The bridge crew feels excruciating pain in their heads. Scotty reports from Engineering that the stasis field in which the ship is caught is disabling the matter/antimatter generators, leaving all other systems working normally. Spock appears to be in a state of Vulcan mind touch, and speaks the words of someone who says the Vulcan is "suited to our needs". Kirk orders Kyle to take over Spock's station. Captain's log – supplemental: The alien attack threatens to seriously complicate our urgent mission... transportation of a critically ill agricultural engineer to the Starbase 14 hospital...