After the successful ransport of the advanced long-range torpedoes, Khan beamed Kirk, Scotty, and Carol back to theEnterprise, in exchange.Liz: I thought it would be better if he went out there and got done with it.What can he find out? I wouldn""t do anything o hurt you, Reno, you know that.Smith: (He takes the ten dollar bill from her hand, crumples it, and pokes the wad back into her hand.I go down to the kitchen and order dinner.Then there""s the ladies"" luncheon and bridge, always the same ladies.Then dinner - the same people we dined with last week.After dinner, poker for the men and women for the women.There""s talk of children and doctors and servants and the garden club...I can""t go on liking he same things forever and ever...I want all the lovely things I""ve got a right to.In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting o the point where men begin to take a serious interest in her.The time period of the provocative, sophisticated film is set in the early 50s during the height of right-wing McCarthyism - a time of tense political paranoia with the overriding, reactionary fear that Communists (Russian and Chinese) were scheming to take over the US via advanced brainwashing techniques and programmed terrorist raining.