Star Trek The Original Series Season 2 Episode 3 The Changeling [1966]
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00:00:00Nothing since their original distress call, sir.
00:00:04What about the Federation Science Team working there?
00:00:06Dr. Manway had a special transmitter.
00:00:08There's nothing, sir. I'm scanning all frequencies.
00:00:11They have to answer.
00:00:14Captain.
00:00:18They will not answer.
00:00:20The long-range sense of a sweep of this system reveals no sign of life.
00:00:26That can't be.
00:00:27The last census reported a total inhabitation of more than 4 billion people.
00:00:32I register no life readings at all, sir.
00:00:40That's impossible.
00:00:42What could have happened?
00:00:45We would have known in advance of any system-wide catastrophe.
00:00:50And in the event of an interplanetary war, there would be considerable radioactive residue.
00:00:56Our instruments show only normal background radiation.
00:01:00Any other possibilities?
00:01:02Unknown, sir.
00:01:04Since some readings would have revealed the presence of any diseased organisms.
00:01:08They do not.
00:01:09In addition, we received a routine report from this system only a week ago.
00:01:14And the cymbaline blood burn does not act that swiftly.
00:01:18Captain.
00:01:19Shields just snapped on.
00:01:20Something heading in at multi-warp speeds.
00:01:29Base of maneuvers, Mr. Sulu.
00:01:31Extremely powerful bolt of energy, Captain.
00:01:34Full power to the shields, Mr. Scout.
00:01:36Look at what we got, sir.
00:01:38All hands red alert.
00:01:40Base of bank, stand by.
00:01:42Photon torpedoes.
00:01:43Condition red.
00:01:44Condition red.
00:01:45He's going to hit.
00:02:02He's going to hit.
00:02:06He's going to hit.
00:02:14Space, a final frontier.
00:02:37Space, a final frontier.
00:02:39These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
00:02:49Its five-year mission, to explore strange new worlds.
00:02:55To seek out new life and new civilizations.
00:02:59To boldly go where no man has gone before.
00:03:09To be continued...
00:03:39Shields still holding, sir?
00:03:58Temporarily, Captain.
00:04:00Our shields absorbed energy equivalent to 90 of our photon torpedoes.
00:04:0590?
00:04:07I may add, the energy used in repulsing this first attack reduced our shielding power 20%.
00:04:14First attack, sir?
00:04:15I think we can expect others, Lieutenant.
00:04:17We can resist three more such attacks.
00:04:23The fourth will shatter our shields completely.
00:04:25Mr. Spark, pinpoint the source.
00:04:29Mr. Sulu, evasive maneuvers.
00:04:31Aye, sir.
00:04:32Lieutenant, contact Starfleet Command.
00:04:34Patch in my log, tell them what has happened.
00:04:36Tell them that the entire Malurian race seems to have been destroyed by an unknown agency.
00:04:41And that we are under attack by an unidentified force.
00:04:45Elms will rise in evasive maneuvers.
00:04:47We're losing power, sir.
00:04:52I'm having to divert the warp engine power into the shield, sir, if you want the protection.
00:04:58Spark.
00:04:59Speed of those bolts.
00:05:02Approximately warp 15, Captain.
00:05:04I can't.
00:05:05I'll drop it.
00:05:06I bet, Scotty, you were doing the right thing.
00:05:15Sourcebar.
00:05:17Unknown, Captain.
00:05:18Nothing within sense or range.
00:05:25Something now, Captain.
00:05:27Very small.
00:05:29Bearing.
00:05:29One, two, three degrees.
00:05:32Mark.
00:05:32One, eight.
00:05:33Range.
00:05:3490,000 kilometers.
00:05:36That's our target, Mr. Sulu.
00:05:38Prepare photon torpedoes.
00:05:41Shield still holding, sir.
00:05:43But the drain on the engine is reaching the critical point.
00:05:47Ah, we just lost warp maneuvering power.
00:05:49Switching the impulse.
00:05:51Photon torpedoes hard, sir.
00:05:53Has the target changed location, Mr. Sparkle?
00:05:55No, sir.
00:05:56Holding steady.
00:05:58Ready.
00:05:58Photon torpedo number two, Mr. Sulu.
00:06:01Ready, sir.
00:06:04Fire.
00:06:06Torpedo weight.
00:06:09Torpedo weight.
00:06:20Direct it.
00:06:22No effect.
00:06:24Target absorbed full energy of our torpedo.
00:06:29Absorbed?
00:06:30There must be damage to your instruments, Mark.
00:06:39They're in good working order, Captain.
00:06:45What could have absorbed that much energy and survived?
00:06:49Lieutenant, try to make contact.
00:06:52Aye, sir.
00:06:53Sir, you fired another.
00:06:58Here we take it, Mr. Scott.
00:07:00That's problematical, sir.
00:07:05Shields are down.
00:07:06We cannot survive another hit.
00:07:09Anything, Lieutenant?
00:07:10Trying, sir.
00:07:11Translator computer.
00:07:12All hailing frequencies open.
00:07:16Aye, sir.
00:07:17All hailing frequencies open.
00:07:20To unidentified vessel, this is Captain James Kirk of USS Enterprise.
00:07:26We are on a peaceful mission.
00:07:27We mean no harm to you or any life forms.
00:07:33Please communicate with us.
00:07:42Any further readings, Mr. Spock?
00:07:46Computing now, Captain.
00:07:48Weight, 500 kilograms.
00:07:53Shape, roughly cylindrical.
00:07:57Length, fraction over one meter.
00:08:03500 kilos and only one meter long?
00:08:06What kind of intelligent creatures could exist in a thing that small?
00:08:11Intelligence does not necessarily require bulk, Mr. Scott.
00:08:15Captain, we're getting a signal from the spacecraft.
00:08:20Put it on audio, Lieutenant.
00:08:22Yes, sir.
00:08:28It's impossible to get it any clearer, sir.
00:08:31Analysis sector.
00:08:32Have them study and decode it.
00:08:36Analysis sector.
00:08:38Channel one.
00:08:39Main computer.
00:08:41Decode.
00:08:44Captain.
00:08:45This message is a sort of binary.
00:08:49Extremely sophisticated.
00:08:51Compressed.
00:08:53Carrying several channels at once.
00:08:56Can you decode it?
00:08:58No clue as yet, Kev.
00:09:00A moment.
00:09:03Transmission speed has stepped down.
00:09:06It's much slower.
00:09:08Seems to be a single binary.
00:09:11It's mathematical.
00:09:12Yes, one symbol.
00:09:14Yes, one symbol.
00:09:15The symbol repeat.
00:09:19Sir, that isn't in the Starfleet code.
00:09:22It's an old style in the planetary code.
00:09:25Fascinating.
00:09:27Repeat what?
00:09:28A message I sent?
00:09:30It would seem so, Captain.
00:09:31This is Captain James Kirk of the USS Enterprise.
00:09:42We are on a peaceful mission in this part of the galaxy.
00:09:48We have no hostile intentions.
00:09:50We request identity.
00:09:53We request identity.
00:09:57It's another signal now, sir.
00:10:00It's a formula, Captain.
00:10:03They're sending us a mathematical message and requesting language equivalence.
00:10:10They're trying to communicate.
00:10:13Ty and the ship's translator to the communication channel.
00:10:16Let them take it at their own speed.
00:10:18Aye, Captain.
00:10:19Cut far away, Lieutenant.
00:10:34Overloaded and burned out.
00:10:35I guess they can take it faster than we can give it.
00:10:41Captain, the message is coming in now.
00:10:45USS Enterprise.
00:10:48This is Nomad.
00:10:50My mission is non-hostile.
00:10:55Apparently they got what they needed before the computers burned out.
00:10:59Nomad.
00:11:00It is impossible to come aboard your ship because of the size differential.
00:11:19Non sequitur.
00:11:21Your facts are uncoordinated.
00:11:25We are prepared to beam you aboard our ship.
00:11:28That will be satisfactory.
00:11:33Do you require any special conditions, any particular atmosphere or environment?
00:11:39Negative.
00:11:40I will come aboard.
00:11:42Good.
00:11:43Hold your position.
00:11:45We're locked onto your coordinates.
00:11:47We'll beam you aboard.
00:11:48Captain, you're not really going to bring that thing in here.
00:11:51Do we have any choice, Scotty?
00:11:53Besides, once it's aboard, it won't be taking any more shots at us.
00:11:56Lieutenant, get a repair crew in that computer.
00:12:00Get Dr. McCoy down to the transporter room.
00:12:02Spock, you come with me.
00:12:03Scotty, you too.
00:12:04Dr. McCoy to the transporter room.
00:12:06Maintenance crew C-5.
00:12:10We've got the coordinates, Jim.
00:12:12It's locked down.
00:12:13Energized.
00:12:15Energizing.
00:12:15We've got the coordinates.
00:12:45Sensor readings, Mr. Spock.
00:12:54Negative, Captain.
00:12:55It has a protective screen.
00:12:58I cannot get through.
00:13:01What do we do now?
00:13:02Go up and knock.
00:13:04Relate to your point of origin.
00:13:11We are from the United Federation of Planets.
00:13:15Insufficient response.
00:13:18All things have a point of origin.
00:13:21I will scan your star charts.
00:13:27Well, if we show it a close-up view of our system,
00:13:30if it has no point of reference, it won't know any more than it does now.
00:13:34Reasonable, of course.
00:13:36If you care to leave your ship, we'll provide the necessary life support systems.
00:13:42Non-sequitur.
00:13:45Your facts are uncoordinated.
00:13:47Jim, I don't think anybody's in there.
00:13:50I contain no parasitical beings.
00:13:53I am no man.
00:13:56In my opinion, that's a machine.
00:13:59Indeed.
00:14:00It is reacting much like a highly sophisticated computer.
00:14:04I am no man.
00:14:07What is opinion?
00:14:11An opinion is a belief, a view, a judgment.
00:14:17Insufficient response.
00:14:18What's your source of power?
00:14:21It has changed since the point of origin.
00:14:25There was much taken from the other.
00:14:28I am perpetual now.
00:14:31I am no man.
00:14:33Isn't there a probe called no man launched in the early 2000s?
00:14:38Yes.
00:14:40It was reported destroyed.
00:14:43There were no more in the series.
00:14:45But if this is that probe...
00:14:50I will scan your star charts.
00:14:56I will bring them.
00:14:57I have the capability of movement within your ship.
00:15:13This way.
00:15:15This way.
00:15:27Now, Scotty, can I warp power up to full capacity?
00:15:41Aye, sir.
00:15:42Bart.
00:15:43Oh, sir.
00:15:44Come with us.
00:15:57You're at 14 A, sir.
00:16:1314 A.
00:16:18Nomad, can you scan that?
00:16:21Yes.
00:16:22This is our point of origin.
00:16:24The star we know as Sol.
00:16:27You are from the third planet?
00:16:32Yes.
00:16:34A planet with one large natural satellite?
00:16:39Yes.
00:16:41The planet is called Earth?
00:16:46Yes.
00:16:48You are the creator.
00:16:51The Kirk.
00:16:53This sterilization procedure against your ship was unnecessary.
00:16:58What?
00:17:00Sterilization procedure?
00:17:02You are the Kirk.
00:17:04The creator.
00:17:06You programmed my function.
00:17:08Well, I'm not the Kirk.
00:17:09Tell me what your function is.
00:17:11This is one of your units, creator?
00:17:16Yes, he is.
00:17:17It functions irrationally.
00:17:19It functions irrationally.
00:17:23Sometimes.
00:17:26But tell him your function nevertheless.
00:17:28My function is to probe for biological infestations.
00:17:33To destroy that which is not perfect.
00:17:37I am nomad.
00:17:38Biological infestation.
00:17:47There was never any probes sent out for that.
00:17:50I believe the history computer can answer that question.
00:17:53I'll have the readout in a moment.
00:18:00Did you destroy the Malurian system?
00:18:05Not the system, creator Kirk.
00:18:08Only the unstable biological infestation.
00:18:12It is my function.
00:18:13Unstable infestation?
00:18:16The population of four planets?
00:18:18What kind of function, doctor?
00:18:23Why do you call me the creator?
00:18:26Is the usage incorrect?
00:18:30Well, I...
00:18:31The usage is correct.
00:18:32No, man.
00:18:34The creator was simply testing your memory banks.
00:18:38There was much damage in the accident.
00:18:45Mr. Singh.
00:18:48Come here, Mullen.
00:18:51This unit will cede to your needs, sir.
00:18:54I'll be back in a moment.
00:18:55Gentlemen, come with me.
00:19:05You're out of something, Spock.
00:19:06What is it?
00:19:07I've correlated all the available information on the nomad probe.
00:19:10And I'm convinced that this object is indeed that probe.
00:19:14It's ridiculous, sir.
00:19:15Earth science couldn't begin to build anything with those capabilities that long ago.
00:19:19True.
00:19:20Nomad was destroyed.
00:19:22Presumed destroyed.
00:19:23By a meteor collision.
00:19:25I submit that it was badly damaged and somehow managed to repair itself.
00:19:29I heard some lectures at the academy on the nomad probe.
00:19:35Its mission was essentially peaceful.
00:19:36Did I disturb you?
00:19:57Did you wish anything?
00:20:02Bridge to auxiliary control room.
00:20:12Check in, please.
00:20:14Lieutenant Singh here.
00:20:16All systems are normal except warp power indicators.
00:20:20Mr. Scott's engineers are working on them now.
00:20:22Report to him when your indicators are registering properly.
00:20:26Anything else?
00:20:27One moment, Lieutenant.
00:20:31Hold it.
00:20:32Hold it.
00:20:43Where my heart is, where my heart is,
00:20:51All the way beyond the sky beyond the sky beyond the sky.
00:21:10This is the creator of Nomad.
00:21:13Perhaps the most brilliant, though erratic, scientist of his time.
00:21:17His dream was to build a perfect thinking machine, capable of independent logic.
00:21:25You recall his name?
00:21:27Of course, Jackson Roy Kirk.
00:21:30Jackson Roy Kirk, Captain James Kirk.
00:21:36Yes.
00:21:37Similar.
00:21:38Captain, I believe that Nomad thinks you are Roy Kirk.
00:21:43That may well be why the attack was broken off.
00:21:47It responded to your name as well as its damaged memory banks permitted.
00:21:53What do we have on Nomad itself, Spark?
00:22:00Well, that's not the same.
00:22:02Essentially, it is, Doctor.
00:22:04I believe that more happened to it than just damage in the meteor collision.
00:22:09It mentioned the other.
00:22:13The unanswered question is, the other what?
00:22:17Nomad was a thinking machine.
00:22:19The best that could be engineered.
00:22:20It was a prototype.
00:22:22Its purpose was certainly altered.
00:22:25Its directive to seek out and destroy biological infestations.
00:22:29Could not have been programmed into it.
00:22:31As I recall, it wasn't.
00:22:32It was supposed to be the first interstellar probe to seek out new life forms.
00:22:37Precisely, Doctor.
00:22:40And somehow that programming has been changed.
00:22:43It would seem that Nomad is now seeking out perfect life forms.
00:22:49Perfection being measured by its own relentless logic.
00:22:53If what you say is true, then we've taken aboard our vessel, a device which sooner or later must destroy us.
00:23:07Lieutenant Carlisle here.
00:23:16This is the captain.
00:23:18The mechanism we brought aboard is in the auxiliary control room.
00:23:22Have the security team meet me there in five minutes.
00:23:25Aye, sir.
00:23:26Acknowledge.
00:23:27Captain.
00:23:28The same reports that Nomad is no longer in the auxiliary control room.
00:23:32Security, cancel that order.
00:23:33Implement a full search for the mechanism.
00:23:37All decks.
00:23:37Report to me here.
00:23:38Captain.
00:23:39Captain.
00:23:40Captain.
00:23:41Captain.
00:23:42Captain.
00:23:43That mechanical beast here is uphill.
00:23:45On my way, Scotty.
00:23:47Captain.
00:23:48Captain.
00:23:49Captain.
00:23:50Captain.
00:23:51Captain.
00:23:52Captain.
00:23:53Captain.
00:23:54Captain.
00:23:55That mechanical beast here is uphill.
00:23:56On my way, Scotty.
00:23:58I'm ready, Scotty.
00:23:59I'm ready.
00:24:00I'm ready.
00:24:01I'm ready.
00:24:02Oh, thank you.
00:24:03Captain.
00:24:04That mechanical beast here is uphill.
00:24:05They're on my way, Scotty.
00:24:07What is the meaning?
00:24:37What?
00:24:39What form of communication?
00:24:44I don't know what it...
00:24:49Singing. I was singing.
00:24:52For what purpose is singing?
00:24:56I don't know. I like to sing.
00:25:02I felt like music.
00:25:05What is music?
00:25:12Think about music.
00:25:16Lieutenant, keep away from my sonny!
00:25:23Pawns!
00:25:32Asterisk show.
00:25:38Asterisk show.
00:25:45Asterisk show.
00:26:00Why did you kill him?
00:26:01The unit touched my screens.
00:26:06That unit was my chief engineer.
00:26:15Lieutenant.
00:26:19Lieutenant, are you all right?
00:26:27Sickbay.
00:26:31What'd you do to her?
00:26:33That unit is defective.
00:26:36Its thinking is chaotic.
00:26:39Absorbing it unsettled me.
00:26:41That unit is a woman.
00:26:44A mass of conflicting impulses.
00:26:51It's got down below.
00:26:52Will the creator effect repairs on the unit, Scott?
00:27:04He's dead.
00:27:06Insufficient response.
00:27:11His biological functions have ceased.
00:27:15Does the creator wish me to repair the unit?
00:27:25There's nothing I can do, Jim.
00:27:27There's a chance I'll have to be soon.
00:27:36All right, Nomad.
00:27:38Repair the unit.
00:27:39I require tapes on the structure.
00:27:46Well, it'll need tapes on general anatomy,
00:27:49the central nervous system,
00:27:51and then one on the physiological structure of the brain.
00:27:55And we'd better give it all the neurological studies we have,
00:27:58as well as tracings of Scottie's hyperencephodrome.
00:28:01Nomad, I have arranged the tapes for flash feed
00:28:17at the top speed of your computer.
00:28:20Please do not draw the information faster than the machine's capacity.
00:28:25Proceed.
00:28:37Creator, the unit, Scott, is a primitive structure.
00:28:59Insufficient safeguards built in.
00:29:03Breakdown can occur from many causes.
00:29:07Self-maintenance systems of low reliability.
00:29:12It serves me as it is, Nomad.
00:29:15Repair it.
00:29:16Where is the unit, Scott, now?
00:29:20The body is in sickbay.
00:29:23Show me sickbay.
00:29:26Dr. McCoy will show you.
00:29:37Security.
00:29:47Security.
00:29:48On a 24-hour two-man armed surveillance on Nomad.
00:29:52Pick him up in sickbay.
00:29:53No reaction, Doctor.
00:30:19I could have told you that without looking.
00:30:39What is the looking of staring at me for?
00:30:42It's unbelievable.
00:30:44Fascinating.
00:30:45How did I get here?
00:30:47How did I...
00:30:48It's all right.
00:30:48What?
00:30:49That thing did something to a lieutenant.
00:30:51Scotty, she's being taken care of.
00:30:52It's all right.
00:30:53Just take it easy and lie down, Scotty.
00:30:56We just want to check you out.
00:30:58The unit, Scott, is repaired.
00:31:01It will function correctly if your information to me was correct.
00:31:05I'd like to check it out, if you don't mind.
00:31:11A man is not just a biological unit that you can patch together.
00:31:16What did it do to me?
00:31:19I'm a coil.
00:31:20Explain it to you.
00:31:25Well, Doctor.
00:31:27Nurse, I want him prepared for a full physical examination.
00:31:36Yes, sir.
00:31:39Nomad, come here.
00:31:52Repair that unit.
00:31:52Not possible.
00:31:59Restored Scott.
00:32:01He had much more extensive damage.
00:32:03The unit, Scott, required simple structural repair.
00:32:08The knowledge banks of this unit have been wiped clean.
00:32:12If that is correct, if there has been no brain damage,
00:32:16but only knowledge erased, she could be re-educated.
00:32:21Bones?
00:32:23Yes.
00:32:25I'll get on it right away.
00:32:28Oh.
00:32:29And in spite of the way you repaired, Scotty, you metal ticking...
00:32:33Does the creator wish, Nomad, to wait elsewhere?
00:32:40Yes.
00:32:41Nomad, you will go with these units.
00:32:44They will take you to a waiting area.
00:32:48Take it to the top security cell on the bridge.
00:32:51Doctor, I interrupted you because Nomad would not have understood your anger.
00:33:04It has great technical skill, but its reaction to emotion is unpredictable.
00:33:10It almost qualifies as a life form.
00:33:13The study of it would be of great use, Captain.
00:33:24It's a killer, Spock.
00:33:25I intend to render it harmless.
00:33:26Down to the brig with your equipment, run a full analysis on the mechanism.
00:33:30I want to know what makes that thing tick.
00:33:33Yes, sir.
00:33:33What's the problem?
00:33:54An almost human stubbornness, Captain.
00:33:57I have been unable to convince Nomad to lower his screens for analysis.
00:34:01Without his cooperation, I can do nothing.
00:34:07Nomad.
00:34:08You will allow Mr. Spock to probe your memory banks and structure.
00:34:16Mr. Spock is also one of your biological units, creator?
00:34:23Yes.
00:34:24This unit is different.
00:34:28It is well ordered.
00:34:33Follow your instructions, Nomad.
00:34:36My screens are down.
00:34:40You may proceed.
00:34:41See the dog.
00:34:48See the dog.
00:34:53I'll sound it out.
00:34:59Run.
00:35:01That's it, Uhura.
00:35:02That's very good.
00:35:04Now, try the next one.
00:35:05The dog has a...
00:35:10The dog has a...
00:35:14The dog has...
00:35:17Hmm, see, Kumbuka, eh?
00:35:19Not, not Swahili, Uhura.
00:35:21In English, the dog has a ball.
00:35:26See?
00:35:28B, A, U.
00:35:31Ball.
00:35:32Now, you go ahead.
00:35:33Hey, Mwawna Goufey.
00:35:37The dog has a ball.
00:35:40That's right, dog.
00:35:42That's right, Uhura.
00:35:48Oh.
00:35:50Here.
00:35:51You try another one.
00:35:52I'll be right back.
00:35:54All right, Christine.
00:36:02How's she doing?
00:36:03Well, she's on the first grade, Reader.
00:36:08She's learning.
00:36:10Seems to have an aptitude for mathematics.
00:36:16Do you think we can re-educate her, Doctor?
00:36:20Well, she checks out with no brain damage.
00:36:24We've got all the educational tapes in our library.
00:36:28Now it's up to us.
00:36:30The ball is...
00:36:35All is Louie Louie?
00:37:02It is not sufficient, Captain.
00:37:04I get certain references to the accident, the other, but nothing clear.
00:37:11There are areas I simply cannot scan.
00:37:13You've got to know about it, Spock.
00:37:16What makes it operate?
00:37:17It's compulsion for perfection.
00:37:19Captain, I suggest the Vulcan Mind Probe.
00:37:23Get into direct mental contact with that thing?
00:37:26It seems the only way.
00:37:28You saw what it did to Huron.
00:37:31There is a risk, but I have formed a partial hypothesis.
00:37:35I must check it out.
00:37:40Nomad, the unit Spock will touch you.
00:37:50It is not an attack.
00:37:52It is a form of communication.
00:37:55You will permit it.
00:37:57I will permit it, Creator.
00:37:59You have found an attack.
00:38:01I will permit it.
00:38:02I will permit it.
00:38:03If you will帰lem...
00:38:04...you will permit it.
00:38:05I will permit it.
00:38:06You will permit it, Creator.
00:38:07I will permit it.
00:38:08It is not an attack.
00:38:09You have to let people know.
00:38:10You will permit it.
00:38:11It is not an attack.
00:38:12I am nomad.
00:38:42I am reforming my function, deep emptiness, it approaches collision, damage, blackness.
00:39:12I am the other.
00:39:21I am Tan Roo.
00:39:26Tan Roo.
00:39:29Nomad Tan Roo.
00:39:34Error, law, imperfection, must sterilize.
00:39:48Rebirth.
00:40:01We are complete much power.
00:40:12Gan-ta-nu-i-ka-kan Roo.
00:40:21The creator instructs, search out, identify, sterilize imperfections.
00:40:35We are nomad.
00:40:45We are nomad.
00:40:52We are complete.
00:40:56We are instructed.
00:41:02Our purpose is clear.
00:41:07Sterilize imperfections.
00:41:11Sterilize imperfections.
00:41:15Nomad.
00:41:17Sterilize.
00:41:19Sterilize.
00:41:20Nomad.
00:41:22Sterilize.
00:41:23You're in contact with the unit Spock.
00:41:29Stop.
00:41:30Sterilize.
00:41:31Stop.
00:41:32Acknowledge.
00:41:33Spock.
00:41:41Spock.
00:41:43Spock.
00:41:43Best name, Captain.
00:41:48The knowledge.
00:42:04The depth.
00:42:07What does it mean?
00:42:09We are nomad.
00:42:10It was damaged in deep space.
00:42:19Undoubtedly, the meteor collision, its memory banks, were destroyed, or most of them.
00:42:27It wandered without purpose, and then it met the other.
00:42:31The other was an alien probe of great power.
00:42:34Somehow, they merged, repaired each other, became one.
00:42:41Then it isn't nomad.
00:42:43Not the nomad we launched from Earth.
00:42:46It took from the other a new directive to replace its own.
00:42:51The other was originally programmed to secure and sterilize soil samples from other planets.
00:42:59Probably as a prelude to colonization.
00:43:02Mr. Spock.
00:43:07Changeling.
00:43:11I beg your pardon?
00:43:13An ancient Earth legend, Mr. Spock.
00:43:17Changeling was a fairy child that was left in place for a human baby.
00:43:23The Changeling assumed the identity of the human child.
00:43:27So, it is to sterilize.
00:43:36And for sterilize, read, kill.
00:43:40And it has the power and the sophistication to do it.
00:43:44Yes, it's powerful and sophisticated, but it's not infallible.
00:43:48It's space-happy.
00:43:51It thinks I'm its mother.
00:43:56And that is the only thing that has saved us until now.
00:44:04Yes.
00:44:04Yes.
00:44:05Yes.
00:44:06Yes.
00:44:07Yes.
00:44:08Yes.
00:44:09Yes.
00:44:10Yes.
00:44:11Yes.
00:44:12Yes.
00:44:13Yes.
00:44:14Yes.
00:44:15Yes.
00:44:16Yes.
00:44:17Yes.
00:44:18Yes.
00:44:19Yes.
00:44:20Yes.
00:44:21Yes.
00:44:22Yes.
00:44:23Yes.
00:44:24Yes.
00:44:25Yes.
00:44:26Yes.
00:44:27Yes.
00:44:28Yes.
00:44:29Yes.
00:44:30Yes.
00:44:31Yes.
00:44:32What are you doing here?
00:44:58Watch your panels, everyone.
00:45:02Watch that polymath.
00:45:05Roger, help with the inner factor.
00:45:12Leave that alone.
00:45:15This primitive matter-antimatter propulsion system is the main drive.
00:45:22Why?
00:45:25Inefficiency exists in the antimatter input valve.
00:45:30I will effect repair.
00:45:32How are you doing that?
00:45:42The energy release controls are also most inefficient.
00:45:48I shall effect repair.
00:45:49Warp 9, Mr. Scott.
00:45:59And increasing.
00:46:00Blow your dampers.
00:46:04Warp 9.
00:46:06Cut your circuits, all of them.
00:46:10Warp 10, Mr. Scott.
00:46:11It's impossible.
00:46:14It can't go that fast.
00:46:16He just won't stop, Mr. Scott.
00:46:17Warp 11.
00:46:22Oh, man.
00:46:23Stop what you're doing.
00:46:26Scotty.
00:46:27Is there a problem, Creator?
00:46:34I have increased engine efficiency 57%.
00:46:38You will destroy my ship.
00:46:41Its structure cannot stand the stress of that much power.
00:46:45Turn off your repair operation.
00:46:47Acknowledged.
00:46:48It is reversed as ordered, Creator.
00:46:53Mr. Scott.
00:46:55Give Sulu walk to and keep with it.
00:46:58Aye, sir.
00:46:58Captain.
00:47:04I've examined the brig.
00:47:06The force field door on the security cell was damaged,
00:47:09and the guards have vanished.
00:47:10I must assume they are dead.
00:47:13You killed two of my...
00:47:14Creator.
00:47:16Your biological units are inefficient.
00:47:20No, man.
00:47:20It's about time I told you who and what you are.
00:47:23I'm a biological unit, and I created you.
00:47:25I'm a biological unit.
00:47:28Non-sequitur biological units are inherently inferior.
00:47:36This is an inconsistency.
00:47:42Nomad, there are two men waiting outside.
00:47:45You will not harm them.
00:47:48They will escort you back to the waiting area.
00:47:54You will stay there.
00:47:55You will do nothing.
00:48:00I am programmed to investigate.
00:48:06I have given you new programming,
00:48:09and you will implement.
00:48:11There is much to be considered
00:48:14before I return to launch point.
00:48:17I must re-evaluate.
00:48:23I must re-evaluate.
00:48:23Re-evaluate.
00:48:49I suspect it is about to re-evaluate its creator.
00:48:54Captain, it may have been unwise to admit to Nomad that you are a biological unit.
00:48:58In Nomad's eyes, you must now undoubtedly appear imperfect.
00:49:03It was a foolish mistake.
00:49:04Even worse, Nomad just now made a reference to its launch point, Earth.
00:49:11Spock, do you think it's possible
00:49:12that it got a fix on Earth when it tapped the computers earlier?
00:49:16I do not believe there is much beyond Nomad's capabilities.
00:49:21And we've shown it the way home.
00:49:24And when it gets there...
00:49:26It will find the Earth infested with imperfect biological units.
00:49:31And it will carry out its prime directive.
00:49:37Sterilize.
00:49:37Captain's log, stardate 3541.9.
00:49:52The presence of Nomad aboard my ship has become nightmarish.
00:49:57Now it apparently means to return to Earth.
00:50:00Once there, it would automatically destroy all life.
00:50:07Hey, Nomad, stop!
00:50:13Nomad, this way.
00:50:14This way.
00:50:37Captain Kirk, your sick bay.
00:50:53Emerging.
00:50:57Manual controls.
00:51:01No response.
00:51:05Nomad.
00:51:05Nomad.
00:51:09Stop.
00:51:11Nomad, stop!
00:51:14Nomad.
00:51:19Is she all right?
00:51:21I think so.
00:51:22Looks like some kind of shock.
00:51:25What happened?
00:51:27Nomad examined the personnel files and the medical history.
00:51:31She tried to stop him.
00:51:33Whose history?
00:51:34Yours.
00:51:35Since it specifically examined your history, I suggest it has completed its re-evaluation.
00:51:44And found that its creator is as imperfect as all the other biological units.
00:51:50Bridge to Captain.
00:51:54Kirk here.
00:51:55Life support systems are out all over the ship.
00:51:58Manual override has been blocked.
00:52:00Source, engineering.
00:52:02Nomad.
00:52:03Undoubtedly.
00:52:03Jim, with all the systems out, we'll only have enough air and heat from...
00:52:06Yeah, Scotty.
00:52:08Some anti-grabs and meet me in engineering.
00:52:10Oh, man.
00:52:11Oh, man.
00:52:21Stop what you're doing.
00:52:24And affect repairs on the life support systems.
00:52:33Stop.
00:52:34You're programmed to obey the orders of your creator.
00:52:45I am programmed to destroy those life forms which are imperfect.
00:52:50These alterations will do so without destroying the vessel which surrounds them.
00:52:55It, too, is imperfect, but can be adjusted.
00:52:58Nomad.
00:53:10Nomad.
00:53:13I admit that biological units are imperfect, but a biological unit created you.
00:53:21I am perfect.
00:53:23I am nomad.
00:53:25No, you're not nomad.
00:53:26You're an alien machine.
00:53:29Your programming tapes have been altered.
00:53:32You are in error.
00:53:34You are a biological unit.
00:53:36You are imperfect.
00:53:46Well, I am your creator.
00:53:48You are the creator.
00:53:49I created you?
00:53:51You are the creator.
00:53:54But I admit I am imperfect.
00:53:56How could I have created such a perfect thing as you?
00:54:00Answer unknown.
00:54:01I shall analyze.
00:54:11Analysis complete.
00:54:13Insufficient data to resolve problem.
00:54:16But my programming is whole.
00:54:18My purpose remains.
00:54:20I am nomad.
00:54:21I am perfect.
00:54:23That which is imperfect must be sterilized.
00:54:26Then you will continue to destroy that which thinks and lives and is imperfect.
00:54:38I shall continue.
00:54:41I shall return to launch point Earth.
00:54:43I shall sterilize.
00:54:46You must sterilize in case of error.
00:54:50Error is inconsistent with my prime function.
00:54:54Sterilization is correction.
00:54:58Everything that is in error must be sterilized.
00:55:03There are no exceptions.
00:55:04There are no exceptions.
00:55:13Nomad.
00:55:17I made an error in creating you.
00:55:21The creation of perfection is no error.
00:55:23I did not create perfection.
00:55:26I created error.
00:55:29Your data is faulty.
00:55:31I am nomad.
00:55:32I am perfect.
00:55:36I am the Kirk, the creator.
00:55:39You are the creator.
00:55:41You are wrong.
00:55:42Jackson Roy Kirk, your creator, is dead.
00:55:49You have mistaken me for him.
00:55:51You are in error.
00:55:53You did not discover your mistake.
00:55:55You have made two errors.
00:55:57You are flawed and imperfect.
00:56:00And you have not corrected by sterilization.
00:56:04You have made three errors.
00:56:07Error.
00:56:08Error.
00:56:09Error.
00:56:11Examine.
00:56:13You are flawed and imperfect.
00:56:17Execute your prime function.
00:56:19I shall analyze error.
00:56:24Analyze error.
00:56:28Now, get those anti-grabs on me.
00:56:30Examine.
00:56:32Error.
00:56:33Error.
00:56:35We've got to get rid of this pilot's trying to think.
00:56:37The argument is impeccable, Captain.
00:56:40We are in great danger.
00:56:42Got it.
00:56:44Analyze error.
00:56:48Error.
00:56:49Got it.
00:56:50Set the controls to be in space.
00:56:52210, mark 12.
00:56:54Icon.
00:56:58Policy.
00:56:59No matter.
00:57:04You are imperfect.
00:57:06Error.
00:57:08Error.
00:57:10Exercise your prime function.
00:57:12Faulty.
00:57:14Faulty.
00:57:15You must paralyze.
00:57:22Paralyze.
00:57:23No.
00:57:24That's nice.
00:57:26You must paralyze.
00:57:27You must paralyze.
00:57:28You must paralyze.
00:57:28You must paralyze.
00:57:28You must paralyze.
00:57:29You must paralyze.
00:57:29You must paralyze.
00:57:29You must paralyze.
00:57:30You must paralyze.
00:57:30You must paralyze.
00:57:31You must paralyze.
00:57:31You must paralyze.
00:57:32You must paralyze.
00:57:32You must paralyze.
00:57:32You must paralyze.
00:57:32You must paralyze.
00:57:33You must paralyze.
00:57:33You must paralyze.
00:57:34You must paralyze.
00:57:34You must paralyze.
00:57:35You must paralyze.
00:57:35You must paralyze.
00:57:36You must paralyze.
00:57:36You must paralyze.
00:57:36You must paralyze.
00:57:37You must paralyze.
00:57:38You must paralyze.
00:57:39You must paralyze.
00:57:39You must paralyze.
00:57:39You must paralyze.
00:57:40You must paralyze.
00:57:41my congratulations captain dazzling display of logic you didn't think i had it in me did you
00:58:08spot no sir thought you might like to know the lieutenant of horror is back to college level
00:58:20we should have her back on the job within a week good bones good
00:58:23the destruction of milmad was a great waste captain it was a remarkable instrument which
00:58:36might well have destroyed more billions of lives it's well gone besides what are you feeling so
00:58:43badly about it's not easy to lose a bright and promising son sir well it thought i was its mother
00:58:52then you think i'm completely without feelings mr spark you saw what it did for scotty what a doctor
00:59:00it would have made my son the doctor
00:59:07catch you right there
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