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Synopsis:
While
visiting the recently discovered planet Phylos, the U.S.S.
Enterprise landing party discovers an apparently abandoned city.
While exploring the city Sulu picks up a plant and is poisoned. As
the landing party tries to save Sulu, the alien species that
inhabit the planet approach and save Sulu's life. Upon further
investigation of the alien creatures, who are plantlike beings
called Phylosians, the crew discovers that the poison that
affected Sulu was accidentally brought to the planet by a visitor
who subsequently worked to find a cure. The Phylosians call this
visitor "Master" and "Savior."
The landing
party eventually discover that this visitor was actually a Terran
scientist by the name of Dr. Starros Keniclius who has since died.
Now a giant clone of Dr. Starros Keniclius, by the name of
Keniclius Five, has taken his place. The giant wishes to clone
Spock to create an intergalactic peacemaker. Ignoring Kirk's
insistence that the Universe has become a virtually peaceful
conglomeration of worlds, Keniclius Five clones Spock, crippling
the Vulcan almost to the point of death. Kirk realizes the only
way to save Spock is to recite aspects of Vulcan philosophy on
life and death to Keniclius Five. Kirk convinces the clone that
the new Spock is but a copy and not the original. The clone Spock
saves the other's life through a Vulcan mind meld and the
duplicate remains on the planet with Keniclius to revitalize that
world's
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