Stardate: 2715.1

Original airdate: 11/3/1966

Writer: Shimon Wincelberg (S. Bar David)

Director: Vincent McEveety

Guest stars:

James Gregory           Dr. Tristan Adams, established resort type penal colonies based on 'his theory' that prisons shouldn't be cages but clean hospitals for sick minds. dies from lonliness

Morgan Woodward         Dr. Simon Van Gelder,former associate of Dr. Adams, assigned to Tantalus Colony as its director 6 mo. prior, now an inmate of the Colony.

Marianna Hill           Dr. Helen Noel, one of Kirk's former conquests, a psychiatrist with rehabilitation background.

Suzanne Wilson          Lethe- a former inmate, now a therapist on Tantalus Colony. A bit flat in expression, but "she loves (her) work."

   Neural Neutralizer Technician, also emotionally flat

Crew appearances:
Kirk, Spock, McCoy
Uhura

Story:
While exchanging supplies with penal colony Tantalus Five, Kirk happens upon the madness of Dr. Tristan Adams, who is using a revolutionary neural neutralizer to control and manipulate his patients. Fearful of exposure, he uses the device on the captain. (got this off the net)

Factoids:

Alert condition 3- intruder aboard

Neural Neutralizer-a device used for rehabilitation of violent antisocials by means of a brain neutralizaing beam. Dr. Noel states that this type of treatment is a common practice at the time. According to Dr. Adams, Van Gelder had dammaged neural synapses due to an experiment accident which erases memories and thoughts. But Dr. Adams uses it so the brain will be filled with someones elses thoughts, preferably his own.

Spock uses the Vulcan Neck Pinch on Van Gelder

Spock demonstrates the Vulcan Mind Meld on Van Gelder. It is an ancient technique to probe the mind. It is a personal thing to the Vulcan people, part of their private lives. He hestitates to use it on a human because it could be dangerous to the nerves and blood vessels. It only affects the person touched and is not hypnosis (?).

Quotes:
"We (the Vulcan society) desposed of emotion, doctor. Where there's no emotion, there is no motive for violence." Spock to McCoy.
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"May we never find space so vast, planets so cold, hearts and minds so empty that we cannot fill them with love, warmth." Dr. Adams
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"He's dead, Captain." McCoy to Kirk about Dr. Adams after his mind was emptied by the Tantalus neural neutralizer.
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"It's hard to believe that a man could die of lonliness." McCoy.