Arena

           The U.S.S. Enterprise has received two transmissions asking if Kirk could come down and bring down his technicians. When Kirk,Spock, McCoy, a a few yellow shirts, and a red shirt come down to the planet to check things out immediately they realize the planet has been destroyed. Spock checks for signs of life and finds someone crumpled over and dying, hiding out from someone...or something. Spock checks for more life forms and finds out that there are more forms of life, but these forms of life aren't human. They aren't even warm-blooded.
     Suddenly the Enterprise and the landing party are under attack making it so Sulu cannot beam everyone and the injured man back up. The first (and only) person to die is the only red shirt. Kirk constructs a bomb and aims it at mountains destroying whatever was attacking them. This stops all fire and allows Sulu to beam everyone up.
      Back on the ship in the sick bay the injured man recounts the events which led to his being injured and the destruction of his ship. Turns out the transmissions were sent two days prior to when Kirk actually received them. It was a trap! Oh no!
     Kirk finds and chases the alien ship, deciding  that they need to pay for the heinous act of killing all those men. The ship gets faster and faster going warp 5, 6, and then 7. Kirk does the same thing following them into a new part of space, eventually going into warp 8. Warp 6 and 7 is dangerous. Warp 8 is terrifying. Everyone's super afraid Kirk's going to blow up the ship trying to catch the aliens when suddenly the alien ship starts slowing down and then comes to a dead stop. The Enterprise gets scanned and then the same thing happens to them.
    They get a transmission from Metrones saying that they have trespassed into their space with ill intentions. To fix this the captain of the Enterprise and the captain of the Gorn ship must go to this other planet and fight to the death....without any communications from their own ships. The loser of the fight to the death will have their ship destroyed.
       Kirk and the Captain of the Gorn ship get on to this planet and immediately start to battle each other. The Captain of the Gorn ship is obviously much stronger and very clever. Kirk gets a chance to escape and starts talking into what he thinks is a recorder. Turns out it's a transmitter and the Captain of the Gorn ship hears everything that Kirk says.
       Kirk finds the Gorn ship captain making something and finds a rock atop a cliff. Kirk pushes the rock over the cliff and tries to crush the Gorn but it barely does any damage. As the Gorn is getting up Kirk runs away and falls into a trap created by the Gorn, injuring his leg. The Metrones are positive that Kirk is going to lose and tells the Enterprise to make their preparations for death. Noticing how close they are to Kirk the Metrone grants the ship permission to view Kirk fight the Gorn.
     Kirk discovers sulfur, potassium choloride, diamonds, bamboo, and coal and constructs a makeshift bomb. He finishes it just as the Gorn is coming up and aims it at the Gorn and sets fire. He takes the weapon from the wounded Gorn and starts to finish the Gorn off but decides against it and saves the Gorns life. The Metrone is impressed by this and comes down to talk to Kirk after sending the Gorn back to its ship. He says that maybe in a thousand years the Metrones and the humans could make an agreement, maybe they'd be more civilized. I dunno. It seems to me as time goes by we seem to become less civilized.
     Kirk is popped back on the ship where the surprised crew asks if he's okay. All Kirk can respond with is "I don't know." Suddenly Sulu notices the ship has moved 500 parsecs from where they originally where stopped. It starts to get to Sulu and Kirk says for Sulu to let it go and to turn around and go back to Cestus III, the planet the injured man gave them the transmission from.