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Report to your stations, continue your research. Dismissed.

Between where we were and where we are.

Aye, captain. But I'll reserve some for the shields in case we don't get out.

Communications, scanning. Conserve every bit of power.

Bridge to Captain Kirk.

Doctor, even I, a half-Vulcan,

How long will the power hold out?

And my highest commendation for Commander Spock,

I would speculate that this unknown life form

All systems clear for shuttlecraft launch, sir.

that he's still alive out there in that mass of protoplasm?

Spock understood when he transmitted the coordinates of the chromosomes.

has proven more valuable than professional credentials.

He knew the odds when he went there just as you did when you volunteered.

Impact, five seconds.

Maybe it's a shield of some kind,

Captain, I recommend you abandon the attempt.

I cannot filter out the distortion, sir. It's getting worse.

It is now ten minutes since we entered the zone of darkness.

Will there be two of those things?

Later, later, later.

It couldn't swallow that.

Mr. Chekov, we'll use a timing detonator for the probe.

That is what is drawing us toward it, captain.

- to gain further information. - Aye, aye, sir.

Calculations indicate the shields will last only 47 minutes.

And we've just lost contact with the Intrepid. Report progress.

Doctor, they seem to be stabilising.

programme fuse for seven-minute delay.

all available power into one giant forward thrust,

on a low-energy channel. It's faint but it is readable.