With the black hole moving ever closer, Kirk takes the ship to investigate it and it suddenly engulfs them, leaving the crew in a new universe where Earth is ruined and, after a saucer separation (!!!), they land amid a graveyard filled with advanced Starfleet ships. Believe it or not, this is when Planet of the Titans gets really crazy. The crew tangles with an ape-like creature that can control their minds before encountering an elderly man who is actually the son of James T. Kirk.
Kirk’s son explains how spider-like aliens had taken Earth over and sent their malevolent thoughts through the black hole to lure more victims from different time periods to this apocalypse. Some of the survivors had been deformed into monstrous shapes, and this was meant to explain some of the stranger ideas in Earth’s mythology. Everything in Planet of the Titans comes to a head as the crew plans to attack a beast who is supposed to be the one controlling all these creepy spiders.
In fine Star Trek tradition, the “beast” ends up being the so-called Last Man on Earth, and he was a product of genetic manipulation that was stuck on the planet after humanity (who had ascended into weird, cloud-like creatures) abandoned Earth altogether. He had been calling people through the black hole (“the one who calls”) in a strange attempt to rebuild humanity, but it soon becomes clear that, as in the Bible, the only way to truly repopulate the Earth would be for one lucky man and woman to stay behind and start getting busy. On this weirdly tantalizing note, the Kaufman script disappointingly ends.
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