These cables were vertical, rising straight from the ground until they pierced the roof and emerged into space.
And they, aboard the P'nir ship, were between the stranger and the edge of the combat area, about to emerge into empty space.
Just two seconds later they emerged into space, and spread outward across the universe.
Without turning from the console, he said: "They've emerged into normal space again.
They traversed the tube and emerged into normal space.
To our consternation, we emerged into normal space at a distance of many hundred miles-and when we found the enemy, he had already found us.
"The Enterprise would have to emerge into normal space and make itself vulnerable to planet-based resources," Kirk said.
And what good would it do him if he could emerge into normal space at the desired distance from Centauri?
He would not have been surprised to have emerged into three-dimensional space anywhere within the Second Galaxy.
They had tipped off together into warpspace where the leech simply held on until emerging into normal space again.