Episode 1: "Pandora's Cargo"

The Enterprise is exploring a planet last visited by biological survey ship USS BEAGLE (see script above). Suddenly, monsters attack!

BOONE and PELTIER shoot their blue-armored lion creature with stun beams, knocking it out in mid-leap. It does land on Peltier; he tries to flip it over his head, but it's heavy and unconscious. So Boone has to drag it off him. In the process, one of its claws lightly trails across Peltier's yellow shirt, tearing it open.

HANNAH, T'PON and RIVA shoot their enormous fungus monster, accomplishing nothing. RIVA shoots it in the mouth, which stuns part of its tissue but not all of it. While the monster pauses to spit, Riva sets her phaser on "disintegrate" and blows the monster away.

The moss-backed mushroom monster runs past RAMIREZ, who pegs it with his phaser before it can reach AZUNDERKAR, who has gone to the shuttle. The door's rigged shut; Azunderkar overrides it electronically. He finds the shuttle powered-down, but jury-rigs his phaser clip to power it. The shuttle has internal camera images of tentacles yanking a man out the door, then another man turning into crackle-surfaced silver before vanishing. Also on the tapes is the last log entry of the BEAGLE, whose captain blew her up to prevent alien invaders from taking the ship and escaping the system. The aliens cannot be allowed to spread into the galaxy, says Captain Daystrom earnestly. Computer projections show every planet converted to alien life 35,000 hours after first contact ... four years to the end of everything.

With the aliens down, the crew start collecting odd silver dodecahedra found on the surface. Hannah's scan reveals they are complex information storage systems, although we can't read the coding. T'pon confirms they contain 10 to the 43rd power facts, exactly the data volume of a transporter buffer. Instead of being beamed elsewhere, these people have been crystallized into small durable objects.

More fungus monsters are approaching at this time. Peltier has everyone crowd into the Beagle's shuttle and take off just in time!

Something rattles in the storage locker. It's a golden teddy bear with flipper-arms, like a cute platypus. It's hungry. Hannah gives it a snack, which it enjoys.

Unfortunately, that means an alien life form is in contact with Hannah. So the shuttle has to be quarantined. Tibbs takes the Enterprise out to the cometary fringe to find the Beagle's recording pod, leaving the shuttle to return to the planet.

The shuttle lands and tries to pick up all the dodecahedrons, believing them to be the Beagle's crew.

A wounded Star Fleet scientist staggers out of the foliage and collapses. Minx Mitchell, the doctor, is able to save him, although she privately tells Peltier that the guy seemed to sense pain with muscle and bone tissue, not just nerves. Then zap! She's hit by a silver spray and turned into a dodecahedron.

 Boone pursues the shooter who did it, and finds a human being in the process of turning into a lizard, or maybe vice versa. Boone kills it, but the beam only kills part of the tissue, which falls free. The rest is still alive, and re-forming into a battle shape! Boone eventually destroys the whole thing.

Then, someone tries to turn other crewmen into cubes. Intense return fire silences them. Boone goes wide and encounters a cone-shaped monster, which he zaps. The source of the incoming fire is destroyed without visual contact.

Azunderkar examines the alien device that makes people into cubes. He is able to stick two cubes together like magnets, then reconstitutes an Andorian pilot named Ahfuselek, who remembers a guy in a green jumpsuit pointing a ray at him, and then he was a cube. Ahfuselek was on the second landing party to find the first landing party, which disappeared.

Azunderkar then reconstitutes the two stuck-together cubes, recreating two Star Fleet crewmen with their spinal columns fused together. He stuns them, sparing them pain and terror and silencing their distracting cries. Win-win.

Finally Hannah suggests the device may have limited power, and asks for Minx to be restored. Zap! It's done. Minx does not want Azunderkar doing anything else to the fused people, and suggests they need surgery.

Everyone turns to the shuttle, which is now taking off by itself! Riva is yanked out of the way by Azunderkar, and therefore unable to shoot it down. The shuttle ascends to escape altitude and then explodes, booby-trapped by Azunderkar.

Riva saw the supposedly wounded Star Fleet guy run to the shuttle before it took off. Perhaps he wasn't wounded at all!

But the shuttle is also the only way off the planet. Which is no problem, the Enterprise can be back in an hour ... if communications don't break down.