William Shatner's Favorite Star Trek Episode Has A Major Problem
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In the "Star Trek" episode "The Devil in the Dark", the U.S.S. Enterprise visits a distant mining colony where the miners are being attacked and killed in the deep, subterranean tunnels by a mysterious creature. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy), sent to investigate, find that the creature can "burrow" through the rock using a naturally powerful acid, and that it seems to be deliberately destroying mining equipment, implying that it's intelligent. Eventually, Kirk and Spock find a mound-like animal called a horta, and Spock manages to mind-meld with it. The creature is able to burn words into a nearby rock, conforming its intelligence.
Kirk and Spock find that the horta wasn't killing miners out of malice, but to protect the thousands of horta eggs littering the tunnels. It seems that horta go nearly extinct every so often,...
In the "Star Trek" episode "The Devil in the Dark", the U.S.S. Enterprise visits a distant mining colony where the miners are being attacked and killed in the deep, subterranean tunnels by a mysterious creature. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy), sent to investigate, find that the creature can "burrow" through the rock using a naturally powerful acid, and that it seems to be deliberately destroying mining equipment, implying that it's intelligent. Eventually, Kirk and Spock find a mound-like animal called a horta, and Spock manages to mind-meld with it. The creature is able to burn words into a nearby rock, conforming its intelligence.
Kirk and Spock find that the horta wasn't killing miners out of malice, but to protect the thousands of horta eggs littering the tunnels. It seems that horta go nearly extinct every so often,...
- 11/10/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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