Chang revealed his heritage to American gambler Sam Salt - he had a mixed parentage with a white father and Chinese mother ("My mother was Chinese.Her intent was to have him fix it - so that she could "leave this planet forever."Chekov, Kirk, and Kalara approached the severely-damagedEnterprisesaucer, entered the bridge, and found that the console still functioned.[The film never identifies his location - Georgia.] A sign advertises:Beds --- 15 centsMeals --- 15 centsBaths --- 5 centsA fellow drifter-tramp named Pete (Preston Foster), who is playing solitaire, proposes going to a lunch-wagon/diner for a handout of hamburgers.The tractor driver is a traitorous sell-out to he rich - he works for "three dollars a day," and rationalizes contemptuously: "I got two little kids at home, my wife, my wife""s mother.