Spock tries to touch the entity, but is given an electrical jolt that knocks him back. McCoy makes Nancy as comfortable as possible.Īs Spock performs repairs on the shuttle, the Companion appears, and observes what Spock is doing. Not willing to stay any longer, Kirk orders Spock to try to repair the shuttle, while Dr. McCoy informs the others that without proper medical treatment aboard the Enterprise she may die. Nancy soon develops a fever, the first sign her illness is getting worse. Despite being so old, Cochrane appears young, claiming the Companion rejuvenated him. He calls the being who saved him "The Companion," a shimmering blob of sparking energy, and says the entity brought the others here to keep him company. When he came to this system his ship was disabled by an asteroid he would have surely been killed if he had not been saved, grabbed at the last minute by the same energy force which brought Kirk's shuttle down. When questioned, Cochrane admits he is in fact Zefram Cochrane, the human who developed the first warp drive technology, and tells how when he was 87 years old (150 years prior to the events of the episode), he took to space to die alone. Cochrane leads his new guests to his home, a small but cozy little shelter. He explains that there is a dampening field in effect that won't allow the shuttlecraft to leave and they are stranded just as he is. He tells the party he has been marooned on the planet alone for quite some time, and that he's afraid repairing the shuttle is futile. Suddenly a friendly young man appears from nowhere, and identifies himself as Cochrane. With no time to waste exploring, Kirk and Spock try to figure out a way to repair the shuttle. Kirk tries to contact the Enterprise for assistance, but his signals are being blocked by some unknown phenomenon. Once there, the party disembarks and finds a rocky planet with suitable atmospheric conditions to support humanoid life. The energy pulls them down to the nearby planet Gamma Canaris N. She will seek treatment for her illness aboard the Enterprise while the ship takes her to Epsilon Canaris III, where she will join in negotiation talks between the planet's warring factions.Īs the shuttle passes near an unexplored system, a strange glob of energy appears and disables the craft's systems. Hedford, a tough diplomat who's devoted her entire life to her career, has caught Sakuro's disease, and is extremely bitter about the fact that she did not receive proper immunization against it. McCoy are ferrying Commissioner Nancy Hedford to the starship USS Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft Galileo. Overview: A shuttle crew from the USS Enterprise encounters a man out of history and his mysterious alien companion. It is episode #38, production #31, written by Gene L.
Star trek metamorphosis series#
" Metamorphosis" is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast Novemand repeated July 19, 1968. List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes Elizabeth Rogers - Voice of the Companion.Elinor Donahue - Commissioner Nancy Hedford.