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Synopsis:
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives
at Dramia I to deliver medical supplies when Dr. McCoy is arrested
for mass slaughter and imprisoned. Nineteen years prior, the
doctor had created an inoculation program for a Saurian virus on
Dramia II, but immediately following his departure a plague
virtually wiped out the entire population.
Kirk, aware of the swift
Dramian justice system, worries about McCoy's future while McCoy
thinks that the plague may have been his fault. Kirk and Spock
begin an investigation into the plague and realize they must go to Dramia II to draw some conclusions. En route, they are pursued by
Demos, the Dramian head of security. The U.S.S. Enterprise entraps
the Dramian ship and holds it impounded. Forcing Demos to
accompany them, the ship passes through an orbiting aurora and the
three beam down to the planet.
On the
planet, they pursue a plague survivor, Kol-Tai. When they finally
catch up to him, he tells them of McCoy's courage and ability to
save the Dramians from the virus, 19 years ago. Kol-Tai agrees to
testify of McCoy's behalf, but the crew must return to Dramia I
quickly or it will be too late.
Complicating matters, Kol-Tai
brings the plague on board the U.S.S. Enterprise, and infects the
entire crew, except an immune Spock. Kol-Tai may not live long
enough to testify, while Demos still believes McCoy guilty but has
himself contracted the fatal disease. Spock illegally breaks McCoy
out of prison to cure the plague on the U.S.S. Enterprise. On
board McCoy discovers that he is innocent and that the aurora
recently encountered is the actual cause of the plague. By using
blood samples from the infected, McCoy cures the plague and shares
the information with the Dramians. Demos and the Dramian
government agrees to dismiss the unorthodox jailbreak and drop the
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