Stardate 5501.2: On the search for the crew of the starship Ariel, Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to the planet Lactra VII where they are captured by the planet's inhabitants, highly evolved huge slugs. Together with the crew of the Ariel, they are imprisoned in what appears to be a galactic zoo. When the crew manages to abduct a Lactran child to the Enterprise, its parents learn that they must not keep less intelligent lifeforms as pets. The Lactrans set the crew free with the message, "humans may return when they grow up, in 20 or 30 centuries."

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