Captain's log, star date 2817.6. Starship Enterprise diverted from the scheduled
course. The purpose, was to confirm the discovery by Doctor Thomas Leighton of an extraordinary new
synthetic food that would totally end the threat of famine on Cygnia Minor,
a nearby Earth colony. [Leighton's home]
You mean to tell me you've called me three light years off my course just
to accuse an actor of being Kodos? He is Kodos. I'm sure of it.
You said you discovered a new food concentrate. What am I supposed to put in my log,
that you lied? That you diverted a starship with false information? You're not only in trouble,
you've put me in trouble, too. I did it to trap Kodos!
Kodos is dead. Is he? Is anyone
sure? A body burned beyond recognition? Tom, the authorities closed the book
on that case years ago. Then let's reopen it. Jim,
four thousand people were butchered. Martha, you tell him.
I can't tell him anything, Jim. He's been like this since the company of actors arrived.
Kodos is dead. I'm satisfied with that. Well, I'm not. I remember him.
That voice. The bloody thing he did. (He turns his head to reveal it's not just
an eyepatch, but a covering over half his face) Jim, Jim, I need your help. There were only eight
or nine of us who saw Kodos. I was one, you were another. If he's to be exposed,
He's dead. Then it will be a ghost Martha and I
receive in our home tonight. I invited the entire company to a cocktail party. I have to be sure.
And I have to get back to my ship and figure out how I'm going to enter all this in my log.
Tom. Martha. (TOS music) [Briefing room]
Library computer. History files. Subject, former Governor Kodos of
Tarsus Four, also known as Kodos the Executioner. After that, background on actor Anton Karidian.
Working. Kodos the Executioner, summary. Governor of Tarsus Four twenty Earth years ago. Invoked
martial law. Slaughtered fifty percent of the population of Earth's colony, that
planet. A burned body was found when Earth forces arrived. No positive identification. Case closed.
Detailed information follows. On stardate 2794.7, Stop. Information on Anton Karidian.
Director and star of travelling company of actors sponsored by a galactic cultural exchange project,
touring official installations last nine years. Has a daughter, Lenore, nineteen years old,
Stop. Give comparative identification between actor Karidian and Governor Kodos.
No identification records are available on actor Anton Karidian.
Give information on actor Karidian prior to Kodos' death.
No information available, Anton Karidian, prior to twenty years ago
Photograph Kodos. (an image of a red-haired man with a beard comes on the monitor) Photograph
Karidian. (the grey-haired man with a small moustache) Now photograph both.
(Door opens) Mister Spock. You know Doctor Leighton,
don't you? Would you say he's given to fantasy? A good empirical research scientist. Steady,
reputable, occasionally brilliant. With a very long memory.
I have no information on that, Captain. We are ready to leave orbit.
We'll delay departure for a time. I'm beaming back down to the planet.