The Terratin Incident

ST episode
name = The Terratin Incident


Kirk discovers a tiny city
series = The Animated Series
ep_num = 011
prod_num = 011
date = November 17, 1973
writer =Paul Schneider
director = Hal Sutherland
guest = none
stardate = 5577.3
year = 2269
prev = Mudd's Passion
next = The Time Trap

The Terratin Incident is an episode of .

Plot outline

While observing a burnt-out supernova, the U.S.S. Enterprise picks up a strange message transmitted in a two hundred year old code.

The signal is traced to a nearby planet. When the ship enters orbit, it is hit by an energy beam that damages its dilithium crystals and makes the crew begin to shrink (and apparently their clothes have also shrunk because they are organic). Over the next few days, they crew began to decrease in size. The cause is the inhabitants of a miniature city called Terratin. Terratin is a lost Earth colony; its inhabitants have mutated because of the supernova's radiation and are now all less than a few inches tall.

Dr. McCoy determines that the crew will continue to shrink beyond their ability to control the ship unless a cure is found.

Kirk determines that the transporters can reverse their size but they had to go to the planet below. When he returns full size, his crew had shrunk to a microscopic level. They were also transported to the surface. Kirk makes demands to the short human to return his crew or else. Though the crew is restored to normal, the Terratin people have been small for generations and had to be moved to another planet.

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External links

*StarTrek.com link|ANI|22015

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