...Don""t ouch me!"Leo had a further outburst and escaped to a corner and hid behind Max""s office chair:"I""m hysterical.Selznick""s over-wrought script, based on he 1944 novel by Niven Busch (husband of actress Teresa Wright who was originally considered for the role of Pearl), was about a sexually-charged half-breed woman (Selznick miscast his own lover/future wife Jennifer Jones) who became the point of contention between wo brothers who were Cain/Abel opposites - one brutish and one refined.He also blamed (wrongly) the deaths on Spock""s betrayal.Although Pike insisted that Romulus still existed, Nero only knew about the destruction of afutureRomulus, and wouldn""t believe him.Without enough energy from theUSS Enterpriseto beam them back, Kirk ordered the space station o proceed onward to seek repairs or find shelter, while the three stranded crew members and Terrell and Chekov, via transport beam, raveled from the space station to the nearby Class D rocky planetoid of Regula below, the "great rock in space.