Stardate 1512.2: When the Enterprise's flight path is blocked by a buoy of unknown origin, Kirk has to destroy it to break free. Soon a massive and highly advanced alien vessel of the "First Federation" appears, and its commander named Balok announces that he would destroy the hostile and primitive intruder. Kirk has to bluff in order to save the ship, and he pretends that a substance called "corbomite" would reflect the energy on the attacker. Balok then sends a smaller vessel to tow away the Enterprise for dismantling. But the Enterprise successfully breaks away and leaves the alien vessel powerless as it seems. Kirk, McCoy and Bailey, who was previously most afraid of the alien threat, beam over and are greeted by the real Balok, a friendly child-like alien who just wanted to test whether the Enterprise's crew was really peaceful. Bailey then volunteers to stay aboard the Fesarius to establish relations with Balok.

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