Cestus

Exactly.

And then he will just lash out with his Cestus, just punching out at Staubel twice.

Unfortunately, he could feasibly try to retrieve his spear.

It would only provoke from Stawbell unless the ram has combat reflexes because the ram already slammed Verity.

Giving a free hit might not be great.

Yeah.

So punch out with your Cestus.

That first one is a six for a 15.

Original series category four is aliens.

What race of warp capable reptilian humanoids attacked the colony on Cestus three?

I think that was the Gorn.

Yep.

They pretty much skipped the whole first half of the, the episode.

Everything happened on Cestus three.

Oh yeah, the whole Sestas 3 thing.

One thing Blish does is he'll take the first few scenes of a thing and turn it into briefly described paragraphs about what had happened before we open now.