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Subject: Re: First Time I have seen it.
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 01:35:30 EDT
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> 
> After watching Star Trek for many years I saw the tail end of one
> that I Have not seen - "In Truth There is No Beauty" or something...
> 
> Question on this episode:  At the end Spock uses the tranporter to beam this
> woman down somewhere but before he actives the transporter he puts
> on some kind of red goggles - Why?   I have never seen that before.
> Did it have something to do with the rest of the program which I missed?
> 
> 						Thanks,
>                                                 John Blumenstein

If I remember that episode correctly, the being in the box with the woman
was the real concern.  It would make you either mad or blind (or both) and
communicated in some sort of pseudo-telepathic fashion.  Spock developed an
emotional relationship with both the woman and the box.  The donning of the
goggles was a gesture and also to remind him of how the ones he cared for
looked while they were working together.  (Side note: I think the woman
was blind - that was why she was able to work with the box).