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What is that thing?

Is everything all right, Captain?

As soon as it's safe, we'll get them back.

Perhaps if I was there at the moment you were infected.

networked for emergency power distribution,

bonded with the colonists' electromagnetic presence,

who knows when we'll get back?

I don't know. Was it?

Those plasma creatures...

they wanted us to be aware of who they really were.

And whatever it is, you needed to preserve it,

Dark hates light, light hates dark.

worse, by enlisting in Starfleet--

I told Captain Pike the truth about myself.

that could be worth all our lives?

our pleasure centers when we are in close contact with light.

The infected had a compulsion for light.

My people were never motivated by domination.

If you hadn't noticed, I'm in the middle

Could that have inhibited the biofilters?

It seems so, yes.

And yet M'Benga's got four

from the core of Hetemit 9.

are now lethal to organic matter.

I have research in there.

But if it were to fall into the wrong hands,

By bioengineering our bodies,

Then why are we wasting time?

So why do I feel terrible?

I want round-the-clock monitoring of the storm.

Do you want me to tell you it was just the sickness talking?

There are sick people on my ship, and we're stuck down here?

Only thing I've been able to find

I am chief medical officer.

Spock, this is Pike. Come in.

Yes. Several landing party members

I ran an electromagnetic scan on the ship.

Some people are getting it

Chris, that's kind, but I've broken a dozen regulations.

And after we met our neighbors in the galaxy,

But I ran viral and bacterial scans anyway as a precaution.

Oh, no, I'm not. I just--

You're transporting a piece of the planet's core?

Seventy percent.