- Spock is sitting alone in his room with the lights off. Emo much?
- Kirk and Bones enter and turn on the lights. Spock says that the Vulcan looks like someone from his childhood—a "young student" with "great intelligence" and even greater ambition.
- This student was a "revolutionary" because he turned to his "animal passions" instead of his "logical" Vulcan upbringing. To him, emotions were the key to self-knowledge. This attitude led to his banishment.
- Before Spock can finish his story, however, the three crew members receive a message and head to the bridge.