(Recovered from a yard sale in Pasadena, CA, in a Florsheim shoe box also containing a yellow turtleneck sweater, size L; the script for a one-act play, “Death Is My Client”; and the incomplete manuscript for a pornographic novel, “Queen of Perversions”, by “Pete Draper”)
FADE IN:
EXT – SPACE
The ENTERPRISE orbits an Earth-like world.
KIRK
(voiceover)
Captain’s Log Stardate 2390.5 The Enterprise has arrived at the planet Southron, here to study the early industrial civilization.
INT – ENTERPRISE – CONFERENCE ROOM
KIRK, SPOCK, MCCOY and CHEKOV are seated around the conference table.
UHURA is standing to give the briefing next to the display screen.
UHURA
Southron is an M-type planet with a mixed agrarian-industrial culture, 3.4 on the Nakahara development scale.