Trying to find an episode

[bobbi180]

Hi, Everyone,

I am trying to find a certain episode. All I really remember is the end. The "aliens" are a people who somehow can communicate with each other telepathically- or can sense each other's presence (sort of like the Borg). In the end, one of them inhabit's Spock's body, and "Spock" says something like: "It's so lonely. How can you stand it, being just a single person, not feeling everyone around you?"

If anyone can help I would appreciate it very much.

 

[pookha]

is there no truth in beauty?
there is a race called medusan and spock has to mind meld with one of them.

 

[bobbi180]

Thank you so much. I'll check it out.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Return to Tomorrow"(late Season 2, 1968)

About Sargon's people and the three lone survivors in underground caverns.

Either that...or the Medusan episode with Diana Muldaur from Season 3.

 

[bobbi180]

Thanks, I'll look at that one too.

 

[M'Sharak]

"Return to Tomorrow"(late Season 2, 1968)

About Sargon's people and the three lone survivors in underground caverns.

Either that...or the Medusan episode with Diana Muldaur from Season 3.

The latter one: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"

The scene is where Kollos/Spock has just finished piloting the Enterprise back from beyond the galactic barrier, and has returned the helm to Sulu. Before returning to his box, Kollos says:

How compact your bodies are.
[Sniff]
And what a variety of senses you have.
This thing you call... language, though...
most remarkable.
You depend on it...
for so very much.
But is any one of you really its master?
But most of all...
the aloneness.
You are so alone.
You live out your lives...
in this...
shell of flesh,
self-contained...
separate.
How lonely you are.
How terribly lonely.

(Quoted from transcript here)

"It's so lonely. How can you stand it, being just a single person, not feeling everyone around you?"

The underlined part here, however, sounds almost more like something Troi said in the TNG ep "The Loss" in which she has lost her empathic abilities.

 

[bobbi180]

Thank you SO much. That's exactly it.

 

[Kryton]

BTW, one of Nimoy's standout performances on TOS.

 

[bobbi180]

Absolutely. Not only his words stuck in my mind, but the way he said them.

 

[cooleddie74]

Nimoy was arguably the best actor in the entire series. Much better emotive skills than Shatner.

 

[Kryton]

When Shatner was a sledge, Nimoy was a velvet hammer. They both drove it home, just in different ways.

 

[cooleddie74]

Good cop, bad cop.

Either way, they both ended up eating way too many donuts by the time they got old.

 

[Kryton]

I'll be at Krispy-Kreme with Robby, Bobby, and ... uh ... Little Billy.