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Synopsis:
While orbiting the planet Alfa
177, the U.S.S. Enterprise experiences a transporter malfunction
when Technician Fisher is beamed up from the planet with some
magnetic ore on his clothing. Scotty
checks the transporter and finds nothing wrong, so Captain Kirk
beams aboard. Kirk leaves with his officers and when the
transporter room is deserted, a second Kirk materializes on the
pad.
When a space animal is
beamed aboard the starship and splits into two entities; one tame
and one vicious, it is discovered that the same thing has happened
to Kirk. While one Kirk is good and honorable, the other is evil
and runs amok on his ship, committing violent acts, including the
attempted assault of Yeoman
Janice Rand.
Meanwhile, the
transporter continued to split objects into two entities, thus
forcing the remainder of the ship's
landing party to remain on the planet's
surface. Alfa 177's
approaching night promises certain death from exposure and
freezing temperatures to the unprotected landing party.
As time passes,
the "good" Kirk is weakening, losing his ability to make
decisions, while his "evil" half is dying. Neither Kirk can
survive without his other half. Time is running out, not only for
Captain Kirk, but for the landing party on the planet's
surface.
Scotty effects repairs on
the transporter, but there's no time to test it. McCoy is fearful
because the "space dog" which had been split earlier,
had gone through the repaired transporter and, while joined into
one animal, was dead. Kirk takes the chance and beams down with
his counterpart and returns to the U.S.S. Enterprise whole and
alive. Quickly the landing party is beamed aboard, worse for the
cold, but alive. |
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