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The Space Merchants: The Devil In The Dark

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Unlike in The Space Merchants the Star Trek episode “The Devil in the Dark” no one feels superior to anyone else, but the misconception arises when a rock eating creature starts to murder miners in the pergium production station on Janus Six, an alien planet. Captain Kirk is asked by Chief Engineer Vanderberg, the administrative head of Janus Six, to come and help them kill the creature so that the mine can start producing again. Captain Kirk agrees to help to stop the murders and just as Kirk agrees to help, “the guard outside the power plant is killed. There 's just a vaguely man-shaped stain on the ground and wisps of smoke lead us to a neat circular hole in the door he was guarding” (Roddenberry). Captain Kirk is a man who does like to act
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