Kirk is incredulous that people would simply walk into disintegration machines and never come out Anan assures him that his people have a high sense of duty. This tidy solution preserves the civilization, despite the cost in lives. Casualties are calculated, and the victims have twenty-four hours to report to a disintegration station so their deaths may be recorded. Spock finally deduces the truth: the war is fought with computers. No explosions, no radiation, nothing that would suggest the damage he is assured is occurring. But despite a hit, right in the city, Kirk and his landing party can find no evidence of war. Anan reveals that Eminiar has been fighting a war with the third planet of the system, Vendikar, for almost 500 years. Mea takes him to the High Council, whose leader, Anan 7, rejects Kirk's diplomatic overture – because of the war. There, Kirk learns that he is in grave danger. He, Spock, Yeoman Tamura, and two security officers, Lieutenants Galloway and Osborne, beam down they are met by Mea 3 at the Division of Control, seat of the Eminian Union. Kirk's orders (as he is reminded in no uncertain terms by Ambassador Fox) are clear: establish diplomatic relations at all costs. Peacefully, I hope, but peacefully or not… we're going in."
Kirk orders that the Enterprise go to yellow alert and in an intercom message to the crew of his ship, Kirk announces: " We're going in, gentlemen. Ambassador Robert Fox overrides Kirk's wish to honor the request, and forcibly orders him to take the Enterprise into the system. After several unacknowledged overtures, a message comes from the planet Eminiar VII, the principal planet of the cluster: Code 710 – stay away at all costs.
The USS Enterprise is en route to star cluster NGC 321 to open diplomatic relations with the civilization there.
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