With the black gap transferring ever nearer, Kirk takes the ship to research it and it immediately engulfs them, leaving the crew in a brand new universe the place Earth is ruined and, after a saucer separation (!!!), they land amid a graveyard full of superior Starfleet ships. Imagine it or not, that is when Planet of the Titans will get actually loopy. The crew tangles with an ape-like creature that may management their minds earlier than encountering an aged man who is definitely the son of James T. Kirk.
Kirk’s son explains how spider-like aliens had taken Earth over and despatched their malevolent ideas by way of the black gap to lure extra victims from totally different time durations to this apocalypse. A few of the survivors had been deformed into monstrous shapes, and this was meant to elucidate a few of the stranger concepts in Earth’s mythology. All the things in Planet of the Titans involves a head because the crew plans to assault a beast who is meant to be the one controlling all these creepy spiders.
In nice Star Trek custom, the “beast” finally ends up being the so-called Final Man on Earth, and he was a product of genetic manipulation that was caught on the planet after humanity (who had ascended into bizarre, cloud-like creatures) deserted Earth altogether. He had been calling folks by way of the black gap (“the one who calls”) in a wierd try to rebuild humanity, nevertheless it quickly turns into clear that, as within the Bible, the one strategy to really repopulate the Earth could be for one fortunate man and lady to remain behind and begin getting busy. On this weirdly tantalizing be aware, the Kaufman script disappointingly ends.
