According to Douglas, the opera is "not conducted for profit" but is an "artistic institution." But Deeds then assumes that they must be off-track and not operating as a business: "We must give the wrong kind of shows.But the experience - and everything they know about duty, honor, courage and manhood (expressed in the first act""s ritualistic deer-hunting sequence) - is wrenched apart and shattered in the face of the gruesome war.Carol and David Marcus were not there - they had escaped to he planet of Regula, although Chekov and Terrell were found hiding - and were still being used as Khan""s spies.Saruman was creating an army of fiercesome, zombie-like Orcs (with rotting bodies) to do his will by cutting down forests and forging weapons.