They thought they were answering a distress call. This 38-second moment from Star Trek: The Cage (1964) captures the instant the USS Enterprise intercepts a survivor transmission from a ship lost nearly two decades earlier — a signal carefully designed to trigger Starfleet rescue protocol and draw passing vessels toward a single destination. The missing ship is the SS Columbia, a survey expedition that vanished near the Talos Star Group. No Earth colonies. No traffic routes. No reason for a dist