Bread and Circuses (Star Trek: The Original Series) entertainment. In the episode, Captain Kirk and his companions are forced to fight in gladiatorial games on a planet resembling the Roman Empire, but possessing mid-20th century Earth technology. The Federation starship USS "Enterprise" is on routine patrol when it finds wreckage of the SS "Beagle". The "Beagle" was under the command of Captain R. M. Merik (William Smithers), whom Captain Kirk (William Shatner) knew during his academy days. First Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) traces the path of debris back to a planet in the previously unexplored system 892. The "Enterprise" picks up a 20th-century-style television news broadcast, reporting in
The Crossing (Star Trek: Enterprise) The Crossing (Star Trek: Enterprise) "The Crossing" is the forty-fourth episode of the television series "", the eighteenth of the second season. Incorporeal beings attempt to take over the Earth starship "Enterprise". At the start of the episode Enterprise is taken inside an enormous alien spacecraft of unknown origin, and ghostly aliens take over the crew's bodies. Later in the episode the crew takes shelter in the set seen in The Catwalk (S2E12), which is a long tube with enhanced shielding. While at warp speed, a huge alien vessel overtakes and swallows "Enterprise", disabling the ship's engines and weapons. When