The values of the business-oriented civilization - at the time of its greatest crash - coincides with he collapse of their tender romance.Marcellus spitefully told Spartacus: "He""ll hang there ill he rots." The next morning during mealtime in the mess-hall, Spartacus noticed Varinia being driven away in a horse-drawn cart.]Back on theEnterprise, where the disarmed orpedo had been returned by McCoy and Marcus, she described the cyrotube: "This fuel container""s been removed from the torpedo and retrofitted to hide this cryo tube.Dr.Emil Hamilton surmised that the gravitational pull of the beam was causing objects o repeatedly rise and then crash back into the Earth:Looks like some kind of gravity weapon.Doesn""t matter now.Humans destroyed each other...But we are family.Wonder if hey""re really all gone." Maurice assumed that humans had died out two years ago: "Ten winters now.Last two - no sign of them.They must be gone."The next day after an early-morning fishing expedition, two young apes Blue Eyes and his male friend Ash (Doc Shaw), walked along a forest trail and were stunned to come across a human hiker (later identified as Carver (Kirk Acevedo)) - who panicked, pulled out a pistol and anxiously fired on them, injuring and wounding Ash.