After a disastrous mission on Rigel VII, the U.S.S. Enterprise™ received a distress call from survivors of the S.S. Columbia on Talos IV. The landing party found a group of aging scientists and a young woman named Vina. But it was all an illusion created by the mentally powerful Talosians. They used Vina to trap Christopher Pike and try to entice him into becoming part of their menagerie. Their plan -- to repopulate the surface destroyed thousands of centuries ago by a terrible war caused by their great illusory powers.

Living underground, the Talosians became addicted to their dreams. With a life span many times that of humans, they spent their time reliving their own memories and those of their zoo specimens.

Pike discovered the Talosians vulnerability -- they couldn't read primitive thoughts. After discovering that the humans would rather die than be held captive, the Talosians released Pike and his ship. They promised to never again trap humans -- although it would probably doom the Talosians to extinction.

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