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* PlanetEater: The space cloud intakes and breaks up planets to absorb energy.
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* PlanetEater: The space cloud intakes and breaks up planets to absorb energy.
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* TheBusCameBack: Bob Wesley, the commodore from "The Ultimate Computer", returns in this episode as the primary authority on a planet threatened by the cloud, having left Starfleet to become a governor.
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* TheBusCameBack: Bob Wesley, the commodore from "The "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E24TheUltimateComputer The Ultimate Computer", Computer]]", returns in this episode as the primary authority on a planet threatened by the cloud, having left Starfleet to become a governor.
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The ''Enterprise'' encounters a giant cloud that consumes planets that lie in its path. The crew's problems are compounded when Spock discovers the cloud is intelligent.
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The ''Enterprise'' encounters a giant cloud that consumes planets that lie in its path. The crew's problems are compounded when Spock discovers hypothesizes the cloud is may be intelligent.
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* EmergencyRefuelling: As the Enterprise goes through the living space cloud it must expend an enormous amount of energy to power the shields. It eventually runs out of antimatter fuel and has to get more by removing part of the creature's alveoli, which are made of antimatter.
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* CallBack: When pondering potentially killing the space cloud, Kirk asks [=McCoy=] about the morality of it, [[Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon bringing up his previous assertion that man learned civilization by deciding he won't kill today]].
* EmergencyRefuelling: As the Enterprise goes through the living space cloud it must expend an enormous amount of energy to power the shields. It eventually runs out of antimatter fuel and has to get more by removing part of the creature's alveoli, which are made of
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* HeroicSacrifice: Kirk initially plans to self-destruct the ''Enterprise'' once the ship reaches the cloud's "brain", thus saving Mantilles and any other planets in the solar system the creature might consume. However, Spock's improvised system to mind-meld with the cloud provides another option.
* TookALevelInKindness: Possibly due to circumstances. This episode shows off more of Bob Wesley's vaunted "[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold humanity]]" than his last appearance; he busies himself with evacuating as many civilians as possible and transmissions between him and Kirk are always cordial and respectful.
* PlanetEater: The space
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* PlanetEater: The space cloud.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The crew's method of dealing with the cloud relies primarily on confirming whether it's intelligent or not, and thus whether killing it is a wise action or not. [[spoiler: The cloud had much the same problem; it had no idea that the organisms on the planet it was planning to eat were sentient because they were just ''so unfathomably tiny'' to it, that it couldn't converse with or understand them until Spock mind-melded with it.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The crew's method of dealing with the cloud relies primarily on confirming whether it's intelligent or not, and thus whether killing it is a wise action or not. [[spoiler: The cloud had much the same problem; it had no idea that the organisms on the planet it was planning to eat were sentient because they were just ''so unfathomably tiny'' to it, that it couldn't converse with or understand them until Spock mind-melded with it.]]
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* EmergencyRefuelling: As the Enterprise goes through the living space cloud it must expend an enormous amount of energy to power the shields. It eventually runs out of antimatter fuel and has to get more by removing part of the creature's alveoli, which are made of antimatter.
%%* PlanetEater: The space cloud.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The crew's method of dealing with the cloud relies primarily on confirming whether it's intelligent or not, and thus whether killing it is a wise action or not. [[spoiler: The cloud had much the same problem; it had no idea that the organisms on the planet it was planning to eat were sentient because they were just ''so unfathomably tiny'' to it, that it couldn't converse with or understand them until Spock mind-melded with it.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The crew's method of dealing with the cloud relies primarily on confirming whether it's intelligent or not, and thus whether killing it is a wise action or not. [[spoiler: The cloud had much the same problem; it had no idea that the organisms on the planets it was eating were sentient because they were just ''so tiny'' to it, that it couldn't converse with or understand them until Spock mind-melded with it.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The crew's method of dealing with the cloud relies primarily on confirming whether it's intelligent or not, and thus whether killing it is a wise action or not. [[spoiler: The cloud had much the same problem; it had no idea that the organisms on the planets planet it was eating planning to eat were sentient because they were just ''so unfathomably tiny'' to it, that it couldn't converse with or understand them until Spock mind-melded with it.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The crew's method of dealing with the cloud relies primarily on confirming whether it's intelligent or not, and thus whether killing it is a wise action or not. [[spoiler: The cloud had much the same problem; it had no idea that the organisms on the planets it was eating were sentient because they were just ''so tiny'' to it, that it couldn't converse with or understand them until Spock mind-melded with it.]]]
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* PlanetEater: The space cloud.
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* PlanetEater: The space cloud.cloud.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The crew's method of dealing with the cloud relies primarily on confirming whether it's intelligent or not, and thus whether killing it is a wise action or not. [[spoiler: The cloud had much the same problem; it had no idea that the organisms on the planets it was eating were sentient because they were just ''so tiny'' to it, that it couldn't converse with or understand them until Spock mind-melded with it.]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Mmmmmmmm, metal alloys."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Mmmmmmmm, metal alloys."]]
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The ''Enterprise'' encounters a giant cloud that consumes planets that lie in its path. The crew's problems are compounded when Spock discovers the cloud is intelligent.
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* PlanetEater: The space cloud.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* PlanetEater: The space cloud.
