Arthur, alone in his cell, woke up from the stun. He sat up and looked for his fellow knights. They were waking up, as well, and seemed okay. He suddenly grew angry because his noble knights were stuck in these funny-looking metal rooms without a way out. The bars on their prison cell weren't even of the same material, but a shiny light that seemed to keep itself in place. Arthur wanted to touch it, but thought better of it.
Blasts! It might be deadly.
As a guard walked by, Arthur screamed obscene things at him. As the guard began to recharge his phaser to stun him, the Briton king finally yelled out, "Let me out or I'll bite your kneecaps off!"
The guard, getting tired of Arthur's shenanigans, hit the button to change the phaser to stun, and said, "Be quiet, you. The Captain himself will speak with you in a few minutes." He waved the phaser threateningly and continued. "You better not pull anything funny, like you just did now, or I'll —"
"Ensign Delmar, that will be enough," Captain Kirk interrupted as he and Lando finally walked in. "Bring him out. You may leave now, he can't harm me. When you set him up in the Interrogation Room, you may report to the bridge to see if Mr. Spock needs any help with the rest of our guests. He might also have some other errand for you."
Ensign Delmar grumbled, grudgingly yanked the prisoner out of the cell and non-too gently shoved him into a chair in the nearby Interrogation Room just down the hallway. Kirk and Lando followed him into the room, hoping to receive some more information from this King Arthur. However, just after the sullen Ensign left his charge with Kirk and Lando, a little green man appeared. He sat cross-legged midair and didn't seem to be sitting on the chair or even the table. He appeared to be floating.
Kirk walked in with Lando not far behind. He saw the strange man hovering above the table and asked, "Who are you?"
The little man giggled and replied, "Yoda I am. Jedi Master I was. Enterprise captain you are." He then giggled again, like he was amused by Kirk's question and the answer he gave.
Lando heard the levitating man say that he was a Jedi Master and said, "I'll get Luke. He would know who this guy is." He left in a run.
Yoda continued on, not noticing that anyone had spoken or left. "The Force you need. Wants to fight you, the Dark One. Wants to fight Kirk, yes." He stopped his giggling and began to mumble to himself, with Kirk only catching bits of phrases here and there. "Couldn't defeat the Dark One, not Obi Wan. Died he did. Could possibly defeat him, yes. Maybe help him, the Force. Wants to fight starship captain, but he knows not the Force…"
After a few more moments of this sort of mumbling and repeating of phrases, Kirk interrupted. "Who is this Dark One? What exactly is a Jedi Master? What is this 'Force' that I need? Wait, where are you going?"
Yoda had stopped his mumbling, giggled at Kirk's questions, and vanished from the room. A moment after he had disappeared, however, footsteps echoed from the hallway, indicating that Luke was coming. He entered the room, breathless.
Without waiting to catch his breath, Luke asked Kirk, "Where is he?"
"He left," Kirk replied. "He mentioned something about a Dark One wanting to fight me, a person named Obi Wan who couldn't defeat this Dark One, and a being called the Force that might help me. Whatever it is, he said that he or it was not with me." Kirk paused, thinking. "The only other thing that he said that made any sense was that he was Yoda and that he was a Jedi Master."
Luke sighed as he tried to explain to Kirk the situation. "Yoda was a Jedi Master, a controller, if you will, of the Force. The Force is the energy all living things give off, whether it is good or bad. Jedi Masters use the Force to do many things. Now, Yoda taught many young Jedi, including myself. Obi Wan was another Jedi Master who started my training. The Dark One is Darth Vader." Luke then sat on the edge of the table and thought out loud. "Hmm, Yoda, a dead Jedi Master, comes back to give a message to a starship captain from another dimension, telling you that Vader wants to fight you. Why you?" He pounded the table with his fist, frustrated. "You know nothing about Jedi or the ways of the Force."
"We'll worry about the fight later. Where's Lando?" Kirk asked, hoping to talk to the dashing former mercenary some more.
"He's at the bridge. Chewie was annoying the pointy-eared man and getting in the way of everybody on the bridge, and, with Han still not back yet, Lando was the only one who could calm Chewbacca down." Luke's tone changed, and he began to muse. "I wonder where Han is. Maybe he's in a storage room making out with Leia."
Luke added the last part evilly, having noted the looks Kirk was giving Leia earlier. He knew that Leia would not tolerate the starship captain, so was not worried.
Kirk was about to reply something just as evil about Luke and Chewbacca, but Arthur interrupted them by coming out from under the examining table and saying as he shuddered, "Is he gone? The floating green man? He must be an agent of the killer rabbits. Have you ever seen one? I hope you haven't."
Kirk, remembering the real reason why he had come down here, got back into his stern captain mode, vowing to get back at Luke for the comment later. For the next few minutes, he gently reassured Arthur that he had never seen a killer rabbit and that the green floating man was not their agent. Indeed, Kirk was still confused about what Yoda was talking about, but was starting to understand the world Luke lived in.
When the man was calm enough, Kirk began his interrogation by first asking, "Who are you and what is this mission you need help with?"
Arthur, hearing Kirk asking about his mission and what sounded like an offer for assistance, responded, "I am Arthur, King of the Britons, and the only son of Uther Pendragon. In these metal cages and bright lights are my brave and noble Knights of the Round Table. Our real mission is to find the Holy Grail, but, before we can achieve that mission's end, we must find a shrubbery for the Knights of Ni."
Suddenly, Arthur's face began to crumple in fear at the name of that horrid group with that always says that dreaded word. He continued on regardless, albeit a tad shockingly, when he saw the coconut shells lying on the other end of the table, as if the coconut shells reminded him that he was still a king and that his knights were trapped. Ensign Delmar seemed to have ensured that, Kirk figured.
"Thank Tim the Enchanter that we lived long enough to tell the tale. Pray, good Sir, whatever you decide though, do not send us back to Camelot, for it is a silly place," King Arthur of the Britons added as a last thought, knowing Kirk was the leader of this weird looking place.
Kirk realized that Arthur, although he was a legend from a schoolbook, was just another one affected by the dimension change. The tale of Arthur's search for the Holy Grail checked out with the one he knew (as well as twentieth century silliness he remembered). He let his security guards release the trapped knights, gave them back their coconut shells, and allowed Arthur and his knights access to the V.I.P. cabins.
