![]() " I love my work," she says unenthusiastically. Just then, Lethe, an emotionally detached former patient at the colony and now therapist enters. Adams meets with the two immediately after the doors open shares a toast in his office with them. After beaming down, Kirk and Noel take a very fast turbolift down to the colony. Spock asks if the Captain has a problem, to which Kirk replies, telling Spock to let Dr. In the transporter room, she tries to remind Kirk about their previous encounter, but he cuts her off. Helen Noel, a psychiatrist with whom he's been previously acquainted. Kirk enters the transporter room with Spock and is surprised to discover that he is beaming down to Tantalus V with Dr. The Enterprise has returned to Tantalus V and assumed standard orbit. " I wouldn't recommend it for weak hearts." Required by regulations as quoted by McCoy to investigate Van Gelder's injury, Kirk decides to visit the penal colony with someone who has psychiatric experience. Tristan Adams, assigned to the colony only six months prior. Later on the bridge, Spock determines that Van Gelder is indeed a former associate of Tantalus administrator Dr. McCoy then has him sedated with a hypospray. Later, Kirk attempts to get answers out of Van Gelder, but he seems to struggle enormously when he tries to confirm his name and that he was a director at the Tantalus colony. After Van Gelder is incapacitated by Spock using a Vulcan nerve pinch, he is captured and restrained in sickbay. He then heads to the bridge where he easily dispatches the bridge guard and then reveals his name is Simon Van Gelder and he demands asylum from Kirk. ![]() Security is then alerted to the stowaway and he ambushes one of the guards looking for him, overpowers him, and takes his phaser. Spock reports that deck fourteen is being closed off and a search is in progress. He makes his way out into the Enterprise's corridors, where he is immediately spotted by Fields, who alerts the bridge through an intercom that he is on deck fourteen. Meanwhile, the mysterious stowaway has exchanged his pale blue prison uniform jumpsuit for the transporter operator's red operations utility uniform. They also inform them that the missing patient is a potentially violent case. Just then, the Tantalus Penal Colony hails the Enterprise, informing the starship that an inmate is missing, and possibly hid in the case they had sent up. Kirk tells McCoy he is behind the times, as the captain considers them to be more like resorts now. Tristan Adams, and asks McCoy if he has visited a penal colony since they have started following his theories. McCoy, telling him that he wishes he could have had the time to meet Dr. He carefully makes his way towards the distracted assistant transporter operator, knocking him out. After Kirk and Berkley leave, the case opens slowly, revealing a gray-haired, wild-eyed man, clearly mentally ill. The colony sends up a large cargo case to the Enterprise, which is research supplies for the Central Bureau of Penology at Stockholm. After contacting the colony, it does so and the cargo is beamed down. Captain Kirk enters the transporter room seeing this and jokingly chides Berkley over the fact that the colony has not yet deactivated its security force field. Lieutenant Berkley, in charge of the transporter, tries to beam the cargo down, but is having trouble doing so. ![]() The USS Enterprise is on a routine cargo drop to the Tantalus Penal Colony on the planet Tantalus V, beaming down cylinders containing infra-sensory drugs and other supplies. ![]()
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