Spock hadn't expected the door to open so suddenly, but he managed to catch himself before falling onto any of the equipment. He glanced toward Alkaid, momentarily uncertain if she'd been injured somehow. But the Human wasted no time in picking herself -- and her enthusiasm -- up from where she'd landed.

Their entrance was hardly "perfect", but now wasn't the time to argue about semantics. The Vulcan quickly focused his attention on finding useful items. Upon closer inspection, it became obvious that the supplies in here mostly consisted of equipment used for athletic activities of Earth. This didn't contradict anything Spock had found in his own room, and yet he and Alkaid had already used the star formations to establish that this was, in fact, not Earth -- or, at least, the Earth they knew.

Of course, the fact corpses seemed to reanimate themselves was reason enough to suspect so.

"Fascinating," he murmured as he lifted a baseball bat constructed from aluminum. If they managed to get out of their current predicament concerning the institute's choice of security, he would have much to look into.

Spock turned to Alkaid. "We should make a retreat toward the building," he told her. "It would be wise to avoid direct confrontations with these beings if at all possible -- use force only for means of self-defense. Our primary goal is safely getting inside."