew have not had leave for months. Yeoman Dorrie Trask asks Kirk to sign a requisition for plastowels, which Kirk tells her can be found on Level 7. Spock detects rising power levels on a small area of the planet's surface. He activates the force screen as the Enterprise is struck by force beams. When the blasts cease, Spock reports that damage is minor. Kirk orders him to run a personnel check. Meanwhile, on Level 7 Yeoman Trask recovers from the impact and notices a storeroom door marked "CAUTION Do Not Open Off-Limits". Opening the door to make sure nothing inside is broken, she is horrified by bestial, insubstantial things that pour out into the corridor and toward the air-vents, leaving her unconscious. The invisible things arrive on the bridge through the ventilation system and enter the bodies of the bridge crew. Every crewmember has reported in to Spock except Yeoman Pandora Trask. Remembering that she is on Level 7, Kirk goes there to find that Room 101 is open. He contacts Spock and tells him they can no longer keep the room's contents a secret. In Sick Bay, Spock tells McCoy about what was in Room 101. Thousands of years earlier some Vulcans removed their emotions and sealed them in bottles. When they realized that this process harmed the soul, the Vulcans destroyed their equipment, but the bottled emotions survived. The Enterprise was carrying them to Beta IV, where the Vulcans have erected a shrine to house them. The bottles were in Room 101, where they were broken during the ray attack; the emotions are now loose on the ship. Kirk and Scotty lead a landing party to the surface; Kirk asks Spock and McCoy to find the emotions and bottle them again. Arriving on the planet, Kirk and Scotty realize that Chekov, Sulu and the other landing party members are not with them. They hear a voice in their minds welcoming them to Pollux II. The voice falls silent, and Kirk and Scotty set out through the jungle. Hearing something in the bushes, Kirk is surprised to discover Spock and McCoy. They were unable to contact him by communicator, and therefore beamed down with several other crewmembers, who have vanished. The escaped emotions could not be found on the Enterprise. The four officers are suddenly approached by a tall, powerful beast; they try to stun it with their phasers, which have no effect. Spock panics and pushes Kirk away when he tries to calm him. The creature retreats, but Spock runs in the other direction, crying out in fear, while McCoy yells after him that he's a coward...
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