Did Gary Mitchell and Dr. Dehner fake their deaths in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" so Kirk would leave them alone on Delta Vega?
Gary discovered that he could make himself "die" and come back to life again:
Dr. Dehner saw him do it. Thus she might have thought about what could be done with such a power if she had it.
A minute later:
Mitchell was clearly suggesting that Dehner might have been affected by the incident and might grow more like him with time. Possibly Mitchell could sense that Dehner was starting to change.
In the briefing room Dehner argued against the suggestion that Mitchell's powers might be dangerous:
And maybe that was because people had looked at her with suspicion in the past because of her high esper rating, or maybe because she feared they might lynch Mitchell out of ignorant fear, or maybe because she was attracted to Mitchell, perhaps due to some psychic influence from him. but possibly it might be because Mitchell had made her wonder if she might also be changing, even if more slowly than him.
And if she was wondering if she was starting to change, or could sense that she was changing, she would naturally wonder about when and if she would get the powers that Mitchell had displayed so far, and what she could, should, and would do with such powers.
So if Kirk convinced her to attack Mitchell, she might at the same time decide to use Mitchell's power to simulate death, or revive himself from real death, to fake her own fatal wounding during the fight with Mitchell - if she was not actually killed by Mitchell's attacks.
Or maybe, when Mitchell and Dehner learned that Kirk was tracking them, they planned to fool him with a mock fight and faked deaths. So it is possible that their plan worked and they both survived on Delta Vega, which would not be subjected to a lethal concentration of neutron radiation now that Kirk reported they were dead.
And I wonder if the galactic Mining Co____ would send the next automated ship for the Lithium ore as scheduled or if they were ordered to abandon the mining operation just in case. And I wonder, if Mitchell and Dehner were alive, would they have counted on that ship arriving, or if they they let the Enterprise leave Delta Vega because they thought that they no longer needed starships to travel interstellar space.
Gary discovered that he could make himself "die" and come back to life again:
Dr. Dehner saw him do it. Thus she might have thought about what could be done with such a power if she had it.
A minute later:
Mitchell was clearly suggesting that Dehner might have been affected by the incident and might grow more like him with time. Possibly Mitchell could sense that Dehner was starting to change.
In the briefing room Dehner argued against the suggestion that Mitchell's powers might be dangerous:
And maybe that was because people had looked at her with suspicion in the past because of her high esper rating, or maybe because she feared they might lynch Mitchell out of ignorant fear, or maybe because she was attracted to Mitchell, perhaps due to some psychic influence from him. but possibly it might be because Mitchell had made her wonder if she might also be changing, even if more slowly than him.
And if she was wondering if she was starting to change, or could sense that she was changing, she would naturally wonder about when and if she would get the powers that Mitchell had displayed so far, and what she could, should, and would do with such powers.
So if Kirk convinced her to attack Mitchell, she might at the same time decide to use Mitchell's power to simulate death, or revive himself from real death, to fake her own fatal wounding during the fight with Mitchell - if she was not actually killed by Mitchell's attacks.
Or maybe, when Mitchell and Dehner learned that Kirk was tracking them, they planned to fool him with a mock fight and faked deaths. So it is possible that their plan worked and they both survived on Delta Vega, which would not be subjected to a lethal concentration of neutron radiation now that Kirk reported they were dead.
And I wonder if the galactic Mining Co____ would send the next automated ship for the Lithium ore as scheduled or if they were ordered to abandon the mining operation just in case. And I wonder, if Mitchell and Dehner were alive, would they have counted on that ship arriving, or if they they let the Enterprise leave Delta Vega because they thought that they no longer needed starships to travel interstellar space.
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