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"The Doomsday Machine" is a second season episode of the science fiction television series, ''Star Trek''. It is episode #35, production #35, and was first broadcast on October 20, 1967, and repeated on April 19, 1968. It was written by Norman Spinrad, and directed by Marc Daniels. In this episode, the starship ''Enterprise'' comes into contact with her sister ship, the USS ''Constellation'' which has been heavily damaged by a huge, apparently invulnerable planet-killing machine from another galaxy. Kirk and his crew must find a means to stop the device heading for heavily populated areas of our galaxy, and deal with the heavily traumatized Commodore Decker, the ''Constellation''s only survivor. ==Plot== On stardate 4202.9, following a trail of destroyed solar systems, the Federation starship USS ''Enterprise'' responds to a distress call, finding their sister ship, the USS ''Constellation'', adrift and heavily damaged in a system whose two inner planets are still intact. Captain Kirk beams over to the ''Constellation'' with Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, Chief Engineer Scott and a damage control team to investigate. Mr. Scott reports that the ship's warp engines are damaged beyond repair and the weapons exhausted. They find the ship's commanding officer, Commodore Matt Decker – the sole survivor, half-conscious in the auxiliary control room. Meanwhile, an incoherent Decker claims that a machine was slicing up planets with "pure" antiproton. The logs reveal that the ship investigated the breakup of a planet and was soon attacked by an enormous machine with a conical shell miles in length and a giant opening at one end filled with sparkling energy. After the attack, Decker ordered his surviving crew to the surface of a nearby planet, but to his horror, the machine destroyed that world next. Spock theorizes the machine breaks down planets into rubble which it then consumes for fuel and adds that given its past trajectory, it is likely to have come from outside the galaxy and will continue towards the "most densely populated region of our galaxy." Kirk theorizes that they have encountered a doomsday machine, "like the old H-bombs", a device built to destroy both sides in a war. It was intended as a bluff or deterrent, not to be actually used, but was activated nonetheless. It wiped out its builders long ago but it lives on indefinitely, fueled by the very planets it destroys. Kirk has Decker beamed back to the ''Enterprise'', with McCoy, for medical treatment while he and Scott remain on the derelict ''Constellation''. On the ''Enterprise'' bridge, First Officer Spock, having been left in command, is alerted to the approach of the alien machine which generates interference that makes communication with Starfleet Command impossible. As the machine attacks, Decker comes to the bridge, and quoting Starfleet regulations he pulls rank on Spock and assumes command. He then orders a full-on attack against the machine ignoring Spock's warning that the ship's weaponry is ineffective against the doomsday machine's pure neutronium hull. As a result, the warp engines are disabled and the ''Enterprise'' becomes drawn by a tractor beam towards the machine's glowing maw. Aboard the ''Constellation'', Scott has managed to restore partial phaser and thrust control. At the same time, Kirk has reactivated the viewing screen, and manages to create a diversion to distract the planet-killer away from the ''Enterprise'' . As the machine veers off, Kirk orders Spock to relieve Decker of command, based on Kirk's personal authority as officially designated Captain of the ''Enterprise''. Eventually, Decker, recognizing that the ''Enterprise'' crew would support Spock without question, yields and is escorted off the bridge by security. En route to Sickbay, however, he knocks out his guard and quickly heads to the hangar bay and steals a shuttlecraft. He then pilots it on a kamikaze course into the planet killer's maw despite the pleas of Kirk and Spock to turn back. Lt. Sulu reports that the shuttlecraft's subsequent explosion appears to have slightly decreased the planet killer's output power. Kirk realizes Decker had the right idea, but not enough energy to succeed. Kirk has Spock estimate if the overloading and subsequent thermonuclear detonation of the ''Constellation's'' impulse engines inside the planet-killer might destroy it. Spock is unsure, and he and Scott both object to Kirk's intention to remain on the ''Constellation'' to carry out the plan. Kirk has Scott rig a manual 30-second detonation timer, planning to start it and beam back to the ''Enterprise'' before detonation. Scott explains that once the timer is activated, it cannot be stopped. With everything prepared, Kirk orders the others back to the ''Enterprise'' and steers the ''Constellation'' toward the planet killer's maw. At the right moment he activates the switch that begins the engine overload and asks to be beamed out. The damaged ''Enterprise'' transporter shorts out, and Kirk is now stranded on the ''Constellation''. Scott rushes to make repairs. As the timer ticks toward zero, Science Officer Spock suggests to Chief Engineer Scott that he might complete the engineering task by trying "inverse phasing", Kirk issues an understated request: "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard" as he watches the doomsday machine grow larger on the viewscreen. Scott's desperate fix succeeds and Kirk is beamed off the ''Constellation'' at the very last moment. The ''Constellation'' enters the maw of the planet killer and explodes, destroying the planet killer's internal mechanisms and leaving its indestructible shell adrift, dead in space. In the epilogue, Kirk and Spock muse about the parallels between their doomsday machine and the "doomsday machines" of late 20th Century Earth, nuclear weapons. Kirk notes with irony that the ''Constellation''s impulse engines exploded in the same way, though this time it served a constructive purpose. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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