He pushes her away. KIRK: How can you destroy others and not me? I don't want to. KIRK: Who are you? Why are you trying to kill us? I mean you no harm. KIRK: Are there men on this planet? KIRK: No! Losira goes two-dimensional, then vanishes. KIRK: Bones, did you see that? Maybe Spock was wrong. Perhaps this is a ghost planet. His shoulder, where she touched it, every cell's been disrupted. Exploded from within. If she'd really gotten a good grip on him, Jim.
Such evil and she's so, so beautiful. No evidence of intruder. Cancel Red Alert but maintain increased security. All decks, cancel Red Alert.
Maintain increased security. Mister Spock what are the chances of the captain and the others being alive? We are proceeding in the only logical way to return to the place they were last seen, and factually ascertain whether or not they still live.
I see it. I'm working on it. Reduce speed until I locate the trouble. Reduce speed to warp seven. Warp seven. Mister Spock, our speed has increased to warp eight point nine and still climbing.
Negative effect on power reduction. Speed is still increasing. The emergency bypass control of the matter-antimatter integrator is fused. The engines are running wild. There's no way to get at them. We should reach maximum overload in about fifteen minutes. SCOTT: Those few seconds will not make any difference, Mister Spock, because you and I and the rest of the crew will no longer be here to bandy it back and forth. A normal wound would heal quickly.
SULU: She just touched me. How could it happen so fast? KIRK: That's a good question. She touched the transporter chief. He collapsed immediately. She apparently got to D'Amato. We saw what happened to him.
The question is, why are you alive? KIRK: The power to totally disrupt biological cell structure. Sulu's alive because I intervened. But that raises an even worse question. Why didn't she kill you? KIRK: She's not through yet. And there's no question it's deliberate. The system's foolproof.
Whoever murdered Watkins sabotaged this. SCOTT: Well, it's fused, all right, but it would take all the power of our main phaser banks to do it. I fail to understand why you cancelled the security alert.
SPOCK: A force that could hurl us nine hundred and ninety point seven light years away and at that distance still be able to sabotage our main source of energy will not be waiting around to be taken into custody.
SPOCK: As I recall the pattern of our fuel flow, there is an access tube leading to the matter-antimatter reaction chamber. Bare hands? And I'm not even sure a man can live in the crawlway in the energy stream of the magnetic field that bottles up the antimatter. You're right.
What have we got to lose? But I'll do it, Mister Spock. I know every millimetre of that system. I'll do whatever has to be done. You spoke of the feel of the ship being wrong. It was an emotional statement. I don't expect you to understand it. I propose to run an analysis through the ship's computers, comparing the present condition of the Enterprise with her ideal condition.
I suggest you do whatever you can in the service crawlway, while I make the computer study. Whatever destructive power this woman has seems to be aimed at one specific person at one specific time. If I'm correct, when she re-appears, the other two might protect the one she's after by interposing their bodies. No weapons seem to affect her. Does she read our minds?
KIRK: Controls are fused. He throws his phaser away, and it goes off with a big bang. KIRK: Apparently she can destroy our weapons as well as destroy us. Come on, let's go. Get the crawlway door open. Hand me the tools. Head first. I hope Mister Spock knows what he's doing. Scott is slid on his back into a half-sized Jefferies tube with blue energy streaks crossing it. SCOTT: I've sealed off the aft end of the service crawlway, and I've positioned explosive separator charges to blast me clear of the ship if I rupture the magnetic bottle.
I'm so close to the flow now it feels like ants crawling all over my body. You now have ten minutes and nineteen seconds in which to perform your task. The ship's not structured to take that speed for any length of time. I'm starting to open the access panel now.
Spock begins his computer study. The safety control. Please get on with the job. Comparison co-ordinates too complex for immediate readout. Will advise upon completion. Looks like an aurora borealis in there. Lieutenant Rahda, arm the pod jettison system. I'll jettison the pod at the first sign of trouble. Warp eleven point nine.
There's so much disturbance that any attempt to get at the flow would rupture the magnetic field. I don't need a blooming' cuckoo clock. Like a door opening. And suddenly Losira is there again. KIRK: Who have you come for this time? Commander of the Enterprise. KIRK: Why do you want to kill us? You are Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the Enterprise. KIRK: Then why do you want to kill me? KIRK: We're here on a peaceful mission. It's you who have killed our people.
We mean no harm to you. We want to leave, peacefully. KIRK: An android? I'm getting nothing. KIRK: Commander of what? KIRK: Station? How do you feel about killing me? Killing is wrong. KIRK: Stay between us. Please, I must touch you.
KIRK: You want to kill me? KIRK: Then why do it if you don't want to? KIRK: By whom? KIRK: Are there others on this planet? KIRK: How long have you been alone? Are you lonely? She does her disappearing act. SULU: She must be somewhere.
KIRK: And there's this power surge, right off the scale. Like a door closing. It must be near here. They walk on. KIRK: Right off the scale.
It's remained at a peak ever since she disappeared. The entrance is here. A section of rock slides back and a door opens. KIRK: It certainly looks like it. And the invitation doesn't exactly relax me. KIRK: I agree. But whatever civilisation exists on this planet is in there.
And without the Enterprise, gentlemen, the only source of food and water is in there. Let's go. But if the probe doesn't precisely match the magnetic flow, there'll be an explosion. Starting right now. What purpose could it. The Enterprise was put through a molecular transporter and reassembled slightly out of phase. Reverse polarity should seal the incision. I just hope you're right. It's stuck! Push the button! It's your last chance!
Don't be sentimental, push it. I'm going to die anyway. But there's no time. Scott gets his polarity reversed and puts the probe into the antimatter stream. Mister Spock, now. Warp fourteen point one. Biology as in reproduction? Well, there's no need to be embarrassed about it, Mr. It happens to the birds and the bees. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way. I have killed my captain and my friend. You can't tell me that when you first saw Jim alive that you weren't on the verge of giving us an emotional scene that would have brought the house down!
I understand. Spock, your reaction was quite logical…" "Thank you, Doctor. The remastered version of "Amok Time" first aired during the weekend of 17 February In addition to new space sequences showing the Enterprise arriving at the planet Vulcan, a sequence was inserted showing digital representations of Kirk, Spock and McCoy walking over a large natural outcropping to Spock's family ceremony site.
This is the first instance in the remastered edition episodes in which original sequences have been replaced with all-new computer-generated shots. The background in the image of a young T'Pring was updated to resemble the entrance set seen in T'Pol 's mother's house in " Home ".
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Yet startling new evidence is causing a major rethinking of when Earth's crust first formed. The clues to this mystery are embedded within these rocks in Western Australia. Here, geologists have extracted tiny crystals called zircons.
About the size of sand grains, zircons are nearly as tough as diamonds. These relics of the early Earth formed when molten rock cooled into solid crust, so the age of the zircon gives you the age of the crust itself.
And it was here that geologist Simon Wilde hit pay dirt when he found one crystal so old he's convinced it was formed in the Earth's original crust. But certainly what we do know is that there was continental crust at 4.
But that led to another mystery: once Earth was cool enough to form solid ground, water could collect on its surface, so when did that happen?
Geologists, including Stephen Mojzsis, think the answer may lie in these same tiny zircon crystals. Zircons are extremely rare, so to find just a few crystals, Mojzsis had to pulverize and sift through hundreds of pounds of ancient rocks.
An analysis of the chemical composition of the crystals revealed that the oldest zircons contained a high concentration of a curious ingredient. It was a type of oxygen called Oxygen, an isotope that could only be present in large quantities if the zircon crystals had grown in water. Liquid water is the key to life; every living thing requires it to survive.
And eventually, water would cover nearly three quarters of the Earth's surface. In fact, all the world's oceans contain nearly one hundred million trillion gallons of it. It's an almost incomprehensible amount. So, where did it all come from? How would Earth have ended up with such vast quantities of this stuff? Well, strange as it sounds, these great oceans may have been there from the very beginning, just hidden away.
One key to the riddle was volcanoes, which, throughout Earth's infancy, pumped huge amounts of steam into the atmosphere. Then, as Earth cooled, that steam condensed into rain. Drop by drop, water collected in low-lying areas. The Earth does it right now. The main gas that comes out of Hawaiian volcanoes is water, steam. So, this is happening all the time. Instead, Earth may have had some help. The water in our oceans might have come from outer space, delivered to the surface by massive ice-bearing comets.
The evidence for these ancient impacts is impossible to find today, since the original surface of our planet has long since been eroded or destroyed. But there's one place that preserves a record of impacts from that early era: our moon. In fact, the moon was ravaged by more than a million major impacts in its early years. Since Earth is much more massive, its gravitational pull would have attracted even more debris, resulting in possibly tens of millions of impacts.
But this rain of debris left over from the formation of the solar system continues for several hundred million years. Roughly half their mass was water. These would naturally be the comets, which are rich in water. The proof in that would be to measure the composition of the cometary water and to compare that with the composition of water in our oceans. In the last 20 years, just a handful have passed close enough to study in detail, including one in called Comet Hale-Bopp.
This is a lot of water. Of course the oceans are much larger, and so we need many more comets to fill the oceans. But we're fortunate; we had many such comets in the early solar system, so we have every reason to believe it was cometary delivery that brought water to the early Earth. These clouds produced a deluge of hot, possibly acidic rain that continued for millions of years. At first the rain would have formed lakes and rivers, and eventually water would cover almost the entire globe.
But there's a problem with this theory. Earth's oceans contain a mixture of normal water, H 2 O, and a much smaller amount of a more exotic kind, known as HDO, or heavy water which contains an extra neutron.
In the comets analyzed so far, the proportions of these two kinds of water don't match the composition of water in our oceans. Basically, they don't have the right properties. The comets already studied come from the outer reaches of the solar system, and he thinks comets originating closer to the sun might be different. Formed at higher temperatures, these comets could have a lower proportion of heavy water more closely matching our oceans.
And tonight, Mumma hopes to test this idea by getting a first hand look at one of these elusive comets. There it is alright, yes sir, right there. You can see the elongated material flowing outward from the nucleus. It's a little bit like taking fingerprints; the little ridges on your fingers look different for every person. And in the same way, the light that is emitted by a given molecular compound is different; it emits at different wavelengths.
There's so much dust on the surface that it can't reflect enough light for the team find out what kind of water is on board. This was a bit of a disappointment. Comets are quite fickle, they're unpredictable. In some ways they are like cats, they both have tails and they both do what they want to.
So it's an idea, it's a hypothesis, it fits all the known facts. But it has not yet been proven, and we must be willing to give it up and modify it if it is not proven. But we will learn something in doing so.
In fact, it's hard to imagine that they played no role. But it seems more likely and more physically sensible to look closer to home for the source of the water. It was beaten, bombarded, mangled, and melted all in just the first hour of our hour history of the planet.
The young Earth was still very different from the planet we know today. It was a hostile and forbidding place, with an atmosphere full of poisonous gases. Yet, somehow, these harsh conditions set the scene for a crucial phase of Earth's development: the origin of life. STEPHEN MOJZSIS: Very little is left behind from the Earth's earliest time period, but what is left behind has revealed to us a planet much more complicated than we ever thought, with different rock types, liquid water present and the kind of planet that we might expect life to emerge on.
Do we know if life was around 4. Well, who can say? We can say, however, that the template, the ground underfoot was there.
Catastrophe and cataclysm transformed the Earth, now our planet would be ready for the greatest drama of all time: the rise of life. The Origin series continues online. Then cast your vote. Find it on PBS. We see you reaching for the stars. York Films. Pilbara Native Title Service W. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Back to the Origins homepage for more articles, interviews, interactives, and slide shows. The time had reached 16 minutes after midnight; the Iron Catastrophe was over. And in the midst of this hellish brew, the moon was born.
And those same rocks held another secret.
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