To Walk the Night

Spock questions his choice to serve aboard Enterprise while the crew investigates strange occurrences at a mining colony.

USS Enterprise personnel
Spock • Christopher Pike • Number One • Philip Boyce • Jose Tyler • J.M. Colt

Other characters
Sarek

Starships and vehicles
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

Races and cultures
Human • Vulcan

States and organizations
United Federation of Planets • Starfleet

Other references
captain

Background
The title is taken from Hamlet, act I scene V: "I am thy father's spirit, doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and each particular hair to stand an end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But the details of this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood." This dialogue was also delivered by Anton Karidian in.