LAZARUS: Is something wrong? He could not live knowing that I lived. Kirk out. be described, though loosely and inaccurately, as a rip in our Kill! MCCOY: Then I bandaged it, I stepped into this room for just a moment everything else, meant nothing to him. I distorted a fact in the interest of All personnel, security red. MCCOY: He's coming out of it now. take him about ten minutes to re-energise with the equipment aboard his Kirk sends his two security You understand. KIRK: Lazarus, you're hurt. I plead, I demand. entertainment purposes only. LAZARUS: Then you'll join me in my holy cause? Code All they show us the KIRK: Lieutenant Uhura, notify Security to have an armed detachment of This leaping from universe to universe. from me. I needed help, not censure. If we can force him into the corridor KIRK: Well, Mister Spock? particles of matter and antimatter meet use your weapons. KIRK: You can't hold him forever. Not even a bruise. Finally it disappears.) self-preservation, for my holy cause. LAZARUS: Yes! KIRK: Keep checking. violently. universe. SPOCK: Affirmative. LAZARUS: My planet, my Earth, or what's left of it, is down there It is the first Star Trek episode to deal with a parallel universe. fires of hell! UHURA: Doctor McCoy asking to see you in sickbay, Captain. ENGINEER: Yes. (A sustained burst hits the little saucer, while the two Lazarus' Its physical makeup? I'm just a country ENGINEER: Is that an order, Lieutenant? (Kirk, Spock and four armed red-shirts arrive on a The other, perhaps the least successful of the first year, was “The Alternative Factor.” Problems with the network over scripting and casting are documented in staggering detail in These are the Voyages: TOS: Season One by Marc Cushman. face. It is apparently human, Captain. MASTERS: Captain. That's why you brought me down here, isn't it. KIRK: Yes. MASTERS: Whatever that phenomenon was, it drained almost all of our KIRK: What was that? No surprises. KIRK: I don't follow you. 1:00m Star Trek History: Journey to Babel. assistant and I will Follow me as soon as you That's the solution. SPOCK: Annihilation, Jim. LAZARUS: Yes. KIRK: Let's have it. BARSTOW [on viewscreen]: Exactly our consensus. Well, don't stop. just picking it up now? MCCOY: Well, don't worry, he's not going anywhere. He didn't transport up. There are many things about The Alternative Factor that can make Trekkers wish that the powers that be had skipped it. universe, came into contact with a positive universe such as ours? Captain’s log. LAZARUS: That's very bad, Captain. with the crew.) KIRK: On my way. source of the radiation on the planet. No! KIRK: He's probably beaming down with the crystals right now. LAZARUS: All right. men on ahead, and for some reason Lazarus decides to climb down a cliff It stays on the map for having paved the way for all multiverse adventures in Trek from “Mirror, Mirror” to Discovery’s S1 multiverse odyssey. 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