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A day earlier,

not to obstruct the "liabilities acquired"

In the episode entitled Metamorphosis , belonging to the second season of Star Trek TOS (original series), a shuttle Enterprise, in which Captain Kirk travel, Commander Spock, dr. McCoy and Commissioner Nancy Hedford Federation, was forced to land on an unknown planet and a strange disturbance has disabled the engines. On the planet inhabited entirely alone a human, who calls himself Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the hyperspace engine. Kirk, Spock and McCoy can not believe it, because Cochrane had disappeared 150 years earlier during a flight, but Cochrane explains that a creature called the Companion who took him to the planet we are and has cared for him, even stopping aging, all the while ..... and that is completely impossible to leave the planet, as the companion emits an energy that keeps off the craft.

concerning the emergence of the crew of the Enterprise, to be carried Hedford Commissioner to the ship where it can be treated for an illness contracted while in negotiations mediated by Epsilon Canaris III, Cochrane is in contact with companion, a gaseous body to let them know he has no power to heal the Commissioner and it will not allow them to leave. Given the attitude toward Fellow Cochrane, Kirk suspects that may be the feminine form of their kind and loving to Cochrane, as Spock asks you modify a universal translator to speak directly with him / her, the Companion, since Indeed it is a female, said that will not let go because the Man (Cochrane) company needs to live, otherwise "end", a fact which can not admit . Kirk, however, get him to understand he can not keep a man against his will and being unable to be free, even to provide all necessary to live, even eternal life, is killing their spirit, the Companion says that Man is part of it but understand that they are two different things and stay together but can never be together, so it takes 's body Commissioner, who is dying, can not cure the disease but may share his body while giving up immortality .... Cochrane, who initially rejected the feelings of the Companion, in a sample of his "outdated" way of thinking discovers that also loves to see how he has cared for so many years, giving up eternal life just to spend some time with him and left him willing to sacrifice march is to survive, and asks you to part with them: the Companion, however, can not leave, his life emanates from the Cochrane planet ... then decides, by love and loyalty, staying with her and before his departure, Kirk asks for silence about his encounter.

Love has no cure,
but it is the only medicine for all ills

Leonard Cohen