Survivor 1 reveals new detail about Vina’s lonely past as a child on this planet. Pike is invited to follow Vina up a ridge to learn one of the planet’s unusual features. Before he can be aware of it, his experience of what promises to be a remarkable plant renders him unconscious. Vina vanishes, along with the remainder of the survivors, as Pike’s body is apprehended by strange creatures. Spock and Boyce are immediately aware that they have been deceived by an illusion, and that their captain has been captured.
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