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HONOURARY COMMANDER ARI BN BEM |
PLAYED BY:
James Doohan
SPECIES: Pandronian
A colony-creature able to split himself into multiple
parts, Bem was assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise
as an independent observer during a series of
exploratory and contact missions, but for six of those
missions, Bem chose to remain in his quarters, only to
suddenly join the landing party on planet Delta Theta
III. He programmed the transporter to beam Captain Kirk
and Mr. Spock into a lake where he could split into
three parts and replace their phasers and communicators
with fakes. Upon discovering a group of aborigines, Bem
ran off and allowed himself to be captured so he could
observe how the Starfleet crew would react to save him
to prove their worth to planet Pandro. Believing the
Enterprise crew to be worthless to him and his
people, Bem abandoned Kirk and Mr. Spock, however, Kirk
decided that he couldn't leave Bem on the planet and
continue to contaminate the indigenous life. When Kirk
and the landing party finds him, Bem believed he had
misjudged them and thought he must destroy himself to
pay for his failure. However, the alien entity on Delta
Theta III convinced him not to kill himself so that he
may learn from his mistake. |
